The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-02
SWEDEN.

According to Reuter- dispatch from
Stockholm, the 1915 Nobel rrize in
chemistry will be awarded to Lr. Rich.
ard Willstaetter of the University of
Berlin. while the prize for physics is
to be divided between Prof. William
Henry Brass of the University Of
Leeds and his son, w. L. Bragg of
Cambridge university, for general re.
search in tho structure Of crystals by
use Of Roentgen rays. A Copenhagen
dispatch to the London Daily Tele.
graph on November 6 stated that tho
Swedish government had named
Thomas A. Edison and Nikola Tesla to
divide the prize in physics, while Theo.
dore Svedberg was to receive tho
prize in chemistry.
A Stockholm dispatch says: "While
it undoubtedly is true that the pre-
ponaerance of sentiment here is pro-
German, this sentiment has been ex-
aggerated. What is true is that the
court and military party certainly are
pro-German, and that the Germans
through their intelligent and persist
eQt propaganda, have dominated most
of the channels Of publicity. If any in
telligent and sustained effort has been
made to win public opinion in Sweden
for the allies by means of publicity,
it's effects certainly are not observ-
able. The socialist party, however, is
avowedly and openly for the allies"
The Swedish paper manufacturers
union has made it's third appeal to the
government to put an embargo on the
expectation Of pine and spruce timber
as raw material. It is pointed out that
the expectation Of pit props is car.
ried On to such an extent that it in.
jures the domestic industries. The ap.
peal also mentions that Norwegian
agents are securing the forests OF
Varmland in order to buy all kinds
of timber that is fit for fuel, and the
result is that the paper mills in that
part Of the country must be closed.
Three handsome donations have Just
been made to the city Of Stockholm.
One of them is from Civil Engineer
M. A. Dahlgren, who offers real es.
tate worth $4,000, which is to be put
on interest until it amounts to 1885,
900, and finally used for home for
homeless mothers and incurables. The
other donations aggregate $4,000.
A committee appointed In 1918 ia
report on certain features of the Grim.
inal laws of Sweden has recommend
ed the adjustment of the law provid,
ing that certain penalties automat.
ically cause forfeiture of all civil
rights. This law has become very un'
popular among all classes.
The king has ratified proposition
made by the statistical bureau to waive
the regular census, which should have
taken place at the close of this year.
The board of health has asked for
an appropriation Of $500 for providing
a lecture course for the benefit of ell
derly midwives. The plan is to have
the lectures given In 1917.
About $8,20O,000 has been added to
the currency circulation of the Ma
tional Bank of Sweden. The whole
amount being $4,000, 900. which break.
former records.
N,ither the employers nor the en-
ployees in the iren industries OF
Sweden having abrogated the existing
contract between the two parties be-
fore October 3, said contract will be
automatically extended to the end Of
the year 1916.
The Offices OF the Antiemigratior
| society were visited by 1927 persona
in September. The number of rear es
! tate properties offered for sale va:
106, the number OF prospective buy
ers 1923, and the numboS Of dseu!
closed Al,