Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-06-08
IN FAR NORTHLAND
important Events in Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North So
tseted for Scandinavian and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN w. ODLANO.
Denmark.

BY MARTIN W. oDLAND.
Denmark.
Butchers, exporters. merchants and
farmers OF Randers have formed an
organization to be known as "Randers
Export Slaughter House." which will
engage in the Strengthening OF stock
for shipment to foreign countries after
the war comes to a close.
The government has recently made a
report as to It's purchases of grain. Ac-
cording to this report the government
has bought $4,000 tons of Danish rye,
which will be used for bread making,
and also 10000 tons of American rye.
and four or five shiploads more Of rye
and wheat are expected from America.
A live stock census was taken in
Denmark in February, and it develops
that there were then in the country
$4,000 horses. including the colts.
This shows a decrease of IL 900 since
May, 1915. The number Of cattle was
2,290 900, as compared with 2,416.000
In May last year The number of
mich cows was 1,142,000 in February,
1915. as compared with 1,2S2.000 in
May, 1915. The decrease in the num-
Der OF swine during the same period
Is about 100000. and the number of
sheep dropped from 533, 034 In May.
1915. to only 254,368 In February last
Sweden.
A dispatch from Stockholm to the
Associated Press brings a thrilling
story that has stirred all Sweden. 1t
is to the effect that Leonard Rudolph
Alexander Gyllenpalm, member Of
one of the Oldest families In Sweden
| family knighted in the seventeenth
century and registered in the "Riddar-
hus.' or Swedish house Of mobiles
| has confessed to the double murder
which recently occurred In one Of the
branch banks of Stockholm, and
| which stirred all Sweden because of
the brutality and mystery of the crime.
The manager of the bank was found
with a Ratchet In his skull and a wom-
| an clerk shot dead The chance cap
ture OF Gyllenpalm and his own cold
| blooded story Of the crime have made
thrilling reading for the Swedish
| people His Nemesis worked In the
| person Of young Swedish woman
| with a good memory for faces. She
| had seen the nobleman emerge from
the bank. and though she did not know
OF any murder having been commit,
ted. she noticed there was something
strange about his manner. When she
herself had entered the bank she
found the bodies OF the manager and
| the woman clerk, and then realized
that the man she had seen hurrying
from the place must have been the
murderer She described the man to
the police as best she could, but the
detectives made absolutely no head
way until, more than fortnight after.
ward, the same young lady passed the
murderer on the street. She thought
she recognized him. but was not sure
With a girl companion. she followed
the man several blocks until they fell
in with a policeman. to whom the girl
told her suspicious. and the officer de-
| cided to arrest him. The nobleman
at first denied all knowledge of the
| crime. but after he had been held for
two days an analysis of some spots on
his clothes and shoes established that
| they were stains OF human blood. and
| when confronted with this evidence
| Gyilenpalm confessed. He said he
| was In desperate need OF money, and
had planned the crime weeks ahead
branch manager, thinking no one else
| would be at the bank at the time. He
carried the Ratchet in a leather port
folio or lawyers brief case. He was
| surprised to see the woman clerk
and followed his first impulse to shoot
Having committed the double murder
! he became alarmed and fed without
securing any money whatever BY rea
son of his nobility of birth. Gyllenpalu
can choose that he be put to death
with the sword instead OF the more
plebeian blade of the guillotine.
| According TO dispatches from Stock
holm and Copenhagen. Sweden and
Denmark adopted the plan of saving
the daylight. In Sweden the royal de
cree has made the plan effective from
May Is to September 3. and in Den
mark the parliament has empowered
the government to put the system into
effect. The daylight saving plan con
sists of the simple expedient OF setting
all the clocks of the country forward
one hour. thus utilizing the early morn
ing hours of daylight. which are orGt
narily spent in sleep. and saving cor
responding period Of time in the eve
&. ming, when artificial light has to be
used.
The women of Sweden. like those OF
Switzerland, says a dispatch are aid
ing German war orphans on a large