The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-25

to save the stock. About 300 COWS
we're burned to death. Much grain
vas lost in the granary.
SWEDEN.
Per Erik Person of Mon, the Oldest
locomotive engineer in Sweden, was
ninety-four years old June 10. The
Nora and Ervalla railway, the first one
In Swedish, was built in the early f1f-
ties of the previous century. The first
locomotive arrived in 1854. Person
was greatly interested in the wonder
full machine and kept watching the
work of the men who put it together.
Ehrling was the name Of the man who
was to run it. But he was not sue
cess. The engine and the train were
derailed, and Ehrling escaped as by
miracle. The manager of the road,
Sundier, ordered Ehrsing to leave and
never return. Now came Persons
turn to try his hand at the machine.
It is said that Sundier felt so bad that
he even shed tears. But there was a
blacksmith shop close by, and Person
| comforted the manager by explaining
that the damage could be repaired.
Forstlingen (The Firstling), for this
was the name Of the engine, was put
in shape, and Person was engaged to
run it for the princely salary of about
Il cents day.
Election prospects, in the opinion of
cautious business men, indicate liberal
gains. Big business says: 1--WE are
not much interested. The radical ele-
ments may get hold of a little more
| power, but they won't know how to
use it." The campaign promises to be
bitter, and there already is in circu-
lation an old Swedish proverb, saying:
| do you know when men lie the
most?" Answer: Before an election,
during a war, and after q shooting
party"
The UGdevalla, Vanersborg, and
Herrljung, railway, has celebrated
it's fifty-year jubilee. Instead of max
ing arrangements for snowy festivities
the company saved the money which
such blowout would have cost and
distributed it as gifts Of $3.50 to ev-
cry employee who had been in the
service of the company at least one
year. Forty Of the oldest men also
received medals for faithful service.
| The Stockholm town council is con-
sidering adding $4,000 to the $2,OOO,-
| 300 national fund for the relief of the
| swedish unemployed during the war.
Stone workers especially have suffered
because they were compelled to quit
work Immediately after the war start
been increasing throughout the coun-
try, but because they are winning no
general strike is probable.
The peace party in the Swedish riks-
dag has celebrated it's twenty five
| year jubilee as an organization. On
that occasion the president of the
group" Baron TIL. Adelsward, made
an address on the work Of the organ
ization. The oldest member, Edward
Wavrinsky, entertained the other
members by telling some of his expe-
riences from the early history of the
peace movement
The committee on constitutional
amendments has proposed to raise the
salaries of the members Of the riks-
dag from 1925 to $3.50 a year.
Poles from all parts of ancient PO-
land recently had congress in
Stockholm for discussing the affairs
of the Few Poland.
Business men in Gothenburg have
raised $1,000 for ferreting out the
work Of commercial spies in the city
and the harbor.
! Alumni o. the Gothenburg CONNER
cial institute have raised $4,000 for
the aid of poor students at the school.
A statue IF King Karl X has been
placed in front of the steps to the
Norsdiska museum in Stockholm. The
king appears on horseback and is sup
posed to give order to his men to cross
the belt on his famous campaign to
Denmark. The S*atue weighs almost
three and half tons.
Many institutions Of learning have
dispensed with the usual ceremonies
connected with the examinations be-
to provide suitable clothes for the
children for such a Junction.. .