Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-08-20
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Georg Schepelern. Danish vice
consul in Chicago, was kidnapped
in a taxicab last Friday morning
in front of his residence. He had
hired the cab to take him home,
and when it stopped at its
destination, the robber appeared.
gun in hand, forced the chauffeur
to step down, drove off with the
vice consul, robbed him of 81,
handed him back So Ito get home
on, let him out, and drove off
with the cab.
Brings Wife's Ashes.
Professor Olaf M. Brauner. a
Norwegian-American artist who
is instructor of fine arts at Cor
nell University, carrying the
ashes of his wife who met death
in an accident at Frederiksv@rn,
Norway, Immediately before he
left that country. arrived in New
York early this week. The
Brauners had been visiting the
estate of Count Holstein near
Frederiksv@rn. when Mrs. Brau-
ner, attempted to leap across a
narrow chasm to pick flowers,
fell into the abyss. She injured
her spine and died a few hours
later.
Will Tour Sweden.
A Swedish male chorus, con-
sisting of singers representing
about 80 Swedish singing socie-
ties in Detroit, Mich, leaves New
York today aboard the steamer
Drottningholm, bound for Sweden
where a series of concerts have
been arranged. After touring
Sweden the organization will
sing in Norway. Denmark. Fin
land, Germany, France. Holland,
Belgium and Poland. Sanfrid
Mustonen a Finn, will be the
director of the singers on their
tour.
New Paper in East.
Rumors have it that influen-
tial Danes in New England are
about to start a weekly news
paper which is to be issued at
Boston; there is at the present
time only one such paper in the
east, namely, the Nordlyset in
New York, and it is said that
New England Danes who are
numbering thousands, feel the
need of a paper that caters to
their particular interest. Eff
forts to obtain details about the
plans have proved futile, except
that they have elected the in.
formation that the paper will
send out its first issue about
October /.
Gets $4,000 Verdict.
The appellate court in Louis
lana last week sustained verdict
given by an inferior court some
time ago to the effect that the
Borgestad stock corporation OF
Norway was entitled to damages
in the amount of $4,000 as the
result of a collision between the
steamers Borgestad, Norwegian,
and the Managua, American. four
years ago. The evidence proved
that the collision was due to
faulty steering on the part of The
master of the American vessel.
Extra interest attaches to this
suit by reason of the fact that
the largest shareholder in the
plaintiff company is Gunnar
Knudsen, several times premier
of Norway.
II. r.. II. May Come.
A dispatch from Stockholm
states that the crown prince OF
Sweden has received no official
invitation to visit the United
States next year in connection
with the festivities planned to
commemorate the tercentenary
of the first Swedish settlements
along the Delaware river, but it
i minated that if His Royal
H;0hness receives such an invita-
ton in due and proper form, ne
NAV be inclined to accept unless
reasons of state make it neces-
sary for him to forego the oppor-
tunity.
Planning Large Enterprise.
John M. Larsen, a Dane who
for years was a resident OF
Omaha, Neb.. and who later man
ufactured airplanes in New York,
has arrived in Denmark where ne