Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-09
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

in this column that Ingvafd Key RaS-
mussen of Chicago, a nephew of the
famous Swedish writer, Ellen Key,
had disappeared. His body was
found last week in Lake Michigan,
and his relatives in Sweden notified
by cable. While the authorities have
believed that this death was plain
case of suicide, subsequent informa-
tion to the effect that Mr.. Rasmussen
had quarrel with an employee of
the Santa Fee RAILROAD (where he was
employed as draftsman) is prompt
ing closer investigation of the mys-.
FERROUS circumstances surrounding
Mr.. Rasmussen's death. He was q
years old.
Methodist Cases Still Stirring.
The Scandinavian bishop of the
Methodist church, Rev. Anton Bast in
Denmark, who recently completed a
prison term, is to be placed before
a tribunal of the mother church in
this country next spring, charged with
having violated the moral laws of the
church. His chief accuser in the
case against him at the Copenhagen
courts, Rev. j. p. Ingerslev, formerly
of Baltimore, is now the defendant in
one case being tried in Denmark, and
the plaintiff in another in which he
demands $4,000 Kroner for damages
which he claims he has sustained in
consequence of the Methodist church
action against him.
Book on Lutheranism.
j. Magnus Rohne of Luther college,
DEBORAH, Iowa, has had published by
the Macmillan house in New York
large volume, entitled, Norwegian
American Lutheranism Until 1922.
This is said to be the first attempt
to write-in English--a connective
history Of the Norwegian Lutheran
church in the United States. Appar-
emily, the volume is to be followed
by a sequel. bringing the narrative
up to the present time.
Postal Official Honored.
AS reward for his services as per-
and the crown princess of Sweden
during their recent American tour,
William A. Kenyon, postoffice inspec-
tor of Washington and New York, has
received from the Swedish king the
decoration of the Royal Order of the
Knight of Vasa, first class. Inciden-
tally, Mr.. Kenyon was also attached
to the party of Queen Marie of Rou-
mania while she was in this country,
so his friends predict a Balkan dec
Grafton for him, too.
Going to Canada.
Henry Sum of Tim, Norway, will
shortly leave for Canada to study con-
ditions there with view to encourag
ing Norwegian emigration to that
Dominion. The Tim county author
tiles have appropriated 10000 Kroner
for financial aid to those unemployed
young men in the district who like to
go to Canada, and several other COM
munities have helped their citizens
so as to make it possible for them to
find in Canada that steady and re-
munerative employment which it is
impossible at the present time to
find in many parts Of Norway.
An Ibsen Monument.
On March 20, 1928. one hundred
years will have elapsed since Henrik
Ibsen, world famous dramatist, was
born at Skien, Norway, and on this
occasion it is the plan of several Chi
cagoans to unveil monument to Ib-
sen in one of the city parks. Just
now efforts are being made to in
terest Norwegian organizations in
Chicago in the plan, but no definite
steps have been taken in that di-
rection.
A Gentleman of France.
Paul Claudel, now French ambas-
sador to Japan, has been appointed to
the post of French ambassador at
Washington. Prior to his going to
Japan nearly three years ago, Mon
siear Claudel was his country's min
lister in Denmark, and while there
endeared himself to the Danish peo-
pie in a far higher degree than any
of his predecessors. In addition to
being a diplomat, warm-hearted
friend of Denmark. and, in various
fields, scholar, M. Claudel is also
one of the most distinguished poets
and playwrights of his country.
BolStad Returns to Norway.
Per Bolstad, Norwegian violinist.
who has been touring the United
States since February, left New York
Tuesday of this week for his home in
Oslo. accompanied by his father and
Miss Else Sundbye who has played
the accomplishments at all of his
concerts in this country. Just be-
fore leaving for his native haunts.
Mr. Bolstad gave a well attended con-
cert in Brooklyn. N. X.
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