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The board of directors of the. public schools of Sweden have proposed to • NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA pla» e the regular teachers at the "peo­ ple's high schools" on an equal foot­ MS or iing. ing with the teachers in the public Principal Events That Have Trans­ schools with regards to promotions and Dan Patch. pired in the Old Countries pensions. St. Paul—"Dan Patch, 1:54, on the Within a Week or So. Both Danish and Swedish newspa­ Minnesota State Fair race track in pers are denouncing the methods of '07," is the latest slogan of the state two Danish lottery companies which fair people. For the greatest of all DENMARK. are doing a flourishing business in pacers has been engaged again for the Bishop Fredericft Nielsen of Aarches Sweden. But the companies keep coming state fair. He will appear on died at the age of eighty. things moving all the same because Monday afternoon, Sept. 2, the open­ The city council of Copenhagen has they are operating within the limits ing day of the fair, and is to go T»apsed a resolution to enlarge the of the letter of the law. against his own world's record of 1:55 electric power plant at a cost of $675,- The past years was a very prosper­ flat which he made at the Minnesota 000 ous one for the "sugar barons" of fair last September. This was the About 1,006 veterans from Danish- Sweden. The best beets wielded as fastest mile ever made by a harness Girman wars held a meeting at Aal- much as 18 per cent of sugar, some­ horse under any conditions, but Mr. borg and by a unanimous vote resolved thing which was supposed to be im­ Savage and Mr. Hersey, Dan's train­ u> request the government to grant a possible two years ago. There was so er and driver, are both confident that bonus to the veterans of the war now and looks A man who was planting trees iu were given enough pay to make them stop their traditional "kicking" against good for something better than ever Langeso forest, Odense, struck a w hen he gets to work on the track. bronze urn containing 1,800 very old the "sugar barons." No industry has coins, some of them dating from the brighter prospects in Sweden than It is a fact that Dan Patch has t If venth century. has the production of beet sugar. never appeared on the Minnesota State Manure Spreaders A family in a village east of Silke- Otto Goldschmidt, the husband of Fair track without lowering his Min­ borg had a cat which was doing good Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," nesota record. He has gone against service, but which was to thievish that who died in 1887, died in London at time on this track five times with the tluy decided to get rid of her. They the age of seventy-eight. He married following results: have at last come to the front. could not bear to kill her, so the head Miss Lind in 1852, during her American 1903—August 31 Time 2:00 of the family put her into a basket tour, during which he was her accom­ 1905—September 4 Time 1:59% and took her along when he went to panist on the piano. Mr. and Mrs. September 9 Time 1:57% Farmers have found that five or town There is a forest close to Sil- Goldschmidt took up their residence in 1906—September 3 Time 1:56% keborg, and there he left puss, being England in 1858. He was professor in September 8 Time 1:55 sure that she would go to some farm­ th» Royal Academy of Music, England, This last achievement gave to the house and shift for herself. Ha\ing in 1863, and made vice principal in Minnesota State Fair track the honor six loads of manure put on an finished his business in town, he re­ 1866, was first musical director of the of the world's record for the fastest turned home late in the afternoon. He Bach Choir in 1876, and resigned in mile ever traveled by a harness horse. came home at dusk, and his wife met 1885 He edited, in conjunction with him in the yard. "Welcome home! Sterndale Bennett, "The Choral Book Suicide. acre of land after seeding, as a Did you succeed in getting rid of the for England." Virginia—A woman who registered cat7" "Yes, I chased her into the for­ The railway department has pre­ at a local hotel as "B. Ellis," commit­ est, and she'll strike some place" pared a lengthy report on the proposed ted suicide by taking poison at An­ 'Olad you got rid of the rascal But "Inland Railway," which is to run from gora, on the Rainy Lake road. top dressing, will produce from M'u must come in right off, for I have north to south thru the whole coun­ She reached Virginia on the Great hot pancakes for you." The good wo­ try Starting from Gothenburg and Northern road; registered at the hotel rn? n had placed the pancakes on the following portions of existing railroads where she stayed over night and next 4 to 6 bushels more grain. We table before going out to meet her for short distances, the "Inland Rail­ day took a Rainy Lake train to An­ husband, but when the two came in way," according to the opinion of the gora. Here she alighted and walking the plate was standing empty on the railway department, ought to pass half a mile down the track drank table, and the cat was eating the last thru the following places: Ellos, Hog- poison, her dead body being found in have the Spreader that will do pancake under the table. storp, Smedberg, Gesater, Ed, Billings- the afternoon. She gave no residence fors, Lelangen, Silbodal, Koppom, when registering at the hotel and noth­ Ottebol, Torsby, Utterbyn, Rya, Ma- FINLAND. ing was found in her clothing to indi­ lung, ' Orsa, Sveg, Irenstavik, Brunflo cate her identity. She was well- the business. Be sure and get The final reports from the election Ostersund, Litsnaset, Gullastjarn. Ul- dressed and fairly good looking. At of members to the landdag show that riksfors, Dalasjo, Kaska and Gellivare. the Socialists elected eighty out of the Virginia hotel she left her pocket- It is estimated that this line will cost book containing $9.68 in money and a the two hundred members. In many $39,100,000. our terms and prices. ^ cases the thirteen "Agrarians" will also note which said: ** ?«? A ote with the Socialists, so that the The American minister, Mr. Graves, "My husband died last week. Am ftHpj in a letter to the newspapers, explains threatened with insanity and prefer Socialists will come within a few votes r of controlling the national legislature that he declined to present Mrs. Ida C iith Bury me here as I am. Have of Finland. The so-called "Old Finns" M. von Claussen of New York to King no relatives." ducted 58 mambers. The "Young Oscar because there was no evidence A baby's silk stocking was also that she had any royal invitation or found in the pocketbook. The au­ Finns" who represent the present ad­ mmi mm. ministration, elected only 25 members, proper credentials. The Swedish news­ thorities are endeavoring to find out and the Swedish party 24. The land­ papers treat the incident with ridicule. who the woman was and where she Mrs. von Claussen, who is the daughter came from, but so far have met with LUNDGREN, WITTENSTEN & CO, dag will convene in the early part of May next of Adolph von Claussen, a retired mer- no success. thant of New York, recently complain­ Gold Mine. SWEDEN. ed to the state department at Wash­ Warren, Minn. ington that Minister Graves had re­ Winona—Investigation into the re­ A company has betm formed for car­ fused to present her at court. The port of the gold mine on the Gainey rying on automobile traffic in Helsmg- minister in reply sent to the s'ato de­ farm near Elba in this county shows burg and vicinity. partment the letter* Mrs. von Claussen that there is good foundation for the The "honk" of the wild goose was wrote to him on the subject. Mrs \on stories that have been sent out. The hoard as early as March 18 in Southern Claussen, who is one of the heirs of first indications of gold were found Sweden, and the birds bravely plowed the Bvrne estate, assumed her mai'Lii on the farm some years ago when a the air northward. name after obtaining a divorce from deep well was sunk. The well driller The historical museum of Lund has her husband, Dr. William Francis Ho- said the soil brought out was different STALLION SERVICE BOOKS just acquired a valuable collection of man. than he had found anywhere else, and anticquities, Including the paper scis­ he believed that gold ore was in it. sors of Esaias Tegneer, a cane that NORWAY. Mr. Gainey has since been interested once belonged to Vllhelm von Braun, The public debt of the municipality in some Western copper and gold Just what is wanted for a com­ and the oldest and rudest bicycle to of Kristiania is a little over $14,000,000. mines, and from his investigations be found in Sweden. The -government Bold-sturapage for there he was sure he had gold- ore The Ringsjo lake, near Malmo, was $115,000 on the Rendal reservation last on his own farm. Recently he did plete record. Can't get along frozen for three and a half months year, the heaviest buyers being Swedes. Borne prospecting, sinking a six-foot last winter. This was the longest The Norwegian Life Pension Union shaft down about twelve feet. Some without one. ONLY 50 CENTS. closed season for about a quarter of has loaned $67,500 to the Aalesund of the ore removed he had assayed a century. Building Association for the erection and found it to contain gold that would Two men were burnt to death in a of residences. run about $4 to the ton. Since then house at the Naset fishermen's hamlet, Oscar Buurmann, who is residing in the shaft has been sunk more than 30 near Smogen. In another house which Paris, is translating Ibsen's "Ghosts" feet and the looks of the ore continues WARREN SHEAF, Warren, Minn was not touched by the fire a seventy- into Esperanto, an artificial language to improve. Another assay is now be­ five-year-old womjn was so badly receiving much attention in our day. ing made, and upon it depends future j scared that she died at the same time. The Hygea life insurance company operations. The corrected emigration statistics of Bergen is in a prosperous condition. Mad Dogs. for the year 1905 show that the total The new insurance for the past year number of Swedes who left their coun­ Mankato—A dog thought to be af­ amounted to almost $1,000,000, and the flicted with rabies attacked several try in that year was 24,046. The fig­ reserve fund is about $1,300,000. ures for the year 1906 are expected to other dogs in Beauford township and The city council of Kristiania has was pursued southward by a number The Warren Milling Co. .••how an increase of at least one thou­ proposed an appropriation of $270,000 sand of farmers armed with guns, but it for the Western railway on condition made its escape. Major Renvall has constructed a that the storting pass a resolution at In view of the further fact that sev­ rifle on which the trigger is a button the present session to build such a eral dogs have been killed in Beauford to be pressed by the thumb. The railway. during the 'last few months, and which Every farmer will acknowledge that a flour mill in the change is claimed to be of advantage The government has proposed that were thought to have been suffering in cold weather and the invention will the importation of gooseberry bushes from rabies, the Mapleton village coun­ town is a great convenience. Not only a convenience be thoroly tested by the Norbotten be prohibited in order to protect the cil has voted that all canines within regiment. native bushes from "American mil­ the village limits must be tied up or Thousands of volumes of government dew," which is troubling the fruit muzzled. The village marshal is au­ but an actual help in supporting the wheat market. Our records in one of the old rooms of the growers of Norway and Sweden. thorized to shoot all unmuzzled dogs national banks at Stockholm have been Plans are being prepared at the canal running at large. local mill grinds nearly all the wheat they buy, into flour attacked by a kind of worm, and it office for deepening the passage thru Last week four cattle on C. S. Wis- will be necessary to remove the books Nordsjo to Hitterdal lake so that it hart's farm m Maple township died At times it pays the mill to pay a premium on some good to other quarters in order to save them may accommodate steamers of 2,000 of some strange disease, and the state from the pest. tons. This will afford the flourishing veterinarian, Dr. Beeber, was sum­ grades of milling wheat and in this way other buyers of The books of the Trelleborg branch factories around Notodden a direct moned to examine the herd. He gave of the Skane bank were occupying so communication with the ocean. it as his opinion that the cattle had grain advance their prices to compete with the mill. It much room that the officials of the Sufficient money has been raised rabies. Mr. Wlshart will have one bank decided to get rid of them, and for a monument of Peter Dass, the fa­ of the cattle tested to determine the four wagonloads of books, covering the mous poet and preacher of Nordland. matter finally. cannot be denied that the elevator companies as a rule business of the office for thirty years, About $200 will be paid for the best do.not like a live up-to-date mill that is aggressive in its were hauled out into a field and burnt designs for the monument, which will NEWS NOTES. up be unveiled in August, 1908, the 200th St. Paul—Charles A. Decoursey is The crown prince and a number of anniversary of Peter Dass. The monu­ management They feel that the mill is an element of ment will naturally be located at killed while returning home in re­ the other leading men of Sweden have sponse to a telegram announcing the issued a call for subscriptions to a Alstahoug, Nordland. serious illness of his brother. competition, and as in the case of our local mill, they fund for the predion of a monument Norfolk, Va., April 8.—The British of Gunnar Wennerberg, the immortal steamer Glivemoor, bound from Mobile Winona—The bankers of the First £. rike back by shipping in flour to sell, to the detriment poet and composer. It is proposed to March 30, for Bristol, England, picked congressional district will meet in this unveil the monument at Upsala Oct. up at sea off the North Carolina coast city on Tuesday, June 11, and plans 2, 1907, his 90th birthday anniversary. yesterday fifteen of the eighteen mem­ for the convention are about com­ of the local manufacturer. You who buy your flour from About 300 members of the largest bers of the Norwegian bark Hereford, pleted. dumber dealers' union in Germany are bound from Pensacola, March 16, for St. Cloud—This place has practically the elevator companies just stop and think it over. Is not going to charter a steamer for a trip Buenos Ayres, which was dismasted landed a woolen mill and a belt shifter to Sweden next summer. They are in the storm of April 1, and was help­ factory, and now has the promise of the mill of benefit to you? Try to imagine what the going to study the lumbering industry less at sea until sighted with distress two concerns which are much larger. and the management of the forests of signals flying by the Olivemoor on her The first is a shoe factory. Secretary condition would be if every one was as unpatrotic as you Sweden, combining business with way across the Atlantic. Three mem­ H. C. Sydow of the Commercial club, pleasure on the trip. bers of the Hereford's crew were has received letters from eastern cap­ Why the mill would simply be forced out of business Anders Israelsson Harselet, Ramsele washed overboard and drowned. Capl. italists relative to locating a factory parish, Angermanland, died a short Jensen, commanding the bark, was St. Cloud—Some of the local capi­ for want of customers. Vou would have to accept while ago. At his* death he was sup­ crippled by a falling mast and rigging talists are working on a plan to de­ posed to be the oldest person in Swed­ and the first mate Is badly injured. So velop the peat bogs near this city. It en, having been born July 18, 1802. He badly hurt were the captain and mate is a well known fact that there is any the price the elevator ring put on your wheat and you was blind and bedridden for some time that the Olivemoor discontinued her quantity of peat in the vicinity ot before his death. But his courage voyage to bring the seamen in for hos­ this place. Peat can be found in every would also have to pay whatever price they set on the never forsook him, and he was in the pital treatment. The shipwrecked men case where wire grass bogs exist. In habit of saying: "I was just a fool in will be turned over to the vice-consul some cases, of course, the peat is only flour. Every pound of ground feed would have to be ship­ going to bed this way, for now I am here and the Olivemoor will proceed at a few Inches thick, but in most places growing too lazy to get up again." once on her voyage to England. there Is enough to make it a paying ped in and you would pay the freight both ways. These The women who are working in the Bernhard Hansen of Flekkefjord proposition. government railway offices have peti­ has ordered a steel steamer to be built Finlaysnn—After threatening his facts are reasonable and are easily understood. If you tioned the government to pay them as at the Framnes shipyards, Sandefjord, wife and the village marshal with a much as the men employed in similar at a cost of $115,000. The new steam­ revolver, Alonzo T. Spicer of this vil­ live in Marshall county you certainly should u Warren positions The men are receiving from er is to be used on a steamship line be­ lage attempted to commit suicide, but i 20 to 30 per cent higher wages than tween Norway and the West Indies. was stopped by the officer and taken rlour made from your own wheat, adulterations are im­ j the wom'ii for a certain amount of Five fishermen who were operating into custody. ,1 i\ • -k. near Voksvar, on the Froien Island, Minneapolis—The tailor shop at 155 possible. The flour made buy the Warren Mills is as good ^bout ("> boys at the military school near Trondhjem, were drowned in a University avenue, occupied by Peter a* ^Kr '• had a severe attack ot storm. Three brothers and their father Huttle, was destroyed by fire. The t\ hoir7 'aver, caused by the use of were among them. building was a single story frame as can be made out of good wheat. Be loyal, to home r ' t i! 'he Porsby co-operative Dale Gudbrand, a noted stallion, is structure. The cause of the fire Is ,i , v dead. He was popular while living, unknown. industries and buy flour made at home by the - - A result of a sufficient supply of and his descendants are said to be Winona—Through the generosity of 1 >*id feed the prices of live stock worth about $60,000. Mayor John A. Latsch, Winona is t 'i'Thf>r in Southern Sweden thla It is claimed that radium has been soon to have public bath houses and WARREN MILLING CO. t. r han ever before. found at Matrefjord, Hardanger. public play grounds. He has donated 910,000 for this purpose.

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