| Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN A tourist hotel has been built at vik dalecarlia Dale carlia diphtheria is raging epidemically in Norr koping the gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg boras railroad has now been opened lor for business four large houses were burned to the ground in the nore village near ljusdal ljosdal the crop of rye in the province of sealand has been the most abundant for many years judge magnus unger and his wife of hoitorp near nora celebrated their golden wedding A landslide occurred at Stoer dalen our farms disappeared no lives were lost A direct steamship route between stockholm and carlstad has been established I 1 august Strind bergs famous tragedy faaren Fa dren the father will be played by the independent theater society of london the church near Norr was struck by lightning il and notwithstanding bremen tremendous ous efforts to save it it burned to the ground A large fire raged in the old city of the other day A whole block consisting of ten buildings was burned to the ground dr P P the moody of sweden who some years ago visited america has been reelected elected re as congressman from the geale district none of the danish or russian royalty will ill take part in the hunt on the island of hven as prince wilhelm the brother of the danish king has been taken suddenly ill farmer anders brodd was struck by lightning at tye on Ham maroen in lake fennern Ven and was instantly killed several persons were dangerously injured at the same time emperor william will travel directly to sweden by way of kiel after the review of the troops in austria the proposed visit to denmark will consequently quent ly not take place it has been proved that the cases of cholera that have occurred at gothen burg have not been asiatic cholera but cholera no sweden is as yet free from the plague the monument of nils ericsson the famous railroad builder and the brother of john ericsson was unveiled at the central park the statue is ten feet high and the weight about kilo grams A new edition of the novels bj by emilie flygare carlen the famous an authoress t oress is now being published As perhaps cnown known all of emilie flygare carlens novels have been translated into english the fifth convention of swedish lutheran clergymen is being held at stockholm the delegates number aso bishop von who recently returned from america was elected president prince michael the youngest uncle of alexander III arrived at stockholm with his son prince georgi after a drive through h the cit city 1 the high travelers departed for for the tuft turi garn gam castle director N jorgensen the chief gard ener at the Tull garn casile castle has obtained a large gold medal from emperor willism william the kaiser declared himself much pleased with the flower arrange ments of director jorgensen governor per axel bergstrom of the 0 loen died at the age ot of seventy years he was one of the most prominent politicians and statesmen of sweden and besides being at his death the very popular governor of the loen ne had been minister of the interior during several years charles H shephard the american consul who has represented the united states in the city of gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg during the last years returned to his country the other day consul shephard has been a member of the legislature in massachusetts and was a delegate pa at the national republican convention at chicago in 1888 the local papers praise him much for his usefulness and friendly manners NORWAY the prince of wales was fishing ashing at t Sanden vandet and is aan at present staying in berger As to the very latest estimates people were killed by landslide the rector of the cathedral school carl mueller died at the age of seventy five years one hundred and seventy seven so called grind whales were caught in one day near the faeroe faerie islands 9 Bjorn Bjorn sons A failure was played at theatre libre in paris and was received with great enthusiasm the large country mansion engemoen at aaen near birkenes was burned to the ground many cattle were roasted to death the norwegian minister of state gram has returned to stockholm from paris where he was one of the deciding judges in the behring sea question the city of has one physician for each 1000 inhabitants one dentist for each and one drug store for each the selections taken up in the churches of norway for the sufferers amount to nearly crowns I 1 the fourth scandinavian missionary mission aay convention was opened at the delegates were 1200 while the delegates to the first missionary conven tion were only A cigar dealer named je jeppesen besen of has been fined fifty fifty crowns because in a newspaper article he compared king oscar with a worm eaten tooth the large holmen mill and paper factory was burned to the ground the works are situated not far from the city of drammen dragmen Dr ammen the loss is estimated at nearly crowns while fishing at bedoe olaus bernholt ran short of fish bait in this quandary he tore a strip from a red scarf which he wore and put it on the hook to his great surprise the fish hung on to his toothsome bait incessantly and it seemed to be far more attractive than the real bait on the other hooks if red yarn can be used as bait says a local paper fishermen can save says 25 during ahe the fishing season DIEN DENMARK MAkK jacob schon a prominent merchant of randers died at the age of 75 years copenhagen though it is one of the great cities of the tha world still has no professional bootblack time and again attempts have been made to organize a company of bootblacks but woe unto him who had courage to have his shoes blacked on oft the street in a trice he would be surrounded by a jeering taunting crowd until he perhaps would retreat with only one shoe or boot blacked some enterprising men will again make an attempt in the same line they will not dare to do their work in the open air however but will apply t to the municipal government for permission to put up small tents or shops in ia different parts of the city |
