Show scandinavian NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP IN PAR OFF NORTHLAND ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the most important events in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians in america DE DENMARK lei eyet inland iceland that island of avil and le genN la Is waking up lip to tile chance of becoming tit nil bouti try tri the san it river lit in eastern iceland rises in the wild mountain an ali ii mi found volcanic stlla ut ul tile bottom u of tit w river wid and lie ho came to the ii conclusion 11 truit t there must le laige of 0 tills lit its mouth borings bolings soon proved proud that alint lie ho was aa right tins tile sand vas ns found to contain front 22 to 25 per cent of iron it yas calculated that hint it would pay to dry this his sand and extract tile it liou iton on particles front it t by 1 menus means of elge triciti there la Is HI ail other close by tile this dors does not carry iron ore hut but its fulls falls call furnish horsepower hors which alch wily lf be used for thu the iron out of the deli deposits tit lit the lie th of ill other river fler even the indent ancl elit illges mentioned the iron mild of nt this i iver but tit nt thiet if I 1 lit time people and it lid 11 no 0 idea that it was iron english capital ests lat tire going to furnish the lie feces it ry capital for building nil ail extracting plant which lil cli will cost about amft ZM ft but the promoters chilin that still inore taloney tiia bo be tile success of tile hit cilto qa being beyond doubt an icelandic in erchant it who lio Is tit at tile head of tile the concern lills has obtained n concession from the government to build the plant and run it for 50 60 years ears sinny many boards of directors 0 of brings banks in denmark are self perpetual ing A bill was vas introduced lit in tile rigs dag clag to permit outsiders to anke pint part in tile the election of new nev directors to 1111 vacancies the of the bill asserted unit tile the system of self per Is ili antiquated A friend of this system system retorted flint no embezzlement ment llis lias taken place lit in danish balies of tills this antiquated type press rec recently antly stated that kill king christian of denmark was as nearly drowned by the capsizing of it a boat and that lie hu was rescued by tt ft poling man whom leoin lie knighted A C topp top of rn nUton S D received it letter recently froni from his young brother in law viggo Mad seii who w proved to bo be the kings rescuer tile the Daiil sli mall on oil board the norwegian liner front from new kev york to clergen Kerg tn was as by bi the lie nt lit Kir kirkwall kwall alcord ing to a report by b the postmaster ge general nera of denmark an old woman wits was orp overcome reome by y aeilt on oil the street lit in odense silo sho was us caged for foi tit at pace ance but died ou on her way to tile the hospital illch deposits depo tits of marl have been found tit at freiley Vr eiley tind it a Is ready to bring the fertilizer oil oa the market SWEDEN sweden Is 14 drifting dangerously CIO close se to the lie terrible innel maelstrom of tho the war nr tile the government tins has instructed ted the ilia tu minister inister tit nt stockholm to join with alth tile other entente ministers in presenting n friendly but km note to sweden lit in regard to its 13 policy of ar neutrality the note takes issue the lie position of sweden in distinguishing between submarines for war and those for commerce which tho the fr e tich government lias nn an effect con hrnry to neutrality since tile tinval forces would hesitate to attack a german submarine in swedish waters under the pretext that lint it might be a commercial nic iclal submarine there would be no sli similar ullar hesitation in dealing avith alth a submarine of the allies bo be cause enuse they have no commercial submarines the note deals with several questions relating to navigation and concludes the attitude adopted by the swedish government Is at variance lit in respects with ith nn an attitude which Is compatible with the duties ot of a loyal and impartial neutral 0 A stockholm dispatch says that sweden tins lias held up tons of coffee destined tw fw finland presumably on account neco vint of the fact that flint grent great britain brita a in has detained 41 shipments of coffee for sweden As it result there la Is 0 great scarcity of nf coffee la in finland strikes on a scale are reported from dozens of places lit in different parts of sweden a 0 0 alio receipts of the state railroads during the first half of the year ex cx evedel 1 which was almost more than tho the receipts for or tile tho previous year but the Inc increase rense of the running expenses was larger than tile the latter sum 0 0 norwegian and danish agents tire arc scouring the larger cities of sweden for the pitr purpose pose of hiring skilled workmen who arc andly needed in tile the neighboring countries the agents tire lire offering wilgert which people could hardly baldly dream it if a few years ago 4 1 |