Show scandinavian NEWS fit SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT happenings IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the tha most moat important ev ernt ants in sweden norway and denmark of interest to the scandinavians in km america erlea SWEDEN the announcement from rom amsterdam sunday night that a company called the sweden american line was being to carry on trade between new york and swedish ports with german ships how idle in american ports was followed by the statement hero here last night that among the first ships to be purchased by tho the new corn com pany might bo be the hamburg american steamers pennsylvania bohemia and bulgaria now lying in fit this port hans lagerloff Lager loft general manager of tho the escand scand scandinavian anavi an amerl american can trading corn com pany here who mado made this announcement added that an offer ot of purchase was subject to the legality of 0 transfer orthe or of the ships from german to swedish registry and depended upon whether the allies would permit them to bo be used in fit the atlantic trade mr air lagerloff added that it Is probable that it tile deal goes through in regard to tho the bohemia Doh emla bulgaria Dul garla and pennsylvania tile tho sweden american line will purchase vie the hamburg american liner amerlia Amer lka now lying at boston and another 17 knot liner tho the present condition of the coa coal market has moro more than over ever before drawn the attention of the public to the coal fields of sweden from the rallies mines of 0 akano coil coal la Is now transported as far north as gaale and the demand Is so BO great that it 1 tho the mines could turn out olit ten tell times their present output there would bo be tie no trouble in fit getting rid of 0 it at a prole it Is ie now becoming mo e manifest than ever that the national government should tako take held of this matter says gays chief engineer svedberg Sc dberg for 30 years this matter has been d als Is austed cus feed but so far nothing has been done no private company can call afford to run tile the TIBIE risk of boring tor for now ncy deposits but the problem la Is of national scope and the ought to devise some means of ascertaining tile tho extent and nature of tho the coal deposits of the country the swedish press unanimously denounces the german attack on tile the british submarine E 13 in danish waters characterizing it as aa an unpardonable infringement of danish neutrality tr tile the dagens Ny beter which conin commonly jonly reflects the attitude of tile the swedish foreign office says saya that tho the germans attacking attaching the E 13 must have been fully aware that the submarine was in danish waters the most criminal feature of the affair adds the paper Is the german crafts action in tiring firing on british sailors who had given themselves up to a neutral power and naturally assumed that they were sate safe from enemy attacks 0 mrs airs hf artina osterberg who introduced tile tho system of swedish phy physical 8 ic a I 1 training for women in england and waa as one of the leading advocates of woman oman suffrage in sweden Is derd dead at tier her home in london aged sixty elty five mrs came to england arout sweden and was chosen superintendent of the physical training depart ment of tho the london schools in 1880 she left this post five years later to in become head of a physical training college for women school schoolteachers teachers 4 sweden though site she Is not engaged in any war has opened an office for giving information about persons who have been killed wounded or captured in fit war out but tile the office does docs not pretend ten to gather information from beyond end the boundaries of sweden the address of the office la Is Kun gliga stockholm 2 A farmer left his horse standing ort on the street at Co Go all of a sudden a squirrel came running hotly pursued by a dog to save navo his life tho squirrel jumped upon the back of tho the horse florae out but the borbo got so scared that lie ho started to run and did not stop until he had smashed tho the wagon Il II jalmar J Joh johansson anason of Krit tarp was aun sun struck while engaged in n tarring a roof lie ho lid did not die at once but succumbed after a while ile he died on his nineteenth birthday anniversary ver sary A new corporation la is to establish a melting plant in galle calle tile the capital stock will bo be from to mrs aira rev susanne henning denning noo nee Il hamilton amilton ling has given a wedding crown of gilt ilver to tile the cathedral of vailo the ornament Is beey very old site she inherited it from her father count hamilton a to whose collections of antiquities it had belonged 0 4 no less than acres of dimier plantations were cultivated in jonkov inglan during the past season moro more than two thirds of this wan waa new planta tat fons there are three nurseries in fit the lan ian and now a third one Is to be established nt at aneby adeby st atlo |