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Show KING OSCAR TOO ILL . TO TAKE UP DUTIES STOCKHOLM, Feb. 8. King Oscar Is indisposed and unable to transact state business. At today's session of the Council of State he handed over the teins of government to Crown Prince Gustaf until further notice. This Is not the first time that King Oscar, who la 7t years old, has entrusted the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway with the M-lns of government. He was compelled com-pelled by ill-health to do so in January. 1J.99, and It was reported at the time that the people of Sweden and Norway wished him to abdicate. The King re-assumed re-assumed power In January. 1301. |