Show THE FAR NORTH SWEDEN A new church will be built in hellestad not far from Lin koping the oldest of swedish clergymen is is rev nyman of degene who was born in i 1800 the tha city of lule and norway will probably soon be connected by a railroad influenza is ragin raging epidemically in Lin koping the P public u c schools have been closed the new royal theater which is now being built in stockholm will be one of the finest in europe the lar large e mercantile firm of jofs S and F lamm of of stockholm has been forced to make an assignment the crown prince regiment will have a new building in malmo the lot alone costs crow crowns ns I 1 several buildings at vintrosa Vin trosa not far from were burned to the ground twenty seven cattle were roasted to death olof alfred beckman one of the most prominent lawyers of stockholm died at the advanced age of seventy eight years it is a peculiar fact that stockholm which has only inhabitants has a larger number of telephones than any other city in the world not even london excepted A A new bishop will be elected in the Lin koping stift stiff the most prominent bishop of that district was rev jacob axel lindblom who lived in the beginning of this century consul bonsu I 1 asplund of lulea has sold the giant iron mines of Ruoti vaara and and the silver mines 0 of f Alka vaara and to count T A posse the price is not known 0 anderson member of the lower house of the dag has introduced a bill making confinement in jail for minor offenses conditional that is the offender shall not be incarcerated at once but only after the lapse of a certain period of time provided he commits a second crime during that period if however he behaves well during that period he shall not be imprisoned at all captain R delivered a peculiar I 1 before the students of the upsala kupsala university its first part was devoted to a swee sweeping ing criticism of the social moral ant and economical evils throughout the civilized world toward the close the speaker proposed that the students of sweden rise rise in the dignity of their splendid manhood trample old habits and prejudices under their feet and lead a healthy natural life in in every respect As an entering wedge he would start a society whose members should pledge to be chaste and frugal in their habits and not to indulge in strong drinks gambling etc the proposition was received with intense applause and a committee was immediately appointed to draft a constitution for a society which it was proposed to call sweden great once more NORWAY al A new large lutheran church will be built in bergen krogh the author and artist is writing a new book the weather was very unfavorable when the viking was towed from sandefjord Sand efjord to and at times it looked as if it would be crushed by ice at it was moored near pipers vicks briggen bryg gen where it has been on exhibition the admission being 25 ore 6 cents the union union question will evidently soon be brought up for discussion in thee the stor thing the officials of the national government and the speakers of the two houses have had joint meetings and the other day clay the liberal members of the stor thing held a caucus the results are as yet unknown the new centre or moderate party finds find it difficult to formulate a plat platform forro on which any large number of intelligent people can stand the last break in s attempts at plarl form making is tile the following plank thoroughly convince ed that any norwegian government in the future negotiations with sweden relating to the union will maintain that norway has the same rights as sweden we are of the opinion that it is now nov 1 time tor for negotiations several meint bers have already left the organization representing the centre on the t ground the that a party which is convinced that any party will do what ought to bl be done thereby declares that there is no 1 reason for its existence i DENMARK 1 the Phing valla steamer hekla has 1 been ready to leave for america for over a month this steamer is to carr carry y t the he exhibits of denmark to new york but it cannot get away on account 0 a the ice several thousand passengers are also waiting for a chance to cross the ocean in commenting on the attempt of th the a conservatives to exclude the reporter of the iken from the sessions of the I 1 dag that paper says danish poli tics bics consists very largely in a fight aj against the liberal pre press is the pres of europe even the conservative papers has sided with the Poli iken liken in this ridiculous mess |