Show THE scandinavian fatherland prepared from special cablegrams Cable grams SWEDEN the swedish schooner ruth from Karls hamm was wag wrecked off captain J S and two sailors were drowned olof Lars sons farm in the parish ot of hammarlunda Hammar lunda was burned to the ground and many cattle were roasted to death the loss is heavy judge C G has been elected a member of the upper house of the from the stockholm election district C A Gusta gustafsson isson the tailor of boras who killed two persons some time ago has been sentenced to the penitentiary for the rest of his natural life four people J johanson J chanson of belboda Mel boda E A peterson of hunderum hunderup Hun derum N peterson of norrboda Norr boda and 0 boek lund aund of strandtorp Strand torp were drowned off the aeda beceda harbor on oland gland in sweden there are fifteen bessemer works which in 1893 proved tons bessemer metal of if these works one is is supplied with four converters the others have generally two and exceptionally only one converter the converters are of common form and lined with silica bricks or mortar of quartz all rifles for military use in sweden are manufactured at the factory of carl gustaph 1 town eskilstuna Eskil stuna stuns under government control besides these other rifles are manufactured at hus ov arnst especially for sporting purposes the rifle factories are generally using rolled coiled barrel material by bessemer steel from the fagersta fagerstam Fager sta iron works the enormous development of the match industry in sweden is owing to the rational manner in which it has been carried on as also to the equality of the manufacture and that machines have now begun to supersede the time wa wast st ang manual labor the chemicals necess necessary ati have hitherto chiefly been imported mostly from england but are no now manufactured in sweden aspen wood is used both for matches and boxes which raw material to a certain degree must be imported NORWAY hundreds of people are without work in bergen three hundred and fifty two newspapers are published in norway an electric railway will be built between and Holmen kollen 1 1 I he colonels H E hoff and C M de steve have been appointed mayor generals in the norwegian army the well known ship owner svend foyn one of the most wealthy men norway died at To ensberg at the age of 95 years king oscar and crown prince gustaf arrived at december nth lith and will spend about a week in the norwegian capital 1 DENMARK rev E arnesen of laland died the age of to 82 years more mom butter was exported last from denmark than during any summer before thousands of danish americans are expected to visit their native country during the holidays A big whale was seen the other day off skagen something that has not happened for years vears the diet will be asked to grant an appropriation for the building of a new man of war rev N I 1 the rector of the russian parish in copenhagen died at the age of 62 years the swedish steamer elsa was wrecked off the western coast of jutland the crew was rescued with great difficulty |