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Show SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS HAP-PENINGS IN FAR 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. DENMARK. Five delegates representing the colonial colo-nial councils of the Islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, summoned to Copenhagen by the Danish Dan-ish sale commission to confer with that body on the proposed sale of the islands to the United States reached Js'ow York on the steamship Carolina from San Juan. The delegates declined de-clined to make public just what their report to the Danish government would ' be, but said the people of the islands were almost unanimous in favoring the sale. The colonial delegates are Frank Coulter and Dr. V. Christensen from St. Croix and J. J. Jorgensen, A. P. t Stakemann and James Roberts from St. Thomas. They left on the steamship steam-ship United States for Copenhagen. A Danish firm used to run a button factory in Hamburg, Germany, using compressed blood as raw material. The war compelled the proprietors to close the factory, and now they are going to start a factory at Koskilde, Denmark. Den-mark. Electric energy will be furnished fur-nished by the Trollhattan power station, sta-tion, Sweden. The capital is put at u little over $80,000. Bertel Nielsen of Hedonsted, second foreman on the state railways, found nome small, triangular teeth in a, piece of rock on the track. Geologists made a study of the matter and came to the conclusion that the teeth had belonged be-longed to a shark, and that the rock in which they were imbedded belonged to the cretaceous period. What is said to be the second ship from Iceland to reach American shores since the days of Leif the Lucky, 900 years ago, arrived at New Tork October Octo-ber 29, when the little steamer Goda-foss Goda-foss docked with a cargo of skins and herring. She brought 37 farmers from Iceland who will settle in the Canadian Northwest. Six Polanders who were working at JNakskov ate some mushrooms which they found in the woods, and all of them took sick. Two of them died, and three of the others hadUo be cared for at the hospital. Only one of the. ;ix recovered in a short time. The Woman's Help is the name of 4in organization which has bought the Elev high school at Aarhus for the purpose pur-pose of changing it into a home for 2rt or 30 women. A dispatch to the Central News from Christiania says the Danish ship Loudon has been set on fire in the North sea by a German submarine. The city council of Copenhagen has decided to put up a number of new dwelling houses to be rented out at reasonable rates. SWEDEN. On a certain day called "Children's day" free contributions are made in the cities of Sweden for the benefit of poor children. In Stockholm Lieutenant Lieuten-ant von Dobeln assisted the good cause in an original and lavish way. He ordered or-dered a large number of hand bills printed. These he folded together carefully, care-fully, putting five kroner ($1.35) bills in 20 of them. Then he took all of them with him in his airship and scattered scat-tered them all over the city. The bills were payable at the office of those managing man-aging the business of "Children's day," so that the lucky finder had to appear at the office in order to get the money. This was the first time in the history of Sweden that money came in a shower show-er from the sky. The new Trollhattan canal has been opened by King Gustaf, says the Overseas Over-seas News agency. The canal establishes estab-lishes communication between Lake Venern and the Baltic sea. Its construction con-struction took seven years. The memorial coin of the Swedish academy for this year will be issued in honor of Esaias Tegner, the poet, who died 70 years ago. The demand for copper is so great that many mines which had been closed for years are now regular beehives. bee-hives. The government has permitted the exportation of 750 tons of lingon berries ber-ries of this year's crop. Miss Bournonville, a lady of Swedish Swe-dish birth, was sentenced to death as a spy in London, but her sentence has been commuted to imprisonment for life. She feels sure, however, that she will be set free at the end of the war, or even at an earlier date. The Swedish government has taken action to regulate the consumption of bread. Exportation of sugar beets already al-ready has been prohibited, and the tale of sugar since November 1 has be?n limited to those lidding cards Issued Is-sued by the government' |