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Show SCANDINAVIAN NEWS! 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. In the evening of May 14 some 40,-000 40,-000 people gathered on Courthouse square in Copenhagen to witness the moving ahead one hour from 11 to J2 of the hands of the courthouse clock. When this event took place the "Midnight Hymn" was played nnd loud cheers went up from the Immense throng below. Another crowd of 20,-000 20,-000 witnessed the dislocation of the succession of the hour from favorable positions at the Tivoli summer gardens. gar-dens. The watchmakers wore trying their host to keep up with the pace-set pace-set by the courthouse clock. The demand for freight vessels has-brought has-brought out some very old crafts. The-Galons The-Galons Marie, which was built in 177G and the Two Brothers, built in 17S0, were to be cut up into fuel, but now they are both making heaps of money as freight vessels. Both chambers of (he rigsdag have passed a bill naturalizing persons of Danish extraction who have been enlisted en-listed in the Danish army and are not citizens of a foreign country. The law will expire at the end of this year. The measure was passed according ac-cording to our understanding with the German government, and its purpose pur-pose is to accommodate "homeless" Danes in Slesvig, the province which Germany took from Denmark in 1S04. NORWAY. Socialism is checked in a practical, businesslike manner in Norway. One-of One-of the latest illustrations of this fact is the disposition of the estate of N. Volckmar, at Smolen, near Christians-sand. Christians-sand. The communes of Ilopen, Brat-var, Brat-var, and Edo hnve bought the property prop-erty for $G0,7;j0. The deal includes-extensive includes-extensive peat bogs which were rented rent-ed out to a syndicate at the rate of $2,400 a year,' which will now be paid to the purchasers. There are 60 ten-nnt ten-nnt farmers on the property, and the-plan the-plan of the communes is to make It easy for these tenants to buy their holdings. Thus it will be seen that there is a big string attached to the socialistic feature of this deal. It is decidedly socialistic in so far as it turns one man's property over to the-communes. the-communes. But the real aim of the-communes the-communes is nothing less than to balk the progress of socialism by putting put-ting from 60 to 100 landowners where-there where-there is only one until the close of this year or January 1, 1917. Rev. Otto Jensen of Christiania had a close call the other day while taking" a buggy ride at Drobak. The horse-became horse-became uncontrollable and ran at break-neck speed through the streets Two of Rev. Jensen's companions managed to get out. But he remained In his seat until the horse ran through a store window. The stomach of the-horse the-horse was literally ripped open and he died on the spot. But the buggy-did buggy-did not tip, and Rev. Jensen got away without a scratch. It goes without saying, however, that he was badly-shocked. badly-shocked. A home for old people has been? dedicated at Aasnes, near Kongsving-er. Kongsving-er. The institution costs about $13,-500. $13,-500. The chairman of the committee-announced committee-announced that the care of old people-will people-will be placed under the local government govern-ment in such a way that they would not lose their civil rights. The commune com-mune will also establish a pension, system for the benefit of all people. Rev. Tandberg made the dedicatory-address. dedicatory-address. A syndicate consisting of the shipowners ship-owners of Haugesund have formed a! syndicate for the purpose of constructing con-structing large shipyards and a dry-dock. dry-dock. The syndicate has bought a. stretch of land extending for three-quarters three-quarters of a mile along the shore-north shore-north of Salhres. The drydock will he large enough to accommodate the-ships the-ships of the Norwegian-American: steamship line. The projected enterprise enter-prise calls for an expenditure of $800,-J00. $800,-J00. The labor troubles in Norway are-crippllng are-crippllng many of the great industries-hut industries-hut full details are lacking yet because-the because-the mails are detained on the way by the British authorities. Over $135,000 has been raised for a commercial high school .In Bergen. Aksel Drolsum has celebrated his forty year jubilee as head librarian of the university library and he has been connected with this Institution since-1870. since-1870. Under his management he library li-brary has become one of the most noted in Europe. Mr. Drolsum i noted throughout Norway as a historian histo-rian and an untiring advocate of "preparedness." "pre-paredness." A Chrlstinnla shipping firm recently recent-ly sold a ship of a little less than 1,000 tons for $100,000, and their profit was over 1,100 per cent. |