Show NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT happenings IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of tho the most important events eventa in sweden norway and denmark of interest Inter cit to the scandinavians scandinavian in america DENMARK hundreds of 0 danes aro are fighting with the british troops in gallipoli according to capt percy hanson a briton ot of danish parentage who has haa just received tho the victoria cross tor for hla his bravery and enterprise under alro these danes emigrated to australia and now zealand tho the danish steamer united states was brought into tile clyde by a british warship wars lil being diverted from her route while on tho way from copenhagen to new york A large number ot of germans and Aust austrians rians with largo sums ot of money in their possession were said to bo be aboard tho the malls from tile tho ship were put ashore ashbro 0 0 british capital gossips aro are seizing on tho the rumors that a danish princess Is to become the future queen ot of england they mako make a juicy tidbit for tho the gossips for discussions of this his kind are by tho the nature of events materially circumscribed with great britain VA at war many of tile the princesses that might havo have been eligible as wives for albert prince of wales have become ineligible it would never do for tho the future king to wed an enemy of his courry cou iry it is reported on good authority V t it at queen mary and king george have about decided on princess marguerite of denmark as a daughter in law the princess Is a idiece of dowager queen alexandra A course of lee lectures tures on farming was given at agersted Ag ersted and among the attendants tend ants were two farmers hans nielsen seventy one years old and J K jenson who was waa only tour four gearu younger tho the so called ratin society has finished its war in aalborg having fulfilled its contract to got rid ot of the rats in 95 per cent of the houses the plan includes arrangements for pr preventing ev enting the rats from in multiplying wh chero are they have hav a been elterm exterminated the banks of copenhagen had a combined capital et ct nt at the beginning of this century now tho the amount Is almost in other words it la Is throe three times as large as it was 15 years ago this growth Is highly respectable ablo even from an amor amer loan lean point of view A stray cow and her calf stayed in the neighborhood of borup during the latter latier part of tile the summer several attempts to capture them were mado made but all in vain for the animals would run as fast as wild deer the people of the place have kept an eye on them theio and it they dont permit themselves to be ba caught when the snow gets deep they must be shot like ordinary game SWEDEN the swedish athletic authorities aro are understood to favor a visit of an american track and held field team to sweden dennert next summer tor for a series ot of international meets all hopes of holding the olympic games luring during 1910 as previously planned has been abandoned by the international olympic committee and that body as well au ati the officers cors of tile the international athletic federation Is reported to favor such a meeting of american and swedish track and field stars ernie 11 jertberg tile the swedish national athletic instructor will probably bo be delegated to visit america shortly and arrango arrange all details for tho the tour 0 0 the swedish steamship stockholm formerly the holland american liner potsdam bound from gothenburg gothenberg Got henburg for now york with a general cargo has haa been taken into Kir kirkwall kwall by tho the brit arlt ish authorities the stockholm was purchased in october by the drw swedish american steamship company and was on its arat voyage to now york under tile the management of this company at a national convention of tho the liberal party a resolution was passed declaring that tho the foreign policy of the arty party and the government la is absolute neutrality reference ference Ile was also made to the agreement between tho the scandinavian countries to maintain their neutrality an agitation in favor of supporting one of tho the belligerents germany was waa denounced as unreliable and irresponsible the receipts of the state railways tor for september were tile the largest tor for any single month in the history of the railways of tile the country the receipts for tile the same month in 1914 were about loss tho the receipts for tho first three quarters of this year wore were almost as against for the same period of iau the government cleared almost on the exportation ot of horses last summer the number of borses exported was |