| Show scandinavian NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT happenings IN FAR OFF NORTHWEST ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME resume of the mott most important events event in sweden nor ny and denmark of interest to scandinavians scandinavian in america SWEDEN A violent shock was felt on board the trelleborg Trel leborg steamer castor as it was passing through tho the aaland sea general consternation ensued everybody believed that hat the ship had struck a mine every means of escape was la in perfect order and in a few mo invents all tho the boats were on the water und and the men inen in them no one took time to stop the engine and the propellers kept on twirling the boats were rowed out ot of the tha reach ot of tho the supposed danger and then stopped lit in order that the raen men might see the tha ship go down don they waited minute after minute finally the ire fire went down and the propellers stopped high seas had been beating against the bow of the steamer all the time it took only a few powerful waves to knock the steamer back and tile the way it behaved proved that it had bad been riding on the side aide of a rock and kept there by the propellers the men were glad they were mistaken and returned to tile the ship as fast as they could 0 0 A stockholm jeweler has a valuable souvenir from the meeting of the three kings of scandinavia in malmo the object is not of great intrinsic value being only a plain cheap penholder dut but the fact that it has been in tile the hands of the three sovereigns representing the northern entente and has been used for signing their agreement makes tile the penholder ft a relic of great historic bi value it la Is to be furnished with gold trimmings bearing tho the inscription on december nineteenth 1914 the agreement agre anent between sweden norway and e denmark was signed with this pen at the malmo residence it la Is not known at this writing where the pen and penholder are to be kept 0 0 0 an eighty year old tenant farmer in parish near a big sheet of paper tor for starting fire in his stove on christmas day the taper paper burned faster than he expected and the flames reached the ceiling cel ling which chich was soon eoon in a blaze the old man was utterly unable to check the are and the whole house was soon wrapped in a sheet of flame the old man succeeded in saving his bis own life and lie Is now cared for at an old peoples home in that locality 0 almost live five hundred foreigners applied for naturalization papers from the beginning of the war to the end of the old year about one hundred and thirty were Fin landers corwe glans gians 65 germans 60 russ russians lans 60 danes 10 englishmen and 6 americans there were also about fifty who applied for a restoration of their lost rights as swedish citizens the teachers and pupils of the bofo parish pariah were invited on the second day of christmas to the palace palce a ce where they were entertained by the king and queen each child received a big b bag ag filled with different kinds of dainties apples and cakes the queen distributed the gifts in person the teachers received souvenirs from the gathering the social democrats of germany have withdrawn their promise to deposit some money in tile the socialist bank in stockholm it Is hinted that this change of mind on the part of the german may have been e asod by the manner lit in which the ho shown their hostility to the germans during the war a general Mal hjalmarson marson head of the t swedish gendarmerie gendar merie merle in persia has Te reported ported to the raad rl newspaper ws that tho the Siv swedish edish government has rea resolved dived to reci recall ill the swedish officers within three months unless the persian government eriv ilent pays the wages of the gen farmerie dar dari merie tile the increase of the population of malmo for the year 1914 was nut but of this number was added to the population by y the incorporation of the city of limhamn into tile the city of nf malmo alaimo now has a population of f about 0 j lialo abio Is the only one of tile the larger cities of southeastern sweden that shows B a decrease of population for the D past ast year ronde made a rain pain of and now has haa inhabitants 0 three brothers officiating at the panic pame christmas morning service la Is something rare this happened last christmas christinas in tho the Inga Ing berKe aberge church hergesz preached the and conducted conduct eI alil communion service karl carl derganz bergena presided nt at the organ and albot derganz acted as it Is claimed that the hoof and mouth disease has been carried by sparrows for miles and miles in southern sweden tills this seems to be tit the 0 01 only ay way of explaining tho tha appearance of the he pest eat in so eo many isolated localities |
