Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-10-05
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
" the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,

@FAncipal Events that Have Occurred :,
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within u Week
or So Just Past,
a caolegram gives brief outline of
we celebration of the Jubilee of King
oscar upon the 25th anniversary of his
.cess1on to the throne. The city OF
oeockholm was brilliantly decorated,
ano the streets were crowded with
slentseers. The royal family, repre-
s s., OF foreign governments, and
o'hers, attended divine services IN the
-o'enoon' Sept. IS, Bishop Billing, the
ECU: oort chaplain, reviewing the kings
.Ae'"ork and invoking divine blessing
upon the king, his country and his peo-
PIE. At the close of the services the
great Jubilee gift was presented to the
1N'ng' This consists of about 1900, 600
Aronor, or over $500, 0oo-the cable.
gram enormously says 22O, 900 kronor-
.ue whole OF which his majesty will
devote to the com batting of tubercu-
lous diseases.
The town of Hoganas has celebrated
'ne loOdth anniversary of it's present
coal mining company. The popula-
t1on OF the city is about 1000. most OF
"hom depend upon mining and brick
MAKING for a living. The working.
men OF that city are contented and
comp' .tively prosperous.
81 The annual number of cases tried by
The lower courts is about $4,000
May-bug larvae have almost de-
surveyed the potato crop in the parish
of Tossjo.
The Stockholm exposition closed on
Octs.
Red sandstone has been discovered
at Kingston, and quarries will be
opened there at once.
The queen was compelled to remain
In bed the 9Th and 9th of September on
account of catarrh and slight fever.
The railway companies of Sweden
may make a material reduction of the
passenger rates next year. T.
Bishop Billing made Sc speeches in
the last rilsdag, the greatest number
made by any member of the first cham
Der during the session. In the second
chamber, Adolf HedlD headed the list
with SO speeches.
TIE wealth of the royal family is
about 81, $50, 900, which is far below
the amount generally accredited to the
Bernadottes.
Two young ladies from Kristianstad
have passed examinations as pharma-
cists.
One of the sanitariums for tuber-
culous patients which will be estab-
aished by means of the kings jubilee
fund, may be built in Are. Jemtland.
The demand for stone from the
Ofvedkloster sandstone quarry is so
great that the work il carried on I'M
interruptedly night and day.
Time and again the price of sugar
has advanced, and it is now N cents
apound higher than it was couple of
months ago. - 81.
c. E. Berling, a captain in the army,
has been ordered to 20 to France to
study military tactics. =; -
Not only the name of the Lyckaker
sugar factory will be changed to
Union, but the latter name will also
be given to the railway station at that
place.
Eight hundred and seventy-five thou
sand acres of land have been reclaimed
by draining lakes and swamps since
1884,. The cost of this magnificent
work was Sc, $50, 900.
Fir. Bunsow, merchant at Sundsvall,
lis dead. His death is mentioned be-
cause he was one of the richest men in
Sweden, his fortune exceeding S., O0O.-
900.
The naval maneuvers might have
been more serious. Two torpedo boats
were to attack the ironclad Oden in
the night. But they missed their
mark and ran against each other. the
collision compelling both of them to
withdraw from the combat at once.
The city of Stockholm has collected
SO, 532, 1873 from the liquor traffic during
the past ten years.
The biggest block of black granite
ever successfully quarried by man has
been taken out at Brannarebygd, in
Blekinge.
Bishop c. H. Rundgren and wife cel-
ebrated their golden wedding at Karl
stad, and, as tokens of gratitude to a
benign PrOvldence, the couple donated
several hundred dollars to different
charitable concerns.
The com bined distance run by all the
railway cars of Sweden in one year is
1 700, O00, 600 kilometers, or 1900 times
around the earth. r, :
The late Mrs. E. A. Lindstrand, of
Stockholm, donated $50. 600 to differ
ent charitable institutions.
. E&4STa NORWAY.
E Verdens Gang makes the following
comment on the recent field maneu-
vers: ''The soldiers on all occasions
obeyed their orders with an alacrity
which deserves unqualified apprecia-
ton. When 5000 soldiers from differ
emit parts of the country, as on this oc-
casion, are gathered at one place, it
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