Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND.


HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The crown prince put up at the royal
palace during his recent visit to Berlin.
The town of Horny seems to be sue
cessful in its endeavors to secure a
royal charter as Commercial CITY,"
S. A. Andree has just given full
account of the improvements made on
his balloon since last year. It's volume
has been increased about 900 cubic me-
tiers and the seams of it will be covered
with layer of varnish which Locham-
bre, the manufacturer, invented ex-
pressly for this purpose. The immense
shed in which the balloon was kept
during its filling, at Spitzbergen, is
supposed to be somewhat damaged,
but not enough to cause any serious
this time, because the balloon is made
to resist all kinds of weather. Andree
will be prepared to manufacture gas
enough to fill the balloon twice. The
old guide ropes, or ''dragging lines"
will be used. new apparatus has
been invented for cutting these at any
desired point, in case they get stuck on
the ground. The expedition will leave
Gothenborg for Spitzbergen May IS,
and it is calculated that about five
weeks later everything will be ready
for the ascension. Andree says the
prospects are brighter now than last
year.
The crown princess, who is still So
journing at Rome, has been visited at
her temporary quarters by the king of
Italy IN person.
This is a literal version of an item
which has just appeared in great
Stockholm daily: ''That feeling of
distrust of Sweden which has appeared
in Russia is said to be spreading
through the Russian press They take
as a starting point the greatly in
creased military budget, 4S per cent of
which is said to be used for the
strengthening of stragetic positions
along the Russian boundary. Sweden
is accused of entertaining plans of re-
venge for the defeats of 1909, by way
of reconqueriug Finland
The Grangesberg-Oxola Traffic
Company is prosperous concern. The
clear profit for the past year was $685.
900. or 10 per cent on the capital stock.
The Sandsjo parsonage was destroyed
by fire March 90, and Mrs. Kristina
Chrysander. the 62-year old wife of the
pastor, persisted in the flames.
The work of the present ril1sdag is
progressing SO smoothly and harmoni-
ously that the newspaper reporters
hardly know what to do with them
selves
Prof. II. Antell, of the university of
Lund, has been appointed associate
justice of the supreme court of the
state IF Congo He is to spend several
months at Bruxelles preparing for the
responsible position. Prof Antell is
to receive magnificent salary.
The Karpalund beer brewery has de-
clared a dividend of 10 per cent.
Tho kings Jubilee fund is growing at
a very rapid rate. Subscriptions of
1000 to 5000 kronor (S27O to 81, $500 are
SO common as to cause no comment.
The total production of all the man.
for 1895, excepting that of the saw
mills, the grist mills, and the dairies,
represented value of $4,000, 900.
The total number of manufacturing
establishments at the end of that year
was 5,0S3, and the mum Der of employees
40, 1865.
There is a tenement house called
Polstjernan, in Stockholm, which is
occupied by grown man, boys, and
about 100 women. This is fact
based on the city census.
Private parties have applied for per-
mission to run a motor on the highway
between Falsterbo and dwellings,, in
southern Sweden. The distance is IL
English miles, and the motor covers it
in less than an hour. The motor ac-
commodities 10 passengers, besides one
man who serves as engineer and con-
ductor. The most serious objection to
the concession is that the motor will
scare the horses along the road. If the
desired concession is granted it may
not take long before horseless wagons
are common On the public highways of
Sweden.
The mechanics of He1singborg pre-
sented petition to their employers,
asking for reduction of the working
hours from II or 1917 to 10 hours a dav
and, in few instances, for slight in
crease of wages. In the main the en-
ployers complied with the request of
their employees, thus avoiding strike.
NORWAY
The Christiania Dairy Company ham
died $4,000 gallons of milk last year.
In re the moral condition of the peo-
pie of Christ1ania, paper has collected
expressions by few prominent men.
Says Bishop Bang: ''There is great
deal of squalor and misery, and min
lister of the gospel may indeed have
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