Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-10-26
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
: the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

or So just Past.
About 200 dalkullor (girls from Da-
larne) employed in washing bottles in
Stockholm b1eweries have struck for
higher wages, though it is claimed that
they have been making from 80 to IS a
week.
The gross receipts of the Stockholm
exposition are about 100000 kronor
over and above the estimated 1000, 600
kronor. The surplus of the exposition
lottery amounts to $50, 400. which will
go to the Nordiska museum.
The German Gustaf Adolf society in
Berlin celebrated its 5Oth anniversary
Sept. 20. The bells were rung in all
the Protestant churches in the city,
and the empress attended special serv-
ices in the Nicolai church.
The Russian minister of the navy is
negotiating with the Neptune Salvage
company for the raising of the Russian
lronclad Hangoudd from the bottom of
the sea. The job will cost about $780,.
900, of which amount 5000, 1000 will be
needed for chains, pontoons and me-
chanical devices.
A royal hunting party killed 80 rab-
bits at Malo and Gottsl1ar, the king
himself shooting 80 of that number.
The Peace and Arbitration society of
Sweden has requested the ministers of
the state church, as we'll as of the in
dependent churches, to devote the first
Sunday after Christmas to the cause of
international peace.
Svenska Morgonbladet, the leading
free religious organ IN the country,
was discontinued Oct. l.
A dispatch dated Stockholm, Oct. 10,
states that ssybuildings in the town of
Anus, Skape, have been destroyed by
fire. Mahy of the Inhabitants lost all
their property, and one person was
burned to death.
The king Of Belgium recently said
"We have employed many Swedish Of
ticers in our attempts to advance civil
ization in Congo. and 1 have found
them to be not only gentlemen, but
also very faithful and fearless. They
discharge their duties in an. excellent
manner, no matter where they are
placed. We still need many Swedish
officers, and we can never get too
many of them"
Alfred Lindstedt, whose skull was
fractured by a rock from blast in
karrgrufvan, has had the missing part
of the skull replaced by plate of
aluminium.
The king received about 400 congrat-
ulatory kilograms during the Jubilee
festivities.
Prince Wilhelm could not go to Nor
way with the rest of the royal family
to cele brate the jubilee on account of
Inflammation in the ears.
Bishop G. Billing has been reelected
to the first chamber of the riksdag.
The Medical Union of Sweden has
offered three prizes for the best popu-
lar treatises on tuberculosis.
A Mr.. Anderson of Stockholm raised
a 330-pound dumbbell above his head,
pulverizing all former records in that
line.
The Kop:nge sugar factory near
Malmo is consuming 1900 tons of sugar
beets per day.
The rifle clubs of Sweden have an
aggregate membership of 20, 900, and
the number of shots fired by these in
1896 was over 100000.
Sven Hedin. the explorer. has been
awarded the gold medal of the Danish
geographical society.
The famous jubilee fund to the king
amounted to 2,200,0 900 kronor
The Mission Friends of GeAe have
publicly thanked God for delivering
Rev. Norberg from the charges against
him in connection with the death of
Miss Lenstrom, and criticised the pros
ecuting attorney because he made
such charges.
A travelling merchant met poor
schoolmate in Stockholm. After a
short talk the merchant departed. but
said: Come to the railway depot to.
morrow, and will do what can for
you" The train had already started,
with the merchant en- board, when his
school mate arrived the next day. But
the merchant quickly threw his pocket
book out through the window and
shouted to his friend: "Take what you
need. and send me the balance by the
next mail" There was 400 kronor in
the book, of which amount the happy
recipient took so kronor and returned
the balance. 80. ~
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The poetry written on the occasion
of the jubilee is good. bad, and indiffer-
ent.- With due respect for the sublime
art, however, it must be admitted that
most of it is of decidedly common