Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-07
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 u Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.

bankruptcy. An offer of $3.50, 900, made
by foreign. capitalists, has just been
rejected by the stockholders.
The receipts of the state railways
for the month of June exceeded the re-
ceipts for the same month last year by
500. 600. This increase was due largely
to the Stockholm exposition.
The students of the university of
Lund petitioned for the use of space
for $50 beds in the Stockholm barracks
during the jubilee festivities, but the
petition was politely declined on the
ground that the soldiers would need all
the room available.
About 10000 men will take part in
the great field maneuvres which will
begin September LIST in Dalarne. No
less than 10, IA men and 1870 horses
will be transported by rail, requiring
great naval review will take place at
the same time along the Baltic:
There were s,31s foreigners regis
tered at the hotels of Stockholm dur
ing the month of July.
Some time ago a mason named AXE
ley, in Aryd. attempted to kill both his
wife and himself, but only inflicted Sc
we're wounds in both cases. She re-
covered sooner thru he. and her pro-
tests prevented the authorities from
.arresting him. Her devotion to him is
SO great that she feeds him because the
hand that was raised to take her life
cannot carry the food to his mouth.
A German hunting club has rented
vast hunting grounds in Alsheda and
'Ohna, in the province of Jonkoping.
Deer, German rabbits, and other game
will be planted there.
A sister of Mr.. Andree, Mrs. Span
berg, must be as brave as her famous
brother. In speaking with German
journalist before it was known that
Andree had effected his ascent. she
said: my only wish is that he
ascends; it is better to perish than to
return without making an attempt"
Col. Won Stockenstrom, of the Svea
artillery, has been very seriously in
,jured. His horse reared and fell down
on top of the rider, whose face was
badly kicked and bruised. The colonel
was carried away UNCONSCIOUS.
The city of Landsl1rona will have a
new hospital, the capacity of which is
to be at least 60 beds.
The. assets of the public school teach
ers' pension fund have almost reached
the $1,000, 900 mark.
The Danish COVE rnment has voted a
cash reward to nine Swedish seamen
who saved the crews of two Danish
schooners which were stranded at
Fallzenberg.
Christina Nilsson was serenaded by
a students octette at Lund. 1t was no
private affair, several thousand people
following in the wake of the singers.
The government has rented 400
freight cars for the state railways from
a German company.
The managers of the state railways
are seriously considering proposition
to introduce the so-called zone tariff
system which has proved to be great
success on the continent.
An American visitor to the exposi-
ton paid an old debt of about of about
$50 The debt was conducted in a
somewhat irregular way at the expo.
sition of 1866.
P. Bondenson of Svalof at present
keeps 1,34o hogs, and he is constantly
increasing his stock.
The deposits of the savings banks Of
Sweden incre ased about 81. 800. 900 dur
ing the year 1895.
J. R. Ortengren, of Chicago, the d.
rector Of the Swedish.American sing.
ers. was officially received by the king
on his steamer 'Drott.
A new railway has been projected
across the Melaren Islands. This will
require an immense viaduct across the
Bockholmsund-1lof feet high and 2, 900
feetlong, permitting the largest yes
sells to pass under it.
The attendance at the Upsala sum-
mer school is over 800. -
Tom Mann, the English labor aRi.
tator, who was expelled from. Ger
many, is lecturing in Sweden So far
from interfering with the program of
the man, the papers ere announcing
his meetings, which goes to prove that
the authorities are not afraid that he
will be able to create any dangerous
discomfort among the workingmen: +,
The king has ordered the authorities
70 take speedy and vigorous steps to
stop the spreading of tuberculosis
among the domestic animals >>:-..
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NORWAY.
The storthing has elected the follow
ing judges of award of Nobels prize:
Steen, with t0e votes; Getz, with los
votes; Lovland, with 60 votes, and B.
Bjornscn and Lund, with So votes each.
AS committee to confer with the
executors of Nobels will were elected:
Schweigaard, with 1903 votes; Steen,
with los votes, and Blehr, with SO. +.
Elise Bjornson. mother Of Bjornst.
jerne Bjornson, is dead. Her health
had been very good until she took sick
with cancer few months ago, and this
disease ended her life at, the age of SO
years. Her maiden name was Nor
draak, and she was married to Rev. p.
Bjornson in 1888. She was an unusually
gifted woman. aI#, J.,.>~: it, ~. :.
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