Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-10

ClOn GROUNDS are the beautiful Dur
garden. The buildings show artistic
taste. The variation is endless
SWEDEN.
The king has decided that Sweden
shall be represented at the fisheries
exposition in Bergen Norway, next
year.
The wreck saving company, Octo-
pus, will receive $40, 900 for raising the
iron steamer Sodra from the bottom of
the SCI.
proposition was made to invest
$1,000 out of the newspaper fund of the
Good Templars in new daily: but the
grand lodge rejected the motion, with
out discussion.
The receipts of the custom house de-
partment for the first half of the pres
ent year were SIS, 500, 900, which is $780,
600 in excess of the corresponding
amount for the year 1896.
July II was the demonstration day.
of the temperance people, and they
seem to have made the most of it. At
Stockholm 5000. totalists marched in
procession through the streets, and
airy and musical exercises There were
over 80 banners in the parade. The
attendance in the city of Hoping was
1000, and at this place music was fur
nished by 20 bands.
The steamer Cito, commanded by
Capt. A. Grunden, has not been heard
of since it left England for Sweden
Jan. 6, 1897. About two months ago a
Danish fisherman found human arm
on the north coast of Skagen. On this
arm. was gold ring on which were
engraved: IT. A. IS 21-1, 49, By
means of this inscription it was ascer-
talned that it was the wedding ring of
the captain of the lost steamer, the
two letters being the initials of the
maiden name of his wife. The ring
has been sent to Mrs. Grunden, who is
living at Gothenb borg. The fact that
the arm was torn from the body proves
conclusively that the steamer had been
destroyed by an explosion. Even the
origin of the explosion is surmised. A
fearful storm was raging on the North
j. sea Immediately after Jan. 6. 1t is
supposed that all openings to the deck
were closed up, so as to keep out the
water, the waves sweeping the deck
+ Com busti BILE gases were accumulated
- in the hold, and an explosion was the
:. result. This explosion may have been
so violent as to send the steamer with
all on board to the bottom in the course
of few seconds.
A fire at the central station of the
3. Stockholm telephone company disabled
!. the service for a couple of weeks.
The worlds temperance petition got
j ten up by the w. C. Il. U. will soon be
placed before the government of Swe-
den.
The French minister of the interior
( has appointed Mr.. d'Abartigue, civil
b engineer and journalist, to 90 to Swe-
{ den to study up the temperance legis-
lation of that country.
Six thousand foreigners registered
their names at Stockholm hotels dur
/ ing the month of June. OF these, 1,216
were Germans, 1, 1O1 Danes, 9l2 Nor
wegians, 921 Firms, and 76O Swedish
Americans. -,~ i. ~ T..
I The strike in the neighborhood of
Y Ornskoldsvik has been settled by a par
5tial victory for the strikers.
Capt. Lehman, of the Dutch steam
er3 Dortrecht, claims that on July II.
Il six days after the ascension of Andree,
& he saw q curious. object floating in the
White Sea, some nine hundred miles
southeastsof the place of ascension
The captain says it was neither ship
nor q dead whale, but resembled q bal
loon .s /. s*.5 RAE:
rs ristina Nilsson does not seem to
stand the climate Of Sweden as we'll
s-sass she did way ack-she has caught a
bad cold and the doctors made her stay
I'm her rooms for several days. } .5ss52
ORyYAY.