Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-23
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.

NOrCn sea Wlthln week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The authorities of Stocksjo have
sued his majesty and the crown for
the purpose of having 5000 acres of
state land formally transferred to the
town of Stocl<sjo, the ground taken by
the plaintiff being that the courts or
dered the territory in question to be
decided to Stocksjo, and that the king
endorsed the transaction in the year
1856.
"A strange story is told from Regina.
A man who was tending to a charcoal
PIT IN the woods was accosted by a
strange woman, who politely asked
nm to direct her to Basnas Having
walked few steps, they met man,
and he. together with the supposed
woman. who now turned out to be a
man in disguise, overpowered the char
coal burner. tied his hands behind his
back, pulled out their knives and drove
him far back into the woods where
they left him securely tied to a tree.
lie remained in this position Il hours,
out was finally saved by some people
who had heard his shouts and cries.
a large linoleum factory-the first
one IN the Scandinavian countries
VIII be built on the Klarelfven, where
water power can be obtained at CON-
paratively small expense.
Sleeping cars will soon be run be-
tween Gothen borg and Copenhagen.
so that the sleep of the passengers
Will not be disturbed by crossing the
sound.
The provincial council of vexio is in
favor OF closing the saloons on Sunday.
The noted bard Werner Won Heiden.
STAN has written violent attack
against the press Of Sweden. He thinks
1t is too shallow, too one-sided in nol;-
TICS and the recent congress of Jour
nalsts he speaks of as a "rabble from
the kingdom of the mind which recent
~ crowded around the dinner tables in
the Drottnlngholm halls" This charge
is resented in vigorous language bv
many OF the papers.
The municipal court OF Filipstad has
been fined for imposing TOO severe
sentence on person convicted of =
1nisdemeanor
case Of death from Inhalation Of
henzine vapors has recently occurred.
the vapors coming from a bicycle re-
pair shop adjoining the rooms in which
the afflicted family resided.
The failure to renew the Interstate
commerce law is creating much dis.
satisfaction in the districts adjacent to
Norway where farm produce hereto
tore constituted an important article
of export to the latter country.
Sixty Swedish vessels suffered ship
wreck in 1896, there being at that time
1878 ships registered as belonging in
Sweden
NORWAY.
4 company of Norwegian ladies and
gentlemen. on July 80. threw a bottle
containing short message into the
sea at Malmo, Sweden. The bottle
was picked up at FROZEN, near Trond-
hiem. Sept. 90, having thus travelled
about 1850 English miles in 60 DAYS.
or over 20 miles a day. This is what
Prof. Mohn has figured out. But sup
pose someone had picked up the bottle
and helped it along a few hundred
miles by rail or steamboat?
There seems to be some truth behind
the rumor that Norwegian expedi-
ton has been sent out in search for
Andree. A dispatch dated Kristiania.
Oct. 81 says: THE department of the
interior has authorized the governor of
Ircmso to hire steamer at public ex-
Tense to go to Spitzbergen on an ex-
r!oring expedition. The expedition
will be ready to leave ip three DAYS.
and will be equipped for six months
voyage"
Whoever wishes himself character
ICED as an intelligent liberal is in ia
vor of the appointment of Anathon
Aall, D. Ph., to tho vacant chair of
church history in the University of
Norway. But the appointment is de-
]ayed by the conservatives, and Yer
dens Gang improves the opportunity
by devoting a two-column article to
the subject. In this article we are
told that 1.-THE heresy of Aali consists
in his demand for conscientiously
scientific treatment of the science of
religion while, on the other hand.
the insinuation is made against the op-
poneDts of Aall that they still cling to
the old custom of adapting the results
Of all religious researches to certain
precorceived and pre-esta blished the
Urics.
TO see the paper Eidsvold fighting
almost like Spanish bovine against
the principles of the liberal party must
he mighty interesting to those who
know that in few days the paper will
be turned over, bag and baggage, to
the liberal party.
IN an interview for a Swedish paper.
Prof. Yngvar Nielsen says: I'm case
the Swedes were to make a hostile in
rasion into Norway, all Norweeians
would stand united. 1t is in view of
this posi- bility that Norway has made
such vigorous military pre- parations of
late
The contribution of the state govern
ment to the public is Just twice as
large in 1897 as in 1887. =.
CAPTAIN Otto Sverdrun has made a