Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-05
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 q Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.

Only per cent of the private rail,
ways of Sweden had a higher rate OF
traffic per mile than the government
railways for the year 1897. The Geae
and Dala railway heads the list with
80 70 day per English mile of track
But these figures cover only the sur.
lace, because they do not show the &C
tual traffic in the shape of passengers
and tons of freight per mile, or some
thing to that effect.
butcher in Lund found no less thar
tour embryos in COW which he killed
Two of them were males and two fe-
males.
Sixteen Swedes and Lapps got up
regular old-time wolf hunt in Sorsele
during the latter part of February.
The snow was deep and loose, and the
hunters, who walked on skis, proceed
ed with difficulty. But the wolves
were still worse off than the men; fo1
only the one who broke the track for
the men had to work hard, and he was
relieved every few minutes by the
next man. The wolves were finally SO
exhausted that the men closed upon
them, killing the whole bunch, which
consisted of half a dozen beasts. OF
the sixteen men, 70-year-old Lapp
displayed the greatest endurance.
The rules of the army have been
made more stringent in regard 70 foot
wear. All soldiers will now have to
wear long-legged boots while in actual
practice.
Lector P. Waldenstrom has formu-
lated bill requiring the clergymen to
ascertain that the sponsors are present
in person when children are baptized;
but the bill has been reported adverse
~ by the committee.
Malmotidningen is far from pleased
with the service of the senate of Swe-
den. Said paper for March Il con-
tanned some grandiloquent reflections
on that important subject, and we
quote few of the sentences: st is
not very often that the Swedish peo-
pie has an occasion to listen with any
marked degree of attention to the
tokens of life manifested by that de-
crepit institution called the first cham
Der of the riksdag. In most cases
these tokens of life are limited to the
deafening noes of the court marshal's
party whenever any trifling reform, or
even the mere shadow of reform, is
knocking at the gate of the upper
chamber. But in exceptional cases it
happens that the shouts of mo- are fol-
lowed by sort of augmentation in
which, to the general amazement of
the Swedish people, a whole funeral
cortege of obsolete notions and super
animated ideas may be seen marching,
so to speak, across the stage"
The national debt of Sweden is lit
tie over SIS, 900. 900.
The king has transferred Bishop
Billing from Westerns to Lund. This
change is received favorably by the
clergy.
The formal purchase of peat bog
at Stenbrohult by the board of health
of the city of Malmo has been consum-
mated. The price paid was almost
$4,000.
The Russians admit that they have
reaped considerable benefit from the
participation of Russia in the Stock
holm exposition last summer.
c. G. Hernmarck has been appointed
to serve on court of arbitration be-
tween Italy and Persia.
The fragments of the bottle which
was broken by Princess Ingeb borg in
christening the cruiser Thor were
picked up by a workingman and sold
at a handsome price. But the neck of
the bottle was returned to the prin-
cess to be kept as a momento.
F. Lowenadler, a Swede residing in
London, has donated $500 to the Swed-
ish sport club.
The king will make a trip to Ger
many about the LIST of May; the queen
will 60 to Honnef next month. and the
crown prince will be back from Italy
about month from now.
Thirty American law firms have
written to P. Englund of Ostersund,
offering to collect an indemnity from
the United States government on &C
count of the death of his son in the
Maine disaster.
The crown prince had audience of
the pope March Is.
Nearly forty-eight thousand farmers
in Sweden rent the land they till.
Thirty-three stonecutters have lost
their lives through lung diseases
caused by inhaling stone dust while
engaged in cutting stone for the Skara
cathedral
Those members of the riksdag who
have extensive experiences as educa-
tors are in favor of curtailing the study
of Latin in the higher institutions of
learning.
Miss Hilda Lundqvist of Soderkop-
ing. the first lady telegraph operator
in Sweden. died at the age of -.
The health of the crown princess is
slightly improving.
NORWAY.
The queen has decided to spend part
of the summer at Skinnarbol, near
Kongsvinger.z - NJ
The constitutional committee, by q
vote Of s to Q, has proposed that the
right to vote at all general elections
h. Uivan II ALI men If the oo If Ok