Willmar tribune., 1898-01-04
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within . Week
SO just Past.
SWEDEN.

power company proposes to knock this
hgure down to So2. IS.
New church buildings were dedicated
at kjefinge and Asmundstorp.
The Vulcan match company of Tida-
holm has erected peoples palace at
cost of S25,Ooo. The building contains
a large hall. library, 4 school kitchen,
and other useful departments
Stockholm can boast of the distinc-
ton of having what may be termed a
"hair-pin tiend'' among its citizens.
The dignitary in question has, for if
teen years past, picked up everything
IN the line of hairpins, and he now has
just two bushels of that commodity.
Gothenburg, the cradle of the IA
nous ''Gothenb burg system" has IS sa-
looms, or one for every $500 inhabi-
tants.
An iron furnace in Austria will i'm
port iron orc from Norrland. although
it has to be carried a distance of 9. 600
miles. Iron ore can be obtained at
distance Of 200 miles; but the former
contains 81 and the latter 40 per cent
of iron.
The Lund Weekly Gazette, which
was established in ITS, and which has
had among its contributors such men
as Bengt I.idner and Esaias Tegner,
has been sobbled up by Lunds Dag
blad.
Enormous quantities of seaweed
were thrown up by a storm along the
beach at Bastad. The farmers of the
neighborhood have hauled away hun
dreds of loads for manure, but still
there IS much left
August Strindberg has completed the
second part of his work, "Inferno," in
French, sne same as the first part.
The board of equalization of Stock
holm has raised the taxes of some of
the money brokers as much as 1000
per cent
A woman at Alsheda, Smaland, a
number of years ago was completely
paralyzed, with the exception of three
fingers on one hand. But these fingers
she is using to their best advantage,
and she has just knitted white bed
cover which would have been a credit
to any able bodied person. For years
she has not been able to carry her food
to her mouth.
Christina Stromberg has carried the
mail between Singo and Grissleholm
for 22 years. She has performed her
duty as regularly as clockwork, no
matter how severe the weather has
been.
The prices of bicycles for the next
season will be from $50 to 800 for the
best grades.
The Swedish language is spoken by
6, 400, 600 persons-5, 600, 900 in Sweden,
1000, 900 in America, 325, 900 in Fin
land, $4,000 in Norway and several
thousand in Denmark.
The king has announced that the
election of a new bishop for Lund will
take place Feb. 2.
f. Danielson, one of the leading
electricians of Sweden, will inspect
the electric power houses at Niagara
and IN Switzerland in the interest of
the great Trollhattan electric COM
pany.
Mr.. Collander, member of the second
cham ber of the riksdag from Udde-
valla and Stromstad, has officially
been declared irresponsible, and as
such be cannot occupy his seat in the
'riksdag. But no one can be elected in
his place until the riksdag meets and
officially declares his seat vacant
The dreaded mouth and hoof disease
has broken out among the stock of
Count Won Rosen, near Stockholm.
ho o;f of
new $500 public school building.
A strike is on at the Kockum dry
docks, and the proprietors of the docks
threaten to close up the docks until
spring unless the employees return to
work on the terms of the employers.
The Malmo brewing company has
declared 10 per cent dividend.
building has been completed in Oster-
malm. Stockholm, and the church will
be named for King Oscar.
The managers of Nordiska museet in
Stockholm have memorialized the king
for permission to raise money for the
museum by means of national lot
terry. 1t is proposed to issue tickets
for 81, 45S, 600.
NORWAY.
Of 196, 900 qualified voters. 1G6, 900, in
round numbers, cast their votes at the
last election. The conservatives and
moderates received about n, 700, and
the liberals $1,000 votes, giving the lat
ter a majority of 10000. as against a
majority of I, 700 in 1894. 1t is now ad-
:mitted that the liberal party majority
in 1897 would have been much larger
if the liberal party had not shouldered
the universal suffrage plank. If this
had been left out, the conservatives
would not have been safe in a single
one of the ia storthing districts.
~ A. French syndicate has bought a
tract Of mining land near Kongsberg
for &3o, 600. ..... N,$
+ Mr.. Hagerup, the premier of Nor
way, thinks it would be yery bene-
fetal to let the women vote to the
same extent as men.
1. Two new floating docks will be built
at Moss.
Ryvingen, 4 few miles south of Man