Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
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 q Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.


or So just Past.
y. +. Lindberg, who has just been
appointed to the chair of Hebrew in
the high school of Gothenburg (which
is really university, is shining ex-
ample of perseverance. He was en-
gagged in manual work until 20 years
of age; but when he did begin to study
ne made rapid progress in every
branch, and at the age of Al he was
appointed to said position, although he
had made no application.
Petitions for concessions to open and
operate new coal mines in Luggude
have occasioned complicated litigations
among the petitioners themselves, as
we'll as between the petitioners and
the old Hoganes coal company.
The present cabinet has pressed the
bill appropriating over five million dol
lars for the proposed Gellivare and
Ofoten railroad with such vigor that if
the bill fails to pass the riksdag, Pre-
mier Bostrom may retire from the cab
met.
A married couple at Brantevlk for
eight years had been suffering with
different kinds of diseases, their eyes
being most frequently affected. A
physician was at last called, and he
succeeded in demonstrating that the
upholstery of the furniture contained
arsenic. The material for the uphols-
terry lad been bought in Germany.
The Good Templars of southern Swe-
den and Denmark will have a grand
demonstration at Landskrona next
summer.
The youngest physician in Sweden
is H. I. Schlas berg of Landskrona, and
the oldest one is G.. V. A. Jacob of
Solvesborg. Their ages are 25 and 81
years respectively.
Rev. R. Courteous of Malmo is to spend
four months in German cities to study
the modes of preventing the rising
generation from going astray. Rev.
Conricus has spent several years at
German universities, and he is particu-
larly we'll qualified for the work he
has undertaken.
The schooner Hero, Captain Isberg
of Ekenes, was wrecked near Simris-
hamn, and the whole crew. composed
of five men, persisted. A number of
other ships were either wrecked or
damaged at the same time, and it is
feared that several fishermen lost their
lives
Out of family of nine at Weinge,
Halland, eight have died of consump-
ton, the eighth in order being Peter
Paulson, the head of the family. The
only remaining member of the family
is the oldest daughter.
A private subscription for the build
ing of a soldiers home at Ljungbyhed,
Skane, is making rapid progress.
The aggregate assets of the 81 prl-
vate banks in Sweden were SITS, 49,
900 on the last of February. The
Skane private bank heads the list with
about $26, 100000.
The railway committee, by a vote of
Is to 9, has reported adversely on the
proposition to build railway from
Gellivare to Ofoten.
Mr.. Hedin, the father of the noted
Asiatic explorer by the same name, re-
signed his position as city architect
of Stockholm. On this occasion a re-
ception was rendered him, and he re-
ceived a souvenir in the shape of a.
heavy silver can, which also contained
81. $40 in coin.
Last summer the steamers of the d.
rect Saskatchewan steamship line
between Trelleborg and Sassnitz
passed once a day each way; but now
it is proposed to run steamers twice a
day each way from the first of May to
the last of September.
The limit of the number of saloons
in Malmo is put at 35, and these must
be kept only in certain parts of the
city.
A number of very prominent Swedes
have organized themselves into mu-
tual pension and life insurance COM
pany. the chief aim of the enterprise
being to afford pension insurance on
perfectly safe basis and at the cheap
est rates.
Two prominentlabor union men were
discharged at the Forshaga sulphide
factory near Karlstad. and a unani-
nous sympathetic strike stopped every
wheel in the factory.
The health of Crown Princess Vic
toria has improved somewhat. On
March Is she was taken from Rome to
Amali by way of Naples.
Denmark has raised the embargo on
Swedish cattle and meat products.
The first chamber has voted $4, 500
for a government bank building in
Mariestad.
NORWAY.
A we'll informed daily assures US that
the rising generation does not enjoy
physical work. and the remarks of the
paper are so pithy that we can do no
better than translate some of them
literally: 1--WE can no longer conceal
the fact that the Young people of the