Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-02-15
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 q Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.

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ment closes with $33.750,ooo. This
amount is equal to Sc. IS for every man,
woman and child in Sweden. By way
OF comparison it may be stated that
our "billion congress" appropriated
about 81 for each lnhabitant of the
United States; thus it will be seen that
the expenses of the two governments
are proportionately about the same.
But the Swedish government is estab-
fishing and running railways, tele-
phone and telegraph lines, savings
banks. and other necessary institu-
tions.
Governor c. Alexanderson, upon
moving away from Ekensholm, Solder.
mainland, distributed So, 900 as presents
among the people living on his estate
at said place.
The Sodermanland railway has ap-
Piled for rights to build a new line in
to the city of Stockholm. This move
is supposed to be connected with a
comprehensive effort on the part of
Danish business interests to direct the
traffic between Sweden and Germany
across the Danish islands. In other
words, the Danes are supposed to be
pooling issues with the private railway
companies of Sweden in order to be al
lowed to compete successfully with the
government continental route and the
elleborg and Sassnitz steamship
company.
S. A. Hedin has proposed that the
borers' insurance fund.
August Strindberg, the noted and
much-discussed author. was so years
old Jan. %. He still resides in Paris.
"A Sweden borgian" writes in re-
spectacle daily that towards the close
of November last he had mum Der of
visions revealing the condition of Prof.
Andree and his two companions. The
brave air-sailors were living in a tent
in winter landscape which was
sparsely overgrown with bushes, and
they were spending the time in hunt.
ing and coasting among the hills, the
usual game being seals. The seer,
however, does not locate the where.
abouts of the explorers geographically.
Prof. 0. Nordenskjold is to be the
leader of a Swedish expedition to the
Klondike gold fields. The expedition
will leave Stockholm about March l.
The Prince Gustaf Adolf shaft at
Hoganas is the most elaborate coal
shaft in Sweden, and it is said to com
pare favorably with the very best Of
similar works in foreign countries
The preliminary work, which is very
expensive, was completed about three
weeks ago, and since that time dozer
men have been engaged in digging
coal from one of the smaller seams.
His majesty has proclaimed that the
Sundays of March 6, May 8, July II
and Oct. 8 shall be observed as public
thanksgiving, fasting, penance and
prayer days for the present year.
The workingmen do not take very
kindly to the new laborers' accident
insurance bill. A laborers' mass meet
ing at Malmo voiced the general senti
ment of that particular class of peo
pie which is affected by the bill by
passing resolution, which in sub.
stance is as follows: The new laborers
accident insurance bill is detoriate6
form of the bill which was re jected by
the riksdag in 1895; it's worst feature il
that no laborer shall receive a pension
until he is so years old, excluding q
large number of persons who are Grip
pied by some accident before attaining
that age; and its next worst feature is
that it does not require the employer
to contribute to the accident insurance
fund, as did the bill of 1895. For these
and other reasons the meeting "makes
an energetic protest against this bung
ling rehash of the bill of 1895, anc
characterizes its apparent improve
ments as technical tricks gotten up fol
political purposes" The resolution
finally recommends the old age insur
ance law passed by the German reichs.
tag in 1889.
A Stockholm Office clerk bought ;
number in a Hamburg lottery, but
gave it away to poor servant girl
She drew big prize; but the clerk
was equal to the emergency-he wooed
and won, and soon the two will be
come husband and wife.
Two wild elks were seen near the
city limits of Stockholm. There are
several samples of this big game il
the vicinity of the Swedish capital.
! NORWAY.
The Norwegian jubilee gift to the
king has been collected in full, and i,
amounts to over eighty-one Thousand
dollars. 1t will be devoted to the