Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-03
SWEDEN.


The workingmen's real estate stock
company in Trelleborg cleared 100 per
cent for the past year.
The telephone girls in Stockholm
will be permitted to keep their places,
the self-connecting telephone having
been tried and rejected as impracti-
cable.
The king has appointed committee
to draw up propositions for the pur-
pose OF reducing the consular charges
on Swedish ships and in other ways
encouraging the shipping and export
trade of Sweden.
The Lackalanga district, including
Furulund, has had special election
on the question of establishing per-
manent police service. The question
was decided in the affirmative.
A very large mum Der of tourists have
visited the Gellivare district this sum-
mer; but the weather has been so
cloudy and rainy that the coveted mid
night sun has rarely shown its face to
his worshipers.
Two lieutenants in the Swedish
army drew upon themselves food of
unfavorable comment by their be-
havior at masquerade in Helsing-
borg; and now it is rumored that they
are going to leave Sweden and enter
the service of the Russian army.
The king has appointed Rev. Prof.
j. A. Friman, D. D., of Upsala, to the
vacant bishopric of Vesteras-
Sivert Brekmo, Norwegian, who
has spent much of his life in the Arc
tic regions, has gone to the Kara sea
with the cutter Nora in search of An
dree at Baron Tolls depots. The con-
dition of the ice, however, may be
such that it will be impossible to reach
the place of his destination.
The Mission Friends have about
100, 900 grown church mem ers. and an
equal number of children attend their
Sunday schools.
The foreman of backyard in Lom-
ma was very unpopular on account of
his arrogant treatment of the work.
ingmen. At last they grew so tired of
HIM that they took and rode him on a
rail to his house, admonishing him not
to show himself at the brickyard
again.
The different bicycle manufacturers
throughout Sweden are negotiating as
to the establishment of one single fac
tory for the manufacture of all bicy-
Gle chains needed in the whole coun-
try. ..,>x~ .e'
+ The English admiralty has excluded
Swedish steel from the construction of
articles made for the government. -.
The heaviest taxpayer in Sweden is
the Separator manufacturing company
in Stockholm, which is taxed on an in
come of $500, 046. By way of illustra-
ton, the aggregate incomes in the city
of Linkoping are only S19s, 400.
An English training squadron will
visit Stockholm in August. .-
The Swedish academy: has awarded
Alfred Jensen a bounty Of S135 for
translating the Polish epic Carl Tad
deus" into Swedish. ~ 1880. .,.....
His majesty has granted private
company permission to build new
railway from Hook to Safsjo, dis
lance Of 20 English miles. The esti-
mated cost is &3sS, 500.
The riksdag suggested that the I'M
portation Of matches containing COM
mon phosphorus be prohi bited; but the
college Of commerce objects to the
proposed measure.
Franz Schonback. of Gardslof, ~
years old. went to q little pond to- take
ont some wickwork. he fell down,
head foremost into the, water. and as
no one else was present to render him
assistance, he was drowned. though
the water Was5 only eight inches deep.s