Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-06
SCANDINAVIAN ! NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred i'm
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

'Homozon," a powder which Of late
mas been very freely advertised as a
su ostitute for ice in tho preservation
OF food, is not as innocent an antisep-
tic as its manufacturers would fain
make the public believe. A Swedish
chemist of note, who has experimental
with it upon animals, reports it fatal
to rabbits, when given in large doses,
and infers from this fact that there is
danger In its use by man.
Antarctic, the vessel which carries
the Swedish North Pole expedition for
the relief of Andree, arrived at from
so, Norway, on June 4. Wellman,
whose ship Frithof is being fitted out
for another exploration of Frantz
Josef's Land, was expected at the
same place June 18th.
A captain in the Swedish army, when
toasted by the king, refused to drink
with his majesty. The captain in
question is very religious and tee
totalist> The refusal was the sensa-
ton of dinner party given to the king
by the officers at Karlsborg.
The big strike at Gehe has been fin
ally arbitrated. Commenting upon it,
Swedish paper regrets the frequency
OF strikes and lockouts in the country,
and raises a warning voice against fur
Their disturbances of this nature. The
industries of Sweden, it says, however
favorably situated just at present, have
many difficulties to contend against,
chief among which is the fact that the
of 1oH &c IL
than in Germany.
1t will require about two million dol
lars to convert the water power at
Elfkarleby into electricity and convey
it to Stockholm, the amount including
the improvements of every description
required at both ends of the line. The
falls are estimated to contain 100, 900
horse power, of which, however, only
10000 will be utilized for the present.
The loss of power in transit to Stock
holm will be about 5000, leaving 49,
900 to be disposed of at about $40 per
power in Stockholm.
A former Klondiker, by the name of
N. Jonsson, and an Australian gold
miner. are prospecting for the yellow
metal in the Norrb otten district.
The value of the estate of James
friedrich Dickson, the late master of
the horse of King Oscar, has been APP
praised at nearly two and half mill
ION dollars.
The two largest mission societies in
Sweden have, during the last 25 years.
spent about one and half million dol
lars upon foreign missions.
The heirs of Zacharias Topelius have
sold his copyrights to Albert BONNER
of Stockholm for $4,000.
The first automatic carriage in
Stockholm appeared on the streets
June -. Four persons rode in it.
About the middle of June, strikes
and lockouts threatened to close the
tanneries in Landskrona
The Tonnersjo government park near
Halmstad is favorably spoken of as
site for the southern hospital for lung
diseases.
The government has instituted legal
canal company.
The national government has per-
mitted Helsiugborg to borrow $175, 900
for repairing two churches and build
ing new school house.
H. Person, ex-principal of the Frid-
hem peoples high school, died at the
age of Is years.
The first sugar refinery in Finland
has been erected near Abo.
The Helsingborg rubber factory, in
the course of less than two years has
given it's stockholders profit of 60 per
cent on the capital invested.
The Svartvik: stock company, COM
posed of members of the Dickson fam
lily in Gothenburg, has left magnifi-
land. Upon the dissolution of the
company, pensions amounting to $780,
900 year were granted to the en-
ployes, besides 800, 600 in the form of
donations to private parties and chari-
table institutions. The number of per-
sons thus receiving life pension Is 1T.
Lector Waldenstrom, the apostle of
peace and the recognized chief priest
of all the Swedish mission people
throughout the world, has scored vic
tory in unexpected quarters. Walden
StTOm anu CuE1StcESOu, d 1u0n D3r OF
the cabinet, had a set-to in the riks-
dag regarding the fighting qualities of
the Swedish gunboats. Waldenstrom
maintained that the arrangement of
the guns on the Norwegian battleshi ps
was more satisfactory than that in
vogue in the Swedish navy, while
Christensen stoutly defended the Swed-
ish system Some curiosity was
aroused when it was found that Chris
terson's speech had been struck from
the minutes of the proceedings; but
the whole country took up the matter
a few days ago, when the department
Of the navy. proposed that the system
defended by Waldenstrom be followed
in constructing the new ironclad.
1t is thought by persons familiar
with conditions in Siberia that it is
useless to hunt. for Andree there. On
the other hand, there is greater posi-
bility for his balloon. having stranded
upon the New Siberian island, and the
search may consequently be directed
thither. az ;1s 3..5 ly&: zzs II & =
The movement for the erection Of q
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