Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-10-26
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND,
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within . Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

handed to him without further ado. The
trouble is explained to the effect that the
clerk did not want to deliver the docu-
ments until he had been instructed to do
so by his superiors.
The new brick factory at veber0d is
per day.
A gentleman in central Sweden received
an invitation to the wedding of an old
friend. The wedding was to take place at
Hotel Phenix. in Stockholm. thought the
man who was Invited. But when he ar
rived at Hotel Phenix he was surprised to
lind only strangers. Even the groom and
the bride were strange faces. He left
the wedding as quietly as he could; re-
turned to the hotel where he was stop
ping; looked at the invitation card once
more. and 10 and behold; his friends
wedding was just then taking place at
Hotel Phenix-in Orebro. He sent Il tele-
gram to his friend. and returned home.
determined to read his invitation cards
more carefully in the future.
Bosjokloster is one of the very few
places in Sweden where a fine crop of
fruit was raised last summer.
The Catholic (Elzabe Sisters of NAL
mo arranged arranged a great bazaar for
the benefit of their hospital work. The
Protestants began to criticise the move
ment in the press, and Rev. Wisell added
fuel to the fire by a palemcal article
against the sisters ana lnelT "OIh OIL
charity. One Of the leading dailies of the
city defends the sisters and their work.
a man named Peterson who was tend
ing to flour mill at Eedhygge. put his
hand too far down into the eye of the
milestone. and his hand was pulled down
and crushed between the millstones. Dur
ing this process his body swung around
the milestone several times. crushing his
head several times against the grain
n i'm hafn 10 q
rescued
In the parish of Gard Skane. the larvae
of the maybug, or fat SausageS. as the
people call them, are so numerous that
they eat up the potatoes in the ground
before the farmers have time to dig them.
The old gas works of He.singborg, in
Guiding the buildings, the chmneys. the
reservoir. the steam boiler. ETC.. We're
sold at public auction to a Dane for s613.
1t is claimed that the king once for all
has decided to choose the western route
for the Ofoten railway.
The king has set aside $500 to enable A.
Bildt. of Bombay, the Swedish export
agent. to take trip to Sweden to explain
to the Swedish exporters what they ought
to do to extend their market in the East.
Alters Family Journal has 900 regu
lar subscribers. The enterprising pub
Usher of this magazine is now furnishing
a quarterly supplement containing COL
ored pictures of Bible scenes. The pic
lures are drawn expressly for the family
journal by Scandinavian artists. and the
work as whole is so we'll done that 1t
will be very useful in the class rooms of
the public schools.
The land devoted to wheat in northern
Skane increases from year to year, and
by means of improved farming methods
the yield is made to keep step with the
extension of the area.
Count Won Rosen carried home four
magnificent prizes from European horse
races last summer All of the prizes rank
high works of art.
The proposition to build a railroad be-
tween H6rby and L0fvestad has been
dropped.
A monument was unveiled Sept. Is. the
three hundredth anniversary of the battle
at Stangebro, near Link0ping. The mon
ument consists of a thirty-foot column of
crap granite. About 10000 people at
tended the ceremonies, which were very
impressive.
The military authorities are roundly
criticised because they did not furnish
straw for the soldiers to sleep on during
the recent field maneuvers in Skane.
The most of the old members of the
first chamber of the riksdag have been
reelected This is another indication of
the political tranquility of the country
The demands for change are few and fee
BILE. because everybody is contented.
There are about &c, $50 inmates in the
tails of Sweden All but 200 of the male
convicts are kept in single cells.
Private parties have taken steps to
establish an air and water cure sanitar-
ium at Kingston (Ring Lake,.
A strong syndicate will open up rub
Der goods factory in Malm0.
No less than 1o3 new hymns have been
adopted in the revised edition of the
Swedish hymn book of the year 1919,
while % of the old ones have been
dropped.
church recently called on the king and
expressed thanks to him for what he
has done in the interest of religious lib
erty.
Fortv-three thousand dollars will be de-
voted to the improvement of the water
works of Kristianstad.
The corvette Freja few days ago left
for an extended voyage to foreign coun-
tries.
The basis of the settlement of the strike
at the woollen mills in Furuland is diff
cult to get at The employees claim that
they are allowed to return to work with
out renouncing the right to join labor or
ganizations; but the manager OF the mills
cannot be induced to commit himself on
this point. II IS CERTAIN, uO"cVcI, AAdt
the new contract between the employers
and the strikers has not been signed by
the manager, Mr.. Schmitz, so that they
have only his spoken promise to fall back
on in case the employers interfere with
their labor organizations.
Many clergymen are in favor Of dis
continuing the present obligatory con-
nection of the archbishop of Sweden with
the diocese of Upsala. If the proposed
changes were made the archbishop could
reside in any diocese in the country. This
change would also involve another i'm
DOrtant change. At present, the diocese
81 IJDsala has no right to elect bishop,
hIrt must accept as Its bishop whoever Is
made Archbishop of Sweden. If the arch
bishops seat were detached from Upsala,
the Upsala diocese would be entitled to
elect its own bishop, like the other do
ceSes. E..s~.
8. A. Hedin seems to be hard to please.
He obtained the desired documents from
the government archives, but now he
complains that his constitutional rights
were encroached upon by the refusal of
4 the keeper Of the archives to hand out
the documents without delay. j..
J. A. Wallin. a school teacher at Tomel-
MA. besides doing fine work in his main
profession, is also an expert In bookbind-
Inc. bricklaying and carpentry, and he
deYotes his vacations to these trades
He is also popular temperance lecturer.
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