Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-27
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across
.s% the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
tho Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within . Week
So just Past.
SWEDEN.

or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
"A Swede who is in position to know
the condition of the laborers in the
iron Industries in Sweden and in Ger
many, makes some interesting COM
Parsons. The wages do not differ
much. though in some branches they
are higher in Germany than in Swe-
den. The German laborers have to
pay high house rent, and therefore
many families have to get along with
kitchen and one room besides In
Sweden the house rent is not only
cheaper, but in many places the en-
ployers furnish comfortable homes for
their employees. The German work
lngman has great variety of enter
tainments. He can meet his friends
at the cosy beer hall. go to a cheap
theater, or to his club, or spend the
evening pleasantly in some other way.
The Swede is differently situated in
this respect. Life is more strained and
severe around him; and the writer re-
marks in this connection that the
Swedish workingman is tempted to go
to one of two extremes-begin to drink
hard. or join the Salvation army. The
writer adds, however: "Some working
men spend their spare hours at home
with their wives and children with
self-denial and seriousness that is as
tounding.'
Christine Nilsson arrived in Sweden
June 20. She will spepd the summer
at the home of a nephew who lives at
Gardsby, near Vexio.
Leo Tolstoi is grandfather. son
of the great Russian author mari led
Swedish lady, Miss Westerlund of En-
koping. and she has given birth to
boy.
1t is estimated that the construction
of the Engelholm and Ljungby rail-
road will cost somewhat over $500. 900.
There was so much rain in the south
ern part of Sweden towards the end of
>the month of June that the new hay
was damaged and the tall rye began
to lodge. Nor could the sugar beets
be properly cultivated because the
ground was too soft.
The strikers at the Furulund wooden
mills are still firm. They assert that
they will not return to work unless
they are to be free to organize them
selves into labor unions.
That plain old Karlsborg soldier who
refused to touch glasses with the king
is receiving much free advertising.
Ragnar Kampe and other Good Tenn
plar lodges at Eksjo drafted the fol-
lowing telegram to said soldier: ''In
general meeting assem- bled. we extend
our thanks and sympathies to you for
your courageous action on the occa-
sion of the visit of the king at Karls-
borg" The agent of aprivate railroad
company was asked to forward the
telegram; but the company would
have nothing to do with such tele-
gram. The next step was to see if the
state telegra phi service could stand it,
but all in vain. No telegraph wires
could be used for the purpose of trans
hitting such a telegram as that.
The saw mill which the Kopparberg
mining company is operating at Skuts-
kar is said to be the largest establish
ment of it's kind in the world. The
monster gobbles about six thousand
logs day.
One of the most unpleasant duties of
the teachers in the public schools of
Stockholm i, to go to the parents vino
keep their children away from school
and try to remedy the irregularity by
persuasion, or, when this fails, by
more powerful means. 1t is now pro-
posed to relieve the teachers of this
duty by turning it over to a special
school police.
Boat rides are looked upon as one of
the most pleasant of all kinds of recre-
alton on midsummer day. An unusu-
ally large number of young people en-
joyed this sport June "a last; but no
less than fourteen of them found their
death in the waves
The Swedish Norwegian consul in
Smyrna has reported to the govern
ment that he thinks his Office ought to
be abolished because the Scandinavian
trade at Smyrna is next to nothing.
A group of frame houses near the
outskirts of the city of Sundvan were
destroyed by fire.
Rev. Ewald of Chicago has been Wis
ting in the old country this summer,
and even the secular press makes IA
vorable mention of his sermons.
"A. AlO Oechs VI LSSVlh, mas maze q
contract with the Russian government,
according to which he is entitled to
cut about 100000 logs along the
Plethora river, the limit of time being
thirteen winters The next step is to
organize company with capital of
at least a million dollars to do the
enormous numbering business called
for by the contract The maximum
j limit of the capital stock is 50, 100, 600,
and the annual net profits are esti-
mated at &16O, O00. ~ =s
His majesty has permitted the tear
ing down of of the old church building
I of the Glemminge parish in Malmo and
the erection of new structure in place