Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-22
NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean,:
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND
frlncipal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN,

SWEDEN.
Inc king has granted permission to
20 persons at Raa to organize them.
selves into a Methodist Episcopal con.
:gregation under the laws of the state.
Fourteen hundred students are at.
tending the University of Upsala.
Numerous motions to change the
laws regulating the liquor traffic have
oeen voted down by the riksdag
The Students Mission unions of the
universities of Sweden will have a
periodical of their own.
French jockeys have bought Swedish
horses for street traffic in Paris.
Many labor unions have passed reso-
lutions against the laborcrs' insurance
bill.
The uniforms of the army will be
considerably slmplified in the near fu-
ture.
The Stockholm Anthropological So
ciety has awarded the Vega medal to
DIR. Sven Hedin.
The riksdag has elected special
committee of fourteen members to re-
port on the laborers' insurance bill.
If Malmotidningen is to be trusted,
the sermon by Prince Bernadotte at
the Malmo Y. M. C. A. hall did not
make the expected impression. In
Difference to the expressed wish of the
crown prince" says the reporter, II
shall not give a report of his sermon.
But it would also be very difficult to
report the quotations from the Bib bic
and his disconnected remarks upon the
same" The royal preacher stated in
plain language that he expects the ad-
vent of Jesus, and he was ''sure that it
will not take long before the Saviour
comes" The account of the incident
closes thus: with prayer and closed
eyes the prince began his discourse;
with prayer and closed eyes he also
concluded it,
Dr. Aman of Gefe has been fined for
causing the unwarranted trial OF Rev.
Norberg on the charge of having MUIR
dered Miss Lenstrom. Rev. Norberg
was acquitted some time ago.
The late F. c. Sundgren of Stock
holm donated 100000 to public institu-
tons or private parties.
Leading members of the Swedish
colony in London are making active
preparations for Swedish exposition
in that city in 1901. The object in Sc
lecting this particular year is to have
exhibits sent to London directly from
the Paris worlds fair in 1900.
The riksdag appropriated, without
discussion, 81, 415, $40 for the construc-
ton of new railroads and for the pur-
chase of rolling stock.
A German who has spent years in
China says that Sweden and Norway
have made greater progress than Ger
many in building up profitable trade
in China.and Japan.
A prosperous farmer in Gotland or
dered some seed grain from firm in
Stockholm; but as the goods did not
arrive, he went to that city personally
and found that the firm had received
an ANONYMOUS letter. stating that he
was on the point of bankruptcy. The
farmer found it an easy matter to
prove that the letter had been written
by a jealous neighbor, who afterwards
paid 800 to settle the matter.
Henning Grenander of Stockholm
won the first prize at a fancy skating
match in the National Skating Palace
in London.
August Larson of Herrljunga has
patented a device by which the length
of an artificial leg may be regulated.
The invention is said to be very valu.
able because many artificial limbs of
the old type become useless on account
of their shortening, long before they
are worn out in other respects. The
inventor proposes to make use of the
patent himself.
The wages in the Hoganas coal mines
have been raised 9 per cent on the
average, and In many cases the hours
per week have been reduced
A Landskrona merchant sent con-
signmept of Holland oleomargarine by
way of Denmark to find out the differ
ence in the freight charges of the
different routes. The Danes might
have secured a little extra carrying
trade in this case; but instead of reduc-
ing the charges to the lowest notch,
they found that the name ''margarin"
was not enclosed by the mark ~, &C.
cording to the Danish laws, and the
goods were confscated. The owner
finally succeeded in convincing the au-
thorities that no wrong was intended,
and the goods were forwarded, but the
Danish railroads will not have another
chance to carry his goods.
NORWAY.
The expectation of dead Norwegians
to be burnt up in foreign countries is
not an edifying traffic. But every now
and then the remains of a strong
headed man are treated to such pro-
.cedure because the laws of Norway
have made cremation at home practi-
.cally impossible. The anti-cremation-.
lists havesso far been sustained by the
ecclesiastical department of the gov
eminent, the chief argument from this
quarter being that cremation is a
heather practice. The leading men in
the church of Norway, however. have
of late experienced a marked change
of heart on this subject. A bill has
been prepared by the government and
authorized by the king for the purpose
of facilitating cremation in Norway,
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