Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-31
/ S'''Cll'AI!I.N|DINlAl Wan NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean. .."
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
hclpal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
d. S5 North Sea Within Week
,e, - go or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

IN northwestern Gard, Skane, IS
e.eanery that consumes over a million
gallons OF milk annually.
Inc progress of Good Templarism in
sweden Is phenomenal. The grand
1ooge had 100.0 900 members last spring,
ana II is the strongest grand lodge in
the world. That the leaders are look
ing lar ahead is evident from the fact
sna' 90 o0o has already been raised for
an anticipated political struggle
against the saloon.
~ The mystery surrounding the death
OF King Charles XII. will not go down
TO oollv'on any more than the sea SER
pent in Big Lake (Storsion). No
sooner is one theory of the origin and
cause of the fatal bullet exploited and
worn out than q fresh one rises out of
the prolific sea of rumor. Those who
nave made scientific researches into
the matter assume that the king was
killed by bullet from rife. Now,
Vernon Won Heidenstam, in his historl-
cal novels based on events of the time
OF Charles XII, has broken with ira
ditlon by permitting the king to be
killed by cannon ball. Next, Birger
Morner Celebrates the cannon ball
theory in newspaper, and the evil
dence in his favor is interesting, to say
the least In biographical sketch of
King Frederick w., written by N. D.
Riegel and dated 1899, Birger Morner
has found the following paragraph:
There are many accounts of the death
OF King Charles XII. Nobody, how
ever, has given a more plausible de-
scrlptlon OF it than Count Lynar in his
diary. That man, twelve years after
the event, talked with the most promi-
nent persons in the Swedish camp and
in the Fredrikshald fortress. The
commander at Fredrikshald explained
to Count Lynar the probable way in
which the death occurred: From the
journal of the magistrate it may be
seen that on the night the king was
killed no shot was fred from the for
tress. On the other hand, there was
an insignificant battery which the COM
mander did not think it worth while
to keep manned, and ordered it to be
Withdrawn inside the fort in the even
ing: After 10 o'clock in the evening a
constable came and reported that on
the battery had been left cannon
loaded with grape-shot, but that, being
out of order, it would not pay to trans
port it inside. The commander told
him that he might let it remain stand
ing, only he would have to fire it.
This shot was discharged at the time
the king died. 1t is therefore proba-
BILE that one of the balls of this can
ho lii NL1 oh
violent that the king remained stand
ing, and those who were near him
thought he was sleeping. A bullet
from musket would not have been
apt to kill with such extraordinary
swiftness." Thus a new theory has
been added to the many others which
have obtained in the course of nearly
two centuries, the time of the death of
the great Swedish war king being late
in the evening of Nov. 80, 171S
Bishop Johansson is severely criti-
cized on account of an address which
he made at dinner in Lower Toruea.
Rev. Grape at that place favors the
Firms in many ways, and uses the Fin
nish language in religious exercises
whenever there is an opportunity. He
is also opposed to the building of a
proposed peoples high school in the
Finnish settlement Finally, Rev.
Grape is an adherent of the doctrines
of Lastidius, notorious fanatic. In
spite of this peculiar record, the
bishop, in his address. turned to Rev.
Grape and commended him as worthy
champion of education and spiritual
progress in the Tornea valley, and it
is this eulogy which has offended so
many Swedish patriots
A chair of the history of civilization
will be Established in the Stockholm
high school.
An English pleasure steamer has re-
turned from trip to the Arctic ocean.
It went as far north as between the
10th and S0th degrees; visited King
Charles Land and the johnson Islands;
and made search for Andree and his
party wherever it went, but without
the slightest result. -
The fishing smacks along the east
coast of Skane catch from 100 to $50
tubfuls day, which is looked upon as
a gratifying quantity. ~ =
The strikers at the Furulund wooden
e
persuade the new men to quit work;
i but they go about their mission so
peacefully and quietly that an order
1 to send more. troops to the place has
been countermanded. e.. 1E'
II The dock laborers' strike in Malmo
entails heavy losses to the importers,
and they hold frequent meetings to.
devise way out of the difficulty. { p
The salmon catch in the Atran has
been very rich this season, its cash
r value amounting to several thousand
dollars. III - ~ ~. ... r. Z.
zS Es3, itSss1. NORWAY. - Ill
"a large, old female bear was killed
not far from Rugsund., She first re-
ceived two bullets throughthe chest at
h ! distance Of $50 yards. Instead of re-
4 treating she made rush sforsthe hunt
ers; but at 8 distance of IS yards bull
4 let through the vital parts laid her
Il low. 81. s:s.zs. 5!5 4. 7