Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-09-21
S|;IC'ANDIN IAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred in
IT. the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within . Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.


SWDEDN.
several coal hosting machines have
oeen imported from England to Malmo
20 perform the work formerly done by
the dock laborers, who are still keep
ing up their strike.
The Kristianstad bank has moved
Its headquarters to Helsingborg. The
wealth OF the bank, amounting to
seven or eight million dollars was car
REQ by single train, the most pre-
clous railway train on record in Swe-
den.
The executors of the estate of Jas.
r. Dickson have paid SIS 900 in stamp
TAX TO the magistrate in Gothen burg
The public school teachers pension
1und now amounts to 50, 500, 900, and
the number of policies in force is about
1900.
Bishop Won Scheele, who five years
ago visited the Swedish churches in
America, is to accompany Kaiser Will
helm to Palestine. and will, as the rep
resentative of Sweden, attend the ded-
ication of Our Savior's church IN Jeru-
salem.
Nasum has 2,46o ,nha bitants, and 3s
OF them are over so years old.
Miss Alma Svensson of Kristianstad,
is going to the far North to teach the
Laps. In the first place, however,
she must herself take course at the
normal school at Mattisudden, Jock
mock. Miss SvenssoD is the fourth
member of the Kristianstat Y, w. CA.
who has gone to the North for the pur-
pose of educating the Lapps.
Miss Hilma Widerberg of Westana
is engaged to marry an Italian count.
The deposits of the National Bank
of Sweden amount to $40 OOO,O The
increase during the first eight months
OF the present year was 50, 900, 900, this
phenomenal growth being due largely
to the establishment of branch offices
in several large cities.
Johanna Johnson, of Betha, Kiettil-
stad parish, was found dead in the Gel
lar, her head being partly submerged
in water in the ice tub. 1t is supposed
that she became faint, and that she
wanted to cool her head in the ice
water, but that she became uncon-
scious and was drowned in a few
inches of water.
His majesty has granted DR.. T. STEM
beck $50 to enable him to study DR..
FinseD's so-called red chamber in
Copenhagen. By way of explanation,
it may be added that the red cham Der
affords new method of treating
G ~ - ~
ICED by pimples.
The city government Of Gefle must
have been thrifty institution. The
assets of the city, consisting of rail-
way shares and other gilt-edged secur-
tiles, exceed 50, 700, 900, while the bond
ed debt is only 81, 100000.
The draining of Finjasjon, lake in
Skane, is completed, retaining about
5, 700 acres of swamp land.
August Strindberg has just returned
to Lund from a short stay at Bel
gian watering place. His twin drama,
Ito Damascus. will soon leave the
press.
The Skrom berga coal and earthen-
ware company employs 700 men. and
the annual output of articles of earth
enware is counted by the million.
The pluck of those parties who have
been trying to induce the government
to choose the so-called eastern route
for the Gellivare and Ofoten railway
does not seem to be baffled by the de-
cided inclination of the government to
choose the western route. One of
their last moves is to produce samples
of iron ore from about $50 different
places along the proposed eastern
route, thereby showing the mineral
wealth of the Svappavaara country.
The committee appointed to erect a
monument to John Ericsson in Stock
holm has issued an invitation to the
sculptors of the country to compete
for the privilege of m aking a statue.
Two Elizabeth Sisters of Mercy took
up their work in Malmo Is years ago.
and now thirteen of them have more
work than they can tend to- The
Catholic congregation num- ers only
200, and most of the work of the sis
tiers is among Protestants.
The committee on defenses has pub
lished its report and submitted it to
the king. 1t proposes that in the
course of the next ten years appropri-
tons aggregating $685. 900 shall be
devoted to the improvement of the de-
lenses of the following cities. Stock
holm, Karlskrona, Karlsborg Fort,
Gotland. Boden, Gothenborg.
NORWAY.
The Abel monument committee Pc
titions the storthing for a monument
to Niels Henrik Abel, whose Tooth
birthday anniversary will occur in
1902 In the. petition the committee
says: abel has exerted greater in
fuence on the development of science
than any other Norwegian Although
he died at the early age of q years; his
ideas have. during the past SO years,
ts