Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-11-09
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
Frincipal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.


Prince Bernadotte has promised to
give an organ to the Y. M. C. A. in
Gothenburg, to be put up in the new
hall of that organization.
The Hyllinge mining company has
been permitted to mine coal in the par
lsh OF Kropp on condition that the
work done for the next three wears be
at least 1000 days work year, and
1000 days work a year thereafter.
The manufacturers of Eskilstuna
nave formed an employers protective
ASSOCIATION. The occasion for this step
was strike inaugurated by the Jour
ncyman locksmiths.
The vote for the characteristic at
the different universities was as fol-
lows: Upsala, II votes for Gillian, ex-
member of the cabinet, and 8 votes for
Count Spare; Lund, Gillian l vote,
count Spare votes; Karolinska Insti-
tutet, Is votes for Gillian.
The city council of Varberg has re-
solved to build a city hall at a cost of
$4,000.
"A tenant farmer in Wemmerhog
found an old sword, for which the ma
tional government has paid him $27.
The Duke of Skane for two years past
has suffered with Inflammation of the
left ear, and the other day polypus
was removed from the ear by means of
delicate surgical operation performed
by Dr. Key-Aberg.
-Four thousand dollars has been set
aside for the expenses of expert for
esters who are to make trip to Ger
many and Austria for the purpose of
studying the different methods of de-
stroying insects that breed in and kill
pine and spruce trees.
The king has appointed committee
to propose amendments to the laws
regulating the liquor traffic.
Two corporals wore unbrushed boots
while on duty in Stockholm, and this
misdemeanor cost them two days con-
fnement.
Two young men in Ytterby sat down
to rest by the roadside while out hunt
ing. One of them happened to have
the muzzle of his gun pointed toward
his chest. His dog stepped on the
hammer, discharging the gun. The
bullet passed through the young mans
heart, killing him instantly.
1t has been limited that the late A.
Z. Danielson, member of the riksdag,
may have acquired some of his wealth
by means of Doodle politics. But P. P.
Naldenstrom, who himself has been a
member of sixteen riksdags, says that
he has never detected anything that
pointed to boodling in the riksdag.
Sven Hedin's work on his expedition
through Central Asia appears stimuli
taneously in Stockholm, New York,
London, Leipsig, Paris, Copenhagen
and ST. Petersburg.
Baron Nordenskjold, the famous Arc
tic explorer, has signed the petition
for an extension of the right to vote.
A notable change has taken place in
the life of the students in the univer-
sity cities of Sweden during the past
ten or fifteen years. The very word
''student" had a magic sound, and the
students looked upon themselves as the
flower of the knighthood of noocracy
But now the romantic glory of the
white cap has vanished, and the word
''student" has lost it's whilom charm,
in obedience to the all-pervading utili-
tartan tendency of our times. Indeed,
the traditional tests with their punch
bowls and stilted orations still abide,
but the spiritual abandon of former
years is no longer there. Modern COM
petition has made the student work.
man, though his tools be largely incor-
poreal. Nay, the student in some re-
spects is even inferior to the working
man. The mason and the artisan sup
ports himself from day to day, while
the student must live either on what
his ancestors have saved in the past, or
on what he himself expects to save in
the future. AS an active, productive
entity, the student is nothing, but he
may become something. The new views
are most strikingly illustrated by the
organization of two university socie-
ties called "Students and Laborers," a
phenomenon which would have been
hailed with crushing ridicule ten years
ago.
On account of scarcity of farm la
borers, various attempts to dig pota-
toes with machines have been made in
the South, a machine imported from
Germany giving the greatest satisfac-
ton.
The Duke of Skane still remains in
bed on account of the inflammation of
his left ear.
Edward Wavrinsky, who for sixteen
years has held the most prominent po-
sitions in the national organization of
the I. o. G.. T.. of Sweden, has with
drawn from this field of activity on &C
count of overwork and failing health.
But he is still interested in the work,
and will remain an active member of
local lodge.
NORWAY.
The Norwegian government has de-
clared itself in favor of instructing the
Norwegian representatives at the pro-
posed international peace conference
to try to induce the great powers to
guarantee the neutrality Of the Scandi-
navian countries, and to agitate for. the
conclusions of international courts of
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At a bicycle race in Gothenburg,