Willmar tribune., 1898-06-07
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN,


earthenware manufacturing company
has declared dividend of per cent
TO the stockholders. and donated 81, $50
TO the workingmen's aid society.
Novoje Wremja, the great Russian
oracle, thinks Russia ought to grab
Spltzbergen, or else the Scandinavians
might take it.
Christina Nilsson Countess Casa de
Mlranda) has ordered shield, a sword,
an axe, and lance from steel en-
graver in Gothen borg. All of the four
objects rank high as works of art The
ornaments consist largely of scenes
from the life of Christina Nilsson, from
the history-of Sweden, and from Morse
mythology.
One-half of the whole area of Swe-
den is covered with timber.
The Stockholm exposition last year
gave the railways a phenomenally
neavy traffic. But there seems to be
no reaction in that respect. The re-
celpts of the state railways for the first
quarter of the present pear were $780,
900 in excess of those for the same
quarter last year.
The Hoganas strike is thing of the
past, and the four hundred men are
again digging for fire clay and coal
deep down in the bowels of the earth.
The men struck because they were
not permitted to organize labor unions.
But they soon gave up the struggle.
They live in free country" but they
must not unite themselves for the pur-
pose of discussing their own affairs.
The government has been figuring
on the budget for 1899, and the amount
involved is about s33, S00,00o
Premier E. G. Eostrom has been
elected chancellor of the universities
of Sweden. He received 55 votes, and
G. f. Gillian, the minister for ecclesi-
astical affairs, received As votes. It is
predicted that the former will not ac-
cept, but that the latter will with
draw from the cabinet and serve as
chancellor.
The late August Abrahamson, of
Gothenborg, bequeathed the Mas
sloyd seminary with its art collections,
as we'll as S1O0, 900 in cash, to the state
of Sweden.
The contributions to the Russian
press made by B. Bjornson. the Nor
wegian poet, were discussed in the
first cham Der of the Swedish rlksdag
few days ago. Mr.. Ain asked the
minister for foreign affairs whether
there were any legal means of pre-
venting citizens of Sweden or Norway
from injuring Sweden and her people
by writing in foreign newspapers. If
there were any such means, he for one
would like to put sudden stop to the
work of Bjornson as a contributor to
the Russian press. The minister of
justice then rose and answered that
there were no laws in Sweden or Nor
way against writing for foreign papers;
and the minister of foreign explained
that Europe no longer paid any atten-
ton to the BON bastic articles of Bjorn-
son in the Russian press; but he would
keep an eye on Bjornson's Russian
journalism anyway.
The Neptune salvage company has
saved property to the value of S2s, 00O,-
900 since it's existence.
About $1,000 has been raised by vol
untary contributions for the benefit of
the widows and children of the Blek-
ing fishermen who lost their lives in q
storm last winter.
The Malmo and Tomebilla railway
company has obtained the exclusive
right for twenty-five years to carry
ocean gravel' from Simrishamn to
all ports of southern Sweden and to all
ports of Denmark. This gravel is
something unique in Europe; but at
Simrishamn it is found in almost mex
haustible quantities.
A movement has been started at the
university of Lund to consolidate the
libraries of the different provinces into
one great students library.
About 300 Swedish women have pub
lished protest against an address by
Miss Ellen Key to Henrik Ibsen "in
behalf of the Swedish women" The
keynote to the protest is found in the
following expression: THE liberation
of the person as Miss Ellen Key under
stands it, is an object which no one,
be he man or woman, ought to aim at. -
"Pan" is the name of a new cooper
ative supply company IN Malmo. The
preliminary work was slow and tedi-
Gus, but then it starts in with about
1000 families as steady customers.
The capital stock is s2,7oo. but this
may be increased as soon as the enter
prise is fairly in operation
DR.. Sven Hedin, the great Asiatic
explorer, has again gone abroad to lee
ture.
A balloon which was sent up last
summer from the Stockholm exposi-
tion has been found hanging in the top
of birch tree at Vilhelmina, South
Lapmark.
s The Nathorst expedition left Gothen-
borg May % for the Arctic regions.
The supreme court has sustained the
decision of the Norberg case by the
district court. It will be remem bered
that Rev. Norberg, of Getle, couple
z of years ago was accused of having
caused the death of Miss Hanna Lem
strand, and the whole Swedish people
was shocked by the blood-curdling
stories told. This decision is com
plete exonosation of Mr.. Norberg ,
sz=::.5s NORWAY ..