Willmar tribune., 1898-11-30
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.


A new public school building in
Stockholm is to cost $.79 oCo.
The banks have repeatedly raised
the interest this fall Cn account of the
reckless investment cf capital in new
business and manufacturing enter
Prlses which largely aim at competi-
ton with older establishments The
stringency in the Swedish money mar
ket has also been aggravated in diff
terent way. English capital has been
gradually withdrawn from Germany,
and the Germans, in turn, have been
forced to withdraw as much as posi-
BILE OF their deposits in Sweden. Upon
the whole, many conservative Swedish
business men arc preparing for finan-
clal mbarraSSmentS Of q national
scope.
For the benefit Of those who are pre-
pairing petitions for the cxtersion of
the right to vote, Dagens Nyheter
states that the government has no in
tentlon of introducing suffrage ex-
tension bill in the 1iksdag III 1899, but
that such a bill may be looked for in
1900.
The East Asia company has been Or
ganized in Stockholm for carving on
business between the Scandinavian
countries and China. The crown prince
attended a preliminary meeting held
by those who arc at the head of the
enterprise, and Einar Bjornson, who
has spent several years in China, gave
an account of the great possibilities of
the Chinese market.
The striking bookbindcrS in Malmo
have returned to work on the basis of
a compromise.
The new telegraph cable between
Sweden and Germany is ready for busi-
ness.
Landskrona is seriously threatened
with a water famine, and certain busi-
ness concerns are no longer allowed to
use water from the city mains.
The traffic on the Eastern Skane
railway is very heavy, and new rolling
stock had to be bought on short notice
in England, in spite of 10 per cent
import duty.
The suffrage petitions returned up
to Nov. contained over 25O.OOO sigma
lures. This number will be largely in
creased by the time the petitions arc
all in. Similar petitions were signed
by 36,597 persons in 1855, and by 21O, 900
in 1892
The laborers at the Svedala sugar
factory suddenly struck for higher
wages, leaving the condition of the fac
tory in bad shape. Ten students in
the Lund university protested against
the strike by taking the places of the
strikers and doing satisfactory work a
whole day. Among the students were
| Counts Hamilton and Wachtmeister.
The golden wedding of Gustaf v.
Bergstrom and wife of Horby was cele-
brated Nov. 5. Congratulatory tele-
grams were received from different
parts of Sweden, and one from Amer
lea,
The executive committee Of the suf-
frage union printed 100, popular
pamphlets, which are sold at "a and
2T cents apiece. The suffrage people
have active canvassers all over the
country, and the executive committee
expected to get rid of the whole edi-
tion in few months. Only part of
it has been disposed of, however, and
the next pamphlet will be printed in
only $4,000 copies, or perhaps less
This points to a lack of earnest inter-
est in the suffrage extension move
| ment
On a suffrage extension petition cir
culated in a city in southern Sweden,
are found the names of eight alder
men, including the president of the
board; two counts, one baron, two phv.
sicians, etc.
The beauty of a girl near Horby
smote young mans heart so that he
lost sleep when he found that she was
already betrothed to a schoolmaster of
the neig ighborhood. The schoolmaster
was to be subjected to harsh treat
ment. The rejected lover hired two
ruffans to lie iE ambush and assault
the schoolmaster in the dark. But the
engineer of the proposed battle was so
anxious to find out the results that he
appeared on the scene before the school
master did. On account of darkness
the rufians by mistake pounced upon
the wrong man and began to pound
him most unmercifully; but then the
schoolmaster turned up, and by his
screams frightened the ruffians away.
Per Isaksson, of Frosta, was fined $50
because he said that Mr.. Rosberg, a
school teacher, had ''imbibed beer in a
saloon in company with Tom, Dick and
Harry" Mr.. lsaksson has appealed to
a higher court.
Baron Bildt, Swedish-Norwegia
minister to Italy, and S. Rubenson,
chief of police of Stockholm, have been
appointed delegates to the interna-
tional anti-anarchist conference in
Rome.
The postofice department now gives
surplus of 100000 year. It is pro-
posed to do away with this surplus by
a reduction of the postage rates.
NORWAY.
Stavanger Aftenblad contains the in
teresting news that the Republican
party in the United States has some.
thing in common with the liberal party
in Nor1vav