Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-11-16
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting I:otss From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAyD.
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

Ok 50 Just P49f.
Admiral Chisterson. minister for ma
val affairs, has resigned, and his sue
eessor is Commodore Gerhard Dvrssen.
The former will draw a pension OF 81
900 year.
The government expected the re-
celpts for the current year would run
up to about SO, 800, 600; but the pros
poets are that the sum will be about
s24,5o0, 900.
Inc crown prince spent several days
hunting in Skane, but his luck was
rather poor, owing to unfavora BILE
weather.
The sugar factories in southern Swe-
Gen are paying from 81. so to 4.25 ton
Tor beets-
On October 10Th it was FIVE years
since Andree made his famous passage
across the Baltic sea in balloon. For
several days his countrymen thought
he had lost his life But he was sue
cessful. says our authority. may he
be equally successful on his present
trip to the North Pole
4 telegram from St. Petersburg to
the Berlin Localanzeiger states that
Prof Nordenskjold will soon go to St.
Petersberg to confer with the Russian
government in regard to the equipment
OF a Swedlsh-Russian North Pole expe-
dltion under the leadership of Prof.
Nordenskiold.
The clergy of Upsala diocese have
just held a conference at which they
discussed the question, How are we to
interpret and apply the law that no
one must be betrothed unless he or she
knows Luther's catechism:"
The distillers in Gerd. Skane. are
paying % cents bushel for potatoes.
This is considered to be high price.
but many farmers are keeping their
stock, expecting further advance
The iron works at Arlof will be en-
larged. and the manufacture of rail-
way cars will be new departure at
this factory.
Anticipating the construction of the
Ofoten railway, Swedish shipowners
are already siguing contracts for car
rying iron ore from the seaports of
Lulea, Sweden, and Ofoten. Norway.
The government contributes almost
$4,000 year to the expenses of the
Swedish Seed Improvement associa-
ton.
Ten sculptors have handed in
sketches for the Erickson monument
which is to be raised in Stockholm.
Sweden and eleven other countries
have no national holiday.
The Swedish press states that the
new military laws which Russia pro-
poses for Finland would go good ways
towards Incorporating Finland into
the Russian body polite
S. n. Anderson, of Jarna, Dalarne,
is dead. He was a noted lawyer,
though he had never read a book be
cause he was blind. His memory was
SO retentive as to more than make up
for his lack of eyesight. He knew the
whole hymn-book by heart. and could
recite large portions Of the Bible with
out making break. He was quite IA
miliar with the laws of his country.
and being keenly interested in religious
and political affairs, he could give a
resume of every sermon he had heard
for forty and odd years past, and few
of his contemporaries were better post
ed on current history than he was No
man could listen to others more atten-
lively than he did.
A. Thiel, rich Stockholm merchant
is at the head of the Swedish commits
sion to the Paris worlds fair. He is
much pleased with the accommoda-
tons granted to Sweden. The Swed-
ish pavilion will be located on the
''Street of Nations" Immediately to
the left of one of the main entrances,
close by tho Port de Alma bridge across
the Seine.
Anew company, which is backed BY
capital of $3.50, 900, will build a fac
tory for the construction of railroad
cars in Falun.
Lector P. P. Waldenstrom does not
agree with the Bible commission, but
wants the Bible translated las it was
written,7 regardless of the dogmas of
the church.
A farmer east of Trelleborg has dug
up a joint of an aurochs (uroxe, Dos
primigenins). Only short stubs of the
ribs remained The size of the .sox" to
which this bone once belonged may be
inferred from the fact that the Joint
weighs % pounds
The telephone net of Sweden has
just been completed to the boundary
line of Finland.
Five hundred out of a total of 5e4
Baptist congregations in Sweden made
contributions to the kings jubilee
fund. In Stockholm alone the Bap-
fists raised over $1,000, or Sl.21 per
member
NORWAY.
s'Captain Dreyfus." a brand new
comedy, was not publicly presented in
Kristiania on account of the objections
of the government; but it was given to
a stprivate" party of 500 people, who
went almost wild over the merits of
the work itself, as well as the perform
ance.
A company which made preparations
to speculate in real estate on large
scale at the terminus of the Ofoten