Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-08
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across
the Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
1rlncipa1 Events that Have Occurred in
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

ment to the Swedes who contribu
~ Che relief fund for those who were
inquired in the Gientofte railway acct
dent.
1t takes 10000 new ties year to
keep the railroads of Sweden in repair.
The railway management proposes
That the present rails, which weigh
from 20 to 90 pounds per foot, be re-
placed by rails weighing about 26
pounds per foot on the trunk lines. and
That the old rails be used in the con-
struction of the Boden and Yttermo-
]arn and the Krylbo and Orebro rail
ways.
Every Jemtland member of the riks-
dag belongs to the peoples party.
1t is proposed to raise a few hun
bred thousand dollars for the compile
ton OF the Northern Museum building
Dy means of public lottery.
Lector P. Waldenstrom describes his
audience with the king in the follow
ing language: Il was the last on the
list AS i passed the door the king
reached out his hand to me and said,
Seventeen hundred have been here be-
tore you After long and serious
conversation, the king took me from
the reception room into his study l
tried to avoid this by observing that he
must be tired, since he had been re-
celvlng callers for more than four
hours, but to this he answered, 'Weari-
ness is something we must not talk
about. Then he took out his Bible. I
cannot give the conversation which fol-
lowed Suffice it to say that we did
not talk about baptism by ]aymen, but
about far more serious things. But
when | saw what he had underlined in
the Bible, and heard his words,
thought to myself, oh, what reasons
we have for thanking God and praying
for our l>!ng!'"
n Danish paper is attempting to ex-
plain that the deepening of the Kalmar
channel may have something to do
with an alliance between Sweden and
Germany.
A Swedish letter to an Austrian paper
states that the dominant party in Swe-
den is growing stronger, and that the
present riksdag may deal still more
firmly with the union question than
the last rlksdag did, 1t also says tha at
the Swedes are the holder because they
know that they are three times as
strong as their com bative neighbor in
point of military and financial re-
sources
The Huskvarna gun factory has re-
ceived orders for 1000 revolvers for the
army of Sweden. The same factory
has just completed a consignment for
the army of Norway.
The Mission Friends, Baptists, ETC.,
are trying to agree on a joint national
conference. an attempt of this kind
having failed last year.
P. Lunde berg has been employed IS
years in the Berglingska printing office
in Lund.
Carl Holmbere OF Lund has decided
to grasp time by the forelock next
spring by making preparations for
turning out artificial ice on an extern
sive scale.
Miss Elsa Eschelsson has been en-
gagged to lecture twice a week on law
in the university of Upsala.
Restad, near Venersborg, has been
proposed as site for the insane asylum
for western Sweden.
The mines in the neighborhood of
Norberg will soon be operated and
lighted by electricity from power
station at Avesta Lillfors, the full ca
pacity of which will be 1900 horse
power. The trunk cable from the sta
ton to the mines will be fifteen Eng
lish miles long, the longest of its kind
in Sweden.
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no appropriation for the support of the
international bureau of peace at Berne,
Switzerland.
The committee appointed by the
king to prepare sites for the Jubilee
sanitariums for tuberculous patients
has handed in partial report to the
king. The committee proposes only
two sanitariums, because no thorough
ly satisfactory location could be found
in southern Sweden. It is proposed to
build the sanitarium of Norrland in the
government park at Oxboleskogen,
Jemtland, and the one of central Swe-
den in the government park at Hala-
hult, Nerike. The committee asks the
national government to set aside about
300 acres of ground for each sani-
. GdEIuu, duu dASO " permit Cle man.
ayers to cut on government lands, with
out charge, the timber necessary for
the construction of the buildings.
NORWAY.
: The first lodge of Odd Fellows in
Norway will soon be organized in Sta
vanger.
y: Seven hundred fishermen held a con-
vent1on at Aalesund, and appealed to
the government to build a railroad
from Romsdal amt to the line running
between Kristiania and Trondhj lem.
Christian johnson, the nestor of the
Norwegian press, is dead. He passed
away quietly at the age of s2115 years.
He began his career as journalist in
1913, by editing Stavanger Amtstidende.
In 1S4s he started Almuevennen, which
for a number of years had larger cir
culation than any other paper in the
country. This paper was we'll edited,
and interesting, and it is. difficult to