Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
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 . Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

as it is, the crown prince created great
havoc among it.
committee which was appointed
in 1884 to make a new translation of
the Bible has just completed it's work.
The committee consisted of Professors
Rudin and Tegner and Rev. Personne.
A newspaper mems convention was
held at Visby, in the island of Goth
land.
Two suspicious looking men, pre-
sumably Russian officers. have been
lounging around the Oscar Fredriks-
borg fort, trying to gain entrance. So
The king has instructed count Doug
las. the minister for foreign affairs to
preside at the meetings of the cabinet
until the middle of August; and Pre-
mler Bostrom to act in the same ca
pacity from Aug. IS until the king re-
sumes his place in the cabinet.
Count Rape. the minister of war, is
talked of as governor of the island of
Gothland.
About $4,000 was raised by voluntary
contributions for the aid of the wives
and children of the Mjellby fishermen
who lost their lives in a storm last
winter.
Ernst Andree, brother of the North
Pole explorer, has received letter
from Wellman's expedition, dated IN
the White Sea. July 4. Ernst Andree
expects more from this expedition than
from any of the others.
L. Jansson and his 12-year-old
daughter, of Sodra Dylta, near Ore bro,
were out riding, and their horse SHE'D
on the bank of the Ervalla river. Both
the horse and the two occupants of the
wagon tumbled into the river and were
drowned.
AS the steamer Tarnan was testing
new boiler on a trip at Abo. the
safety valve broke, and two men who
were in the engine room at the time
were scalded to death.
A boat containing five young men
capsized near Stockholm, and all of
them lost their lives.
The Enhorning Wood Work stock
company of Sundsvall has set aside
$1,000 for the establishment of fund
for the aid of poor employees and their
widows. The employees, on the other
hand, have requested committee of
five to determine what particular per-
sons are to be the first benefciaries of
this fund.
Pellerin, the great oleomargarine
manufacturer, is advertising his pro-
duct by sending magnifcently
equipped gas motor ON a tour of south
ern Sweden. The crew of the motor
consists of four men, and it costs
handsome sum of money to keep this
advertising expedition running.
A. Hedin, the Stockholm member of
the riksdag, is convalescing. and he is
now able to take walks in the open air
every day.
An earthquake of considerable force
was felt in Sundsvall and vicinity.
The houses creaked and the doors flew
open. A prayer meeting was being
held in the Bethlehem church at the
time, and several persons tainted.
AS Baron r. Cederstrom, the adju-
tant of Prince Eugen. rode on his
wheel past Albano, Stockholm, he
heard screams in the sea- Without a
moments hesitation the baron left his
wheel and ran down to the water,
where two young ladies were on the
point of drowning. He jumped into
the waves at once,. and succeeded IN
saving both ladies, though one of them
had already sunk out of sight before
he reached her.
A national labor congress will be
held in Stockholm in the middle of
August One of the questions to be
discussed is: What are the labor unions
going to do in regard to the social DEM
ocratic labor party?
The new waterworks in Malmo must
be supplied from artesian wells in the
neighborhood of Vinninge, where the
boring of several wells will be COM
menced at once.
The Gardstanga- Nygard whisky dis
tillery in Skane will use only sugar
beets as raw material in the future.
Bishop Ullman has proposed a new
kind of robe for the clergy of the
state church of Sweden. The proposed
garb is an ample garment covering the
whole body, and Julius Soderbla of
Strengnes had the honor to make the
first sample Oft.
J. Gustav Sundberg, of the central bu-
reau of statistics, has been appointed
editor-in-chief of the statistical hand
book of Sweden, which is to be pub
lished in Swedish, English and French
at the opening of the Paris exposition
in 1900. l
Mr.. Rosenmuller, a rich land owner
In Vestervik. insinuated that Rev. H.
"a. Brilioth had been guilty of embez-
element; but as he failed to substan-
tate his charges he will have to pay
an indemnity of $1,000 and spend q
month in jail. ,s. ..5... s ....=s s. E:
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The Tordenskjold bronze monument
will be cast at the Kristiania art and
metal foundry. @ z.z... N S Ss#a
Birger Johansen, 15-year-old boy,
was lost in Kristianla four months ago
and notaa trace has been found of HIM
since. 5sS5 s as.S.
The labor union Of Kristiania is