Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-29
NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean,
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
<1ncipal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.

Olu countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
The king has granted Wilhelm
Frlcke, a German citizen, permission
to serve as member of the executive
committee of the Malmo electric light
company.
Hans Person, of Limhamn, was told
by his wife, who was confined to her
bed, to give something out of certain
bottle to their week-old baby. BY the
side OF this bottle stood another, which
was plainly labeled carbolic acid. But
papa failed to notice this, and gave the
baby from the wrong bottle. The mis-
take was noticed at once and physi-
clan was summoned, but nothing could
save the life of the poor little thing.
The Upsala Students union is the
richest organization of it's kind in the
North, it's total assets amounting to
$4,000
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwe-
gian poet, made himself extremely I'M
popular in Sweden by writing series
OF correspondence to a Russian daily
about the controversy between Sweden
and Norway. Bjornson defended his
course on the plea that the Russian
people is in favor of peace and fair
play among the nations. He advo-
Gated treaties of neutrality for the
Scandinavian countries under the
guaranty of Russia. The recent over
riding Of the time-honored constitution
of Finland by Russia must have been a
shocking revelation to the poet, and,
as usual, he seems to have changed his
tactics all of a sudden. A letter from
Stockholm to a conservative Norwe-
gian daily states that he has urged
Adolf Hedin, member of the riksdag
from stockholm, to head a movement
for the organization Of unions in Swe-
den for the continuance of the union;
and that he himself would inaugurate
a similar movement in Norway in case
Hedin gave an affirmative answer.
The conservatives in Norway natur:
ally hail this news with satisfaction,
because it is generally conceded that
Bjornson, right or wrong, has an al
most demon-like power over the minds
of a large portion of his countrymen.
But it seems little strange that he
should propose such unions in Sweden;
for if anyone is in favor of the union
at the present stage, the Swedes GER
tainly are.
The Danish daily, Politiken, still
persists in asserting that the edict
against Finland does not express the
sentiment of the car.
The aforementioned Russian edict to
Finland provides that the army of Fin
land shall be raised from 5000 to go, 900
men; that the term of service shall be
changed from 8 to years, and the
term of liability to service from 2 to IS
years; that the official language of the
army shall be Russian; and that all Of
ficers shall use the Russian language.
The Gotta canal has been drained be-
tween Berg and Borensberg, and 100
men are engaged in repairing it.
James Hamren, who is a native of
Stockholm, and has lived twenty years
in Philadelphia. Pa, has been ap-
pointed constructor at the British navy
yards at Plymouth. There were about
one hundred applicants for the place.
Several manufacturers in different
parts of Sweden have discharged those
of their employees who belonged to
labor organizations. The manufacture
ers openly discourage labor unions.
The Neptune Salvage company will
have nothing to do with the wrecked
Spanish warships at Santiago, though
a representative of the company says
they may be raised.
The Swedish sugar manufacturers
have not only succeeded in keeping the
area which will be devoted to the Gull
ture Of sugar beets next summer with
in certain limits, but summing up of
the ground which the farmers have de-
cided to set aside for this purpose
shows that the limits will not even be
reached. This means that the Swedish
sugar market will not be glutted be-
fore Oct. l, 1900.
The ''inter-parliamentary peace fac
ton" in the Swedish riksdag has Sc
lected A. Hedin and Elowson as dele
gates to the inter-parliamentary peace
congress which is to be held in Kris
tiania next August.