Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-02-08
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.

SWEDEN.
Inc church authorities have prevented
Kew. Lellky. a Methodist preacher, from
performing the last rites on the grave of
a member of his church, because the
grave is located in state church GEM
etery.
some OF the Swedish papers pay glow
ing tributes ito the increasing prosperity
of the American people.
The business men of Copenhagen are
oS no means pleased with the prospects
or having the steamboat facilities in the
Sound materially cut down.
mayor A. Ohrstrom. of Arboga, dis
solved a public meeting last summer
"heh Editor A. Starner was giving a
temperance lecture. Proceedings at law
were instituted against the mayor, and
ne has been fined $6.75 for ''imprudence
in Office
The polar vessel Antarctic, which was
used by the Nathorst Spitzbergen ex-
petition. will also be used by the geo.
detic survey expedition
GUSTAV Froding, the poet, is again sick
Fifty head Of cattle persisted in a fire
at farm-stead in Frydened. Skara borg.
The Geographic department has report
ed unfavorably on the petition of the OPP
orators for higher wages.
The st. Petersburg Academy of Medi-
cine has made King Oscar an honorary
member.
The cause of the destruction Of the
F'roso church, near Ostersund, by fire,
has another cause back of it, and a Gu
rious one at that. The building was in
sured for $4,000. application was made
for an insurance of $1,000, but the insur-
ance company would risk the larger
amount only on condition that the build
ing be supplied with lightning rods. Ac-
cordingly, lightning rods were ordered.
But while the workmen were engaged in
putting up the rods the building caught
fire from portable furnace which they
operated on the roof of the building.
Emil Whittier. native of Stockholm,
won the first prize for a design for a
large exposition building in Breslau. Ger
many. The prize amounted to about
$780,
The Swedish minister to England is op-
posed to the Swedish industrial exposi-
ton which it is proposed to hold in Lon
don in 1901, Immediately after the Paris
worlds fair. Those who are in favor of
the movement, however, will not give it
up on account of this opposition.
The Kramfors Manufacturing company
will build a private sanitariums for the
benefit of the consumptive eployes of the
company The institution will be located
at Nastvattnet, a mountain village not
for from kramfors
1t is said the government will not pro-
pose any bill for the extension of the
suffrage this year. The reason for this
course must be that a majority of the
members of the first chamber of the riks-
dag are strongly in favor of letting this
matter we'll enough alone.
Nine thousand Christmas and New
Years presents were detained at the
Stockholm postofice because the address,
es were defective or wholly lacking.
Gothenburg Has 122.2O5 inhabitants.
The increase was 2,451 for 1898, and 6,OS7
for 1887.
The demand for common laborers is
far greater than the supply in simrish-
ann. The wages range from Is to SIS
cents day.
Large quantities of sea weed were
"dSneO up on the southeastern shore of
Sweden during the first days of January,
and the farmers at once began to haul
them away for manure. The weeds are
valued at II cents load
All of the Swedish-American mail is
now carried by way of the Swedish
German steamship line between Frell-
borg and Sassnitz.
The increase in the receipts from the
custom house duties for 1898, as COMPARED
with those of 1897 was 81, zoo, OO0
In certain neighborhood in Dalarne
there is a bank, and factory at which
punching machines are made. The bank
needed such machine. But the article
made next door was supposed to be too
plain, and a pretentious contrivance was
ordered from England. The cost of it
was about three times that of those made
at home, which in the eyes of many local
patriots was an objection against the for
eign article. But who could describe the
feelings of those concerned when, upon
unpacking the machine, it was found to
be product of the home factory which
had been exported to England, received
an English label, reimported and bought
at treble the original price,
NORWAY.