Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-19
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Il Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

A"A oOuhOpluS Caught ufe IN the MD
die of March, and it took regiment
about an hour to put it out. The fight
was made chiefly to save the powder
house.
An influential committee compris-
ing several members of parliament has
been formed in London for the pur-
pose OF protesting against the abroga-
ton of the constitution of Finland by
the czar.
Fresh salmon has brought as much
as 80 cents a pound in the southern
part of Sweden this season.
In making excavations for a brewery
at Engelholm. an urn containing hui
man bones was found among some
stone slabs. The urn is of Etrurian
origin, and is supposed to date from
the younger bronze age
Henrik Berg has been suggested as
representative to the temperance con-
gress in Paris.
Crown Princess Victoria spent a few
days in Naples for change of air, and
she was quite well upon her return to
Rome.
Minister of War Rape is said to be
about to resign his position in the cab
met on account Of unfavorable criti-
cism in the riksdag.
The rilsdag has voted $780, 900 for
the purchase of new rifles and $3.50, 600
for the strengthening of the defenses.
trade union congress: which was
held at Stockholm and which repre-
sented 10000 workingmcn, decided
that if the employers do not treat their
men better in the future than in the
past, general strike shall be ordered.
A large number Of Fiplanders are
elnigrating to Sweden.
Nya Pressen and Aftonposten. two
papers published in Helsingfors, Fin
land, have been suppressed by the
Russian authorities on account of ex-
pressions hostile to the attempts to
Russianize Finland. One thousand
Finlanders serenaded DR.. Lille, editor
of Nya Pressen, in token of their dis
approval of the Russian policy.
Twelve hundred workingmen at
Sundsvall resolved to maintain their
old labor unions and not organize new
ones, as suggested by the employers.
What the employers object to is the as
ISOLATION of local unions, not to isolated
local unions as such. But the work.
ingmen aver that unions without the
right to combine and cooperate would
not be worth the trouble that it takes
to run them.
August Palm was expelled from Sles-
Wig by the German government in 1877
because he agitated for the election Of
social democrat TO a public office.
Now he has asked the German govern
ment whether he may return; but the
answer is that the order of expulsion
covers AL future time"
Many of the soldiers who were Or
dered out to fight the nun" ian insect
which is destroying the Swedish for
ests) are unwilling to accept the job,
although they are to receive 81 cents q
day and board.
Carl Axcl Edberg, Of Ragunda, Jemt-
land, is only II years old. But he is
hero, all the same. While hauling
wood all alone one Of his legs was
pinned between the load and tree so
forcibly that both bones in the leg
were crushed. Fortunately he reached
the axe, and he went to work to cut
down the tree. Every blow intensified
the excruciating pain, but he never let
up until the tree fell. : AS soon as he
was released he hoped on the other
leg to the horse, unhitched and mount
ed him, and rode home, a distance of
~ English miles. : ,.c u.
There were ST., 1000, 900 in the savings
banks of Sweden March l. The de-
positors numbered $40, O63.
Prof. H. Won Post has paid closer at
tention to the weather than any other
Swede during the past a. years. And
one result of his scientific observations
is the discovery of the influence Of the
temperature of the gulf stream upon
the seasons and the vegetation in Swe-
den. The rule is, briefly stated, that
a high temperature in the Atlantic
ocean and an early spring, and low
temperature in said body of water and
late spring, always go together.
His majesty has appointed Prof. E.
,aderln as leader of the Spitzbergen
gcodetic survey expedition.
The riksdag has appropriated SIS, $780,
600 for railway improvements. Over
one million dollars of this amount goes
to the great transpeninsular railway
in Norrland.
Both houses of the riksdag have re-
jected a bill providing for the estab
lishment of a common election day for
the whole country.
NORWAY.
About 1000 men are engaged in
building new railroads in Norway
Many politicians are in favor of push
ing new lines to the extent of requir-
ing 5000 or even 10000 men for this
work. But those who are interested
in agricultural pursuits make strenu-
Gus objections to this kind of expan-
sion. They reason like this: In Smaa-
lenene and the Upland settlements
large fields of grain and potatoes re-
main without being harvested for lack
of help not to mention much tillable
ground that cannot be touched. If a
still greater number of laborers are
withdrawn from the farm, the farmers
may as well quit"
The Norwegian forestry association