Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
SCANII)IlyI Tan NEW VS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
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HAPPENINGS IN TIE. FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
&s the Old Countries About the T.
North Sea Within Week y
D.. or So just Past. s> o.. If =

Principal Events that Have Occurred In
$ the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week y
or So just Past. =
August Strindberg, who in the course of
the past ten years has paid only few
| short visits to Stockholm. his native city,
has just settled for good in the Swedish
capital, and is practically lost to the ex-
| ternal world in new literary productions.
The Stockholm Aftonbladet, on Sept.
20, received a telegram from the master
Of the Norwegian cutter Martha Larzak,
saying that he had found, Sept. 9, on the
north coast of King Charles Island, an
anchor and buoy marked ''Andree Polar
Expedition" Later advices state that
Andree believe that the buoy is one of
those which the aeronaut intended to
throw after the north pole was passed.
This statement has great weight, the
three persons mentioned being leading
authorities on the matter in question.
Kaiser Wilhelm landed at Malmo Sept.
20. The crown prince of Sweden and a
number of dignitaries received his majes-
ty, and the party proceeded to the Stock
holm estate.
The late Anton Klinteberg bequeathed
81, 700 to the children's home which the
Free Masons of Malmo propose to estab-
lish.
The drouth is so severe in northern
Skane that many families have to haul
water for cooking purposes from great
distances.
'There is an elk in your oat field,' said
| q North Skane farmer to his ne1ghbor,
just for the fun of it. But the owner of
the oat field took his gun and went out.
Yes, a big beast was consuming his oats.
Bang! and the beast fell to the ground.
The farmer, his heart working like a lit
tie locomotive, went to take view of
the game, and found his own heifer stone
dead.
King Oscar, in a telegram to Prof.
Nathorst, the leader of the expedition to
northeast Greenland, said that it was
painful, but anticipated, that no trace
of Andree was found"
A Swede who had been visiting in Nor
way wrote to the Gothenburg Handels-
tidning: II was transported by the nat
ural scenery But my tears upon
taking leave were not due to the nature
of the country, but to the people-the
Norwegian people that loved so naively
In my childhood. Such a cordiality,
frankness, cheerfulness and mutual
amiableness as I witnessed in Norwegian
families have seldom seen. And all this
goodness was lavished on a Swede only
because be was a Swede. I promise and
swear-God and all good Swedish men
and women be my witnesses11that never
in my life will 1 cease whenever I see
any possibility, wise or unwise, political
or unpolitical, to promote, by word and
deed, feeling of esteem and friendliness
between the people of Sweden and the
people of Norway, glorious, free, vigor-
Gus nations both of them
John Behmer, of Eskilstuna. has in
vented a machine for putting down stone
pavements which is said to be in great
demand in all civilized countries. The
machine can be managed by one man,
but does the work of eight men. The in
vention has been patented in many coun-
tries.
The right hand of the crown princess
is almost stiff from the effects of ~rheum-
atism, so that she is no longer. able to
hold the reins when she is out driving.
She Is now living at Tullgarn, and no
time has been fixed for her removal to
Stockholm.
The clergymen's conference in Stock
holm expressed desire to rid the state
church ministers of the notifying duty
of solemnizing the marriage of divorced
people.
A $4,000 reservoir is to be built In con-
nection with the water works of the city
of Lund.
Kaiser Wilhelm has made C. E. G. B.
Storckenfeldt, the superintendent of the
telegraph service of Sweden, knight of
the Prussian order of the Red Eagle, Sec
ond class.
The Morsil sanitarium in Jemtland has
changed hands. the consideration being
$4,000.
Bishop Won Scheele, who lectured in
America in 1885, has been elected to a
seat in the second chamber of the riks-
dag from Visby, receiving 1877 votes,
against 163 cast for j. O. Melin.
The Liberals are gaining much more
than they are losing as the elections pro-
ceed. In Stockholm and Gothenburg,
the two largest cities, the Liberal VIC
tories indicate what is known as a
stampede in American politics. The
most prominent planks in the platform of
the Liberals demand extension of the
right to vote, low tariff and peace with
Norway.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet. is
said to have informed a lady connected
with the paper Idun that he loves
Sweden and that he would like to settle
there.