Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-05
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.

Ihe building in which Svea theater
was located, in Stockholm, was partly
destroyed by fire March 5. Loss about
r$l5O,O00.
The labor conflicts in the neighbour
MOOD OF Sundsvall are still kept up.
Ihe employers are threatening to dis
charge the members of labor organiza-
tons, and the organizations are con-
stantly strengthening their position
oy recruiting new members.
The attendance at the higher insti-
tut1ons OF learning for the year 1898
was about $4,000, and the attendance
at the public schools was 1900. The
expenses for the former averaged al
most $50 per student; for the latter,
S6.25 per pupil.
Gothenburg business men have re-
quested the canal steamship companies
to open the Gotta canal for general
traffic April L.
The health of the two sons of the
crown prince has been so impaired by
repeated attacks of the grippe that
they did not accompany their father to
Norway, as was originally the inten-
ton.
A new sleeping car on the govern
ment railway between Stockholm and
Gothenburg is lighted with electricity.
The power is taken from the wheels
of the car.
The riksdag has set aside about $780,
900 for destroying certain insect
which is causing great damage to the
forests.
a train was derailed at Ljusdal by a
spike which boy had put into the
joint between the ends of two rails.
Two hundred pounds of butter was
produced by the Tomarp creamery in
Skane in 1898, and the receipts from
this source exceeded $50. 0OO 1t took
26 1-6 pounds of milk to make one
pound of butter.
In Vemmerhog, Skane, the winter
rye is so thick that the sheep are per-
mitted to feed on the fields to thin out
the sprouts.
Sweden will have about ten repre-
sentatives at the inter-parliamentary
congress, which is to take place in
Kristiania next August.
A minister in Oskarstrom has been
widely advertised because he said in
sermon that "a man who joins labor
union sells himself to the evil one" and
''puts on himself the sign of the wild
BEAST
The Hatmakers union in Halmstad
has resolved to boycott the Halmstad
hat factory until it's proprietors per-
NIT their employees to belong to labor
unions.
The relation between the employers
and the labor unions is becoming so
strained that the matter has been thor
oughly discussed in the second cham
Der of the riksdag. No measures were
agreed upon, however.
The men engaged in putting up a
new residence for Mr.. Schmitz of
Malmo have quit work because he
failed to give employment to those
who struck for higher wages at his
Furulund wooden mills
The government of Norway has rent
ed out large tract of land to Swed-
ish mining company at the western
end Of the transpeninsular railway.
The government has asked the riks-
dag for 1000 for an expedition to
Greenland in search of Andree.
The riksdag is urged upon to check
the cigarette nuisance among boys by
means of legislation.
All vehicles for passenger traffic in
Stockholm must have taxameters by
May l. A taxameter indicates the ex-
act distance travelled.
A farmer at Botvalda, Stanga parish,
Gotland. found an urn containing sew
eral hundred very old silver coins,
some of which were coined in Arabia.
Prof. Hjalmar Nathorst, father of
Alfred Natharst, the noted Arctic ex-
plorer, is dead. The deceased devoted
his life to the agricultural interests of
his country and the progress made in
this line, particularly in the southern
part of Sweden, is largely due to his
efforts.