Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-09-13
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Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS in The .FATHERLAND.

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"A large passenger steamer ordered
by q Russian shipowner has been con-
structed at the Kockum shipyards at
Malmo. The passenger steamers on
the great rivers Of Russia are as fine
IS any in the world, and expenditures
seemed to be no object in the construc-
ton and equipment Of the new boat.
It has been named the Islam and will
be used in the trade between Russia
and Persia. The job was so we'll done
that the proprietors of the Kockum
shipyard expect more orders of the
same kind. .s4'E,g a: -
Capt. G. O. Wallenberg, president of
the , edish-Continental Shipping
company proposes to build up the
shipping of Sweden by the establish
ment of q new bank for the special
benefit of shipowners. Capt. Wallen-
berg is a very reliable authority on
commercial affairs, and his plan is
treated seriously by the business men
OF the leading seaports of Sweden.
The field maneuvers which were to
have taken place between Kristianstad
and Hessleholm may have to be
changed to some other place because
that locality does not furnish enough
water for the use of the army.
Eighteen men are engaged in exca-
waiting the ancient ruins of Falsterbo
in the interest of archaeology. Some
of the most prominent Psychologists in
the world are experimenting the
work.
The sawmill of the Gellivare Mining
company in Norrland was destroyed
by fire. The property was only par
TALLY insured. The fire was started by
a careless cigar smoker.
Aug. Lindstrom, sixty-year-old
pilot at Oskarshamn, noticed q seal
coming close up to his boat. Unfortu-
nately he had no firearms at hand. but
he thought of some large bullets that
he kept in his vest pocket. With
strong arm he threw one of these. at
threw one of these at the seal and the
animal was hit so hard between the
eyes that he was stunned long enough
to be picked up and hauled into the
boat. y
Eight thousand May bugs have been
gathered and killed within seven par
ishes in Southern Sweden.
Elm Stal, the wife of Sodermanland,
has been chosen wet nurse for Princess
Margareta, the infant daughter of
Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg.
The receipts of the post Office show
an increase of ~ per cent in one year.
About $50 carpenters at Tranas
struck for higher pay.
Gen. Bjornstjerna, former minister
of foreign affairs, has expressed him
self in favor of the Norwegian flag
law because it was passed by the prop
er body in a proper manner and sane
toned by the king of Norway.
Premier Steen, in his address to the
interparliamentary peace conference
in Kristiania, mentioned that Alfred
Nobel, a Swede, had made the Norwe-
gian storthung judge Of award Of the
prize for the best essay on peace, and
the whole audience arose, out respect
for the memory of the great million
aire philanthropist.
One-half the recruits at the Fristad
drill grounds are sick with dipth-
liberia.
s. A. Hedin, the liberal riksdagman
from from Stockholm, is again i'm
proving and his physician has counter
manded his own order to have Hedin
taken to hospital.
The ravagcs of splenic fever in
Southern Sweden is abating somewhat
thanks to the vigorous sanitary meas
nres enforced by the people in the
smitten localities.
A public meeting of patriots at
Halmstad passed vigorous resolutions
against the Norwegian flag law.
Lieut.. F. G. Bergenstrahle and en-;
gineer w. Wallenberg of Stockholm
travelled by automobile from Paris to
Stralsund on the Baltic sea.
NORWAY. ~.
AS has been mentioned in these col
umns, Bentsen and Bjorvig, members
of Wellman's Arctic expedition, spent
most of the winter at Fort Mckinley,
Franz Josef's Land. They agreed that
if one of them died the other should