Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-08
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.

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Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN
The government is expected to propose
special laws for colonizing the sparsely
populated Lappland country. At the COM
pletion of the Ofoten railway a great
number Of men will be permanently
thrown out of work, and the government
is of opinion that special inducements
ought to be offered to these to settle in
northern Sweden.
Many conservative papers praise the
minister of foreign affairs, Count Doug
las, for resisting the Norwegian flag law
to the bitter end, and Nya Daylight AL
lehanda passes a severe censure on the
King for yielding to the Norwegian stor-
thing. The same paper styles Premier
Bostroru as "our first Norwegian minis
ter of foreign affairs-for one day.
The faculty of the University of Lund
is composed of Is regular professors, Is
and the whole number Of persons teach
ing in the institution is 103 The number
of students is $40, of whom 81 are study
ing theology, 112 law, so medicine and 351
philosophical branches.
The two detectives that were sent to
America in search of the authors Of the
counterfeit one hundred kronor ($2O bills
receive $120 a month each during their
trip to the New World.
A silly story is cabled from London to
the effect that 1.-TWO white men supposed
to belong to the Andree expedition were
shot by Eskimos north of Hudson Bay.
There are $4,000 deposits in the postal
saving banks, amounting to $16000,000.
This shows that more than one out of
every ten persons in Sweden has deposits
in this safe and deservedly popular bank
ing institution.
The Swedish Red Cross Society has sent
DR.. Hammar to the seat of war in South
Africa
The government has announced that a
new man will be appointed for permanent
service in the position which Prof. An
dree held in the patent Office before he
started on his North Pole expedition.
The aggregate assets of the cities Of
Sweden are $67,000,000. and their public
debt $45,000,000, the debt being about 6S
per cent of the assets. When the debt is
deducted, the average wealth per inhabit
ant of the cities is only $40. The wealth
of Stockholm alone is almost one-third Of
that Of all the cities in the Kingdom.
The rails have already been laid on
the first sixty (English) miles Of the new
Ofoten railway. This portion runs from
Gellivare to Riirunaara.
Hundreds Of public practitioners, in
Guiding public school teachers and off,
Gals in the service of the railway depart
ment, have applied for an increase in
their salaries. the reason given for this
move being that the necessaries of life
cost from 10 to Is per cent more than a
year or two ago.
Very many photographs sent in letters
from Sweden to America fail to reach the
proper parties on account of the Ameri-
can tariff
The water supply at Lund was almost
exhausted Oct. IS, and on that day the
water was shut off from all factories
and all residences.
"Gustaf Wasa,' a new drama by Strind-
berg. scored a brilliant success at Sven
ska Teatern, Stockholm.
The feverish activity which has char
acterized the building trade in Stock
by the general stringency of the money
market. 1t is claimed that only six new
buildings will go up in the course Of next
winter and that no less than 1000 men
in the different branches of the building
trade will be thrown out of work.
A four-pound salmon was so scared by
a pickerel at Engelholm that he jumped
clean upon dry land, and a girl who
came down to the river to fetch water
was not slow in picking up the unlucky
fish,
A new railway line is to be built be-
tween Walung and Limedskorset at a
cost of about 5000, 900.
It is estimated that the police depart
ment to Stockholm will cost 5000, 900 for
the coming year.
A whole class at the Hillersjo Sloyd
school went on strike, and the teacher
found the strikers at play some distance
from the school house. But this budding
spirit of independence met with but scant
appreciation. An hour a day was added
for the balance of the term, and the US
ual recess was devoted to the study of
arithmetic.
Pickpockets reaped a rich harvest at a
mission meeting in Gothenborg But the
police was notified in time to put guards
at the door of the church and two men
were arrested and found to possess about
500 which few minutes before had been
ensconced in the pockets of others
NJ
featuring Co. is the leading employ
err in Stockholm. Fourteen hundred men
are employed now, and the number will
soon be increased to 1000.
Leroy-Beaulien a famous French writ
er on economical and political questions,
says: Located between three powers
Of the first rank all of which are equally
enterprsing, not to say aggressive, Swed-
en- and Norway would, if separated, per-
haps some day find it more difficult than
now to maintain their independence and
integrity. May God guide them and show
them their real interests
NORWAY.
It is claimed that Norway will be visited
by greater number Of winter tourists
during the coming season than before.
Special efforts will be made to turn the
tide in the direction of the Gudbrardsdal-
en- country.
Liljedahl has been elected president of
the odelsthing "a branch of the storthing)
by As votes, Jorgen Knudsen receiving &C
votes.
J. T. Sternberg and wife, Kristine Ha-
RE, nee Thorbjornsen, of Sannesund
celebrated their diamond wedding Oct
Is. They are 80 and IS years old, respect
lively.
The ravages of the recent hurricane are
far greater than was indicated by the first