Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-22
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Interesting Notes From Across the
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HAPPENINGS IN. THE FATHERLAyD.

Principal Events that Have Occurred :,
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So Just Past.
The captain Of Spanish steamer
was forced by an accident to stop for
repairs at &Oscarshamn. During his
stay at Hotel King Oscar his ewes met
those of Swedish ficka, and the mu-
tual attraction was instantaneously
recognized to be of the deep and last
ing kind. But they understood not a
word of each OF hers language. For
tunately, however, modern learning
and book-making has largely remedied
the inconvenience dragging in the
wake of that old fuss at Babel, and the
don procured a Spanish-Swedish die
tionary, and the flicka a Swedish
Spanish one. By means of these
they entered into a conversation
which was as entertaining as it was
slow and laborious. At the close of a.
two weeks course their engagement
was publicly announced.
The Nya Dagligt Allehanda is in
clined to take pessimistic view of the
development of the union controversy.
The Norwegians carried their point in
regard to the flag law. Now the other
points will be brought up. The next
in order is the consular service ques-
ton. If Sweden does not yield to the
demands of the Norwegians for sep
arate consular service for Norway, the
matter will be fought to a finish at the
points of Norwegian bayonets. But
the Swedish government perccives no
danger. While Norway is acting the
Swedes are looking around for the
most expcdient means for making an
other surrender. Vart Land strongly
endorses the course of Count Douglas
in refusing to promulgate the Norwe-
gian flag law, and the paper singles
him out as the only statesman in the
cabinet. "The settlement of the flag
question:" says this paper, ''has caused
the deepest sorrow in Sweden, and the
hope of conserving the union is almost
gone" Nya Dagligt Allehanda urges
upon Swedish merchants never to sell
a pure Norwegian flag.
The provincial government of Kris
tianstad has declared that the splenic
fever plague has been completely
stamped out in the province.
Several of the leading educators of
Sweden have been requested to appear
at the Office of the ecclesiastical de-
partment to give advices in regard to
the settlement of certain matters in
the public schools.
A committee of five men has been ap-
pointed to devise plans and propose a
site for new union railway station in
Stockholm.
A Stockholm syndicate has bought
Stromne, Sole and other estates in
Vermland for $450,000 The main value
OF the property is in it's pineries.
The opening of the new Elbe and
Trave canal in Germany will be de-
cided benefit to the export trade of the
Scandinavian countries.
The biggest sugar beet of the season
was raised at Johanneshus, Valinge,
and it weighed over eleven pounds.
The door was left open during SER
vice in the church at Nafverstad, and
while. the congregation was singing, a
black horse came stalking up the aisle.
A resolute parishioner stopped the in
trudcr before reaching the altar. The
faces of some of the worshipers looked
as if they took the phenomenon to be
Old Nick himself in person.
The Boras & Alfvestad railway COM
pany has applied for government
loan of 81, $50, 900.
large number of collins and human
bones have been struck about three
feet below the surface of Gamla Oster-
gatan, Landskrona, and the find is
supposed to date from the sixteenth
century.
Representatives of the United States,
England and Germany have designated
King Oscar as the arbitrator of the
claims of Samoans for damages result
ing from the naval and military oper-
atoms in Samoa last spring.
Germany is importing dairy products
in larger quantities from year to year,
and foresighted Swedish business men
are of the opinion that the farmers of
southern Sweden should accommodate
themselves to the requirements of the
German market.
A new workhouse has been dedi-
Gated in Malmo.
A fashionable society has been Or
ganized in Malmo for reviving and Gull
tivating old dances. Many students
are attending the exercises.
The name of a parish in Malmohus
has been changed from Mas to Trolle-
mas.