Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-09-06

ground and went to pump and gulp-
ed down big drink of water.
The geodetic survey expedition en-
countered SO much ice that Treuren-
burg bay was not reached until July
20. The expedition will spend the
winter at that place.
An aged couple who desire to remain
anonymous donated $3.50 to the NAL
mo hospital on the occasion of their
silver wedding.
DENMARK.
Erik Boegh is dead. He attained the
age of II years, and he will live in his
| writings as the greatest humorous
! writer which the Scandinavian coun-
tries produced up to his time. His
| most famous work is the ''Troubles of
Jonas Tvermouse," a series of sketches
which are full of homespun wisdom
! and mother-wit.
! The Danish government expends
$3.50, 600 year for tree planting.
The proposition to employ convicts
from the Horsen penitentiary to break
new ground in Upland is having fair
trial. The Heath and Bog company
has hired Is convicts for a period of
two months at the rate of 81 cents a
day for each man. The penitentiary
provides quarters and board for the
men, and is also responsible FOR their
conduct in general.
The latest hitch in the settlement of
the great lockout is the demand of the
employers that the behavior of the
workingmen while in the factories
shall be controlled exclusively by the
employers. The matters refers chiefly
to eating, drinking and smoking.
The Danish Total Abstinence asso-
citation held it's annual meeting at
! Rome, on the island of Bornholm.
Almost 800 delegates were in attend
ance.
All attempts to check the fire in
Vildmose wild Bog) have failed.
Parts of the bog are one glowing mass.
The smoke in the neighborhood is saf-
locating and many small farmers are
leaving their homes.
A bill providing for the revision of
the constitution of Iceland has been
defeated in the lower house of the
althing.
The real estate agents succeeded in
forcing the prices of real estate in the
city of Esbjerg up to an abnormal
height, and now that the inevitable
reaction is setting IN, many of them
are on the verge of financial ruin.
The king of Denmark and other
members of the royal family have
80
at Ischl.
A correspondent of the London
| Morning Herald writes from Denmark:
''Denmark is one of the most interest
ing countries in the world. In square
miles it is one of the smallest countries
in the world, but in regard to the life
of its people it is one of the greatest.
Denmark once ranked with the great
powers; but its history after the loss
of great part of its territory is more
readable than the accounts of it's
former conquests. An Englishman
cannot consider his education complet-
ed until he has visited the country
from which the first Normannic colo
nists came to our Shores"
| FINLAND.
The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin
daily, says the death sentence of Fin
land was announced when the famous
rescript of Feb. Is was issued. The
Finlanders themselves seemed to real
ize this and dressed their cities in
mourning. The constitution of Fin
land, it's rights, it's landtag, it's money
and post Office system-a must be
borne to the grave. Finland has al
ways been loyal to Russia. It remain
ed loyal to Russia even during the
Crimean war when the English block
AIDED its coasts. It is not easy to ex-
plain why the present car should take
such radical step; but it may be re-
suit of the great panslav wave which
has for years been rising in Russia,
demanding the classification of every
thing and everybody within reach.
"Open revolt is out of the question: -
says Vossiche Zeitung; 1.-THE mere idea
would be rank insanity. Nothing but
a frmer consolidation of the Swedes
and Firms and more vigorous cult
walton of the mother tongue and the
national institutions can save Finland
from the impending justification"
The Russian authorities are insinua-
ting that some Lutheran ministers in
Finland have used seditiOus language
in their sermons