Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-01-18
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Two new steamers have been purchased
Tor the Swedish-Germa line between
Iralleborg and Sassnitz. They are side.
Wheelers and measure about 300 by s.
The city council Of Helsingborg granted
E. Won Stockenstrom a pension of 81, 6Ot
"a year upon his withdrawal from the Of
hce of mayor of that city.
The crown princess arrived at Baden
Baden Dec IL. She was quite tired after
the journey.
Rev. p j. Sward. president of the
Scandinavian church association in Amer
lea. was made commander of the Swedish
order of the North Star, second class. In
1894. According to old country papers he
Is to remove to the diocese of Linkoping.
cation of the state church. If he be-
comes a Swedish citizen his work in
America will be counted as twenty years
OF service In the state church of Sweden.
Rev. Sward is a very able man, and his
manners are such that to know him is to
love and admire him,
The king has ordered a memorial win
dow for the Westerns cathedral. It is to
cost $685.
The crown prince will soon be appointed
to the position Of general in the armies
of Sweden and Norway.
The explosion of a lamp set fire to a
brewery in Solicited, and the establish
ment was burned down.
The king has been memorialized to sug-
.gest some way Of supplying text books
for the law department at the universities
of Sweden.
The suffrage petitions were presented
to the king Jan. 4. The whole number of
signatures is 365.000, while similar petit
tions few years ago contained only I'll, :
the property qualification be reduced.
eS% of 81 ON qa
asks as that the r payment on an income of
500 crowns ($14O) may be sufficient to en-
title one to vote. The king replied that
the matter must be left to the
says the change meets his cordial ap-
prevail
About one hundred members of the
Ma mohus and Kristianstad agricultural
because the Norwegian storthing passed
the law removing the union mark from
the commercial flag or Norway.
The old country papers state that the
king has recovered from slight indis-
position.
The government issued an order just
before Christmas that no telegraph or
telephone functionaries should accept
presents from private parties.
The executors Of the will Of the late
ought not to exceed s2s5, 900. But the
svea court has DECIDED that the stamp
thought they would not be required to
pay any stamp tax in Sweden on prop
erty which the deceased held in foreign
tax had already been paid abroad. But
the court held that Swedish laws did not
recognize such tax when paid in a for
Ell n country "nn,at von steyern' member
A Stockholm dispatch states that a
number of Swedish articles of export
finally go to America under the name of
Russian goods.
A: Hedin. the aged Stockholm member
his physician says that he will be able
to serve in the next r1ksdag.
Some of the English papers condemn
the action of the Norwegian storthing in
wegian flag, and commend the king for
refusing to attach his signature to the
flag law.
Thirty million one hundred thousand
government for the year 1900.
In the Albo settlement in the southern
part OF Sweden, ice was very scarce last
winter. But there was any amount of
snow. And at some of the diaries large
piles and carefully covered with peat
dust. In the spring the snow in these
piles settled down to something between
ice and snow, and this material proved to
cooling purposes. Besides. it cost less
money to put up the snow. and this year
only snow will be put up for next sum-
mer, no matter how plentiful the ice
may be.
Count Wactmeister, the minister of
finance has been granted a two months
vacation on account of failing health.
The premier will meanwhile discharge
the duties of the minister of finance.
The Wexi0 cathedral. having under
gone extensive repairs, was dedicated
Dec. %. 1t is now beautiful structure
and is lighted with electricity through
out.
The beet sugar manufacturers of
southern Sweden had a conference in
limiting the area to be devoted to beet
ations lasted over five hours, but the SUI
gar magnates failed to come to an agree
wen mt, because Sc the representatives. Of the
area than what the others considered to
be it's proportionate share.
'Trelieborg, lost his foothold While pass s.
and e no the sea- hn ao nho %
messed the accident proceeded to save
him. but to their CONSERVATION he sunk
out of sight at once and never came to
the surface again.
with his balloon in the Ural mountains
in Russia has been traced to it's source.
A locomotive engineer emptied a bottle
of Hungarian wine near Slatoust and
while doing so he said he would hatch
an Andree canard. Accordingly he
scratched few words on slip Of paper,
put it into the bottle and left it, The
bottle was soon found, and facsimlies
of ''Andrees balloon message' were
printed and commented on in the great
European dailies.
The beet sugar Campaign" is finished.
The yield was about twelve tons of beets
to the acre.