Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-01-25
SCANDINAVIAN. NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
OF So just Past.
SWEDEN.

The Gothenburg Iron. Works were de-
s'royeu ny ire just before Christmas.
IL hie;u uta e; Bernstr6m fell through
ana he soon found that his only hope of
SAYING sa,iig his life lay in breaking the ice and
about an inch thick. and he went to work
like a demon. Chunk after chunk was
pro nroken off. part by part he approached
gle. had lasted about half an hour he felt
solid bottom under his feet BY this time
ne mad cut a furrow through the ice
which was about $50 feet long.
Fresh eggs brought from As to 4s cents
mas.
som some papers who used to know what
they are talking about declare most en-
star fory f that Count RougaS the min
withdraw from the cabinet because he
is opposed to the kings decision to en-
the union jack from the Norwegian flag.
But SO far we have seen nothing from
the government which either denies or
afhrms this assertion.
The journeymen bakers in Stockholm
are preparing for a great struggle next
spring, their chief aim being shorter
hours and higher wages
nh Tne 6 orisinai intention was to issue the
national bank. But the issuance will be
postponed until June /.
Experiments are being made at the ma
tlonai mint to make small coin out of
aluminium.
Prince Georg Of Greece was we'll re-
ceived when he entered upon his duties
as governor Of Crete. At the Inaugural
ton he addressed the people and adj
monished the Christians and the Mo-
hammedans to endeavor to curb their
mutual ill-Will; and on his part he would
IN the evening he drove through the
streets and was cheered with great en-
thusiasm. Both the Mohammedans and
the Christians illuminated their houses.
The health of A. Hedin. the Stockholm
member OF the riksdag, is improving, and
he is taking daily walks in the open air.
The church in the island of F'ros0, near
OStersund, was burned down Most of the
fixtures were saved.
Vermland furnished a greater number
OF signatures to the suffrage petitions
than any other province.
The steamer Ariosto landed SOB Swedish
Americans at GOthenburg lust before
Christmas.
A couple who were married in America
found it the best part of wisdom to
marry a second time in Stockholm, be-
fectly valid
A cablegram dated Stockholm. Jan: 9,
IS interested in the czar's disarmament
proposition, and Is preparing to send del
eegates to St. Petersburg in the spring.
FOR my own part, l am free to confess
my feeling that the motives which led
to the promulgation of the rescript may
not at all appear the surface. AS for
Sweden and Norway, our desire is to re-
duce the size of the army not that of the
navy. The peninsula may we'll feel Sc
cure from invasion simply from it's ad-
Vantageous geographical situatiOn.'
The Influenza which is apidemic num-
bers the king among its victims. His
sion.
The executive committee of the Swed-
lsh peace and arbitration society has for
Warded an address to the king. thanking
him for the alacrity with which the
Swedish government accepted the invita-
ton of the czar of Russia to attend an
international peace conference.
The public road and canal department
is preparing a comprehensive plan for
the deepening of old waterways and the
construction of new ones. The plan re-
quires an appropriation Of almost $4,000
for the coming year.
The municipal government of Stock
hospital for consumptives who are in an
ing will have JOB regular beds.
The catch of all kinds of fish along the
light this fall
Two different parties are struggling for
the control Of a proposed railway which
way.
Railway Manager Won Essen remem-
bered an those Of his employees who
could not spend Christmas eve at home
by giving them fine supper at the differ
ent stations where they spent the night
Fish and pudding constituted the ground
work of the meal.
The first ground was broken for the
Veinge and Markaryd railway in the
summer of 1897, and the whole line will
be ready for public traffic in about six
months.
holm April TO- Returned to the same sam place place
after an absence of eight months. Stad-
Ling was was a asD!, by Botanist Nils
whom is a brother Of one Of the com
panions of Andree on his balloon voyage.
stadling's expedition travelled by rail
Ural mountains to the Lena river. The
journey was continued by boat distance
Of 500 miles down the river and halt
home in September. The other members
Of the expedition made, an adventurous
@ s 20 hs hs5a Sets b. and cd
returned by, rail to st. Petersburg. The
fwe n tbe rst
place they have demonstrated that An
dree's expedition it: S,, has not landed in or
who had visited the islands reported that
the depOts were untouched, and that no
traces of Andree could be seen. Stadling
also took pains to inform the population
of the balloon expedition and it's men, Be-
tween the rivers Anabara and Jenisli, for
distance of two hundred miles. the peo-
pie had never heard of the expedition BY
means of lectures and information of diff
: ferent kinds the natives were made to UNI
derstand that they can count on large re-
wards If they furnish information about
the expedition or save remains from it
that may drift to the shore.
Stockholm, Jan. liking Oscar Is suf-
fering from Influenza, and in consequence
a number of court ceremonies have been
abandoned.
It is claimed that several railway ac-
cidepts in the northern part of the coun-
try are due to the fact that freight en-
gines were used instead of the engines
made for passenger traffic.
The Dagen newspaper asked the de-
partment of foreign affairs about the
cars disarmament conference. and re-
ceived the following from the head of
that department.: 1.-THE foreign depart
ment has received no official information
about the program for the conference
since the first invitation. and therefore
cannot state whether the question of ar
bitration will be excluded The minister
Of foreign affairs. however. expressing
himself regarding the eventual neutrality
of the Scandinavian peninsula. says that
j. he has occasion to believe that at present
the intention is to exclude all questions