Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-17
SCANDINAVIAN SC A NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean. ''. -
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND,

Hnl LNlNuD IN HE 5fAlhEkLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week p.
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
Ihe talk about the withdrawal of
count Douglas from the cabinet
Will not down, Now it is even
orn1ted in the foreign press. Says
dispatch, dated Stockholm, May S:
count Douglas, minister, of foreign af-
fairs for Sweden and Norway, has
gone ostensibly for months vacation
on the continent, but really, it is be-
heved, to get out of Office with the
least possible shock to his susceptible
tiles.
This year, more than ever before, the
American bicycle is winning it way in
sweden, and it is incidentally crowd
ing some of the local manufacturers to
the wall. Two of the largest bicycle
factories in Stockholm have Just been
forced to close their doors in conse-
q"ence of American competition.
The rilsdag has voted S27O, for a
new steam ferry which is to run be-
tween Malmo and Copenhagen.
The number of deposits in the gov
eminent postal savings banks at the
close of the month of March was $40,
1913, and the amount of deposits was
almost $4,000, 900.
The Scandinavian students sanger
fest in Kristiania was very successful.
The concerts were given to packed
houses, and the applause was demon
strative. The Norwegians made siren
uous and successful efforts to enter
tain the Lund students in princely
manner.
The Lund students have raised and
forwarded a considerable sum of money
to the locked-out laborers in Nordland.
The Fiftieth anniversary of the rail
way system of Sweden was celebrated
May third. For on that date, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, in the year
1S49, the first spade of dirt was raised
on the first railroad in Sweden. The
spot where this historic event occurred
is a short distance below the Illberg
tavern, on the Fryken & Klatalf rail
way, and the man who handled the
spade, Major Col. Adelskold, still lives
to tell the story in detail.
Adolf Hedin, the noted liberal mem
Der of the Riksdag, received a superb
souvenir from his friends on his sixty
fifth birthday. It was an address of
congratulation bound in green leather,
and containing the signatures of al
prominent Swedes.
A new kind of labor union (the third
in order, the others being the social
istic and christian labor unions) has
been organized in Stockholm. One of
it's features is independence of all po-
litical parties.
The students of Upsala have resolved
to arrange a Scandinavian festival in
Upsala next fall.
A story has been gotten up in Russia
to the effect that if a war breaks out
between Russia and England, the
Firms will furnish 100000 soldiers to
support the English, and also admit
the English navy to all ports in Finn
land. The story has a most practical
aim: ''Look here" the Russians say,
lis it not time to pull up Finnish
autonomy, root and branch, in order to
avoid possible treason?"
On April 81 So, 500 was divided among
1000 families affected by the great
lockout in Norrland.
The reindeer pest, wolves and an
unusual amount of snow combined,
have reduced the reindeer herds in the
parish of Jocknock to such an extent
that many Lapps who few years ago
were well to do can no longer sustain
themselves, and the list of ,paupers is
swelling to alarming proportions.
The business interests of Sweden are
rapidly waking up to the Importance
of strengthening the Notifications.
And we'll they may. For years the
Norwcgians have been restless. to say
the least, and the great neighbor to
the east has simply broken sacred,
time-honored pledges in order to
trample down the rights of people
once constituting a part of the Swed-
ish people. If any country in the
world is justified in piling up forts and
planting ugly guns on them, that
country is Sweden. :-'''
Lector P. Waldenstrom published a
paper criticising the translation of the
Old Testament made by a royal COM
mission.g The commission appointed
Prof. Esaias, one of the members, to
formulate a REPUTATION of Walden.
strOm:S CHARGES
NORWAY.
Potatoes are imported from Holland
this season. e:
The saloon (samlag) in Mandal was
voted out. That leaves only rs sam.
lags in Norway. But it must be kept
in mind that beer and wine are sold in
restaurants and stores ~. ~
L. Vestlandsposten chronicles the gen
eral fact that Swedes travelling in Nor.
way as well as Norwegians travelling
in Sweden are treated with considera-
ton and courtesy. : The paper holds
that the ,quarrels between the two
+ Z L = - 1.