Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-10
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
HAPPENINGS IN THE .FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred I'm
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
OF So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Four professors and a number of
students at Upsala have signed call
for subscriptions for the benefit of the
needy laborers in Nordland, and the
students society, Verdandi, has con-
tributed s27.
powerful syndicate is about to es-
tablish an automatic restaurant in
Gother burg.
The Malmo Theatre Company made
a little over six per cent on the capital
invested for the year 1898.
Landskrona has the most active lit
erary society in Sweden, rs public lee
lures were given under the auspices of
the society in 1898. The average at
tendance was 500, and IS per cent con-
sisted of workingmen. The largest at
tendance recorded was 1850.
Contributions to the aid of the dis
charged laborers in Nordland have
been made by the students of Lund.
Some of the professors are among the
contributors.
August Strindberg has two new
dramas ready for the press.
1t seems to be the general opinion
during the present era of war talk that
Sweden has not done enough for her
army and Notifications. The sacri-
fees made for military purposes in the
course of the past few years are by no
means small. however. The following
gives the military budget for a num-
Der of years past: For 1895, $50, 26O, 900;
1897, $12, 800, 900; 1898, $12, S25, 900; 1899,
$12, 100, 900; 1900, $13, $50, 900.
The government has discouraged
those who were agitating for a Swed-
ish exposition in London Immediately
after the Paris worlds fair.
Prince Wilhelm is to serve as a cadet
on the corvette Saga during an expedi-
ton which will take place early in the
summer.
Both houses of the riksdag have
voted down a bill authorizing juries to
try criminal cases.
The riksdag could not be induced to
change the law which provides that no
Swedish citizen shall be permitted to
withdraw from the state church unless
he states that he is going to join some
other religious organization.
The work;ngmen of Malmo had
made extensive preparations for the
celebration of May first Qabor day.. A
dozen persons collected money for
the aid of the workingmen of Norrland
in their struggle for the right of be-
longing to labor unions, and the
amount was sent to Norrland i'm
mediately after the celebration. Two
speakers stands were erected at a
public ground, and in the procession
was carried a special banner in the
interest o. the rights of labor organiza-
tions.
The newspapers are at present Gag
erly discussing the question whether
the navy or the Notifications are the
most important means of maintaining
the independence of Sweden. So far
those advocating the strengthening of
the Notifications rather than the navy
seem to make the strongest points.
The weightiest contribution to this dis
cussion is an editorial in Gotheborgs-
Poster which, among other striking
arguments, reviews the latest wars in
Europe to show that the navies of the
beliggerent powers were not used at
all.
NORWAY.
DR.. Gimbley, the "great English
astronomer" who. in little book, fig
ured out that our planet was destined
to experience general breakdown
and smash-up about April /, 1898, had
a previously big sale for his prophetic
book in Norway. But l.. Dahle, who
wrote a book against Dimblebyism,
now announces that he, too, has dis
posed of 5000 copies of his book.
There will be peace in Kristiansand
the seventeenth of May. The differ
ent political parties have agreed to put
their hatchets into their back pockets
that day and meet in a joint celebra-
ton.
The Lunderby estate at Eidskogen
will soon be converted into an asylum
for inebriates. The property consists
of $50 acres of timber land and 100
acres of field and meadow, and is an
ideal place for such an institution. The
buildings on it are valued at $4,000
Parties in Bergen have bought so
much real estate in Stavanger that the
business people in the latter city be-
gan to fear that the cash might not be
forthcoming in due time. But their
apprehension was uncalled for. The
millions came rolling in like little
flood of gold. s..
Vadso, April IA great snow storm
is raging. Two houses in the suburbs
IRE actually showed down, and the in
mates were compelled to move out. In
a house in town the occupants had to
cut a hole through the roof to reach
the street. In some houses ten steps
lead from the street down to the front
door. 49,. - ''''
The dairy interests have been sadly
neglected in Ryfylke until lately. Now
9 change for the better is taking place,
first class dairies having been opened
up in several localities. Il :...5...~5 !
s@% The Anglo-Swiss condensed milk
company which owns factories at
u Hamar and other places spent 800, 900
for advertisements last year. The net