Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-10-25
SCANDNIA IAN news
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN The FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
u North Sea Within q Week Il
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Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
u North Sea Within Week Il
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-. SWEDEN. s~.--e - Z.
Prof. Westerlund, of Lulea, lived and
died under a peculiar spell of the num-
Der II. He was born on the seventeenth
Of the month; he was the youngest Of 4
brothers and sisters; he was engaged on
the seventeenth, and married on the sew
enteenth of the month; and he died on
the seventeenth. Besides, the sum Of the
figures of the year of his birth, 1853, make
Y; and the hour of his death, S:45, also
make H. 3 1T s.
The public attorney has ordered the
government and the chief of
police of Helsingborg to show cause why
they prohibit societies from discoursing
music in connection with public process
stons through the streets. = !
The Swedish detectives who were sent
to America to hunt up those smooth citi-
Gems who are responsible for the coun-
terfeit one-hundred kronor 02D bills have
returned to Sweden. They came back
minus the counterfeiters, but they claim
that 1t Is only question of time when
the latter will be nabbed.4
The material gains which the Liberals
have made in the second chamber of the
may eventually lead to the ex-
tension of the voting franchise. go.
The Conservatives did not manage the
last campaign well. They started out
with an impetuous attack on the Nor
wegfan flag law, seemingly ignoring the
important fact that the king had already
signified his determination to enforce that
law, and ostentatiously ignoring the gen.
eral demand for an extension Of the right
to vote.
Werner Won Heidenstam seems to be
the most successful of those poets who
are competing for the honor of writing a
lasting national hymn for the Swedish
people. His poem contains the proper
elements; but we doubt whether the
ages over such a tame affair as his pro-
duction really is.
The Scandinavians in Pretoria held a
mass meeting and resolved to support the
Beers against England. 49,.
The passenger traffic between Sweden
and Germany was carried on by three
different lines last summer, the Trelle-
borg-Sassnitz line accommodating 70 per
cent, the Korsor-Kiel line 20 per cent
and the Gedser-Warnemunde line 10 per
cent of the whole number of passengers
During the busiest season from $50 to 300
passengers passed through Trelleborg
each day.
Those counterfeit one hundred kronor
(s2O bills are not met with so frequently
now as last summer; they are all traced
to New York.
Walter Wellman, the unfortunate
American explorersswho is just back from
his trip to the Arctic regions, has done
his best to shatter the hopes of those
who still expect Andree to return alive
Said Wellman the other day: 1T is my
conviction that Professor Andree's air
ship, shortly after its ascent, was dDiven
to the eastward and destroyed in its de-
scent by contact with heavy ice when
falling into Barentz sea, which is to the
eastward of Spitzbergen, for there was
plenty of ice in that sea in July two years
ago. Two days after his ascent Professor
Andree released two homing pigeons with
a message to the effect that his balloon
was going eastward and southwark,
Sea.
If the lifting power of his gas had be-
come exhausted and he was forced to
descend, his car would drag and his
buoys, stores and supplies would be scat
tered broadcast, his airship demolished
and he and his two comrades destroyed
have no hope of hearing of any Of
them again."
Fredrik Norberg, of Skillinge, SHAME
raised a monster pumpkin last summer
1t weighed so pounds, and grew in the
open air.
The fate of Andree was discussed with
animation at the geographical congress in
Berlin. Lapparent, Frenchman, main
tanned that the finding of the great buoy
from Andree's balloon proves the destruc-
ton of the expedition. Nansen held that
the buoy had not been thrown out for
information, but in order to keep the
balloon in the air so much longer. 1.-THE
unfortunate Ones" he added, Il no lon
ger entertain the hope that they have
been saved or are alive.'
NORWAY.
Bjorstjerne Bjornson has written an
open letter to Captain -Dreyfus, and the
SAOoAAAo "oAN0 VI ~ oAC 6AVSu DclOW.
your pain has been turned into bless
ing for humanity After this day it will
be more difficult to do wrong, even to a
Jew. After this day a greater number
of brave men and women will dare to
defend a just cause. And this little bit
of progress-the laws of the world do
not permit any more!-it Is a. monument
in honor of you, my dear Captain Drey-
fus! Therefore, you must not look upon
your fate as an unmitigated misfortune
and evil. No; look upon it as though YOU
were the elect one, the one whom the
mysterious powers in the obscure self
preserving propensity Of society have
chosen in their endeavors to compel the
element of evil to accelerate its own de-
struction. A token that throws light into
the night. We are now facing the danger
with stronger consciousness. Throughout
the whole course of the human race, the
eyes OF martyrs are staring at US in ad.
monition, far away and close by. II your
eyes were closed tomorrow, my dear
Dreyfus, they would only receive that
greater splendor on the Calvary path.
Even now you are sanctifed by sorrow.
purified BY the tears of the millions that
have wept for you. When read those
letters from Devils Island which you'll
would not say wrote, no-bled, drop by
drop, felt that they settled warm on
many hard hand and reduced its ca
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