Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
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 q Week
or So just Past.

tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.
Many people in Sweden felt their in
ternal temperature rising when they read
Waldenstrom's charges, that railway &C.
-cldents were often due to intemperance
on the part of the locomotive engineers.
This charge was theoretically denied.
Nevertheless, Waldenstrom has received
many letters commencing his course in
the matter. And to wind up this little
crusade he publishes a letter of thanks to
those who thus endorsed his efforts.
Two hundred thousand Swedish en-
ployes carry no insurance against acct
dents.
An inquiry into accident insurance
among the working men of Sweden re-
vealed the astounding fact that the en-
ployers pay 6a per cent of the expenses
connected with such insurance, the en-
ployers and employees pay 30 per cent
Jointly, and the employees alone pay only
per cent.
The riksdag has appropriated 500, 600
for the participation of Sweden in the
Paris worlds fair.
About 100000 Swedish working men are
carrying insurance against accidents to
the amount of $25 0OO
OF persons employed in industrial es-
Establishments in Sweden, IS per cent are
men and Is per cent women.
Our whole number of persons killed or
injured In the manufacturing establish
mcnts in Sweden during the year 1897
was S50S.
Under any circumstances the action Of
the Gear of Russia against Finland would
have caused indignation and grief; but
now. following Immediately upon his
peace manifesto, it's effect is still more
disgusting. 1t acts like hooking
laughter at humanity which by his gilt
tering phrases could be made to believe
that something good and beneficent could
come to the race from the land Of the
knoutt-whip. ''-Malmo Tidning.
Seventy-five out of II members of the
Swedish Artists Union have decided not
to send any exhibits to the Paris world S
fair because they are displeased with the
management of the art department at the
fair.
Erik WIKI, of Gothenburg. has donated
$1,000 to new home for aged seamen in
that city.
The struggle between certain employers
and the labor unions is going on with in
creasing bitterness.
A bazaar given by the Catholic Elizabeth
Sisters in Malmy netted IS, 000
The money market is so stringent as
to cause considerable inconvenience The
state may have to intervene by borrow
ing money abroad at three per cent in
terest and depositing it in gold at the
national state bank of Sweden. Money
will not be easy again until the export
season opens and turns the balance Of
trade in favor of Sweden.
Prof. Trigger recently gave a lecture
to members of both houses of the riks-
dag on the flag question. The union jack,
he said, was inserted in the flags of the
two countries in 1874 according to a
mutual agreement between Sweden and
Norway. This agreement cannot be null
lifted except by a new agreement to do so.
The Norwegian law removing the union
jack from the Norwegian flag does not
become operative until endorsed by
Sweden. The speaker would have been
willing to yield to the wishes of the
Norwegtans if that could have estab-
lished peace in the union. But that
would not be the result. "A separate
flag. separate consuls, separate minis
ter for foreign affairs-those are the mile
posts ON the way to the dissolution of the
union," were the words of Prof. Trigger.
Every friend of the union must say no,
and this mo" ought to come just now.
The lecturer was applauded by the men,
bers of the riksdag.
The wife Of a workingman at Hagby is
a grandmother at the age of sc years.
She is the mother of Is children
Later advices contradict the statement
of Danish paper to the effect that the
car had not signed the notorious ukase
against Finland. He had signed it, and
also added the usual words, LET it be
done.''
NORWAY.
A steam trawler which arrived at
Aberdeen, Scotland, March IL, landed two
engineers and a seaman belonging to the
Norwegian steamer Idraet hailing from
Stravanger, bound from the Tyne to
Bergen, which foundered in the North
Sea on March 10. Twelve other members
of the crew of the Idraet are supposed to
have persisted.
Crown Prince Gustaf is not so popular
as the king in Norway. It was expected
that the Norwegians would learn to like
him better during his present stay in
Kristiania. But reliable dispatch from
the Norwegian capital indicates that he
has rather uphill work. The dispatch is
dated March 10, and reads thus: ''There
was a popular demonstration here last
evening against Crown Prince Gustaf
Duke of Wermland, who was recently
appointed regent on account of the illness
of his father, King Oscar II. The prince
was returning from the military club
when he met crowd Of people who
hooted him, Kissed him and pelted him
with snowballs. The crowd was dispersed
by the police and several arrests were
made. The Norwegian papers condemn
the demonstration. Norwegians are: not
pleased with the temporary government
of the crown prince, who is much stricter
than his father, and has now shown that
he will not allow Norwegians any little
demonstrations in favor Of independence.