Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-14

The so-called Landtmann party has
issued q program, or a platform, for
the coming campaign. It is conserv-
alive document, but favors temperance
legislation, the extension Of the voting
franchise, a vigorous maintenance Of
religious liberty and the liberty OF
speech and of the press, and a number
of other useful reforms. The platform
demands the perpetuation of the union
on the basis of joint foreign ministry.
Steps were taken to renew the com.
mercial treaty with Sweden, but as
Russia has failed to send representa-
tives to negotiate with the Swedish
committee, the matter has been indef-
initely postponed. The old treaty was
abrogated by Russia, The Swedes are
now asking themselves: WAS Bjorn.
stjerne Bjornson right in saying that
no treaty would be agreed upon unless
Norway could have a separate treaty?s
The rate of interest on deposits in
the postal savings banks has been
raised from 3.3 to 3.6 per cent.
The damage done to the trees by the
May bugs. especially in the Southern
part OF the country. is so great that in
many localities the school children
have been sent out of the class room
into the woods to destroy the bugs.
Crown Princess Victoria is stopping
in Germany on her way from Italy to
Sweden, and the crown prince and the
Duke of Skane met her at Karlsruhe.
about June 10.
The lackeys at the court threatened
to strike for higher wages. But the
king and the crown prince grasped the
gravity of the situation and advanced
the wages of their lackeys $27 a
month"; thus averti1g national ca
lamity-
1t is claimed that henceforth the
landt-dag, or parliament of Finland, is
to convene only once in four years.
Beer that kills: While a number of
men were rolling hogshead of beer,
weighing at least ton, along the floor
at the new Carlsberg brewery in Copen-
hagen one of the men who walked in
front of the huge tank slipped and fell
down, and. in the twinkling of an eye
his head was crushed to jelly under
the weight of the beer.
Galatea, an English gunboat of 5000
tons, is cruising along the coast of Ice
land this summer to see that English
fishermen do not encroach upon the
rights of lcelandic and Danish fisher
men.
The campaign against the ''swine
| literature" is spreading throughout
Danish society, and most prominent
men are taking sides, either for OF
against the gospel of free love. Carl
jacobson, the millionaire brewer, has
spent more money on art and science
than any other Dane living or dead
but when he is confronted with the
Swine literature" he becomes balky
He has just had an opportunity tc
show his feelings on the subject. A
reception was given to Magdalene
Thoresen. Norwegian authoress, anc
Jacobson was requested to serve or
the committee of invitation. Blu
when he found out that some of it!
members were adherents of the "swint
literature" school he fatty declined Il
serve. y
One does not need a microscope tt
detect taints of irreverence in tn,
"swine literature" Even grea
daily, having a circulation of 20, 900
recently contained lengthy editoria
which commenced thus: 1T is, b,
c., funny set of young peopl'
we have" The word partially indi
Gated by a dash, was, of course, spell
out in full.
No woman is allowed to buy a care
of admission to the Tivoli pleasure re
sort in Copenhagen. The rule is en-
forced to keep out questionable char
acters. Every woman entering tina
esta blishment must be accompanied b,
a man.
May 16 is the date when the frs
hack with rubber tires was taken il
use in The Danish capital.
The rush to the new automatic res
taurant in Copenhagen is SO great tina
the proprietors are going to open VI
three similar establishments in othe
parts of the city.
An English steam trawler was cap
tured near the Danish shore and it
owner had to pay heavy fines to tn
Danish government.
Five English trawlers were capture<
in one batch on Danish territory nea
Nymindegab.
Iceland has just passed through
very severe winter. In some localitie
the farmers had to kill part of thei
stock for lack of fodder.
The minister of justice has institute.
legal proceedings against Edwar,
Brandes, by the following notice: Pub
lie prosecution has been ordere.
against Edward Brandes, Phi. l., a
author of the book Young Blood" OF
account of violation of section 1874 O
the penal CODE" The trouble with tn
book is that it is too obscene.
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