Willmar tribune., 1899-10-18
SCANDlN NAIlAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
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HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Havo Occurred In
the Old Countries About the L
North Sea Within . Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN,


inventor. was unveiled Oct. at Gothen.
borg. An enormous crowd attended the
ceremonies, and thousands Of school chill.
dren marched in the procession. The sta
tue is the work of Fahlstedt.
A cylinder In the torpedo cruiser Claes
Horn exploded at Elfsborg and killed two
men.
The government stored 5000 tons of coa
In Svarton (Black 1sland); but at this
writing it looks as If most of it will be
destroyed by fire which is raging at the
bottom of the pile and which seems to be
but little affected by the huge masses OF
water which are thrown on the pile.
Even the school boys of Sweden were
interested in the Dreyfus case. At Ystad
for instance, few boys went out into
the country to express their sentiments
when the final decision was announced
They first sang the "Marseillaise" in a
dismally solemn manner, upon which one
of the party pulled paper sample of the
French tri-color out of his pocket, crum-
pied it up between his hands, threw it
down and trampled upon it. Finally an
other boy lit match and set fire to the
disgraced symbol.
The hulls and engines of the three arm
ored cruisers for which appropriations
have been partly made, will be construct
ed in Sweden, the lowest bids having
been made by Swedish manufacturers.
The crews that are building the new
Ofoten railway have been materially re-
duced because a large portion of the ap-
preparation has already been expended.
A violent earthquake was recently no.
ticed in Burtrask, Vesterbotten.
or1C TOE rIo of K,,11
torp parish, Smaland started deer
while on his way to church. Picking up
a stone he hurled it with all his might
In the direction of the big game and in
jured the deer so that it could no longer
run as fast as it did at first. Anderson
now pulled off his boots and started af-
ter the deer, which he soon overlook and
butchered.
The output of the distilleries of Sweden
during the year 1898 was 11,5OOOO0 gallons
of whisky. In view of the fact that the
consumption did not keep pace with the
production. the distilers from the south
ern part of the country recently held a
convention in kristanstad to take steps
to reduce the production at least 10 per
cent.
The consistory of Gothenberg has pro-
posed the establishment of ladies' nor
NAL school in northwestern Skane. The
Swedish name for such an institution is a
long story-foll1skollerarin seminarium.
Christof Hoas, the school teacher in
Gammel-Svenskby, a peculiar Swedish
colony in Russia, is expected to visit
Sweden next winter to lecture on the
colony.
L. Lorichs, of Vestmanland, is supposed
to be the youngest member of the next
riksdag. He was born in 1867.
c. H. Wallberg, assistant editor of Ost-
gotta Correspondence has entered his
Goth year, and is the Nestor of the Swed-
ish press. He has been connected with
that paper since it was started 81 years
ago.
The long-expected has happened A
cable dated Stockholm, Oct. 5, says: ''The
resignation of Count Douglas, minister of
foreign affairs for Sweden and Norway
and of Baron Ruppe, Swedish minister of
war, are in the hands of King Oscar
Mr.. Lagerhjelm, now Swedish and Nor
wegian minister at Berlin, is slated for
Count Douglas position, but Baron Rup-
pes successor is not yet decided on"
Nothing is said in the dispatch about the
reason for the resignation of Count Doug
las. But as has been repeatedly FORE
shadowed in these columns, his troubles
must be due to the Norwegian law which
cut the Swedish colors out of the COM
mercial flag Of Norway and gave Nor
way a pure flag. Count Douglas was
opposed to the enforcement of this OBJ
noxious law; but as the King did not
want to violate the constitution of Nor
way the premier would have to do one Of
two things: Enforce the law against his
conviction, or resign his portfolio, and he
chose the latter course. 1t goes without
saying that King Oscar Is not so awfully
popular in certain circles in Sweden just
at the present moment.
cable dated Stockholm, Sept, IA,
states that Baron Rappe, Swedish minis
ter of war, is about to retire. being sup
erceded by General Carl William Erics-
son, a relative of John Ericsson, inventor
of the monitor type of war vessels 1t
has been known for some time that Baron
Rappe was to retire, but Ericsson has not
been prominently mentioned as his sue
cessor.
Patrik Reutersward, the tariff patri-
arch in the first chamber of the riks-
dag, has caused a sensation in political
circles by withdrawing from the riksdag
His retreat is generally supposed to be
due to the gains of the liberals at the
fall elections. and the failure of the con-
servatives to prevent the enforcement of
ho NorweQian flag