Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-16
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within y Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

1O"luS SCdCC"cuC, uduc III dn cu1LOrlal
July 30, is given space in these col
umns: 1.-THE patriots themselves are
unquestionably aiming at nothing less
and nothing more than war between
brothers. It may be read between the
lines in every one of their campaign
documents and resolutions, and pri-
vately they unhesitatingly admit it
and even boast of it. Their only real
view on the union question is that
the Norwegians ought to be, must and
shall be whipped. They explain that
there will be no peace or silence until
that is DONE"
The disease mentioned in a cable as
an unknown epidemic is carbuncle
(mjaltbrand, or splenic fever. Up to
July 20 it had appeared in more than a
dozen parishes in the southern part of
the country, and the animals were
dying at the rate of 100 day. A num-
Der of ellSs in the parks have died, and
quite few people have contracted the
disgusting plague. Hundreds of men
have organized themselves into squads
and are securing the country for de-
ceased animals, which they immedi-
ately bury.
Forest fires were started by light
ming in eight different places in the
parish of Huddinge and it took several
hundred men to check them.
The men engaged in sorting logs at
the Quitsle booms. the most important
IN Northern Sweden, have struck for
higher wages.
The late Mrs. Louise Heurlin of
Stockholm willed $4,000 to different
charitable institutions.
A shaft of granite erected on the
land in 1719 was unveiled by Governor
Spare July Is. The soldiers thus
honored are known in history as ''karo
Linerna.'
The laborers on the new Ofoten rail-
way have found the mosquitoes in
Norrland to be a verita bic pest this
season.
The Skromberg coal mining and
crockery manufacturing company has
decided to add between $25O,O0O and
$750,OO0 to its capital stock for the pur-
pose of charging its factory buildings
and improving the establishment in
many ways
A Norwegian who disposed of a
counterfeit one hundred (S27) bill in
kristiansand had received it from
an agent of the Star line steamship
company in New York.
Five temperance lecturers formed
themselves into a trades union, giving
to the new organization the modest
name of THE Five"
About $4,000 men are engaged in
building new railroads in Sweden;
1000 of them are working on the
Ofoten line.
The crown prince recently shot 43
ducks on Yddinge lake.
A. Hedin, the noted Stockholm mem
Der Of the riksdag, who has been stay
ing at the Hjo water cure establish
ment, is rapidly improving.
The Catholic church is gathering a
rich harvest from among the literary
men and women of Sweden. Among
the most recent converts may be men
toned Ola Hanson and wife Uaura
Marholm), while it has been some time
since Strindberg, Mrs. Nyblom and
Froding went the same way.
A man claims to have himself dis
covered copper or iron ore at 1870 differ
ent places in Norrland.
The Swedish government may have
to issue bonds for Sc, 100000 early in
the year 1900.
The whisky distillers are trying to
form a combine for the reduction of
the output of distilled drinks.
NORWAY.
For years past the Russians have
been permitted to import breadstuffs
free of duty to Finmarken during the
''maggot season." that is, from June
Is to Sept. 80. This arrangement has
been beneficial in the past. The "mag-
got season" means the warm season of
the year, when the maggots interfere
with the open air curing of the fish,
and the Russians load up their grain
vessels with fresh fish, which they take
back to their home market. What was
once d UcuCuC, HO"CNC1, III" UIlIcdtCuS
to become a calamity. The Russians
have been using the exemption clause
as an entering wedge and are crowd
ing the Norwegian merchants out of
the Finmarken trade: 1t is proposed
to remedy the evil, by amending the
tariff laws covering the ease in ques-
ton. :'~ II
30,
wegian people for. the. year 1890
amounted to about $3.50, 900, 900. There
were COS, 900 men and 6Ss,O00 women
over Is years of age. The average an
nual income of the men was $1S6 and
that of the women only $73. This
would make the average daily income
of the former 81 cents and that of the
latter a little over 24 cents.
The appointment of Gen. L'Orange
to the position of commanding general
was defeat for the Norwegian cabi-
net. The latter were in favor of
Hakon Hansen for that position, and
the administration organ used threat
ening language against the king if he
did not appoint Hansen. The king
won out with ease, however, and the
cabinet is tainted for yielding after
having spent lot of strong words.
A Catholic victory-Two of the most
important church buildings in Kristi-
ania are kept open seven hours a day
during the week.
Certain parties in Kristiania bought
q property for $4,000. When the deed
was recorded it was found, that the
property was not the one which the