Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-11
SWEDEN.

." EDENs
The crops look very promising in the
country around Landskrona
A temperance rally at Eslof was at
tended by $500 people.
The city of Lulea is making prepara-
tons for giving banquet to the men,
bers OF the riksdag who are going to visit
Norrland In the early part of July. The
chief aim of the junket is to enable the
legislators to take a view of the country
around Boden. where millions of dollars
will be expended for new Notifications.
Rev. J. A. DIN, of Malmo, has been
clergyman of the state church of Sweden
for so years On the occasion Of his jubi-
lee the clergy of the city gave a banquet
in honor of his past life.
Prince Bernadotte and his family are
spending the early summer season in
Undcrsaker. Jemtland.
Captain r. Won Krusenstjerna has been
selected as the most suitable man to
build the new forts at Boden.
Fire broke out in house at Vannas
while the owner and his wife were work.
ing in the fields. A seven-year-old girl,
a baby and cat were left in the house,
and when the grown people reached the
house the fire was so far advanced that
no one dared to enter. The children were
taken to be lost. But out of the smoke
and flames came the seven-year-old girl
with her little sister under one arm and
the cat under the other, All three were
burnt. but not dangert 1sly. The poor
people lost everything but their children,
and the neighbors Immediately started
subscription in the name Of the seven
year-old heroine.
A troop of Swedish gymnasts who Wis
tied the Paris exposition gave exhibit
tiOns in Berlin on their way home, and
the Berliner Lokalanzliger presented a
fine souvenir to them. It Is a bronze
statute representing a swift runner, and
the following inscription tells what it
was made for: ITO the Swedish gym
nasts, in memory of their visit in Berlin;
June. 1900 Berliner Lokalanzeiger."
According to the tax lists the Separator
Manufacturing Company. of Stockholm,
has an income of 1864. 200, which makes
this concern the heaviest Taxpayer in
Sweden. The next in point of annual re-
ceipts are the Stora Kapparberg Mining
sund Railway and Navigation Company,
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of $324.OOO.
The Upsala students chorus gave a
concert in the Maria church. Helsing-
borg. The pastor expressed desire that
the audience refrain from applauding;
but the 1900 persons present could brook
no restraint and applauded vigorously.
A water famine is feared in Lands
krona, and for the next three months the
water from the city mains is to be used
almost exclusively for cooking and
drinking.
King Oscar refused to grant the city
of Ystad permission to borrow 100000
because he failed to see how $15O,0O0 of
that amount was to be used.
The crown prince was to leave Sweden
June 10 on his way to Germany, where he
proposes to meet the crown princess and
to pay visit to her parents.
The owners Of the restaurants at the
railway depots have been instructed to
sell beer to be carried away in no larger
quantities than one-third of a quart.
This rule has been introduced in order
to reduce the consumption of beer on
the trains.
1t is claimed that Stockholm really has
500 inhabitants; but $500 persons are
not counted because they are supposed to
reside in the city only temporarily.
farmer at Adals-Liden had a hen
which succeeded in Matching only one
chicken from dozen eggs, and to save
the hen from a useless waste of time,
that one chicken was thrown to the cat
The cat snatched it and carried It away
to the place where she kept her young
ones But instead Of killing it she is
taking care of 1t as well as she knows
how. ~ @ @ J .><4~8 + 49,. ID
The damage caused by fire. at the
Fagervik sawmill is 3d. 900. This is the
third fire in said sawniill in the course Of
a few years. RI. 7l%,szes&.- ii
A twenty-year old daughter of Capt. ].
A. Sundbaum, of Stockholm, while riding
on horseback, wished to cross some OBJ
stacles. But the horse stopped, and she
gave him the spurs: Instead Of minding
her the horse reared and fell down on top
of the rider, crushing her head and kill
ing her Instantly. The young lady was
regarded as skillful horse woman.
The first Swedish Jerusalem Society,
has been formally organized in Stock
holm. Bishop Won Scheele presided at the
first regular meeting Of the society, and
Baron Won Essen was elected president.
The object Of the society Is to carry on
missionary work In the Holy Land.
Crown Princess Victoria j arrived at
rolled in the svea body guard.
a Literary Help.
Cannibal King Ito poet laureate Wv hats
wrong with that coronation ode! Cant you