Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07

The late Mrs. Sophie hilipson, ia
Stockholm, beaueathed $2,7 700 to the
Gathenburg high school.
The 10 sugar factories in Sweden
consumed 100000 tons Of sugar beets
during the fall season.
strindberg will soon be published in
German, comprising six volumes.
Oskar Hedberg, of Jonstorp, has
done all the surveying for the Pretoria
and Pittsburg railway in Transvaal.
The profits of the national govern
ment bank for 1899, were ST. 1000.
The liberal elements in the riksdag
were pretty much at sea for lack of a
definite program. This was to be rem
edied by caucus which took place
few days ago, but the results of which
are not known at this writing.
Herr Vase, German polar explorer
announces that he will lead an expedi-
ton next summer into Arctic regions
in the hope of finding Andree, the mis-.
sing aeronaut or his remains.
The Swedish Athletic Club is raising
money to defray the expenses of
the representatives of the club at the
Paris worlds fair. 1t is proposed to
send group of sixty we'll trained
gymnasts to the fair. and their per-
formances will be a complete illustra-
ton of the Lung system of physical
exercises. The government is expected
to vote about $4,000 for the benefit of
the movement.
Miss Kedda Bostrom, a sister of Pre-
mier Bostrom. has donated four
houses and lots to the Samaritan
Home, a benevolent institution estab-
lished by herself some time ago in Up
sala.
DENMARK.
The annual consignment of about 70
young soldiers has been shipped to
the Danish West Indies, where they
will have to serve six years.
The liberal elements carried the city
elections in Aarhus, the vote being in
the proportion of to 2. The num-
Der of votes cast was 1886 out of to-
tai of 1886.
The employers union has been
growing fast since the great lockout,
and it's total membership is $500.
Prof. J. P. E. Hartmann is down
with neuralgia and general debility.
He is almost 95 years old.
Comparatively few Danes visit Lon
don, because they cannot speak Eng
fish. Joachim Prahl, ticket broker,
thinks chance to go in groups, under
the care of an able interpreter and CT
ceron, will turn many Danes to the
great city, and he is making arrange
ments for series of excursions in the
spring.
A bicycle factory in Norrebro, Co.
penhagen, was totally destroyed by
fire. 1t was located in a one-story
building. but the fire department did
not reach the place in time.
The Folkething asks for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to enable Danish
educational congress in Kristiania
next summer.
Kristelight Dagblad, the organ of
the Inner Mission people, protests
against the policy of the minister for
ecclesiastical affairs in the appoint
ment of pastors. In some localities
the parishioners are very religious, in
others they are more or less indiffer-
ent. The paper prefers the charge
against the ecclesiastical department
that no matter what the wishes of the
individual congregation may be, re-
igious congregation may be sure, to
get a rationalistic pastor, and an in
different congregation religious pas
tor, resulting in dissatisfaction and
friction all around. Mr.. Sthyr, the
head of the department, AYERS that the
protesting paper does not know what
it is talking about.