Willmar tribune., 1900-10-17
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAlHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

Inc oWeOlSh Sulphate CellulOSc
Manufacturing company has been reg
istered at Malmo. Its capital stock is
$22O, 600, and it is to deal in all materi-
ais necessary for the man ufacture OF
paper.
A steam launch of unusual construc-
tlon has been built at Ljunggren's me-
chanical works at Kristianstad. It is
provided with brakes, the aim of which
is to stop the launch as quickly as pos
sible. The brakes consists mainly of
two large blades, which are run out
into the water on either side of the
launch. The brakes were invented by
Count Posse of Bergkvarna.
The whisky distillers of Malmohus
have just held an important conven-
tion at Eslof. It was claimed that the
prices of liquor had been so low of late
that the distillers had actually lost
money. The high prices of coal and
Indian corn had also contributed to
this unsatisfactory result. The con-
Hention resolved to reduce the produc-
ton ten per cent during the coming
year, and committee was elected to
endeavor TO induce the distillcrs of the
provinces of Kristianstad and Blel-
inge to join in the movement.
A Dutch art critic has discovered
two paintings by Rembrandt at an old
Skane manor.
The remains of the late S. A. He'd
lund, the Gothenburg journalist. were
reduced to ashes at the Gothenburg
crematory.
The sugar factories of Sweden have
been provided with a new system of
knives for cutting the beets. The ca
pacity of the new system is almost
twice as great as that of the old. The
change involved an extra outlay of
several hundred thousand kronor, and
German experts have been engaged to
superinteud the work of the new ma
chinery until the Swedes become ia
miliar with it. A new method of
washing the beets has also been intro
duced from Germany.
The rough frontier town of Gelli-
ware is abreast of the times. A pawn
bank has been opened up there.
Adelina Patti gave concert at the
Royal theater, Stockholm, I'd the
king decorated her with the medal
''literis ct artibus.''
A session of the provincial legisla-
ture and horticultural convention
were held at the same time in Malmo,
and the hotels were so crowded that
belated members of the legislature
were glad to obtain shelter for the
night at the Seamen's Home.
The receipts of the government for
the year 1899 were $51, 1926, 3s2.07.
The consistory of Hernosand has
formally petitioned the king for di-
viding the diocese of Hernosand, Or
ganizing the lans of Vesterbotten and
Norrbotten into a new diocese, with
Lulea as the bishops residence.
Fifteen charges are vacant in the
diocese of Luud.
The Onnestad Peoples high school
had a total attendance of 50 during
the past year.
It has been estimated that the pro-
posed navy yard and armory will cost
at least 100000.
The duke of Sodormanland was con-
firmed Sept. 26.
j. V. Petre, the late mayor Of Gefle,
bequeathed SIS, 600 to charitable insti-
tutions in his city.
The employees on the government
railways had a convention in Stock
holm and organized themselves into a
national association.
Consul E. G. Broms has bought a
large tract of land in Karl Gustaf par
ish, Jorne valley, for the purpose of
establishing a model farm, which is
to serve as a kind of school for the
farmers of that part of the country.
The farm, when fully equipped, will
cost over 1926, 900.
The state of Morocco has a navy con-
sisting Of one solitary gunboat, and
the captain of this is a Swede named
Benzon.
It is just 100 years since Rev. Wiescl-
gren, the great apostle of temperance,
was born, and the Swedish total alb
stainers may raise a monument in
honor of their teacher.
About 100 elks have been killed in
the forests of Sormland this year. The
commercial value of the animals is
about $40 apiece on the average.
Pearl fishing is by no means remun-
erative in the Lagan and Atran rivers
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