Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-11
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 Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Captain Babe, a German explorer,
is going to conduct an expedition to
the Arctic regions next summer in
search of Andree's expedition. Cap
tain Babe has made trip to Norway
to procure vessel and make other
preparations for his expedition. The
expedition is to consist of eight or
ten sportsmen and scientists, Besides
the crew. The departure will take
place about August first, and Franz
Joseph's Land is the first objective
point in view.
Baron Gustaf Akerhjelm, ex-premier
OF Sweden, is dead.
The Russian war Office has ordered
from the state rifle mandatory 2O0,-
900 new guns for the immediate de-
livery to the imperial arms depot at
st. Petersburg. This is only another
instance of the great military activity
among the great neighbors in the
east.
Queen Sofe has arrived in England,
where she has rented house for the
summer near London and where she
will soon be joined by the king. She
is accompanied by her youngest son,
Prince Eugen, between whom and
some English princess she is said to
be DESTROYS of arranging a marriage.
Baron c. C. Bonde is to represent
Sweden at the congress for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals, which is
to be held in Paris, July 1921.
Mr.. Palm, the apostle of socialism,
may come to the United States in the
interest of the socialist propaganda.
The Imperial Academy of Sciences
OF Vienna has elected Johan Bergman,
a lecturer at the Norrkoping public
high school, to publish the works of
Prudentius, ''the first of the early
Christian verse makers" Bergman
will be compelled to visit Rome and
Paris to consult the earliest copies of
the productions to be compiled. The
work is to be printed in Vienna.
A. w. Petri, banker at Hvetlanda,
felt that he was going to die soon,
and in order to get the obituary no
tice for the newspapers just the way
he wanted it he dictated it to one of
his sons.
The total expenditures of the man.
ayers of the Stockholm exposition in
1897 were $1,063, 656.s5. A balance of
one thousand dollars has been turned
over to the building fund of Nordiska
Museet.
GLAND ian island near the southeast
coast of Sweden) is fertile along it's
borders, but it's interior is largely a
rocky waste, where it has been taken
for granted that nothing could be
raised, not even trees. Recent expert
ments have shown that Austrian black
pine thrives in the cracks of the lime
stone rocks, and Alfvaret (the name
OF the waste) may yet be covered
with a dense pine forest.
A private detective agency in Lon
don will soon establish branches in
Stockholm and Kristiania.
A new whisky distillery is to be
built at Mala, Skane.
A consignment of eggs, weighing
10000 pounds, was recently imported
from Hungary to Stockholm.
NORWAY.
The national convention of the
Right, or Conservative, party, adopt
ed it's platform March 18th. It de-
m 1T
servatiQn of the union as means of
perpetuating peace and neutrality; a
joint constitutional foreign service,
with a Norwegian or a Swede as a
minister of foreign affairs; reform
of the consular service to meet the
demands of the commercial interests;
protection of the. rights of property
against the agitation of the socialists;
timely and practical labor legislation;
laws to enable poor people to acquire
homes more easily; the advancement
of the cause of temperance by legis-
lation and taxation; national appro-
priations for combating tuberculosis
diseases; a revision of the civil code:
special efforts to advance the interests
of agriculture and other industries;
economy in the administration of pub
lie affairs; proportional representation
or other just measures to enable the
voters to exert their influence upon
legislation. This platform consider
ing it's source, is a strong one. On
the other hand the Liberal party is
badly demoralized by internal conten-
tons. No one needs be surprised,
therefore, if the Conservatives carry
the next election.
The Norwegians seem to be particu-
larly stuck on the poles. Everybody
knows that Fridtjof hansen, accord
ing to all known records, has been
closer to the North Pole than any,
body else. Now comes the news that
another Norwegian, Captain Borch-
grevink, has played an exactly similar
trick at the South Pole. The latter
has also discovered the southern mag
netic pole. The northermost point
reached by Nansen was sc degrees Is
minutes, the southermost point reach
ed by Borchgrevink, 70 degrees, so
minutes.
Some of the language reformers
maintain that the Norwegians must
use a language different from that
used in Sweden and Denmark in order
to be Independent. To this it is re-
torted that the Americans use the
same language as the English, but
that the United States are still SIN.
posed to be quite independent.
The cruiser Tordenskjold ran upon