Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23


The election Of new archbishop.
Will y take place May Is: But, the cleo.
ton will not be ratified by the king
until he returns, from a broad.
A large building is to be erected for
the peoples high school at Hoor. The
basement will be used for manual
training.
Southern Sweden had cold and
areary spring, and the weather inter
1ered greatly with the spring work.
The riksdag has voted $4,000 for
harbor at Hano, Blekinge.
The price of beer has been raised in
Malmo, and half bottle or schooner
OF beer now costs trifle over three
cents.
Mrs. Mathilda Anderson, of Elm
mutt, aged 7G years; her daughter,
Mrs. Amalia Torson, aged 81 years;
and her granddaughter, Mrs. Anna
Lagerblad, aged 33 years, all died in.
the course of three days and were
buried in the same grave.
FINLAND.
The hated governor general of Fin
land, Bobrikoff, is an interesting citi-
zen even to outsiders. The great aim
| OF his life seems to be to Russify, Fin
land by any means, foul or fair, most
~ foul. He hires questionable char
acters to start rows on the streets, to
smash the windows of the governors
residence, to print and distribute
hand-bills that are hostile to Russia.
etc. All these methods are employed
1or the purpose of causing riots and
bloodshed which would give him a
Pretext for ordering Russian troops
into Finland to annihilate the liberty
OF the Finlanders by one fell blow.
The past record of Bobrikoff is no less
interesting, the most salient point of
it being the part he played in the con-
splracy which was organized for the
purpose of assassinating Alexander
II.
The landtdag of Finland has con-
vened every third year in the past;
henceforth it is to meet only once in
four years.
The people of Finland have raised
hundreds of thousands of kronor for
the support of their peoples high
schools. But these institutions are
hotbeds of patriotism, and General
Bobrikoff knows it. He has therefore
made the czar confer upon the gov
ernor general the sole right to grant
or refuse permission to raise money
by lotteries.
For the next two years no new laws
for public societies will be ratified by
the government-tha is by General
Bobrikoff
Verdens Gang, a paper which pas
sionately defends the Danish Norwe-
gian language, admits that the Or
biography of the language used in
most books and newspapers at the
present day is in state of glorious
confusion. "Our spoken language, :"
says the paper in a recent editorial,
"is in process of a continuous and rapid
development and is subject to almost
daily changes. We really have no cul-
tured language which is used through
OuI C1Ac cOuuIry.
Henrik Ibsen has recovered from his
recent illness and is taking his dailv
walks in the open air.
Tromso was treated to a snow storm
April 26 and the snow drifts in some
places were two feet deep.
The canning factories in Stavanger
are importing fresh fish from Iceland
because the Norwegian fisheries can
not keep up with the demand.
A large grist mill at Grimsbakken,
Kristiansand, was completely destroyed
by fire. The fire is supposed to have
have been caused by spontaneous COM
bustion.
The different political parties in
Kristiania have been trying hard to
make their hatchets invisible in order
to meet in a common Seventeenth of
May celebration.
The captain of Swedish tug-boat
refused to tow Norwegian vessel
into the harbor of Oscorshamn until
flag containing the union jack was
hoisted in place of the pure flag on
the Norwegian vessel. The Norwe-
gians feel rather sore over the in
cident, and some of them propose to
retalliate.
Straw hats were worn on the
streets, in Kristiania, as early as the
twenty-seventh of April.
The field maneuvers in southeastern
Norway were comparatively success
full. The militiamen were called to
arms by the church bells which were
kept ringing uninterruptedly for
twenty-four hours. Many poorly in
formed people, at first thought some
enemy were invading the country.
The common people as we'll as the
militiamen themselves manifested
great willingness to do their best.
Some of the men had to march about
200 English miles along muddy roads.
NEWS FOR THE WORKERS.