Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-17

- q TURNER COMYenIlon held In Nal
mo passed resolution III favor 81
abolishing the internal revenue on re-
fined sugar and reducing the tariff or
the same article. s.
Some 20 years. ago a farmer at Albo
found himself sosloaded down with
debt that he turned his property into
the hands of receivers, his creditors
receiving 60 cents on the dollar. Some
of his relatives advanced money for
the passage of his family across the
Atlantic. Nothing was heard from
him for twenty years. Then he turned
up quite unexpectedly at his old
home and called his creditors together
to tell them that he was at last able
to pay the balance of his debt in full.
He was even willing to pay the inter-
est for 20 years, but they agreed to a
man to charge no interest. After thus
squaring himself with the past he still
had enough money left to buy farm,
and it will be a mighty cold day when
that man yields no influence in his
neighborhood.
The queen put up at Ulriksdal, Dec.
II, and she was to stay there for a
few days.
Sixty-eight organs have just been
ordered for the public schools of
Stockholm.
p Waldenstrom, the virtual high
| priest of the Mission Covenant, has
declared that the use of the tombola
"a kind of lottery is sinful, and that
''the devil is behind it,
A Lapp, who for several years past
has been following a profession in q
settlement in Jemtland, called at the
office of Jemtlands Tidning few days
ago. whats the matter with you?''
said the editor, ''you look so PALE" 81
am not well. I have lung consump-
+ion." ''Lung consumption, how is
that?" eyes, I have been living in
houses. We Lapps canot do that with
impunity. 1t is going to cost my life.
1 am just going back to the mount
aims, to my kata (tent), which I
should never have left, to die there"
And he did as he said-went to die the
death of the nomad in the solitude of
the vast mountains.
The rules regulating the election OF
ministers have been changed to the
effect that when the head of a family
does not vote his wife may do so.
When a new shaft was sunk at the
St. Hyllinge mine the water in the
wells of the neighborhood disap.
peared.
Eating apples commanded price OF
from so to 60 cents peck before the
holidays in southern Sweden.
The grading of the new railway line
between Garsnas and St. Olof is pro.
crossing rapidly in spite of the un-
favorable season.
The sugar factory at Trellcborg had
to close up for lack of water.
| Two Good Te1nplar lodges, of Engle-
holm, celebrated the passing of the
old century into the new by a torch
light procession through the streets.
| DENMARK.
| Ahlberg, the strong man of Sweden
claims that he really got the better OF
Bech-Olsen, the strong man of Den
mark, at a wrestling match in Nor.
rkoping. This was more than Bech-
Olsen could brook, and now he has
challenged the Swede to another set
to at Malmo.
The farm crops for 1899 were a trife
below the average.
What is ''gout dog?" A little dog
kept as bed-fellow by equity persons
who claim that such a dog will "draw'
their govt. In the city of ~Aavhus an
old couple who kept such a Cog pc.
titioned the city council to exempt the
dog from the regular taxation. 1t
was argued that the dog had served as
'gout. conductor for fifteen years
and that it was so loaded with govt
that it could not cross the floor; that
it was in fact an Indispensable medi.
cal institution. The petition was
| granted unanimously, but it was pro.
vided that the exemption should not
be transferred to an eventual success
sor.
AS usual, the Crown Princess OF
Denmark sent some money to Stock.
holm for the purchase of grain for the
little birds during the Christmas holi.
days.
A lot of new 5 kroner ($1.55) bills
are ready from the press. The design
was made by Prof. Hans Tegner. The
color Of the paper is very light blue
and the color of the print is the same
only a shade darker.
A Russian journal devotes lengthy
| article TO the chinaware of the Royal
Porcelain factory in Copenhagen
which now has no superior in the
world.
A Berlin newspaper states that Hen
rik Cavling, the most noted Danish
newspaper reporter, visited the West
Indies some time before the Spanish
American war and assisted the New
York ''yellow'' newspapers in exciting
the Americans against the Spaniards
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