Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-05-02
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
#- Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About the
North Sen Within Week
or So Just Past.

The move made a few weeks AGO 70
build a monument in honor of Queen
Marguerite, who united Sweden Swe-
den, Norway and Denmark under a
common ruler, has aroused healthy
discussion of the merits of Queen Mar
guerlte, as we'll as Of the Scandinavian
union OF 1897 itself. The Gothenborp
Misunderstanding deprecates the propo-
sltlon chiefly on the ground that said
union proved to be only source of
friction and annoyance. The strong
est point made by its advocates seems
TO be that the great queen crushed the
power Of the Hanseatic league in Swe-
oen and Denmark. 1t is also empha-
sized that she checked the rapacity of
the nobility of those countries.
SWEDEN.
A complete acetylcene gas factory
has been shipped from Stockholm to
congo. It is to be used about 100 miles
inland, and must be transported that
distance on the backs of negroes.
A Swedish gardener named Gottfried
Johansson, who is staying in Schles-
wig, wrote the following letter to the
emperor of Germany: II hereby notify
you that l can go neither here nor
here on account of gendarmes and pa
trolmen, and l would like to know
whether there will soon be a change"
The German authorities have actually
caused inquiries to be made in regard
to the complaint.
The first chamber of the riksdag has
passed a local suffrage bill which pro-
vides that no single person or corpora
ton shall cast more than one-fifth of
the whole vote or over 1000 votes at
any local election. The second cham
Der put the limit at one-tenth of the
whole vote and 1000 individual votes.
The first mentioned will become a law.
Karl Hultin, of Smaland, fought
with the Beers at Elandslaagte, was
captured by the English and put on
board the Manila. But here he be-
came so disguised that he jumped into
the sea in the night and swan ashore
a distance of an English mile. He
again started for the Transvaal. wear
ing out three pairs of shoes before. he
reached Pretoria. Now he is at the
front a second time.
Landskrona is to have a theater
which will cost at least $35, 900.
A. T. Odelberg, governor of Gefle-
borg, has been appointed minister of
agriculture.
The university students of Sweden
believe that they alone should wear
the traditional white cap as mark of
distinction, and they appeal to the
public to make it hot for other young
men who usurp the right to wear white
caps. The students have only an I'M
written law to fall back upon in this
campaign.
1t has been found that badgers that
died from the splenic fever have con-
veyed the pest to domestic animals,
and hence the farmers are apt to hunt
the badger more vigorously than be-
fore.
Rev. P. P. Waldenstrom, in me-
mortal to the minister for ecclesiastical
affairs, proposes to revolutionize the
religious instruction given in the pub.
lie schools of Sweden. Luther's cate
chisms are to be dropped. entirely; re-
Egion shall not be taught in the first
and second classes; Bible history must
be revised; religious instruction should
be optional in the highest classes; and
all the great religions of the world
should be briefly reviewed. It seems
strange that famous preacher would
seriously propose such radical changes,
and it is pretty safe to predict that
the result of his memorial will, be only
some cheap advertising for it's author.
Rev. Olaf Fryxell, of Or, Karlstad
diocese, is the Oldest clergyman in the
church of Sweden. He was born in
1906.
A motion to extend the right of civil
marriage to all Swedes was passed
without calling of the roll in the Sec
ond chamber of the rlksdag, but was
defeated by a vote of 70 to % in the
first chamber.
The Swedish-Norwegian consul in
Bombay advocates the establishment
of . regular line of steamers between
Scandinavia and East India.
From fifteen to twenty-five persons
are leaving Sweden every day for a
visit to the Paris worlds fair.
NORWAY.
A new church building will soon be
erected at Vestre Gravlund, Kristiania.
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