Willmar tribune., 1900-04-04
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 Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
DR.. A. G. Nathorst, the noted Arctic
explorer, has been invited to lecture
on his explorations before number
of learned societies in Copenhagen.
The Anthropological and Geograph.
ical Society, of Sweden, through King
Oscar as its representative, has been
generous to those who have found OBJ.
jects directly connected with Andree's
North Pole expedition. Captain Han
sen, Of the Aiken, who shot a carrier
pigeon July IS, 1897, has received a
mariners telescope; the Icelandic boy
who found a little buoy in Kollafjord,
May IA, 1899, $3.50; Captain Ask, who
picked up the great polar buoy at
King Charles Land, Sept. II, 1890, a
mariners telescope and $27; and F.
c. Olsen, who found this buoy, $780,
The king has also offered $27O as re-
wards for future finds which may
throw light on the Andree expedition.
The deer are destroying so many
young trees in the Ekerod national
park, Malmohus, that it has been pro-
posed to kill ten of them each year for
the next ten years.
The capital stock of the Helsingborg
rubber goods factory has been raised
from 100000 to $315,OOO.
Johan Norman, fourteen-year-old
boy at Hogsjo, went into forest on
skis. All of a sudden he slid down a
very steep hill. At the foot of the hill
he fell down head foremost into the
snow which was very deep and very
loose. Being unable to get out of the
snow, he was suffocated.
Fridtjof Nansen recently expressed
about as follows on the fate OF
Prof Andree: 'Oh, unfortunate An
dree! You know that I have been
hoping for his return, but now I have
given up all hope. I consider it i'm
possible that he and his comrades
should yet be alive. If any trace OF
them is ever found it must be their
dead bodies.''
The Erlanger brewery in Upsala
was destroyed by fire. The charred
remains of an employe was found in
the ruins. The loss exceeds $4,000.
The king and the queen will have
their headquarters at Grove House,
near London, during their stay in that
city.
The receipts of. the government
from the three leading items of in
ternal revenue for the first two
months of the present year were $2,-
100000, which is $25O,O0O less than the
corresponding amount for the year
1899.
A case of leprosy has caused some.
thing akin to a panic in the village OF
Kaseberga. The disease is far ad-
vanced, and the toes of the victim are
dropping off.
The Russian saw flers who were
supposed to be spies seem to be bona
fide artisans plying their trade for all
there is in it. They are very saving,
generally eating dry bread and alb
staining from the use of liquors and
tobacco.
Comparatively few people have emf.
grated from southern Sweden during
the past few years. This year there
will be change, many young people
being prepared to leave for the United
States.
The fish are dying by the hundred
in Falkoping lake for lack of air.
A division of the Norrland Artillery
Regiment recently made trip around
Big Lake (storsjon) on sleds. The
experiment was satisfactory.
President Bergendal, of the Upsala
normal school, has ''explained" his or
der to the students to withdraw from
total abstinence organizations, and the
consistory of the diocese of Upsala
has resolved to drop the matter.
A new Swedish expedition to the
Arctic seas. Consul G. f. Broms has
promised to foot the bills of new
geological expedition to the Arctic re-
gions. G. Kolthof, an experienced
botanist, will be at the head of the ex
pedition. A Norwegion whaling
steamer will be tried for the trip. II
is not yet settled how many men are
to participate in the expedition.
A majority of the prison chaplains
propose that the laws be amended sc
as to restore the convicts to their for
mer civil and political rights as soo1
as they have served their terms.
The Colag (retail liquor company
of Stockholm, has resolved to employ
only men as bartenders. The bar
maids will not be discharged, how
ever; but as they withdraw only mer
will be appointed to fill their places
A salmon-the first of the season.
was caught in Atran river, Skane
about three weeks ago. 1t weighed Il
pounds, and was sold for $500, Of
$1.35 pound!
A packing house for the export trade
will soon be built in Gotland. The
king has subscribed $2,7OO of the SIS.
900 capital stock.
The Stockholm Allehanda's insinua
tions that the Norwegians made car
tridges for the Krag-Jorgensen rifle.
of the Norwegian army which cannot
be used for the Mauser rifles of the
Swedish army have been effectively
disproved. But instead of yielding te
established facts, that paper still
keeps up campaign Of inuendos anc
insinuations against the Norwegians
This course, however, must not bt
taken too seriously. 1t is pursued fo1
the purpose of inducing the riksdag tt
make large appropriations for tn,
public defenses.
A Norwegian-American is inducing
MANY Young neonle in Gaudslal II