Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
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HAPPENINGS in The FAIHERLlSD.
principal Events That Have Occurred
~ In the Oii Couatrie. About the { Z
- - Norsh Sea Wishin q Week a,
5@ .Azta or Sot.Just Past, ~ 49, a..s Il
SW WEDEN:

A.. or Dust Past. ri 49, a..>
= - zsswEDEN: j., g..S &4l~s:
The public school teac,iers ST mauy
OF the large cities have had their ,als.
I :riss Increased this fan. -':.5s -
There are about dozen ''Scandina.
wan" st't:leties in Sweden. =
An attempt i. being made to organ
ize all the telephone and telegraph
operators in the, country into a ma
tional organization. . $751;.
s six young persons at Stodssjo went
to dance at Loo one evening" Their
boat capsized. and when assistance ar
rived five of them were drow ned
=. The Swedish missionaries 10 China
have been criticized because they fed
from their congregations at the open
ing OF the Chinese rebellion Aug.
Berg. one of those missionaries, dis
cussed this question ut public meet
ing in. Mallno. The missionaries he
said:' fled only after they had been or
dered to do SO bv the Chinese authori-
ties, by the consuls and by the super.
intendcnts of the missions. Even the
native Christians had advised the mis-
siouar'es t., leave, because the stay Of
the latter would only embarrass the
former. Finally. the missionaries
themselves ..h.,uxht IT, would he wiser
To save their lives by Hight and return
To work later on than to stay and lie
killed
The Pctcl,", a lu mbering firm. which
started alumber'ng bus, ness on u very
large scale ~ northern Russia. has
been doing business at q, loss Of $50, 900
in one year. Financial disaster may
overtake the conccr" unless it is able
to borrow u few hundred thousand
dollars.
The next riksflag may impose spc-
cial tax upon those young men who
are unfit for military service. Many
European countries have such Il tax,
and lit was proposed in Sweden some
nine nears ago
1t is not often that the employers
urge their employees to join labor or.
carnations This however, is exactly
what happened at Ekman's carpenter
shop in Stock holm: "A I.ondon firm
ordered quantity of wootlcnwork for.
doors and windows from said shop.
provided all the employees at the shop
belonged to some labor union of good
standing" The proprietors, being de-
sirous of filling the order, made in
Nuirics among their men and found
that n humber of them belonged to no
labor union. In order to get the Job
they made these laggards join the
union, whereupon they Immediately
notified the English firm that all the
requirements of the order had been
complied with. 1t was the English
labor unions. that compelled the Eng
lish "ti11u to make this stipulation.
A dozen of the lady students in Lund
have organized a students society for
their ow n SEX exclusively. @''ss5 .*ts"
Sofielund is the name of a village
adjoining the city of Malmo, or to be
more exact, entering the latter almost
like wedge. For various reasons the
city fathers Of MalIno arc strongly in
favor OF Incorporating Sofielund into
the city. but the p1oprietors Of the
latter ask a pr icc of $225, 200, Sole
lund covers 200 acres and has, $500 in.
habitants-
AT fire in a small house in 'thc old
city" near K;,Iu.al. no less than, four
persons were burned to death. One Of
the victims was an su.year old man.
and the others We're aswoman and two
Of her children She saved one Of her
children, but perished herself in doing
The Scandinavian Cattle Insurance
company Is ten years old. 1t las paid
over $500 600 in losses. a nd Is by far
the greatest INSURANCE. pany uf it's
kind in the world.
The offer of S.. 700 made hy the pat
ent Office for a thoroughly satisfactory
contrivance for joining railway rails
has set u large, number of Ingenious
brains to work. the, patent Office re-
'ceiving from u, to- 20 letters every day,
all of which lay claim 10 the solution
Of the problem
Ola Hanson. the noted author who
caused mlld sensation some time ago
apain withdrawn from th.t .i,nrch ~
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shon !, tha .o,n.rv sro,,nt ~ s;....;S y
l.,p, .,d so,n.. 20 49,. !, .i"n.1'. S
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IN which case the sheep will walk
around and ar.,nnd uufil il fnllS t,avnr
to rise ayni,. =
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v;c,n,lv al Ah, and tho nrotractcd
rain has done great daI,npe to tho