Willmar tribune., 1900-01-24
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
\ Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

All Olu "OIudu living all GlO0e In 4
hut in the forests of Bjorsater parish
was found dead on the floor of her
hut few days before Christmas. The
rest of the inmates of the hut, cat
and some chickens, had eaten off the
flesh from her face and hands to sat
lsfy their hunger. The unfortunate
woman had repeatedly been offered
a place in the parish poor-house, but
she refused to leave her hut.
The prices of live stock was very
low in southern Sweden last fall be-
cause many farmers were compelled
to reduce their stock on account of the
deficiency of the hay crop. Cows in
a fairly good condition brought only
$40. Recently the prices have COM
menced to advance.
The volume of the Christmas trade
was about as large as usual.
Extensive cavalry maneuvers will
take place in Holland next fall under
the leadership of Prince Carl.
A woman who few days ago was to
haye her first railway ride in her life,
paper into a slit in one of the cars.
AS soon as she had purchased her
ticket she did as she had seen the
Others do, and entered the passenger
car. When asked for her ticket, by
the conductor, she was mildly sur
prised and told him that she had
dropped it into the slit on the yell
low car.'' A search was made, and
her ticket was found in the mail car.
The rush of the population from the
country into the cities now seems to
have spent it's force, and quite few
of the more thoughtful emigrants are
returning to their old homesteads for
good. They have learned that the
country is safer than the city.
The employers association, which
was organized at Helsingborg, has for
its aim the settlement of labor
troubles by means of arbitration. In
this respect it differs from the ma
tional employers association, which
was organized to antagonize the labor
organizations.
Provincial Governor Poignant has
been in the service of the state unin-
terruptedly for fifty years. A ban
quet was given in his honor by citi-
zens of Visby on the occasion of his
fifty years jubilee.
The ice harvest was in full blast in
southern Sweden during the Christ
mas holidays, though the ice was only
three inches thick.
P. E. Lundstedt is the only public
school teacher in Sweden who has no
hands or even arms. He has been
teaching at Gnarp for "a years, and
his work gives general satisfaction.
About one hundred men must be
kept at Storlien during the winter
months to shovel snow. This point is
located at the boundary line between
Sweden and Norway on the railroad
from Ostersund to Frandhjein. The
railway department asks for an appro-
priation of $4,000 for erecting a board
ing house for the snow shovelers.
A diamond wedding. On December
%, it was go years since Rev. C. F.
Holmer, Ph. D., of JerstOop, was or
dained in the Vexio cathedral by no
smaller man than Esaias Tegner, the
author of the immortal ''Fridtiofs s
Saga"
ship building firm in Stockholm
has lost 100000 in few years on ac-
count of the incapacity of the man
ager.
A comittee appointed to report on a
proposition to build a sanitarium for
the exclusive use of consumptives
from the city of Stockholm, is in favor
of establishing such an institution at
Skrubba, Brannl1yrka parish. The
committee suggests that the buildings
be made large enough to accommodate
100 patients.
The royal family celebrated Christ
mas eve in ''the White Sea-" There
was about 30 Christmas trees in the
hall, and catalogue of the gifts
would fill one of these columns. Most
of the goods were of Scandinavian
manufacture.