Willmar tribune., 1900-03-07
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 Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.


The widest and craziest of Andree
stories has just been sprung on the
public. It runs thus: The Berlin
Lokalanzeiger learns from Stockholm
that a new rumor regarding Andree's
North Pole expedition came from Can
ada last October. A number of Es-
qu1maux arrived at Fort Churchill and
related that two white men had "come
down from heaven" last October and
had been killed by band of Eskimos.
they said they had seen the remains
OF a balloon and knew where, they
were concealed.
"A family named Eager, in southern
sweden have become greatly interest
ed In the affairs of one of their mem
oers who emf igrated to Canada in the
seventeenth century. He became gov
ernor OF a province and accumulated
fortune. But he left no descendants,
and his property is still in charge of
the government. 1t is this property
that the Fagers in southern Sweden
are interested in, and an able lawyer
In Stockholm is investigating the mat
ter.
The employees on the Kristianstad
and Hessleholm railway are syste-
matically studying English and Ger
man.
The cut stone for the new central
postottice in Stockholm will be fur
nished by a Danish firm; but the stone
is to be taken from the Ofvedkloster
sandstone quarries in Skane. Sweden
The contract amounts to $4,000.
The government has contracted for
264, 900 tons Of coal for the state rail-
ways for the current year.
The first electric cab manufactured
in Sweden has just been completed by
Fer From, of Stockholm.
"A number of shipowners in Stock
holm have organized a union for the
study of international law.
The late Archbishop Sundberg was
man of unusual ability and courage,
These characteristics were strikingly
brought to light at the great fire in
karlstad, in the summer of 1865
sundberg was bishop at that time,
and the seat of his bishoprick was
Karlstad. The fire soon assumed such
proportions that the civil authorities
seem to have completely lost their
heads. Then it was that the spiritual
authority came to the rescue of the
city in the shape of the bishop. He
assumed control of the fire depart
ment-if such it may be called-and
every one obeyed him instinctively
Indeed, only about one-tenth of the
city was saved, but that one-tenth
which included the bishops residence
was saved through his efforts. Short.
ly after the fire the king, Charles
XIV, passed through the city. Every,
body complaining about the ineffi.
cheney of the authorities, his majesty
asked, "what did the governor do?'
Nothing" "Well, the mayor, then?'
'He wept." ooh, well, but what die
the bishop do?'' ''He swore and fought
the fire." The swearing part of the
story may not be literally true, but
the bishop did get ''hot'' in more than
one sense on that memora BILE day
The king took such a liking to the
Episcopal fire-fighter that he soon ap
pointed him president of the second
chamber of the riksdag.
A very old couple living by them
selves in small house in Tiarnas
near Gefe, were bnrned to death be.
fore the neighbors reached the place.
During recent cold spell, many
pheasants froze to death in Alto
Skane.
Crown Princess Victoria left Karls.
ruhe for Rome, Feb. 13.
A sixty-year-old woman was burnt
to death in small fire in Gothenberg
The city directory of Stockholm
shows that there are 687 Anderssons
473 Petterssons, Al Johanssons, and
27s Missions in the city.
Only one share in the Skane and
Halland railway company is missing
number 1881. The accumulated divi-
dends of this share now amount to
1913 per cent.
The workingmen lost $4,000 days
work in the strike at Oskarsstrom, in
the spring of 1899.
The king has offered to pay for the
eight statues which are to fill the
same number of inches above the