Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-31
SCANDIl.A Wan Ne VS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN. THE FATHERLAND
Principal Events that Have Occurred in
the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
SWEDEN.

North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
Sixty-one new rifle clubs were or
gained in Sweden in 1899.
An extra appropriation of $265,O00
for the army is proposed on account
of the increase in the prices of the
necessaries of life.
1t is proposed to build new high
school in the eastern part of Gothen-
burg.
| A committee is revising the laws
regulating the drafting of recruits for
the army. It is supposed that the
present laws may be made more prac
tical because the violations thereof
number about $4,000 year. 1t is
commended that these $4,000 cases of
fines or imprisonment connected with
military service tend to lower the pa
triotism of the army.
The Stockholm Brewing Company
has resolved to set aside 1000 as
| pension fund for the benefit of it's en-
ployes.
The Hoganas Coal Mining Company
has built a large hall in Tivoli Park
for the use of it's employees. The
building was publicly dedicated at the
close of the old year. Manager Nor
denfeldt in his dedicatory address,
characterized the institution as new
link in the chain uniting the employ
ers and the employees. When it was
announced that congratulatory tel
egram was to be sent to Count A.
Posse, the president of the company,
on the occasion of his eightieth birth
day three rousing cheers rose from
the 1000 people present.
| A labor union in Landskrona re-
| solved that none of it's members shall
! patronize saloons as long as the pres
ent high prices of liquors are kept up.
A letter to Danish daily from
Transvaal states that the Scandina-
VANS fighting with the Boers have
distinguished themselves as genuine
heroes. Their wounded are tended to
by Swedish nurses at Pretoria.
The railway department asks for an
appropriation of $25O,0O0 for doubling
! the track between Huddinge and Tum-
| bca.
The remains of a ship were found
in an excavation in Stockholm. They
are supposed to have been imbetded in
the dirt about one thousand years
ago; still they are in such good con-
dit;on that the ship can be recon-
structed.
Two sons of A. Holmgren, formerly
professor in the University of Lund,
have invented an explosive which emits
immense quantities of white smoke
The explosion of a bomb filed with
this material envelopes the surround
ings in dense smoke. The invention
crn warfare.
S. P. +. Widstrand is to fill the posi-
ton of Prof. Andree, the aeronaut, in
the patent bureau.
Twelve years ago a number of work
ingmen in Motala and other places
agreed to buy the Kulla farm. in the
parish of Kristberg, and divide it up
AA1UO S1AAd11 4SGI LSs L lc VALUE Ol UIlC
property was $1,000. The former
owner kept IS COWS, but he found it
difficult to make both ends meet. Now
there are As houses on the same ground,
100 head of cattle are kept and the
value of the land is put at about $780,
900. But the most important of all is
that the settlers are doing very well
on the whole, making the venture a
strong argument in favor of farming
on a small scale.
The population of Gothenburg is
125, 79s, and the increase during the
past year was 1893.
Erik Strom, of Skurup, a noted Law
preacher, is dead.
LandslSrona, among the towns of
| Skane, seems to be the successful COM
petitor for new public normal school
which is to cost about $50, 900.
Sweden exported 5000 tons of iron
in 1S45, and in 1899 1,7OO,O 900 tons of pig
iron and iron ore.
Axcl Danielsen, the most active So
cial democrat in Sweden, died at the
early age of So years. He had been
ailing for some time, and was living
at the Elsterberg sanitarium in Saxony
at the time of his death.
A workingman at Soderas got it in
his head that he would scare his neigh
boris wife on Christmas eve-just for
the fun of it. He chose a moment
when he supposed her husband to be
away from home. Dressing himself in
coarse fur, he crept into the house, ex-
pecting to strike harmless terror to
the hearts of its tenants. But he soon
discovered that the head of the family
was present, who, instead of getting
scared, picked up a stick and pounded
the funny bugaboo until his friends,
attracted by his screams, came to his
rescue.
A labor academy has been opened by
355 workingmen in Porsgrund.
The main points of the teaching uni
versal pension bill are subjoined in a
very condensed form. At the age of
| 16 years every person whose income
is at least $50 year, shall contribute
to the national pension fund. The
contribution from an income of $50
shall be SO cents, and the percentage
increases faster than the income, so
that the contribution on an income of
$50 shall be $3.50. Any Norwegian
who is in any way incapacitated for
work for at least six months shall be
entitled to pension ranging from $40
to $160 a year. 1t is estimated that
when the system is once put into