Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS !,
interesting Notes From Across the
h.. Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND,
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So, Just Past.

NORTH Sea Within q Week
or So. Just Past.
The London Anglo-Russian contains
notice which points to serious troubles
between the Scandinavian countries
and Russia. According to that notice
Observation-Disclosures press bureau is
to be established in London for the
purpose OF supplying English papers
with news from Russia, Finland. S,ve.
den, Norway and Denmark. The ANGLO.
Russian also adds that the enterprise
may be traced to the fact that there
are signs and forebodings of events
which will soon transpire in Scandina-
VIA, and which may to great extent
affect England and her interests. The
same issue of the above paper calls at
tentlon to a series of articles which it
has begun to publish on 1.-The DESIGNS
of Russia on Scandinavia" The author
OF these articles, F. w. Lonnbeck, tries
to demonstrate that the Scandinavian
peninsula is preparing to meet the com.
ing conflict
folltlke1 claims to know that the
match industry of the Scandinavian
countries will soon pass under the con.
troll OF trust. The Headquarters OF
the new company will be located in
London and Copenhagen, and a branch
office will be opened in Gothenburg.
The comb which the Russian censors
are running through Finland is so fine
that there now scarcely remains sin
gle independent newspaper in the
whole country.
In spite of the letter and the spirit of
the laws OF Finland, Russian has been
appointed governor of the province of
Nyland.
The printing of pictures of the arms
OF Finland on envelopes sent through
the mails has been prohibited.
The Russian cabinet has agreed on
the following points in regard to the
military affairs of Finland: No Finnish
mllitiamen shall be sent to Russia; no
Finnish battalions shall be incorporated
INTO Russian regiments; the reserve
shall be abolished to the active troops
shall be added 1000 men; in case of war
the Finnish troops may be sent beyond
the boundary line of Finland, but not
outside of Europe.
The most important documents in
the national archives of Finland must
be transferred to St. Petersburg, recent
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. That means they will disappear
forever. Fortunately, verified copies
and photographs have been made of all
of them.
Five citizens of Helsingfors have IN
stituted legal proceedings against for
mer Senator Yrjo Koskinen because he
falsely reported them to be authors of
street disturbances which occurred in
that place Feb. 10.
SWEDEN.
The bar association of Lund pub
ished an epitome of Prof. A. Winroth's
lectures on Swedish law But the lee
turer claims this reproduction of his
work is so defective that he must de-
mand that whatever remains unsold of
the publication be delivered to him. At
book on the same subject himself
The military laws of Sweden permit
young man to enter the army as re-
cruit before he reaches the age at which
he must be mustered in, provided he is
sufficiently able-bodied. The proba-
bility of the passage of the army reor-
ganization bill has frightened an enor-
mously large number of minors into re-
porting for duty this spring. But only
a comparatively small number of them
have been accepted, the great bulk of
them being too weak and frail to salts
fly the demands of the military authori-
ties.
Prof. o. Nordenskjold's petition for a
large appropriation for South Pole
expedition has been fatty declined by
the government.
Three mothers and three daughters
are living in the same house near Vexio
and still they are only four persons. ~
This reads like puzzle, but the fact is
that said house shelters a very old lady,
her daughter and granddaughter, and
the latter has a baby.
Olaf Jernberg, former instructor at
the Dusseldorf academy of arts, has ac-
copied professorship at a similar in
stitution in Konigsberg.
Both houses of the riksdag have re-
jected bill proposing the abolishing
of capital punishment.
The Swedish navy is developing at
such rapid rate that the naval acade-
my can no longer supplp the necessary
number of officers in the ordinary way,
and the government has made arrange
ments for admitting twenty new cadets
according to special regulations. These
cadets must be between the ages of 16
and 20 years. and must have acquired a
certain amount of common school edu-
cation. '-
The bolag of Malmo retailed liquors
at IS different, places in 1900, and the
sales amounted to $31s, sss.S5. This
sum, however, does not include the sale
of finer spirituous liquors sold by pri-
vate parties according to special con-
tracts with the bolag, nor does it in
clude special sales at Kungsparken.
The surplus for the year was 800, 900,
which amounts are to be distributed as
dividends and contributions to chari-
table institutions. :s.s
Troedsi Peterson, hardware mer-
chant of Visby. made an assignment.
And well he might, for his liabilities
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