Willmar tribune., 1901-04-10
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
-. Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
rincipal Events That Have Occurred
| In the Old COuntri About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
DENMARK.

DENMARK
The city government of Copenhagen
proposes that the s., ,OOOO 900 bonds which
the city is about to issue, be sold to a
syndicate representing some of the
strongest banking institutions in Dem
mark, Germany. Holland and England.
The stockholders of the United Steam
ship Company will receive a dividend of
ten per cent for 1900. - '@'f%
A statue of Bishop Absalon has been
placed on the Copenhagen" court house.
The monument is covered with a coat: of
pure gold. Bishop Absalon died March
21. 1901.
The election of members of the folke-
thing, or popular branch Of the rigsdag,
will take place April 3rd.
Empress Dowager Dagmar is visiting
with the Danish court.
A German translation of one of Schan-
dorphrs books has been prohibited by the
Russian censOrs.
The minister Of labor issued an order
forbidding mail agent named Petersen
to run for seat in the folkething. Meet
ing with much adverse criticism, the min
lister appeared in the folkething to defend
his course. But instead of accepting his
explanation, the folkething, by 56 votes.
expressed it's disapproval of his action.
The pressure exerted upon the rigsdag
by the hard times, and more particularly
by thousands of idle men, is so great that
the folkething, by unanimous vote, >ap-
pealed to the government to push the
public Improvement so as to give Danish
laborers chance to make a living!
The manager of the free harbor- at
hnr
bunch because the work done by them
was not satisfactory.
SWEDEN. =
The annual meeting of the railway in
surance company. which was held at
Stockholm, was attended by. representa-
ties from 66 companies. The insurance in
force is $l7oOo,OOO
A young teamster of Gef1e must have
been very thirsty. He cut the hair from
the tail of the horse he was driving and
sold it for liquor.
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince
Gustaf Adolf have paid a visit to the
pope The prince received a present in
the shape of a medallion containing q
picture of the pope
Stockholm syndicate is going to build
n power station at Hedenfors (waterfall
in the Lule river). The capacity of the
plant will be 2,4OO horse power, which
, will be utilized in the neighboring cities
of Boden and Lulea
E. w. Rande, a Swedish engineer who
Is residing in Germany has calculated
that, according to the army reorganiza-
tion bill, the support of Swedish soldier
will cost 60 per cent more than the sup
port of German soldier, the annual ex-
penses in the former case being $351, in
the latter only $216;
Swedish Peat Industry is the name of a
new company which has been organized
in Gothenburg for the purchase of reat
bogs and the marketing of peat for fuel
The capital stock shall be somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and $12OOOO.
A collection of 24,054 different kinds of
buttons has been donated to Nordiska
Museum, Stockholm. The buttons were
collected by the late A. v, Dahlgren, an
opera singer. =! !
Bishop Won Scheele, 3of Visby. who WIS.,
tied America in 1898 and spent several
months among the Swedish Lutherans of
this country, has received instructions
from the king to- cross the Atlantic once
more. The bishop is expected to arrive
about the middle of September and will
spend three months visiting the institu-
tlons OF learning and some of the leading
congregations of the Augustana synod.
The iron industries of Sweden are suf-
fering under the effects of low prices. In
some branches the prices have fallen 30
or even 40 per cent. Many dealers who
sent in orders some time ago prefer to
pay fines instead Of taking out the goods.
1t is also expected that the ore export of
the present year will fall below that of
last year.
Ex-Governor Count Hans Wachtmeistr.
of Blekfnge. is said to have Travelled
more extensively in different parts of the
world than any other living Swede, He
has already completed his 73rd year. Yet
he is travelling, far away from his native
heath. He has just made a tour of
South America. and at this writing he
must be somewhere in the United States
He, is accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Sigfrid Wachtmeistr.
why do the working men Of this CITY
drink distilled liquors for more than
$500,0OO year?' was the question dis
cussed at temperance mass meeting at
Malmo, and the answer was given in the
form Of the following resolution: ''The
meeting holds that the great consump-
ton of liquor in the first place is due to
the prevailing social conditions, thought
lessness and ignorance of the nature and
effects of alcohol; and for that reason
q more systematic educational work
, must be carried on, partly by means of
better instruction in the schools, partly
by means of providing for scientific lee
lures of popular character. The meet
ing would earnestly urge upon the press,
the physicians and the teachers to make
greater efforts in the future than in the
past to advance the cause of temperance
as one of the vital problems of society,""
The Odd Fellows of Malmo have erect
ed a five-story building of red sandstone
"a from Qfvedkloster. The cost of it when
completed will be about $4,000.
The second chamber of the riksdag
rudely rejected.~Rev. .Waldenstrom's mo-
tion to publish a., new textbook for re-
ligious instruction in the lowest classes
of the public schools, Z i
The Gothenburg system, the municipal
government Of Glasgow, has, memorial
ized arliament for permission to intro
ducsg rhe Gothenburg system for retailing
strong drinks According to the proposed
plan, the profits shall be. used for pub
lie purposes. ,,.sa,$,L SEsE 3zsa &
@3 "A committee appointed to estimate the
. water power which may be obtained from
the Laga river for electric traction on
the West Coast railway, has reported
: that there Is sufficient water power for
the purpose in view, besides whatais al
ready used for maf1ufac cturing purposes.
A boy who was recruited at Yernamo
was found to be veteran from the
Cuban war. aP$ /, 4
Ola Hanson, the author, refutes the
statement that he Is to becomeSa natur-
allied German ssi1nIaaS in6na6 y, no adds