Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-06
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean. @*-
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
[&4-- or So Just Past.

North Sea Within a Week
E@4~- or So Just Past.
DENMARK.
Iletgen, the noted financier, is dead at
copenhagen. He started many banks
railroads and Industrial companies
among them being the United Steamship
Company and the Northern Telegraph
Company, whose lines extend across
Asia
The folkethins has elected Herman
Trier as president. There was no other
candidate, and he received IS votes.
The Importance of the hog-raising and
pork-packing industry of Denmark has
been mentioned on different occasions in
tnese columns. Now it appears that this
industry is assuming such proportions as
to attract the attention of American ex-
porters of hog products, and a lengthy
account of its growth and present status
recently appeared in Washington dis
patch to the great American dailies. Ger
tain parts Of the dispatch are given be-
low: 1.-THE American hog has an Euro
pean rival. Denmark has come into the
field as a producer and exporter of hogs
and hog products, with growth at least
interesting if not suggestive to American
producers of this commodity. The num-
Der of head of swine in Denmark has
increased from sol 900 in 1861 to ,00O in
1881, and 1,163, 900 in 1898, the latest year
Tor which statistics are available. The
prohibition of the importation of live
ho1ss into Germany and the United King
dom resulted in the establishment Of
slaughter houses in Denmark, and the
increase in the production of Danish ba-
con and hams in recent years has been
phenomenal. The exports of hams and
bacon from Denmark have grown from
$780, 600 Danish pounds in 1878 to 129, zoe, 900
Danish pounds in 1895. the value increas-
ing from 81, 10000 in 1878 to s12, I'll 900 in
1898.
I'm 1887 one cooperative slaughter
house was established, in 1883, seven and
rapid progress was made during the fol-
lowing years with regard to establish
ing new slaughter-houses and to the
quantity of bacon they produced.
There are now twenty-five co-opera-
tive slaughter houses in Denmark, which
lin 1899 killed about 10000 head of swine.
at value of about sS,00O,0O0, and about
22450 head of cattle for export, at a value
of about $945, GOO. The largest slaughter
houses killed from 5000 to $1,000 pigs in
1899, and the smaller from 5000 to 10000.
In 1897, twenty-one slaughter-houses were
stated as having been established at a
cost of $6S6,340 and the number of per-
sons sharing in the profits of these twen-
ty-one establishments was 41,72S Adding
to these the two largest, those of Odense
and Holding. the first of which cost $472,-
500. besides two smaller slaughter houses
and extensions for the Strengthening Of
cattle for export and other objects, the
total outlay amounts to 81. 900, and the
total number of co-operators about S.
OOO."
CuriOusly enough. no mention is made
of the very important fact that hundreds
of thousands of Danish hogs are living
on American corn. Some European coun-
tries put high tariff on American corn.
Not SO the Danish statesmen. They
thought they saw a chance for the Dan
ish farmer to turn handsome penny by
reducing American corn into Danish
pork. they acted accordingly. and time
has amply demonstrated the correctness
of their views. An American daily wants
the hog raisers of this country Ito keep
an eye OH Denmark, for that country has
designs on the European market and
seems especially determined to supply the
German demand for him. bacon, sausage
and other foods prepared from the flesh
of swine There is only one sure way
of checking the expansion of the Danish
hog, and that is to cut down or entirely
shut off the supply of American corn.
But how would that strike the American
farmer?
The minister of public traffic. Mr.. Ho-
rup has decided to take an electric cure
which is to last six weeks.
In Omsk. Siberia. there are fourteen
firms that export butter. One of them is
controlled by Russian Jew the other
thirteen are in the hands of Danes.
About 1000 people. including 200 clergy
men, attended the funeral of the late
Rev. Wilhelm Beck. The ceremonies
lasted almost five hours.
The minister of finance has signed the
contract for national loan of about
$S,OOOO0O. The state will receive So cents
on the dollar of the face value Of the
bonds and the rate of interest is to be 31s
per cent. The money will be furnished by
a number of Danish, Swedish, German
and French banks.
There are 1.19o labor unions in Denmark,
and their combined membership is SO, 295.
One-half Of them reside in Copenhagen
NORWAY.
The Intelligenssedlerne agrees with Yer
dens Gang that the cabinet ought to be
reconstructed because it cannot, in its
present shape. carry through the plan of
establishing separate consular service
for Norway.
Thanks to the favorable weather in the
latter part of September, the potato crop
bids fair to be good The pastures are
affording abundant feed for the stock,
and the root crops are almost up to the
y average H.
The city, council of Trondhjem has
passed. an ordinance prohibiting splitting
on the sidewalks and public squares.
Alcohol in the form Of polish is some
times used as a beverage by habitual
j. drinkers, and law may be passed
against the evil.
The government will propose an APP
preparation Of $4,000 for Norway's particle
patton in an International fisheries expo
sition which will take place at st. Peters,
burg next winter.
:. The assessed valuation Of city and
rural property Tor the year 1900 was $685.
$4,000 and $3.50, 10000, respectively, and
income was $62, 100000 and So, 625, O0O The
local taxes aggregated $7,6s5Ooo. which
, was collected from GLE, 600 Taxpayers.
The Trondhjem Omnibus Company Is no
more, except part Of history It was
the electric street railway that killed it.
verdens Gang thinks Roosevelt will
prove himself to be .'the most prominent
president that the United States have
had since the days fof5Washington and
Lincoln. s {. S. i. t.s. So s,tt5