Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-06

n. Singer. a German publicist. reasons
as follows on Otto Sverdrup's North Pole
expedition: Peary seems to know moth
Ing about Swerdrup this time The lat
ter, therefore, cannot have ATTEMPTED to
sail around the north end of Greenland.
1t Is more likely that he has boldly struck
out for the pole, and he may be tied up
In the ice until he is carried south again
The government will propose, an inherit
ance tax which Is expected to net about
$loo,0oO year. For direct heirs the rates
will be per cent for s., 700, per cent for
the next $1,000, per cent for the next
SlS,oOO. and per cent, for amounts ex-
ceedlng $4,000 Husbands and wives shall
pay no tax, and, amounts below 81, 700
snail also be exempt. Where parents in
merit their children they shall pay a tax
OF per cent. The rates to be paid by
distant relatives vary from to 10 per
cent.
Hans Aanrud has sent his new comedy,
High on the Horse to the Bergen
Theater
A sixteen-ton rock lay on the railway
track at Nittedal The train was stop
ped in time to avoid catastrophe but
1t was delayed four hours. the time re-
quired to drill a hole in the rock, blast
1t and remove the fragments.
The budget of receipts and expenditures
made out year ago by the municipal au-
thorities of Kristiania proves to have
missed the mark. the actual expenses
and receipts having exceeded the esti-
mates by $9s1,240 and s164,16O, respectively.
Former president of the storthing, S.
Nielsen. was IS years old October 8.
I'm Helheim" is the title of a book just
written by Arne Garborg.
SWEDEN.
King Oscar has instructed Prof A.
Lindstedt, the public examiner of the in
surance companies of Sweden, to make a
| tour of Norway, Denmark, Germany and
Austria for the purpose of studying the
insurance systems in vogue in those coun-
tries; the ultimate aim of the trip being
to collect material which may be of use
to those who are to formulate a govern
ment insurance bill to be acted upon by
the riksdag.
1var Hedenblad, the noted director of
the Upsala students choir, is contem-
plating the establishment of National
Singers Union, and with this aim in
view he has applied to the president of
the Swedish Singers Union Of the United
States for information on the nature and
work of the latter organization.
Adolf Hedin. the great champion of lib
erty in the second chamber of the riks-
dag. has proposed the organization of a
national society for the introduction of
better and nobler public entertainments
than those in vogue among the common
people.
B. A. Akerstrom, the head of the
Stockholm branch Of the Kristianstad
Bank, has loaned out over $25OO0O with
! out entering the transaction on the books,
and the gentleman is having a pack OF
trouble on account Of this irregularity.
The securities, some of which are Nor
wegian government bonds, are all good,
and the bank will not lose cent on this
score.
The water in the Lagan river, southern
Sweden, is so low that in many places
people walk dry-shod across it's bed.
Consul Broms, for twelve years past
the soul of the great Gellivare Mining
Company, has been forced to resign as
general manager. But in the midst of
his personal humiliation he has the satis-
to force his great enterprise into the
Prof Montelius Of Stockholm, whose
| reputation as an archeologist is growing,
recently stated, in a public lecture that
! iron was in general use in Sweden 800
years before Christ, and that copper was
known about 1900 years before Christ.
Prof Montelius claims that Skane was
! inhabited at least 5000 years B. c.
A we'll supplied highwaymen's camp
D
klint, Skane. Three of the men were
caught and several others escaped. There
were substantial eatables at the camp in
sufficient quantities to last several
months.
city council of Malmo to build an electric
street railway system.
A mass meeting held by $50 workingmen
at Helsingborg. resolved to endorse the
proposition of inaugurating a national
suffrage.
The late Olof WIKI bequeathed $4,000
to the Gothenborg High School.
Otto Saruson, president of the Nord-
SHERMAN Stock Company Stockholm,
commemorated the 3Oth anniversary of
the organization of the company by do
mating $13,500 to the employees of the COM
pany to be used as aid in cases of sick
ness.
The new theater of Lands Krona has
just been dedicated.
Some young men were hunting rabbits
near the church in Faro island. The
sexton had left the door of the church
open and a rabbit ran in to escape his
pursuers. The dog traced the animal into
! the sanctuary, and the rabbit was actual
ly caught by the dog in the church.
The workingmen of Eskistuna and
Oxelosund have declared themselves in
favor of a national strike as means of
obtaining the right to vote.
The crown princess was to leave Swed-
en- for southern Europe about Oct. 90
and the crown prince was to accompany
her as far as Baden.
Prof. V. E. Lidforss has completed a
new Swedish version Of Dante's Divina
Comedia. Prof. Lidforss' translation OF
Don Quixote is a masterpiece.