Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-29

The Swedish society Of the friends
of manual training has been & re-
.quested to arrange for an exposition
in Copenhagen, and one will soon
be opened on an extensive scale in
the Danish art and industrial mus
cum.
The seed growing company of
Svalof has been visited by two promi-
nent Germans who came to study the
methods employed by the company in
obtaining it's remarkable results.
Sundsvallsposten states that the
government will propose to the next
riksdag that the diocese of Hernosand
be divided into two dioceses on con-
dition that two dioceses in the south
(Kalmar and Vexio) be united into
one.
The Ystad Sugar Refining company
has factory at Kopinge which con-
sumes no less than 1,10O tons of beets
a day.
The swiftest war engine afoat,
Mode, the first torpedo chaser of the
Swedish navy, was named after one
OF the sons of Thor, the northern god
OF war. The vessel, which was built
by Iarrow & Co., London, arrived
at Stockholm a. few days ago. It is
220 feet long, and it's displacement is
$50 tons. It's two propellers are
driven by two engines which indi-
cate $500 horsepower combined. The
cost of the vessel is $325,000. At the
trial trip it developed sped of 1874
knots, making it the swiftest vessel
of its kind. The swiftest torpedo
chaser in the British navy has a
speed of 81 knots. The construction
of the Mode is a very fortunate one.
it's $500 horsepower engines giving
it speed of 32.4 knots while the
engines of the British torpedo chaser
referred to indicate no less than 10000
horsepower.
The inhabitants of Tyringe, small
town on the Helsingborg and Hessle-
holm railway, are in state of excite
ment because eminent physicians and
practical business men agree that the
place would be an ideal location for
a Kneipp cure establishment.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the explorer of
Central Asia, has donated his collec-
tions to the Stockholm high school,
where they will be used by him in
preparing a book on the subject.
Mr.. Gullberg, former editor of
Malmotidningen, has become editor
of the Observation-Disclosures, and his
successor in the former position is
Yngve Svartengren.
King Oscars jubilee fund has re,
ceived gift of $500 from the late
Prof. Geskel Solomon.
A vein of rich iron ore has been
discovered near Svappavaara.
NORWAY.
Rear Admiral Borreson and Cap
tain Rosenquist were sentenced to i'm
prisonment for twenty days by a
court-martial on the charge of has-
ing failed to perform their duties
when the ironclad Eidsvold was
grounded in Danish waters. The case
was appealed to the supreme court,
and the decision was reversed. As
soon as they were acquitted they re-
ceived congratulatory kilograms from
King Oscar.
The original plan was, to complete
the Bergen railway in 1907. Now the
government is said to be contemplate
ing change of this date to 1912. The
government is forced into this con-
sideration by financial difficulties.
The voters of Fredrikshald have
decided to keep their saloon (samlag)
another five-year period.
The platform of the Moderates con-
tains plank in favor of referendum.
It is announced that the death of
DR.. Svendsen of Sverdrup's expedition
was not natural. Being sick and con-
sidering himself only burden to the
expedition, he preferred to end his
own life
DR.. Georg Brandes, at a banquet
given to him in Kristiania, expressed
the wish that the Norwegians may al
ways have courage to dare do some
thing, and that Norway may forever
remain the land of youth.
It is claimed that the sword, knife
and buckle, all of bronze, which were
found at Torvestad, Karmoen, a short
time ago, are so old that they may
have been used at the time of Moses.
The municipal government of
Larvik has resolved to open beer sa-
looms (samlag) next year.
The Norwegian portion of the
Ofoten railway has been completed,
the rail connecting it with the Swed-
ish portion having been laid Sept. rs.
Alexander Kjelland, former mayor
of Stavanger, has removed to Molde,
where he is to reside as amtman of
Romsdal. He is stopping in the rooms
once occupied by Henrik Ibsen.
The controversy between the prog
ressive and the conservative element
in the church of Norway is growing
warmer. Bishop Hench, the leader
of the conservatives, recently said:
1T is difficult to decide which is more
apt to make the consciences dull and
Indifferent, a life in vice or the self
sufficiency of ordinary decency." To
this, Rev. Klaveness retorts: 1.-THE
above statement virtually amounts to
this: it is difficult to decide whether
the pure, moral life of young per-
son is conducive to eternal salvation.
Maybe it would be better to wallow
in the filth Of sin. When a man like
Bishop Hench can talk that way,
what may we expect from thought
less gabblers?'
Four cases of smallpox caused
great excitement in Svelvik. DR..