Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-16
Fifty boats are represented by tho
MalmO Boat club.

Fifty boats are represented by tho
Malmo Boat club.
A new steel steamer of $500 tons
has been bought at Hartlepool, Eng
land, by the Vermland and Helsing-
borg Shipping company.
Two laborers at Kartskrona were
fined because they failed to appear at
the regular drills of the fire depart
ment. They pointed to a city ordi-
nance which states that the drills
! shall be announced in all the local
papers, and proved that no announce
ment had been made in Kuriren, the
only city paper which they kept. But
10 no purpose. They appealed the
case to the higher courts, which sus-
tanned the decision of the local court.
Nothing daunted, however, the labor
ers appealed to the supreme court,
and the decisions of the two lower
courts were reversed.
Prince Eugen and Prince Derna-
dottc returned to Sweden May 20
from a trip through Central Europe.
Minister of War Crusebjorn and a
number of the most prominent Off
GERS OF the army have inspected the
different parcels of ground at Malmo,
on which it has been proposed to
build the new barracks. The results
of his inquiries are not yet known.
The assets of the Swedish Railway
Employees Life Insurance company
amount to 100000, and the number
OF policies in force is 2,40O. The
amount of the policies is $1,0oo,oo0,
of which 100000 was added during
the past year. The number of deaths
was eleven and the loss $4,000.
0. Asklund, the Gothenburg master
baker who was fined over $4,000 be-
cause he violated the rules of the
Master Bakers union, of which he
was member, has appealed the case
to the Gotta court
The people living in the country
between Falkoping and Halmstad are
clamoring for a new railroad, and
$500, 900 has been subscribed towards
the realization of the project by local
governments and private parties
There is trouble at the Malmo wool
en- mills, 300 out of total of 1,4OO
employees having quit work and 400
others being on the point of quitting.
The trouble originated in the great
national strike.
The bear that killed John Person,
of Svansele, has been killed himself.
1t was one of the largest bears ever
heard of in Sweden, weighing 43O
pounds.
A German recently appeared at the
Landskrona workhouse and asked for
the manager. When told that the
manager could not be seen the Ger
man began to curse the penal institu-
tons of Sweden because he found
them to be away below what they
had been cracked up to be. He had
heard that those institutions were so
comfortable, and now poor fellow
could not have talk with the man
ager of one of them
The first locomotive made in Swed-
en- for the use of peat as fuel has just
been turned out at the Motala iron
works. 1t is veritable monster,
weighing 100 tons when ready for
work.
At an agricultural fair in Moscow,
Russia the Laval separator was the
only one that carried off the highest
honors.
Crown Princess Victoria was ex-
pected to return from Sweden from
the south about the middle of June.
Her plan is to spend u large part Of
the warm season on board the Drott,
the royal pleasure yacht, which will
remain in the southern part of the
Baltic during that time.
There are points in northermost
Sweden where the sun does not set
for fifty or more days in summer.
The fruit crop looks very promis-
ing in southern Sweden.
The Sulitelma Mining company has
distributed dividend of per cent,
and added handsome sum to the re-
serve fund.
The value of the railway property
owned by the state. of Sweden was
STA, 100, 1O3.50 at the beginning of
this year. The combined length of
the roads in operation at that time
was 1887 (English) miles. The value
of railways not completed was $9,000,-
900, and this amount is included in
the above total.
Baron Tn. Adelsward, of Atvda-
berg, has built system of electric
wires through part of his garden to
force the growth of the plants. On
cool nights he proposes to run
strong current of electricity through
the wires, but during bright days the
sun will be relied ON as usual.
The amount of insurance carried by
the Swedish life insurance companies
at the beginning of the year was
$173, 900, 900, and the increase for the
year 1901 was $1O,5OO,OOO.
The stonecutters of Simris, Skane,
are organizing themselves into a CO.
operative stone cutting company
Expensive ''Branding" The Os-
tersundsposten has been under
the ban of the Typographical
union for seven months past, but has
been published regularly during all
that time. L. A. Mortensson, publish
err of Svensk Typograftidning,
''branded" O. Winberg. the manager
of the Ostersundsposten, as ''strike
breaker" and traitor" But Mr..
Winberg kicked back through the
courts and the result is that Mr..
Mortensson must pay a fine of $125
on account of his experiments in
'branding."
The places of manv striking i0nr-