Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-23
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
or So Just YRSi.
DEN MARK,

DENMARK.
The word automobile" is too long
too outlandish for the Danes. The
daily Politiken asked it's readers tc
Suggest some other name, and out OF
hundreds of more or less suggestive
appellations the judges selected ''bil'
as the most suitable. This is plainly
an offspring of the orthodox title, and
should be pronounced heel"
Queen Alexandra of England left
London March Is for Copenhagen
where she is to attend the celebration
of this birthday of her father, King
Chris Ian 1A., who was born April
1918.
The folkething is very strongly ir
favor of the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States, the bill
providing for the sale being carried
by a vote of IS to :. Six members re-
Trained from voting, and twelve were
absent. just as present the lands
thing, or upper house, is engaged in q
hot fight over the measure. 1t is ex
pected that the final vote will be tax
en- about the fifth Of April. The presi
dent is opposed to the sale, but the
bill may pass by Il small majority
The teapot tempest caused by the
Christmas-Gron squabble has practi
cally spent is force in Denmark, anc
Mr.. Gron's greatness as factor il
American politics should not be over
estimated.
Three children whose ages were
from one to three-and-a -half years
were left alone for a short while in q
house at Holmegaard, Ncstved. Ir
some way they got hold of matches
and set fire to the straw in their bed
When the neighborS noticed the
smoke they ran to the house and sue
cceded in taking out the little ones
but two of them were already suf7o
Gated, and the third one died before
the doctor arrived.
Rev. Halme, the Clergyman whe
has been cndeavoring to read the un
constitutional conscription ukase il
the churches where the regular pas
tors refused to do that dirty work, is
earning his wages, which are said t.
be $50 for each reading. In mos
cases the congregation will disturb
him so rersistently that he is com
PEELED to give up the task and stcI
down from the pulpit defeated com
INT ~ w
mentioned. AS he passed through the
town of Lovis;o he was recognized by
some one, and i'm a few minutes ht
found himself surrounded by GROVE
of people whose behavior frightened
him. He yelled for protection, anc
this came in the form of the only 20
liceman in town, who took His I'M
perial Majesty's representative to the
lookup, where he had to spend half 8
day and 4 whole night in company
with notorious criminal.
SWEDEN.
The executive committee of the Gel
livare and Luossavaara- kiirunavaar;
mining company has received a for
NAL proposition for the purchase O
the property by the government. The
offer is said to be more favorable t.
the government than the one made OF
3 former occasion. 1t remains for the
stockholders to accept or reject thu
offer.
DR.. Sven Hedin arrived at Bomba,
Feb. ~ and was the guest Of Governor
Northcote during his stay there.
X. NJ. Lundberg and Joseph Sachs
managing directors of the Nordisk;
stock company of Stockholm, have Sc
aside $4,000 which is to be the nrl
cleus of savings and aid fund fo1
the benefit of the employees of tn,
company.
The managers of the South African
Railway have placed an order To-
three scales of sixty-ton capacit,
with a Stockholm firm, though tn
English bids were considerably lower
The platforms of the scales arc to bt
about forty feet long, and the con
struction of the scales is such tina
whole trains may be weighed while
in motion.
a delegation representing the work
ingmen of Norrland recently callet
on the minister Of justice and tn,
minister of agriculture to express tn.
wishes of the laborers of northern
Sweden with regard to the two grea
problems confronting that part of tn,
country, namely, the absorption o
the small farms by the great corpora
tions, an! the dangers which threaten
the right of association.
August Strindberg's ''Froken Julie
was to have been presented at Der
lin theater, but the censors suddenl,
prohibited the performance. It wa
learned afterwards that the plot of tn
play was too much like the. reccn
events in the family of certain Ger
man prince.
Major Unge's flying torpedoes wcr
tested at the Marina proving ground
March IL and ~. All the torpedoe
that were fred described very regular
curves and exploded when they strucl
the ground. It was found that tn
torpedoes could be loaded with dyna
mite without the. least danger to tn,
men. With the small elevation of fiji
teen degrees the torpedoes were car
ried about 10000 feet. In other re
spects the results are kept secret.
Princs 2ustaf Adolf is attending tn,
University of Upsala, his name head
ing the list Of recentiores in the cata
logue.
The king has authorized the depart
mcnt of the navy to purchase 45,00'
tons of coal during naval maneuvers
According to a report made by Prot
Lauritz WEeibull, the city of. Malm'