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

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ooso
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DENMARK.
Rear Admiral Jaehnke, the min,
lister Of marine, fell off the steps of
the rigsdag building and fractured
his thigh. r
The postage for domestic letters
has been raised from s to 10 ore (2.7
cents), and the maximum limit of
money orders has been raised from
200 kroner ($54) to 800 kroner
($97.2O. The reason why the latter
limit was not put still higher was,
that the Danish government did not
want to exceed the international
limit of 500 francs. .
All the sketches made from the
Tietgen monument were rejected by
the judges; but the authors of three
OF the sketches were awarded $135
each as bounties.
1t is proposed to erect a statue of
Shakespeare at Helsingor because this
place (Elsinore) is so prominent in
his Hamlet" The proposition has
been favorably received both in Den
mark and England.
English business men are strongly
in favor of telegraphic connections
between England and Iceland.
Some boys were playing with
matches by a house at Bjerringbro,
near Randers, and the result was,
that the houses of five farmsteads
were reduced to ashes. Some valu-
able stock was also burned to death.
The sale of Danish papers is not
prohibited in Berlin, but the news
dealers claim that it does not pay to
keep them.
The Danish miAister of justice re-
Gently permitted a Copenhagen lady
to wear male attire. Now the wife
of Fredericksburg mechanic has fol-
Flowed her example upon an assur-
ance from the same minister that the
law of the land presents no obstacle,
provided no sinister motives can be
proved.
The passenger cars on the state
railways have been heated during the
night since Oct. 1.
The minister of foreign affairs has
warned against emigration to Chile.
This warning is worth a few hundred
thousand dollars to Uncle Sam.
| h. -
ture in Kristiania the other day, was
given an ovation by the university
students. He~advised the Scandinav-
ians to stick together, ''being so few"
The postal department has issued
some new rules, one of which is, that
words, pictures, etc., may be printed
on the first page of postal cards, but
the address must not be marred or
made indistinct.
At the opening of the public school
at Trangfors, Kolback parish, after
the summer vacation, only 10 out OF
SO children of school age responded
when the roll was called. What was
the trouble? The teacher, who is a
single man, had allowed his sister and
her husband to live with him in the
school building. The last mentioned
is employed in bolt factory at Hall.
stahammer. But he does not belong
to any labor union, and the parents
would not send their children to q
school building occupied by ''strike
breaker" The school board will have
to straighten out this novel tangle.
The king has granted permission
to the city of Landskrona to float
bonds amounting to $567,ooo for pub
lie improvements, the loan to he paid
in 40 annual installments.
| A wedding ring of gold which was
lost in the year 1000 has been re-
covered. It was owned by the wife
of Chancellor Erik Spare, who lost
it when she and her husband were
forced by the enemy to fee from thei1
home On peninsula in Mogde1
lake, Vestergotland.
Prince Wilhelm was suffering from
throat ailment about two week.
ago.
The imports from Germany aver
age almost $5o,O0O,O0O a year, while
the exports to that country are only
one-third as large, In view Of the
probability. that Germany may place
ia prohibitive tariff : on Swedish
granite, some Swedish financiers sug
gest that it might be well to apply
retaliatory remedies.
! Workshops (arbetsstugor) are op
Grated in connection with many
public schools in the large cities Of
Sweden. A course for instructors al
such institutions has just been com
pleted in Stockholm. The whole
number of regular attendants was AZ
among whom were teachers from Chi
cago, Boston, Athens (Greece), Hol
land and Scotland. The enthusiasm
of the attendants was marked.
The Swedish Life Insurance com
pany has made a new departure BIZ
insuring the lives of any applicants
whatever without regard to the con
dition of their health. But all poor
risks are kept in separate depart
ment called Gala" (all).
The Separator Manufacturing com
[pahy has bought a manufacturing
plant in Berlin, and fifty men will be
employed at once. The company's
repair shops in Hamburg will be
abandoned, and all the work done by
the company in Germany. will be cen
tralized at Berlin.
The receipts from the stamp tax
were $1,647, 1851 for the past year