Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-18
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 Past.

in the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
FINLAND.
Only about 80 per cent of the Young
men who were to report for military
service for the first time put in an
appearance at the places where thew
were to be examined. Those who are
exempted from military service are
included in the above. In Sc out of
total of 500 communes no Young
recruits reported for duty. In one
commune all of the "a young men of
the proper age assembled at the sta
ton, handed in protest against the
CONSUMPTION laws and returned home.
No Swedish newspapers are permit
ted to go to Finland through the
mails at the present time. This bust
ness is rather annoying to those who
have paid for their papers and have
been in the habit of receiving them
in the past.
At Easter-tide there is a general
shower of decorations of honor, med
ais, bounties and titles from the rul-
ing powers of Russia. Even Finland
is reached by a light sprinkling.
Among those who were thus remem-
bered last Easter were the following:
Assistant Patrolman Androseff, a
title. In March a Finnish court SEN
fenced him to two months impri-
sonment for arresting man illegally.
Assistant Patrolman Haitokamgar, a
diamond ring. In March and April he
was found guilty of perjury and NAL
feasance in office, for which he was
sent to Jail for 30 days and fined $40.
Police Captain Molodkin received a
sum of money. A Finnish court sent
him to Jail for two months March
last. Policeman Nyholm, a sum of
money. He had been found guilty of
perjury and drunkenness in public,
for which he was sentenced to a term
OF four months in jail.
DENMARK.
The Copenhagen Landmandsbanken
has increased it's capital stock from
$6,000,000 to $9,000,0OO.
About a year ago the rigsdag re-
solved to give Georg Brandes, the ia
nous literary critic, a salary of $1,000
year without assigning him any
particular work, and now it is report
ed that he is to receive the title of
professor at the university.
\ amanda 1;fo ,;,o
statue of Peter Wi]lemoe, the naval
hero, was unveiled May II at Assens.
About 5000 people attended the cere-
monies. The statue is mounted on a
granite foot-piece.
The students society of Copenhag-
en- is running law department. for
the benefit of poor people who need
legal advice free of charge. The re-
port of this office for the year 1900
1901 is just out. 1t shows that a.
760 persons called for legal advice.
This is an abnormal sincrease of 10
per cent in one year, which is &C.
counted for by the hard times which
prevailed during the period covered
by the report. The society was COM
PEELED to open new office in addition
to the six already in USE
The horticultural school at Beder, a
few (English) miles from Aarhus, is
becoming more and more popular. In
winter it is attended by young men
who intend to become gardeners, in
summer by girls that wish to know
how to raise vegetables and flowers.
The Fano North Sea baths, which
were built by stock company, have
been bought by one of the chief stock
holders, a Bremen banker named
Kapf.
The Copenhagen turner's union has
celebrated the 25Oth anniversary of it's
organization by giving an exhibition
OF some of it's productions and by
publishing a memorial volume. Some
of the oldest works of the union are
the most artistic.
A Copenhagen barber has been
working at his trade exactly fifty
years, and we are told that he never
had so much as one days vacation.
His friends raised a purse for him on
the occasion and this enabled him to
make pleasure trip. He is of Nor
wegian birth, but from social point
Of view he is so insignificant that the
newspapers did not take the trouble
to mention his name.
Something like panic has seized
the Danish dock laborers since their
strike was raised. The shipowners
now employ only men who swear that
they will belong to no labor union.
NORWAY.
I, An "academical mission meeting''
will besheld in Kristiania, June % and
"a, in connection with the sixth Scan
dinavian missionary conference, and
the following subjects will be dis
cussed: The Mutual Relation be-
tween the Missions and Civilization;
The Young People and the Mission
airy Problems; and What Kind Of La
borers are Needed in the Missionary
Fields?
Many civil engineers who have
passed examinations both in Norway
and abroad are unable to obtain en-
ployment at their trade in Norway,
and some of them will be compelled
to emigrate.
The department of the interior has
issued a circular announcing that To-
cal elections must not be held on
Sunday forenoons or other times at
which regular religious services are
conducted.
Sacred concerts were given in many
churches in Kristiania on the Seven
teenth of May as a part of the pro-
gram for the day.