Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-11

lnese bricks contain Us per cent of
iron. The fields that have been care
fully explored contain about so, 000, 900
tons of iron ore. and the other fields
are supposed to contain 1OO,O00,000
tons. The Norwegians claim that the
Cumberland iron range is the most
extensive in Europe. Among the di-
rectors OF the company may be men,
toned Armstrong, the famous ship
builder, and Thomas Edison.
SWEDEN.
The financial affairs of the medical
students of Upsala have been subject
ed to an interesting scrutiny. A Sc
ries of questions were answered by 81
of them, and the following facts were
established: They had been studying
at the university from one and a half
to ten years. a little over one-third
of them must borrow all the money
they need, and one-fourth of them
have contracted some debt, so that
over one-half of them are in debt.
One-ffth of them have lot borrowed
money yet, but they expect to do so
in the future. Less than onc-fourth
expect to complete their studies with
out contracting debt. The expenses
run from $500 to $500 a year.
The rates on the passengev steam
ers running between Sweden and
Denmark have been materially raised.
The Railway Employees Total Alb
stinence Association has started
local society of fifty members In NAL
mo.
A large meteor of dazzling white
ness was observed in the night at
Helsingborg. AS it struck the sea
a high column of water was thrown
up.
Queen Sophia's union has received
a gift of 500 from Kristina Nilsson.
o. Asklund, a prominent master
baker in Gothenburg, has withdrawn
from the master bakers union and
yielded to the demands of the strik-
ing journeymen. By this step he for
feited over $4,000 to the master bak-
ers' union, and the latter has resolved
that the money shall go into it's treas
ury.
The board of aldermen of Helsing-
borg has proposed the construction
of an electric street railway in that
city.
King Oscar has appointed Prof. H.
H. Hildebrandsson of the university
of Upsala to assist the weather bureau
of France in making observations as
to the meteorological conditions of
the upper regions of the atmosphere
over Denmark
The work on the new ironclad Man.
igheten (Manliness), at the Kockum
shipyards, Malmo, is progressing rap
idly, and the vessel will be launched
early next year.
The Cooperative Supply company
of the province of Malmohus will pay
the travelling expenses of twenty pro-
gressive farmers who are to make a
trip through the most prosperous
farming communities of Denmark.
Some new buildings will be erected
at the Rinkaby proving grounds.
A woman's suffrage meeting was
held at the commercial institute of
Gothenburg April 80. The hall was
crowded with women, and all the
speakers were in favor of woman's
suffrage. At the close of the meeting
it was resolved to organize woman's
suffrage club, and a committee of five
was elected to push the work.
The riksdag has raised the tax on
beet sugar, the new rate being twelve
per cent of the clear profit.
Both chambers of the riksdag have
voted in favor of setting aside max
imum of 100000 as loan fund for
the encouragement of the develop
ment of the peat fuel industry.
The first chamber of the rillsdag is
in favor of raising the tariff on to-
bacco.
DR.. Anton Nystrom's historical
work on the struggles for supremacy
in eastern Europe between Sweden,
Russia and Poland will soon be pub
lished in German and Polish.
A resident of Mysjo has kept all
tramps off his premises by keeping a
sheriff's cap hanging in his front hall.
Baron G. Tamm, former stakeholder
of Stockholm, has been elected as a
member of the board of trustees of
the Nobel fund in place of the late
Hans FOrsell.
King Oscar, on his return from BIZ
arritz, was to visit the Scandinavian
department at the Sainte Genevieve
library in Paris.
An unusually large number of Eng
fish tourists are making preparations
for salmon angling In Sweden next
summer.
The foreign consuls at Shanghai
have elected F. Hagberg, consul gen
eral of Sweden and Norway, men,
Der of the court of consuls. His cleo
ton was unanimous.
Over $4,000 has been raised for the
erection of an equestrian statue of
King Charles XIV. in Stockholm.
The city of Gefe can boast of an
eleven-year old thought reader. He
is the son of laborer and is attend
ing the public school.
Bruno Liljefors, the Swedish paint
er, has exhibited some of his best
works at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
LIE Figaro considers Liljefors to be
one of the leading colorists of his
time.
A cargo of coal. from England could
not be unloaded at Malmo. The vessel
carrying the coal belongs to the Unit
ed Steamship company of Denmark.
The Danish coal beavers and dock
laborers are at war with this COM
pany, and the Malmo dock laborers
made common cause with their Dam