Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-07


public services. It is massive stone
structure from the twelfth century.
| About forty years ago it was found
to be too small for the congregation,
and new and much larger building
was put up at Bryn. Fortunately the
| communal authorities were sensible
enough to save and preserve the old
building though they had no use for
it, and the present pastor, Rev.
Munthe Haas, was instrumental in
having it restored.
Verdens Gang contains a weighty
editorial ON the importance of keep
ing large supply of coal and grain
in Norway in case of an invasion.
The character of the people and the
country is such, that if there is an
ample supply of coal and grain a
superior power may be successfully
resisted for great length of time.
But if either or both of these COM
modities are lacking, the people may
be starved into submission in the old
fashioned manner.
The Swedish Academy OF Sciences,
History and Antiquities has voted $50
to X. kjellmark, in order that he may
study stationary antiquities in Jemt-
land, and freplaces from the stone
age at Garavallen, near Linlhamn.
Prince Eugen has been authorized
to represent Sweden and Norway at
the coronation of King Alton 50 NIL,
of Spain.
King Oscar has notified the Upper
Lulea congregation that large part
of the land belonging to it's parson-
age must be transferred to the gov
eminent, to be used as site for mill
tary establishm Ants and Notifications.
The area of the parsonage is little
over 300 acres.
At this writing it looks rs though
Sweden will not be represented at the
worlds peace congress at Monaco,
April "a, although three persons were
appointed to attend the gathering.
So many cases of smallpox have de-
veloped in the wake of some Russian
saw-tilers in the province of Krono-
berg, that the chief of the medical
staff of the province leans towards
the opinion that the relation between
the two is that of cause and effect.
About two hundred Scotch physi-
clans have made arrangements for a
trip to Marstrand, June next.
The Pan-co-operative society of
Malmo closed the year with a deficit
OF $4,000. The society is running a
general supply store.
SO far all efforts to settle the jour
neymen bakers strike at Gothenburg
have failed. Not even Governor Lag
erbring of the province of Gothenburg
was able to make any impression on
the strikers.
The agricultural department is in
favor of collecting and publishing
crop reports once mouth from May
to September. The government may
make arrangements with the cooper
ative supply companies for furnishing
the original information.
The city council of Gothenburg has
resolved to issue bonds in the sum
of S2,700,OOO, to be paid in forty an
nual installments. At the same time
the council also decided to make a
complete Encouragement of the har-
Dor system of the city, and prizes
were offered for the best plans
Fire broke out in the middle of
the night in the Nyland brewery, Her
nosand. Mr.. Wesslund, the proprie-
tor, and his wife and three children,
all of whom lived in the second story
of the building, were unable to save
their lives.
The Luossavara and Kiirunavara
mining company held special meet
ing March 20 and passed a series of
resolutions, proposing the sale of the
real estate and the iron mines of the
company to the state, the subsequent
renting of the same by the company,
and number of amendments to the
contract between the company and
the government with regard to the
traffic on the railway between Gelli-.
ware and the Norwegian boundary
line. The resolutions are not binding
until they have been endorsed by a
regular meeting of the stockholders.
Twenty-Five persons in Sodertelje
forwarded certificates of withdrawal
from the state church to the king,
and petitioned him for permission to
organize Methodist Episcopal con-
gregation. The consistory of Strang-
mas stated that it had no reason to
refuse to grant the petition. Prof.
of Sillen added the following to the
minutes of the proceedings of the
consistory may possibly be construed
to mean certain hesitation, I wish
to add to the minutes that 1 for my
part unhesitatingly vote in favor Of
granting the petition. In my opinion
the open withdrawal of the petition
ers from the church will benefit both
her and them"
The managers of the Nobel fund
are going to loan $4,000 to the CITY
of karlstad.
The managers of the Grangesberg
iron works reduced the wages of their
employees ten per cent last winter.
In certain departments the men quit
work, and this was the signal for a
series of disturbances which finally
resulted in the discharge of all of the
$50 men who were occupied in filing
foreign orders.
Svenska Dagbladet tried to make
out that King Oscar owns valuable
real estate property in New York,
and that he is worth at least three
million dollars. But the manager Of
the affairs of the kings court an
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