Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
Outsiders are causing the labor

| MAINTAINING IndC Cuc vote winch made
the labor unions join; the great ma
tional strike was Incorrectly reported.
| Again and again the executive COM
mittee of the associated labor unions
has been challenged to produce the
exact figures, but the committee
haughtily answers that it is against
the rules of the committee to publish
| such figures. The burden of the
| charge is, that there was not a bona
tide majority in favor of the strike.
The feeling against the labor leaders
is very bitter in certain circles. and
| some aggressive outsiders are endeav-
| oring to induce the government to
take hand in the matter.
A young Swedish sculptor named
Miles has attracted some attention as
| the author of striking sketch for the
Stem 'Sture monument at Upsala.
Lieutenant Ahnstrom won the first
prizes for riding and leaping at a
Berlin horse race.
Prof. Hans Won Petersen, the pres
ident of the Munich Art association,
sent the following address, through
the Swedish minister of foreign af-
fairs, to the artists of Sweden: IL
cannot but inform your excellency
that the artists of Bavaria and all
Germany are infinitely thankful be-
cause Sweden and the Swedish artists
| sent their art collection to the Munich
exposition. Without jealousy and
without dissent, the press and the
artists of all nations acknowledged
| that Swedish art ranks among the
very highest in the whole civilized
world, and, accordingly, Sweden may
justly be proud of her artists
A political club of the liberal brand
has been organized at Sundsvall, the
membership being Is at the very
start.
Large masses of ice were drifting
about in the northern part of the
Baltic sea as late as the LIST of June.
| Big steamers were compelled to sail
around the flakes. At one place a
floating mass of ice rose seven feet
above the water.
Stockholm, June 3.-The prophet
ors of ten machine shops have an
| nounced in the dailies that they will
close their establishments June Is if
the strike at the Separator is not
raised by that time. The aim of the
| manufacturers is to prove that they
are at liberty to employ whomsoever
they please and to close their shops
| at any time. The ten firms employ
1000 men, and the idle men at the
Separator will swell the number of
| men involved in the conflict to 5000.
Meanwhile the proprietors of the Sep
arator are endeavoring to induce their
| men to return to work.
A ruby weighing over four ounces
was taken by the Swedes at Prague,
bohemia, in the Thirty Years War,
and Queen Christina pawned it at a
shop owned by Jew in Amsterdam.
In the year 1895 Charles XI. redeemed
it, paying 100000 for it. A very re-
liable newspaper claims that the
precious jewel has disappeared from
the treasury, and that no one knows
| where it has gone.
The number of copies of newspapers
sent through the mails of Sweden in
1901 was 160,000,000. The number for
the year 1898 was 133,OO0,OOO.
In a number of German newspapers
the great political strike in Sweden is
| characterized as political. ,blunder.
The queen returned to Sweden June
II.
Fosterlandska Forbundet (The Pa
triotic League), through it's executive
committee, has issued a circular let
ter to it's adherents, urging them to
vote for candidates for the riksdag
| who are in favor of solving the suf-
| frage problem by extending the vot-
| ing franchise to all those who de-
| serve it.
The storll is disappearing from
| southern Sweden. In many villages
where their nests were numerous
twenty years ago they have entirely
disappeared. This is supposed to be
due partly to the draining of swamps
and partly to the removal of the
matched roofs of which this bird is sc
fond.
A man left Wextorp and batch Of
unpaid bills some sixteen years ago
and those holding the documents
cursed his memory. He went tc
America, of course. A few days age
he returned and paid his bills, which
amounted to about $500.
! Rev. Johan Nylander of Ullanger is
dead. He was known all over the
country as the socialist minister be-
cause he was an aggressive advocate
of the doctrines of the social demo
Gratis. He is said to have been the only
clergyman who co-operated and asso
ciated with August Palm, the noted
socialist lecturer.
| Three hundred men quit work al
the Batskarsnas sawmill, Norrland
because their employers ordered then
to withdraw from their labor union.
The city council of Stockholm, by
a vote of IL to "a, memorialized the
government to draw up bill for the
purpose of preventing strikes.
Mrs. NJ. F. Wallin, Stockholm, has
willed $780, to different charitable
institutions, $56,700 to private partie.
and the balance of her fortune to q
! permanent fund. the interest or
which is to be distributed by the city
council as this body may see fit.
The city council of Helsingborg has
completed plans for an electric street
car system.
The striking employees at the shops
of the Separator Manufacturing com.
pany, Stockholm, remain firm. Taking
a secret ballot, they decided by vote
of $50 to IS that they would not re.
turn to work on the old terms, but
they are willing to negotiate with