Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-10


society of Italy from the hands of the
queen. At splendid banquet given
in honor of DR.. Hedin, the president
of the society, Prof. Dalla Vedova,
sent very sympathetic telegram to
the parents of DR.. Hedin.
In an excavation at Lila Strandga-
tan, Helsingborg, wooden barrel
was found at depth of IL feet. It
contained two rusty flint-locks, few
bombshells, a silver coin from the
year 1474, small horse shoe and
some other articles.
The money orders issued by the
post Offices of Sweden during the past
year amounted to almost 1000, 900.
The term of ten members of the
first chamber of the riksdag expire
this year.
The Swedish residents of Copenha-
gen have commenced to raise funds
for building a church of their own.
Miss Melin, a school teacher at Gall
stad, Vestergotland, was discharged
because her religious and temperance
work was unpleasant to certain in
fuential parties, and the board Of
education advertised for another
teacher. But that's where the joke
came in. No one offered to take her
place, and she is still teaching.
Prof. G. Hamilton, who occupied a
chair in the university of Lund since
1862, gave his last lecture at that in
stitution May IS. Prof. Ask, in behalf
of many generations of students, de-
livered an address of thanks to the re-
firing educator.
The Iron and Steel Institute, at an
executive session held in London,
awarded prizes og $3.50 each from the
Carnegie Fund to two Swedes.
The wagon factory at Arlof has
commenced to turn out ore cars, hav-
ing a capacity of 10000 pounds. The
construction of these cars is such that
by an easy manipulation of two levers
their contents may be dumped out at
once.
Over 700 men who are employed in
the mail service of Sweden have or
ganized themselves into a union, and
this union has called convention of
Scandinavian post Office employees to
be held in Stockholm, Aug. 27-29.
Master OLSON, of the commune
of Gard, near Ljungbyhed, refused to
serve in the army on account of re-
ligious scruples, and he was court
martialed to a tenn of five days in
the guard-house.
Swedish fishermen along the south
ern coast of Sweden have often been
put to great inconvenience by Ger
man travellers. But the Swedish gov
ment has complained to the govern
ment of northern German, and the
latter have issued strict orders to the
offending parties to observe the ter
ritorial rights of Sweden or run the
risk of punishment.
The committee of ways and means
proposes that the budget of expenses
for the year 1904 be put at $46,886, $50.
SCarl Snoilsky, the poet, is dead.
Since 1869 he has been one of the
most popular lyric poets of Sweden.
For years he was connected with the
foreign department, and at the age
of thirty-fve he succeeded Genberg as
a member of the Swedish Academy.
Goran Anderson of Halmstad, af-
ter several years spent in making ex-
periments, has at last succeeded in
producing an artificial stone for which
well-nigh boundless possibilities are
predicted. BY varying the proper
ton of the different materials almost
any kind of building stone may be
produced. Common sand is the main
ingredient, and this may vary from 40
to 80 per cent of the whole. A stock
company has been organized for ex-
plotting the invention.
The city of Upsala is going to have
a new pesthouse. The institution is
to cost about 100000, of which the
city council has voted about $4,000,
and $4,000 is gift from the widow
of the late Archbishop Sundberg.
The first chamber of the riksdag
has voted a sum not to exceed $4,000
for a relief expedition to the South
Pole, where Nordenskiold's expedition
is supposed to be in serious trouble.
The second chamber endorsed the
action of the first chamber by q vote
of lis against SO.
NORWAY.
Verdeus Gang states without any
attempt at euphemistic circumlocu'
ton that there is a powerful clique in
the Liberal party that favors resolu-
tons leading to q proclamation of the
dissolution of the union with Sweden
and calling out of the army. But the
paper adds that the most of the Nor
wegian people have no patience with
such a mad-cap, suicide policy. The
Vaccinations of that clique, however.
will bear close watching, or else
even the intelligent, patriotic voter
may be outwitted by the anti-union
plotters at the coming election.
A leading Liberal daily warns ito
followers to keep aloof from the So
eialists. If the Socialists want to get
into the stortling they should hustle