Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-25


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SCANDINAVIA:
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FINLAND.
Eleven members of the court of 100
as we'll as the clerk and three nota-
r1es of the same court have been dis
missed from service without pension
because the court caused legal pro-
ceedings to be instituted against Gov
ernor Kaigorodoff upon private
charges preferred against him on ac-
count of the manner in which he act
ed with regard to public demonstra-
ton In Helsingfors last spring.
DENMARK
Mr.. Jensen, socialist, will no doubt
be elected mayor of Copenhagen.
he is sensible and very active man,
and his election will cause no dis
turbance whatever in the affairs of
the city.
Art, a Cry for Help,'' is the title
of booklet published by A. H. Kold
of Copenhagen, and it contains the
following precious dedication: ITO
the Nazarene, Buddha and Zoroaster,
to Georg Brandes, Troels Lund and
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, to
Homer, Goethe and Henrick Ibsen,
with respectful and loving gratitude,
dedicated by the author.''
SWEDEN
The work on the new electric street
railway of Helsingborg is progressing
rapidly.
The French minister of agriculture
has ordered 1877 sacks of seed barley
from the Svalof seed farm. The bar
ley will be distributed for expert
ments in different parts of France.
Prince Gustaf Adolf is bedridden
in Kristiania. The doctors, after
some doubt have declared his all
ment to b. scarlet fever. He is ex-
pected to recover in about six weeks.
The lecture which DR.. Sven Hedin,
the explorer of Central Asia, gave at
Stuttgart was attended by the king
and queen of Wuertemberg, a num-
Der of excellencies and generals, and
six professors from Tucbingen.
Many farmers in the country
around Skurup are not going to raise
any sugar beets next summer.
A cruel joke has been played on
the Swedish minister of finance. Like
many other prominent Swedes he en-
joys a drink at meals. But he does
not buy his nectar by the bottle like
many men of smaller bore, he buys
key at time. In his cellar there
was also mongrel lot of empty bot
ties from former administrations, and
those he resolved to get rid of. The
man who was ordered to take away
the truck, however, could not find a
single bottle in the cellar. An ugly
suspicion began to ooze up in his
mind. He went to the brannvin-keg,
which by right should contain a gen.
erous supply of liqour. He turned
the fawcet. Not a drop was there!
Thieves had tapped the liquor into
the bottles and carried it all away
in that manner because this was far
safer than to try to carry away the
key. For obvious reasons the min
lister of finance did not report the
theft to the police. But as the man
who was sent to take away the emp
ty bottles could not keep the secret
it became the property of the world.
The Swedish tourists club has 3d.
O13 members, the increase for the
past year being 1881. The total re-
ceipts for the past year were $4,000,
and the expenditures $4,000.
Gefle will soon have club of alb
stainers from distilled liquors as a
protest against the whisky tax. Nc
former abstainers shall be admitted
into the club.
The lumbermen of Norland and Da-
larne have already sold about one.
half of their output for the now
ing season.
The municipal court of Stockholm
has decided that S. A. Andree, who
assembled from Danes Island in bal
loon July II, 1898, shall be consider.
ed dead if he does not return within
year from now.
Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria re-
ceived DR.. Sven Hedin, the explorer
of Central Asia, in audience.
Prince Wilhelm wrenched his foot
while skating so that he had to re-
main quiet for few days.
The famine has cut down the stock
fearfully in northern Sweden. In
the latter part of the year 1902 the
reduction of stock in Norrland was
as follows: Horses, GAL; COWS, TO-.
,910; young cattle, 1924; sheep, 80,
1879.
Dr. Sven Hedin, the explorer o,
Central Asia, has returned to Swedeb
from his lecturing trip through Eu.
rope, which was a triumphal march
from the first to last.
e. Tn. Nystrom, professor of chem,
tistry, in a Chinese university, has
succeeded in teaching his students
to play football and other European
games.
: A Swedish writer tries to prove
Y. b.