Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-23
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FINLAND.
Individual outrages in increasing
number come as an aggravating ad-
dition to General Bobrikoff's tyranni-
cal censorship of libraries and news
papers and his espionage of private
life. Recently Captain g. Fraser was
exiled from Finland with the privi-
lege of living in Russia proper. He
Immediately moved to st. Petersburg,
thinking this would remove all sha-
dow of suspicion from him. One
night he. was reused by gendarmes,
ordered to dress, handcuffed, gagged
and led away to the exile Office,
where he was chained with political
exiles bound for Siberia. Fraser is
highly respectable Finn of irreproach-
able character.
Legal proceedings were instituted
charge of lese majeste, but the case
was dismissed upon instructions from
the car.
DENMARK.
The criminal lawyers union of Co.
penhagen called a mass meeting for
discussing the proposition of intro
ducing whipping as a punishment for
certain crimes. A great number of
speakers were heard, and all but one
were opposed to the proposition. The
sentiment of the meeting was so
overwhelmingly one-sided that it was
considered superfluous to pass a for
NAL resolution.
The Swedish Bridge" at Guldborg-
sund. During the war of 1859 Swed-
ish army attempted to build bridge
from Falster to Lolland, but they did
not succeed. The work was COM
menced short distance north of
Pannebjerg, and seamen claim that
in clear weather they can see piles
rammed into the bottom of the sea.
In the middle of the current the task
proved too much for the engineers,
and they threw large quantities of
stone and timber into the channel
with the intention of closing up the
whole passage. At that time the
water must have been 81 or % feet
deep, but now it is 10 feet shallower.
The remains of this unfinished bridge
have been very annoying to naviga-
ton, but all attempts to remove them
have failed. Now an expert diver has
been engaged to make an investiga-
ton, and interesting developments
are expected.
A ma jority of the consistory Of
Karlstad, Sweden, voted in favor of
the revised edition of the ordination
oath which was drawn up by the re-
cent ecclesiastical council of Sweden.
Two prominent men voted in the
negative, however, namely, Prof. Bor-
jeson and Bishop Rundgren. They
objected to the following part of the
oath: II will preach the word of
God e. . according to my best I'M
derstanding and my conscience" The
remonstrants claim that this makes
reason the highest authority in re-
ligious matters, which is too apt to
lead to a rationalistic worship. They
also claim that it conflicts with Luth-
er's explanation of the third article
of the Apostolic Creed, in which these
words occur: IL believe that l cam
not by my own reason or power be-
lieve in Christ Jesus, my Lord, or
come to him."
Thrifty workmen. About fifty stone
ut 1ol CT
for higher rates last summer. The
strike has not been settled, and ne go
tiations between the contending par
ties are still pending. Meanwhile the
strikers have opened quarry of their
own, and are doing business on their
own account. They sell their pro-
ducts to a German firm at a price
which is SO low that it cannot be
touched by the operators that for
merly employed the strikers. The
strikers are enabled to sell their pro-
ducts at such low rates because they
are receiving $2.7O a week for each
man from the strike funds of the
labor unions Allehanda
The following incident shows how
difficult it is to waive the regulations
of the public. schools of Sweden. L.
F. Wahlgvist of Stockholm wished to
have his son excused from the study
of Luther's catechism and he had to
send a petition to the king. But the
petition had to be acted upon by the
board of education, which by vote
of Z to 3, resolved to endorse it and
forward it to the king.
The Swedes, SO far from being
afraid of intercourse with their
neighbors to the east, are even maxi
ing direct efforts to facilitate such
intercourse. The railway department
of Sweden is communicating with
the railway department of Finland
for the purpose of establishing a reg
ular transfer traffic between Nor
jarv, the terminus of the Swedish
railway system, and Tornea, the ter
minus of the railway system of Fin
land
All the depots on the new railway
running between Hvellinge and Fall
sterbo, via Skanor, will be lighted
by acetylene gas.
Experiments which were made last
summer proved that sugar beets will
do fully as well around Lidkoping as
in southernmost Sweden.
Prof. c. Wallis, who has made a
very thorough stud Y of the drink
problem, believe that the great re-
vivals of the future will embrace total
abstinence. But in Sweden, he says,
the most effective remedy for intern
perance will surely be the ever in
creasing burdens necessitated by the
improvements of the military de-