Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-11
DENMARK.

DENMARK.
The typographers of Copenhagen
have established a sanatarium for
consumptives at Fredensborg, and a
number of cures effected have made
the institution quite popular.
1t is not yet settled whether Den
mark is going to be represented at the
st. Louis exposition.
Mayor Borup of Copenhagen died
suddenly at the age of 66 years. He
served his city as mayor for twenty
years.
The Copenhagen city hospital for
the insane is overcrowded, and extern
sions must be added. The proposed
improvements will cost 100000, and
when the plans are completed the in
stitution will accommodate 1925 pa
tents.
cne imports of Denmark for the
year 1902 were about $1OS,OOO,OOO, and
the exports about $79,S5O,OO The
difference, therefore, is about 500 ,00O,-
600, and it runs against Denmark.
Great fire in Iceland. The big ware
house and stores of Drum and Wulff
were destroyed by fire. The entire
loss amounting to $4,000 will be COW
cred by an English insurance COM
pany.
The names of the new steamers of
the Scandinavian American steam
ship company will be the United
States and St. Olaf. Both Of them will
be of the same size and shape as the
N oh,
.er on the Atlantic
At Segalt, not far from Aarhus, the
family of butcher named Andersen
are down with smallpox. The pest is
supposed to have been brought to
Denmark by Danish dairyman i'll
Siberia who paid a visit to his old
Danish home.
SWEDEN.
A fresh and true bear story. A man
who had encircled a bear at Fiat Val
ley, Tannas parish, West Herjedalen,
sold his ''circle" to a Mr.. Than, a rich
business man at Soderhamn. and the
purchaser went in search of his goods
early one morning. 1t was not until
3 o'clock in the afternoon that he and
his companion came to a place where
dirt and gravel We're visible on top of
the snow. This meant bear work,
sure. His companion, who was the
man that had encircled the animal,
ran his ski staff into the ground, to
find out whether Bruin was at home.
In pulling it on: again he felt as if
something was trying to keep it back.
The second time he put his staff into
the ground it was pulled out of his
hand and disappeared under the snow.
Evidently the men were to be given a
warm reception. Mr.. Than next
stepped up and ran his ski-staff into
the hole. 1t was snatched away. He
took another one and began to be-
labor the bear with it until the ami
NAL thrust his head up through the
snow with roar. When the breast
became visible above the snow Mr..
Than fired just one shot, which was
so well directed that no further fuss
was necessary to finish the bear. It
was an old she-bear of considerable
size.
Two gentlemen who were hunting
in northern Skane met with a deer
that was too swift-footed for them,
settle the dispute with the animal
They let the dog loose early in the
forenoon. In a short while the dog
was out of hearing. Hour after hour
the men waited in vain for his return,
and they finally went home. Late the
same evening a deer came up the
steps at a. farm house in Halland, and
walked into the front hall, where the
inmates of the house took it with
their hands. Almost upon it's heels
came dog, and both animals were
completely exhausted. It was the
same amman that was started in the
morning by the two men. and which
had kept up it's flight through three
parishes, namely, Orkelljunga, where
the chase commenced, Tossjo and
Voxtorp.
Miss Beatrice Dickson of Gothen-
burg has established home for fac
tory girls at Garda, just outside the
city of Gothenburg. The aim of the
institution is to counterfeit, on small
scale, the demoralizing lodging sys-
TEN. - =
:* It has been suggested that the
~.wild," or Independent, members of
the riksdag organize themselves into
a new party. r. P. Waldenstrom, the
great religious reformer, is one of the
!. most active advocates of this move.
-. No peace for the army canteen.
i About 1000 rural congregations have
= expressed themselves against the sale
aof intoxicants at the barracks and
drill grounds Of the government and
ct the camps. Only one congregation
was in favor Of such sale. the argu-
3 ment offered being that the boys
ought to have something to brace
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