Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-30
SWEDEN,


An exceedingly interesting and i'm
portant collection of old coins has
been found at the village of Stige,
1ndal parish, Medelpad. OF silver
coins alone, there are about 5000 sam
pies, including few that were car
ried away by parties who had no
right to them. Fortunately, however,
the most important ones were secured
by Sheriff c. J. Berggren, who will
see that the find is offered to the
state. A large part of the coins are
of Old English origin, dating from the
eighth century of the Christian era.
Many of them date from late era
of the Byzantine empire, and not a
few were coined by authority of the
emperors Of the German-Roman en-
pire of the Middle Ages (936-1214).
There are also samples of Old Roman
ing runic Gothic and Anglo-Saxon)
inscriptions, and of square coins
whose artistic pictures and beautiful
ornamentation suggest that they may
hail from ancient Iran or Hindustan.
The find also includes clipped coins,
which were simply clipped from long
bars and used in trade as other coins,
but which bear no inscriptions indi-
eating their origin. There are even
bars and plates from which these
plain coins we're clipped. Money of
the kind last mentioned was used in
Sweden as late as the sixteenth CEN
fury. The finder of this rare treasure
is j. A. Norman, a servant boy en-
ployed by o. A. Dalsten of Stige. He
will no doubt be well paid for his
trouble.
It is rumored that the Walden
stromites, or Mission Friends, are on
the eve of great internal contro-
versy, which may divide this free
religious body into two hostile camps.
If the rumor is correct the trouble
will be started in earnest when DR..
E. J. Ekman sends out his new book
on the divinity of Christ and on eter-
nal punishment.
For several years past the organ
lists, precentors and sections of the
state churches of Sweden have been
endeavoring to induce the govern
ment to abolish the Office of "klock-
are" (precentor and bell-ringer COM
bined), the main objection against
this time-honored institution being,
that it is detrimental to the cultiva-
ton of good singing and music. The
authorities, however, are making
haste slowly, and the whole matter
rests practically at the same point
now as it did three years ago.
The crown prince shot two elka
in the Bysta forests, Nerike.
Gustaf Morning, native of Malmo,
who formerly served as Turkish con-
sui general at Rotterdam, has written
a book against the sultan of Turkey.
The author lived in Constantinople
for number Of years, and no Swede
knows more than he does about tho
intrigues at the Yildiz kiosk. The
book appears in Swedish. Danish,
German, French, English, Dutch, Ital-
ian and Turkish, and it is in fact an
international campaign document in
favor of the young Turkish party.
The carricatures of Sultan Abdul
Hamid are very coarse. =:
Several cases of diphtheria have
occurred among the laborers engaged
in. the sugar beet fields Of Brosarp,
Skane. y - q = ..@.1. +. -. r.
The Grangesberg and Oxelosund
Traffic Company has resolved to raise
its capital stock from about S., e00,-
600 to about $780, 600. zSs5f sses.s.
The; tariff zone, or graded rate sy,s B
tenn, will Be introduced On the rail-
ways Of the Gothenburg and Otter
gotland railway company Jan. /, 1904.
There will be zones the first zona
being kilometers, the second 10 XII
ometers, the third 10 kilometers. tia
fourth is Hlometerh etc.