Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-04-01
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| DENMARK.
t Kaiser Wilhelm is expected to visit
King Christian April 2
| The impending lockout IN the build
! ing trades in Copenhagen may be
| sVerted by a compromise.
| Prof. Harald Hoffding. a leading
authority on the history Of philos-
| ophy, received numerous tokens of es-
| TEEN On his sixtieth birthday. He is
| president, OR rector of the universi-
ty of Denmark.
A number of Danish physicians are
| going to make a tour of the Norwegi-
an watering places next summer.
| The Social Democrats are about to
petition the government for general
commercial suffrage law and a pro-
| portiona1 election law.
The publishers and printers Of the
| Copenhagen dailies have organized
| themselves into a union for mutual
aid and protection.
SWEDEN.
During the month of February 49,
600 gallons of cegnac (whiskey) was
| imported to Ma,mo, while the total
import of 1902 was 26,1oO gallons.
The granite cutters union of South
ern Sweden has concluded that the
government accident insurance plan is
unsatisfactory. and the union will
establish an insurance department of
it's own.
The master tanners international
union will hold its next annual meet
ing in some city in southern Sweden.
Representatives from all European
| countries will be present at the gath
ering.
The profits of the government bank
of Sweden for the year 1902 were
Ses7 1903.
The governor of Lulea has bought
10000 bushels of seed oats and barley
from Canada.
The art society of Norrkoping has
offered to loan Isl paintings by Swed-
ish artists to the school board of the
city for being permanently kept on
exhibition in the public school build
, ings.
The non-commissioned officers are
not apt to obtain remunerative posi-
tons in civil life after long military
service, and their regular pension is
pecially if they have families. Fol
these reasons they have just com
n'enced to raise pension fund o.
! their own, the preliminary work be
ing in the hands of committee o.
fifteen able men. The movement wa:
, started in Stockholm.
The sjangeli copper range at Torn.
lake, near the Norwegian boundar,
line, Is said to have been bought b,
an American syndicate for about 81,
0o0,O 900.
T. Tjader, we'll known missionary
= recently announced that he woult
speak on Strike for Higher Wages
| at Stockholm mission house. Tn
result was, that the house was packet
to the point of suffocation, and man.
people were unable to get inside tn
doors. The lecture turned out to b.
complete surprise. The speaker ad
vocated a general strike against sill
and the devil because those partie
pay too low wages, namely, the tran
tory pleasures of this forlorn earth
The speaker next appealed to his an
dience to apply for employment t
the firm of the Father, the Son an
the Holy Ghost, who will be sure t
pay far higher wages. Some of til
, wicked worldly papers criticize thi
sort of ''man-fshing.''
Three hours of session of the riks
tag were devoted to heated contre
versy concerning the reports of tn
famine in Norrland which have az
= peared in American papers. Certai
members report that the reports wer
:. exaggerated and that the central fan
d inc committee had besmirched til
20 fame of Sweden by engaging in til
~ campaign of mendicancy. This ELF
IS tied vigorous contradiction fro,
J. members who had taken pains full
to inform themselves The deba1
}" leaves the situation in the Merriam
"a as serious as before. A large an
D. sustained flow of relief is demande'
There are now among the famine su
ferers conscientious observers DO,
from the United States and Europ
The more thorough their investig
t. tons the more firm is their eonvictie
that the situation is desperate Swe
- ems central famine committee di
misses the censure of the hostile sc
,a ton of the r1ksdag with scant cou1
~ esy and reafrms its determination
:, defend and aid the famine victim
It by every means in its power. II
"a opinion that Sweden has been d
N graced by the committees appeal
IN the world in the name of humani
"a is denounced as worse than silly.
H. The estate of the late Robert Die
son is valued at $2,ooo,0O0
~. The Tel1us marble works at Hah
q stad will soon prove a competitor
~ the stove factories by furnishil
he cheap and beautiful heating stow
r. made chiefly of marble
in A Swedish scientist who is -entitl
ha | to propose candidates for the Mol