Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-25

wegians beat the universe. Numer-
Gus foreign correspondents advertised
the games throughout the civilized
world. X. Hovelsen, a Norwegian, won
the so kilometer ski race, covering the
distance in All. He had 20 Norwe-
gian and 18 Swedish competitors.
Only Norwegians won prizes in this
race.
SWEDEN
The central bureau of statistics has
just published an elaborate report on
the census of Dec. 81, 1900, and the
following data, though far from fresh,
was taken from that report. On the
above date there were 5,136,441 per-
sons in Sweden, 2,630,005 of them be-
ing women and 2,506,436 men. The
cities contained 1,103,951 persons, the
rest of the country 1902, 400. The in
crease for the year was $1,000. The
number of couples married was 3D.
ATS. The number Of marriages in
creased steadily from 1894 to 1899.
and 1904 married women died, there
by reducing the number of married
families by 25,717. The whole num-
Der of children born was 141,717, of
whom 13s,139 were alive. The in
crease in the number of births%of liv-
ing children was 4,257. The whole
number of deaths was Sc, LAG, a de-
crease of 1852 in one year.
The custom house receipts for the
year 1902 were $15,OS2, 1857. This is
an increase of $1,667, 211.1O, as COM
pared with the receipts for the previ-
Gus year.
The time for introducing new bills
in the riksdag expired Jan. ~. By
that time AZ bills had been introduced
in the first chamber and 1923 bills in
the second chamber.
The London Standard recently con-
tanned an eulogistic account of the
life of King Oscar on the occasion of
his failing health, and the temporary
transfer of his duties to the crown
prince.
The Swedish tourists society has
over 10000 members.
The city council of Eksjo has unan-
imously resolved to give grounds for
barracks and drill grounds for the
Smaland Hussar regiment. The of
fer is unconditional.
mated $13,50O to the city of Linkoping
for the establishment ola lyin-in hos
pital.,
Reports from Stockholm state that
the crown princess is becoming blind.
Famous Swedish, Russian, German oe-
~ulists have been consulted vainly, and
it is feared that the princess will soon
become totally blind, .'~>.. =.
T: The last riksdag set aside. $500, 1000
as loan fund for the encouragement
of the preparation and use of peat for
fuel. Some members of the present
riksdag wish to go still further. They
propose that the state furnish an ex-
ample by using peat for the engines
ON the state railways: wherever fairly
good peat can be bought at the, rate
of 1886 a ton. Peatsi used regularly
on some of the freight trains running
between :. Malmo. !, and ,Alfvesta, and
peat is also used instead, Of coal at
two of the largest manufacturing
plants of Skane. & @ 81
z During a thaw at Hoberget, Boil
mas, "snow: feas''''@ appeared in such
great numbers that it looked as if the
snow: had been covered with SCOT.
" The Stockholm street car company
has at last decided to run its cars. by
electricity. III ..zs: =sz:.z, :E= + ~ ...s
Gustav Georgii, Of the Lulea: brew
cry, is said to have invented "a new
malt beverage, which contains only
/ one third Of one per cent Of alcohol,
The drink has 8 clean, pleasant taste,
The beers that pass as quasi temper
tance drinks contain at least four
times as much alcohol as the new
drink. Gustav GeorgiM has not yet
given . name to- his beverage. . zss=+s
Telephone connections were estab-
/ lished by irresponsible parties across
! the boundary line between Sweden
and Finland at Tornea, but the senate
of Finland resolved to sever the con-
I nections.