Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
Rouen, France. June s:-The statue

Rouen, France. June s-The statue
raised here in memory of CANCER Roi
was unveiled today in the presence OF
10 900 persons. b The address was de-
livered by the president of the Nor
mandy Memorial association After
wards the tomb of CANCER Rolf was
visited and to Queen Alexandra OF
England and the empress dowager OF
Russia the following telegram was
forwarded: 1.-TWO hundred thousand
| Normans celebrating the memory OF
| their Scandinavian ancestors convey
| their most humble greetings"
The crops are looking very prom
| ising in southern Norway.
Kristofer Janson, who organized
and served Unitarian congregation
in Minneapolis, is preaching every
| Sunday in the Kristiania labor union,
and his audiences are always large.
Rev. II. Haugerud, who has served
Unitarian congregations in Minneap-
| oils and in the states of Washington,
Massac husetts and Wisconsin, preach
ing in English and Norwegian in
discriminatory, is at present serving
the Unitarian congregation in Kris
tiania. His services are held in the
nall of the students union.
About 5000 barrels of cod liver oil
was produced in Finmarken during
the past year.
Ex-Premier Emil Stang celebrated
&c +; ~%l 10
invited a number of friends to his
home at Sandwich. From political
friends and foes alike he received nu-
merous congratulations.
SWEDEN.
The revenues from the whisky dis
tilleries for the first five months of
this year were about $1,5OO,OO0, as
against $685., 900 for the correspond
ing period of 1908.
Eight houses were reduced to ashes
at midnight in Malmberget, Norrland,
rendering sixty persons homeless.
There was no insurance on the prop
erty.
Forest fires have done considerable
damage near Finspong, Lindesberg
and Gaf1e
The great suffrage extension bill
which was drawn up by the govern
ment and defeated in the riksdag will
again be introduced in the riksdag in
1905, and it's provision for proportion
al representation will be retained.
P. P. Waldenstrom, the leader of
the Swedish Mission Covenant, is
highly displeased with the new YER
sion of the Bible, though the work
was done by some of the most suit
able men in the state church of Swe-
den.
Swedish lucifer matches are so
popular all over the world that manu-
facturers in different counties are in
the habit of putting the wellknown
Swedish directions on the boxes con-
tanning their matches.
The Swedish people has had no
day corresponding to the Fourth of
July in the United States, the Sew
enteenth of May in Norway, the Fifth
OF June in Denmark, etc. Such day
is quite handy to have, and the
Swedes have been looking around for
one. Two dates have been mentioned
prominently, the sixth and the TWEEN
ty-fourth of June. Both of these are
very important in the modern history
of Sweden. The sixth of June marks
the election of Gustaf Vasa as king
of Sweden and also the adoption of
the constitution of Sweden, and on
vune Goth Gustaf Vasa entered Stock
holm as newly elected king, and King
Gustaf Adolf landed on German soil
during the thirty years war. So far
the sixth of June seems to have the
best chances. The annual festivals at
the Stockholm Skansen point that
way. In Jemtland the monument to
Georg Adlersporre, the hero of lib
year, and resolution was passed to
celebrate the day every year. This
date has also been officially stamped
as public holiday, the consuls hav-
ing been instructed to hoist the Swed-
ish colors in the same manner as on
May II and November T.
The Vossische Zeitung deplores the
AoAu1C u %AC SOScIuAlcut " pEOFluc
for the construction of the proposed
Moselle canal. Through this canal
the iron-making industry of Germany
could have been supplied with iron
ore from the Lothringen ranges in
stead of sending enormous sums of
money out of the country. The same
paper remarks that the German iron
manufacturers have found it expedi-
ent to close contract with the
Grangesberg company of Norrland,
calling for a total delivery of a.
100000 tons of iron ore at a cost of
about $60,OO0,0OO. The contract cov-
ers number of years.
A number Of small farmers in Da-
larne have made trip through GER
tain farming communities in southern
Sweden and in Denmark for the pur-
pose of obtaining information on up
to-date farming on a small SCALE
German scientists seem to have
gone rather far in making, investi-
cations in old ruins in southern Swe-
den, digging in the ground where
they had no permission to do so, and
even carrying away relics found by
them.
/ The head of the Karls Krona artil-