Willmar tribune., 1904-08-03

BILE for the wrecking of the steamer
Norge is to be secret affair. Many
newspapers express their indignation
at this arbitrary ruling.
SWEDEN.
The National Good Templars OF
Sweden held their annual meeting in
Malmo. The total membership was
25,369, besides 5,545 members of juve-
nile lodges.
Rev. K. M. Lindh, formerly pastor
of the Methodist congregation in
Malmo, was recently consecrated at
Upsala for the ministry of the state
church of Sweden.
Axel Eliasson, a Stockholm dealer
in picture cords, was assessed on an
income of $31, 500 for the past year.
Five hundred acres of timber was
ruined by fire at Rod, Bohus Ian, and
it took 500 men to put it out.
The iron and metal workers union
has raised it's reserve fund to $780,
600.
The general staff has published the
entifc Results of a Journey in Gen.
tral Asia, 1899-19O2." It is written
in English, and the author and the
Swedish people may justly be proud
of the publication. It will require
five additional volumes to complete
the work.
Miss Hanna Roos of Hjelmsater,
who died in 1901, bequeathed $6,750
to charitable institutions the name of
which the executors of her will are
unable to find, except in her will. The
alleged institutions are said to be in
| Stockton. The executors have asked
a notary public to find some party or
parties that are entitled to the money.
The farm laborers of Skane are or
ganizing themselves into labor un-
ions. The movement is only a few
weeks old; but the local union at
Marsvinsholm has already threatened
| it's employers with a strike unless
higher wages are paid. The result of
this new departure in the farm life
ing.
King Oscar has appointed II. r..
Biorklund, postmaster general of
Sweden, to serve as governor of Ves-
terbotten Ian, in place of the late Gov.
Crusebjorn.
| On July II it was seven years since
Capt. Andree and his two companions
left Spltzbergen on their ill-fated
aerial voyage to the North Pole.
In a railway accident at Nyaker
injured. The damage to the rolling
stock was $4,000.
Mr.. Lkberg, a mate on board the
Per Brahe, is the proud possessor of
seven medals which signify that he
has saved seven lives. And he will
soon get the eighth, for he saved a
sailor named Carl Jonsson, at Mala-
fors, a few days ago. Jonsson fell
into the water from the steamer, and
had already disappeared when Elk
berg jumped in and fetched him out
| again. Both of them were in danger
! of being crushed between the steamer
and the quay.
The department of agriculture has
proposed the draining of the govern
ment lands at Altrask, Norrland, at
cost of about $4,000. The aim of
the proposed improvement is to make
the land suitable for colonization on a
somewhat large scale. The depart
ment of agriculture backed up the
proposition by lengthy document
setting forth the possibilities of Norr-
land as region suitable for agricul-
tural and stock raising. The depart
ment of the public domain has en-
dorsed the plan.
The Grand Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Good Templars of Swe-
den held its twenty-five years. jubilee
at Malmo. The gain for the past year
was 9,132 members, raising the total
membership of the grand lodge to
11s,69s. This is the largest I. o. G. T.
grand lodge in the world. The re-
ceipts for the past year exceeded $780,
900. The receipts of the publishing
department were $4,000, of which $2,-
900 were profits.
! A Jonsson of Tuna bequeathed $5,-
900 to the municipality, the money to
be spent for the benefit of poor chill
dren.
One peculiar feature of the strike
at Marsvinsholm, Skane, deserves q
separate paragraph. The women for
merly employed in milking the cows
joined the strike, and over 200 milch
cows were affected. Some of the
animals began to suffer, and a report
dated July IL states that the strike
may necessitate q wholesale butcher
ing of cows. **"@:
The farmers of Skane feel that
something must be done to check the
new farm laborers' union, and in
many localities the farmers are Or
ganizing themselves into what might
be styled protective unions. a.