Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-27
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| to the effect that the organizations
in the two countries shall aid each
other when necessary The Swedes
are resolved to negotiate with Their
Danish fellows with Il view to the
establishment of closer connections
''The Welfare of the Brother Ma.
| tons" The above society is Il Nor
wegian-Swedish organization main
tanned for the avowed purpose OF
cultivating better understanding
between the Swedes and the Norwe.
gians. Delegates from the local so.
cietieS will meet in Stockholm in a
few days to devise plans for energetic
work. The following questions will
be discussed: Norwegian-Swedis
shooting matches; the temporary ex
change of young people between the
two countries; the exchange of in
structors at the higher institutions
of learning; joint meetings for dis
cussing important questions, such as
that of temperance; the encourage
ment of school children and students
to make excursions into the country
of the brother nation, etc.
DENMARK.
The union book binders in Copel-
! hagen notified their employers that
they would no longer abide by the
old agreement, and the employers
answered by general lockout
throwing about 1000 persons out OF
work.
The tearing down of the old Swan.
holm brewery in Copenhagen has al
ready cost two human lives.
The police departments of Copen-
hagen and .\arhns have just intro.
duced the system Of taking impress
sions of the thumbs of criminals as
means OF recognizing them.
Dharmapala, Il Hindu educator, has
paid visit to the Asllov peoples
| high school. lie lectured to the stud.
ents in English, and his companion
translated what he said into Danish
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
of England spent an hour and a half
in the Copenhagen court house
King Edward took particular interest
| in the elevator and he was the only
one Of a numbeE of royal visitors who
dared to take Il ride in it. When
he entered. King Christian said to
the elevator man: "Be careful. a
great responsibility rests on YOU"
SWEDEN.
The new capitol will soon lie ready
and the risdag may remove from Rid
darholmen (knight's sIantD to Hell
geandsholmen Nloly Ghost sland)
The acoustics Of the assembly halls
have been tested by members of the
rillsdag and found to be excellent
The rooms are we'll lighted, and in
the hall of the second chamber 1903
persons may be comfortably seated
For years the engineers of Sweden
have been figuring on the prac-
ticability of operating electric pow
er stations right in peat boys, so that
the energy can be transmitted as
electric currents instead of hauled in
the form of peat. Two such plants
they will be the first ones of their
kind not only in Sweden but in the
whole world. One of the plants is To-
Gated in a bog at Skabersjo, and if
it proves Il success it will supply
Skabers. 10 and Svedala with heat and
light. The other is built at Burang.
berg by the Grangesberg mining com
pany. 1t is needless to say that the
results of the experiments will be
watched with keen interest.
The railway department has order
ed a lot of books which are to be dis
tributed as small libraries among the
laborers working on the new rail
ways built by the government.
\ number of citizens of Gothen-
burg have raised 100000 by donations
for the construction of a concert hall
in that city.
The king has signed check for
$4,000 for the purchase of cooking
ranges and supply wagons for the
army.
j. \. Johansson fell down shaft in
the Hoganas coal mines. The dis
lance was several hundred yards, and
everybody expected to find him beat
en- almost into pulp. But he had
only broken a few ribs and received
hard blow on the left thigh, and in
a few weeks he will be able to do
easy work. His case is classed among
miracles.
The Gar of Russia has decorated
Col. j. \. NJ. Blomstedt of the general
staff with the order of St. Stanislaus,
second class, and Capt. A. w. l..
Brunnstrom of the Skane dragoon
regiment with the third class of the
same order.
The remains of Mayor A. Alderman
of Kristianstad were buried at the
new cemetery in Stockholm, Rev. 3.
Wadstrom officiating.
Captain o. f. Lybeck left for St.
Petersburg April 9 to accompany the
Russian navy in the war in the east.
The Arvika machine shops were not
sold to the American Steel Trust,
though the offer was tempting. Now
the Americans threaten to build a
factory of their own in Sweden, the
movement being headed by the In
ternational Harvester Company of
Chicago.
The Importance of the sugar in
dustry of Sweden may be judged
merely from the facts that $4,000
acres of land is devoted to beets,
that the annual production of sugar
sometimes exceeds 100000 tons, and
that the total value of this is about
100000.