Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-08

ferent European countries, the money
to be paid to Prof. Verrier in the
course of the next five years.
DENMARK.
hagen, is dead. His vocation was to
go from house to house, or rather
from yard to yard, to preach the
gospel.
An English company is contemplate
ing the construction of railway
from Husavik, in northern Iceland, to
the sulphur deposits at Theysta Key
kir. The line may be extended to
the interior Of the country. ,
The large guano factory at Mum
delstrup, near Aarhus, was burnt to
the ground. Eighty men were thrown
out of employment. The insurance
on the buildings was $4,000.
A dead man lying beside his wheel
was found on the road near Valby. A
physician who was called to the scene
found that the mans neck was brok-
en-.
lightning set fire to several buildings
in different parts of the country, and
the damage was considerable.
An automobile omnibus line has
been established between Sundby and
Dragon, the latter point being located
at the east end of Amager. This
means that the people of Copenhagen
will have a new place for holiday out
ings.
\ Young man lost control of his
motor cycle on Orstedvei, Fredriks
berg. and he finally ran through the
front window of building which was
in process of construction. He was
picked up unconscious behind the win
dow. and the blood was flowing freely
from gashes cut by the broken win
dow. His life is not despaired of,
however.
The United Steamship Company in
tends to establish direct line Of
steamers between Copenhagen and
Baltimore.
SWEDEN.
Sweden had 1921 ,291 inhabitants at
the close of the year 1908. The in
crease for that year was %, $50, or
0.43 per cent, which was the lowest
percentage for nine years past.
Was the communion cup RESPONSE
BILE for a case of diphtheria In Box
hede parish, Smaland, a girl was talk
en- sick with diphtheria shortly after
she had been to the communion table,
and it was ascertained that a boy who
drank from the cup just before her
lived in house where several per-
sons were sick with that disease. All
that the physicians could say with
certainty was, that the disease might
have been transmitted by the COM
munion cup.
The suffrage extension bill, on
which the government had spent SO
much hard work and which had agf-
tated the riksdag for months, was
finally rejected by the second cham
Der of that body. The sad fate of
the bill was due to it's complicated
character. Many amendments were
introduced, but they only seemed to
make the confusion worse. The pro-
vision for proportional representation
caused more trouble than any other
feature of the bill.
The tariff on electric machines has
been raised from 10 to Is per cent ad
yalOrem.
A new company has acquired con-
troll of Stockholmsbladet and Dagligt
Allehanda, two leading Stockholm
dailies.
The Swedish butter testing COM
mittee has resolved to introduce a
national label for Swedish butter. A
special butter labelling committee was
appointed, and one of the tasks of
this committee will be to induce the
British authorities to register the
Swedish butter label when it is in
troduced. This step was necessary for
the protection of Swedish butter in
the English market.
Each of the two chambers of the
riksdag has passed portions of the
bill for enabling poor city wage work
ers and farm laborers to procure
homes of their own, but as there are
more or less important differences be-
tween the portions passed by the two
chambers the final form of the bill
is not known at this writing. All that
can safely be said is that it looks
as if the government will furnish
maximum of $2,7OO,OOO as loans to
poor workmen, on small homes, dur
ing the next five years.
The city fire insurance concern of
Stockholm has set aside $4,000 for
the defences of the city.
The importation of Polish laborers
by the sugar manufacturers of south
ern Sweden is agitating the minds of
the people to such an extent that the
matter was discussed at some length
in the second chamber of the riks-
dag. Nothing was done by that body,
however, to put stop to the prac-
tice
The Swedish Employers Union held
it's annual meeting in Stockholm. The
members employ about $4,000 persons.
The government has loaned about
one million dollars to the shipping
concerns out of the funds set aside
for that purpose.
The executive committee of the
Geographical Society of Toxic has de-
cided to publish DR.. Sven Hedin's
'Asia, Thousands of Miles on Un-
known Ways" in Japanese immedi-
ately after the war.
The Honsbylte and Oyarnamala rail-