Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-27

Crown Princess Victoria left Stock
holm Jan. on her way to karlsruhe.
EIhe government insurance bureau
has asked for a revision of the laws
by which it is governed. The present
laws provide that the injured shall
receive aid only when he sustains an
injury which is so severe that he ac-
tually needs aid two months later.
The working of the laws is something
unexpected. Only five per cent of the
injuries by workipgmen come within
the pale of the laws, the other nine
ty-tive per cent being so Slight that
their evil effects are overcome with
IN two months. The result is, that so
far only $4,000 workmen have ar
ranged for government insurance,
while 100000 carried insurance in pri-
vate companies one year ago. Now
the government insurance bureau
wants the laws changed so as to in
clude smaller injuries as we'll as in
juries sustained while the insured is
off duty.
Consul Oscar Ekman has handed to
Bishop Won Scheele $4,000 as dona-
ton for the establishment of 1.-The
Chair of Oscar H." at Augustana
College and Theological Seminary,
Rock Island, III.
special course of lectures for
young men who propose to become
secretaries of Y. NJ. C. A's.'will be
given in Stockholm from Feb to
May 81. The number of branches
discussed being about one dozen.
new imperial decree which prac-
tically deprives Finland of the last
remains Of local self-government was
issued at the close of the old year.
This decree gives the governors au-
thority not only to make it difficult
to elect local officials that are OBJ
jectionable to the government but
also, If such are elected, to annul
their election and appoint others in
their places.
"Fru' to be common title for all
women, married as well as single.
The Union Women's club of Helsing-
fors has agreed to accept the title
''Fru'' for all women. This word,
which was borrowed from the Ger
man Frau" means MRS" But this
club wants to extend it's use to UNI
married women, doing away with
''Froken" (Miss), which was borrowed
from the German ''Frauchen." The
president of the club was instructed
to endeavor to induce the women Of
the other Scandinavian countries to
take up this matter for discussion.
The salaries of the members of the
senate of Finland have been raised
by the new government from St. Pet
ersburg. The senate has done it's
best to hasten the classification of
Finland. The well-paid senators now
have to converse with Russians ex-
clusively because their own country
men refuse to have any intercourse
,, with them.
NORWAY.
1t was announced that the saloons
(samlag) were voted in at Fredriks-
tad at the October election by ma
| jority of $50. But the anti-saloon
people cried fraud" and a recount
was made. 1t was found that 800
voters had sent their ballots with
others, and such votes are void, plac-
ing that many votes against the sa-
, looms. The result seems to be an an
ti-saloon majority of about $40.
The loss of Norwegian ships is so
common that the following news item
was crowded into the corner of a
Kristiania daily for Jan. s: 1.-THE
crews of six wrecked Norwegian ships
arrived here yesterday, and put up
at the Seamen's home.'
Three children were drowned in
Eidangerfjord Jan. 2. Their mother
had gone out to fetch some milk, and
during her absence they went out on
the ice, broke through and were
drowned. These were the last chill
dren in the family, fourth one hav-
ing died a year ago. The despair OF
their mother is heartrending. Her
husband, who is a sailor, has been
, working in America.
because he, though republican, had
chat with the king. To this censure
Biornson says: "It is true that in
my opinion we are all drifting to-
wards the republic, and hold this
to be a gain. But it is also true that
the state church, which I actually
hate and despise, is marching away
from us. Is this any reason why ]
! should not have a conversation with
a minister, not to say a bishop? And
for that reason not find the bishop
amiable when he actually is sop
AS soon as the news of the fire in
the Iroquis theater, Chicago, reached
Kristiqnia, Verdens Gang wired to
Skandinaven, Chicago, asking for the
names of the Norwegians that per.
ished in the fire. The cablegram
giving the names was soon received
printed as an extra issue and dis.
tributed. Both the Norwegians and
the Swedes claimed Miss Antonette
Peterson, the principal of the high
school at Fargo, N. D. AS matter Of
fact she was born in Fillmore county
Mimi, and. her parents were Norwe'
gians.
Incredible as it may seem, the or
gan of the labor unions announces
that the bust of Bjornson will be re
moved from the halls used by the
unions because Bjornson antagon
lied the Radicals during the last cam
paign.
William Archer recently had an ar
ticle on Henrik Ibsen's Years of APP
premiership" in the Fortnightly Re
view