Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-10

| hlm handsome souvenir made from
! the metal of the church bells. 1t will
be remembered that Kaiser Wilhelm
sent relief to the burnt city before
anybody else seemed to know what to
do.
SWEDEN.
Kristiania, Norway, Aug. 1.-Dis-
patches received here report that a
| Norwegian whaler has found, north
of Spitzbergen, a. letter from Prof.
Andree dated 1908. The text of the
letter is not disclosed. Prof. S. A.
Andree left Spitzbergen in a balloon
! July II, 1897, with the intention of
crossing the north pole. He has not
| been heard from since.
Sixty copercailzies (tjader) were
! taken from southern Sweden and let
loose in some government forests in
Canada. They cost the Canadian gov
eminent about $25 apiece by the time
they reached their place of destina-
ton.
A minister in northern Bohus Ian,
who is dead sure that Port Arthur
will fall in few days, has sent let
ter to Gen. Oku, congratulating him
on the victory, which the general is
supposed to have won upon receiving
the letter.
Captain G. o. Wallenberg, who has
just returned from America, where
he studied the traffic on our great
lakes, has not yet made up his mind
as to continuation of the steamship
between elleborg, Sweden and Sass
nitz, Germany.
Claes Adelskold, an ardent philan-
thropist, who proposed government
lottery for new sanitariums for con-
sumptives, has worked out a plan
which calls for Is sanitariums, each
one having 100 beds and costing about
$4,000, making the total cost almost
81, 100000. Adelskold figures on hav-
ing the Ian governments contribute
about 100000, ana he expects rich
life insurance concel ns in Sweden and
elsewhere to make handsome contri-
buttons because it would pay for them
to put money into institutions which
increase longevity. Assuming that
each patient stays in the sanitarium
from to 13 weeks, experience has
esta blished that 500 can be sent out
from each institution each year. Az
sanatoriums there would be altogeth-
er "a in the country. Again, accord
ing to past experience, these "a insti-
buttons would annually restore 5000
patients completely and improve 5000
others and make them fit for work.
These $4,000 amount to the number of
persons who are suppoGed to die of
consumption every year in Sweden.
Voluntary rifle clubs have been in
operation for some time in some of
the public schools in Blekinge Ian,
and there is no exercise that the boys
enjoy more than this.
A horse race at Kristianstad had to
be postponed on account of the prevail
ence of pulmonary consumption
among the horses of the Wende ar
tillery regiment.
A young man who went to Aus
tralia from Europe about so years ago
was lost track of, and when he had
been lost 40 years he was officially de-
clared dead and disinherited. A few
days ago he returned. He was sur
prised, but took his official death hu-
morously. He could we'll afford to be
disinherited, for he is a rich man.
The Forssa brick factory at Bolle-
bygd was burnt to the ground, and
100000 bricks, partly or wholly fin
ished, were also destroyed. The in
surance was about $4,000.
Two cars loaded with peat litter
caught fire between Eslof and Ortofta,
and the cars were completely de-
stroyed.
About 700 acres of timber land was
swept by fire at Orrefors, near Kali
mar. A forest fire at Pitea was fought
for six hours by 200 men before it
was checked.
Four yong students from the Uni
versity Of Lund are studying the
plants and animals of the northern
most parts of Sweden.
Swedish navy was launched July 16
at Stockholm, where it had been built.
Its name is Hajen, the Shark.
The owners of few farms in south
ern Sweden have kept Socialistic agi-
tators off their premises, and as a
retaliation the labor unions have de-
clared a boycott against those unions.
Axel Karlstedt, poet has been
elected to succeed Odhner as a men,
Der of the Swedish Academy, which
body must always be composed of 10
"immortals." Karlstedt is compar-
atively young man.
American Haiku, a Finnish paper
published in New York, stated that
the Swedish legation in Washington
ordered the Lund students chorus not
to sing Acknowledgements Marsch'' in
America, because it might be taken as
challenge to Russia. The newspa-
pers in Sweden treated the statement
as though it were true until they were
better informed.
DR.. C. Willing is conducting excava-
tions at Ringstorp, near Helsingborg,
and the ground is fairly teeming with
relics which were left there by hui
man. beings thousands of years ago.
Most of the objects date from the Sec
ond bronze age, or, approximately,
from the fifth century before Christ.
One of the most interesting finds is
a leather bracelet with bronze trim
mings. Near the surface was a circle
made of stones, which may have given
name to the place, Rings-torp. -