Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-06

A strong stock company has been
organized at Laholm for the manufac-
ture of peat for the market.
The city council of Mariestad on
certain conditions has resolved to buy
stock for $4,000 in the proposed
Skara and Mariestad railway.
The Swedish academy has awarded
large medal to Selma Lagerlof, the
popular authoress..
Attempts will soon be made to send
wireless messages between Karlskro.
ma and Berlin.
T. +. Waldenstrom has expressed
himself strongly in favor of the pro-
vision for proportional representa-
ton made in the new suffrage reform
BILL
The workmen at the Stockholm
Separator factory receive almost Is
cents an hour. But if they earn more
they receive one-third of the extra
earnings, making total maximum
rate of 10 cents an hour.
The department of agriculture has
asked for an appropriation of at least
$1,000 on the budget Of 1905 for COM
batting tuberculosis in cattle.
Two Gothenburg laborers who
slept in room which was heated by
a coal fire closed the damper of the
stove when they went to bed in the
evening, and the next morning thew
were both found dead. A woman slept
In the same room, but she awoke at
eleven o'clock and left the room. Her
mind however, was already so affect
ed by the poisonous gas that she was
unable to realize the seriousness of
the situation.
DENMARK.
The deficit of the state railways of
Denmark was $4,000 for 1902 and the
surplus was $S6O,00O for the year 1908.
Inns difference has no counterpart in
the history of the railways of Dem
mark.
LIT. Ilnsen, who won a Nobel prize
| OF $4,000, donated $13,5OO to the CO.
penhagen Finsen institute, and two of
the directors donated an equal amount
each.
! Copenhagen, Dec 23.-Erik Ritzau,
manager and proprietor of the we'll
known telegraph agency bearing his
name, died today.
| Playing war with serious results.
During some recent maneuvers the
Gladsakse fort was taken by the ZEN
envy in the night. A court-martial
was appointed to locate the blame,
and the captain and the lieutenant
| commanding the fort were sentenced
to eight days and thirty days con-
finement, respectively.
A subscription taken in the diocese
of Fyen for the adornment of the in
terror of the new royal palace at Kris
tlansborg amounts to $4,000.
Holger Drachmann, the poet, is re-
covering from his nervous prostration.
The new bottling establishment Of
the Carlsberg brewery, Copenhagen,
has capacity of 100000 bottles a
Yday.
NORWAY.
DR.. Ole Bull, the noted authority
on eye and ear diseases, has pub
lished a scientific work in German on
his speciality.
Well, that beats the Dutch! Apples
raised in Lier, near Drammen, have
been exported to Germany in consid-
cradle quantities this fall. They were
of the Gravensten variety.
It is estimated that the value of
all kinds of property in Kristiania
decreased from $113, 900 in 1900 to
$100,170,000 in 1908. But during the
same period the aggregate incomes
are supposed to have increased from
| $27,245,000 to $27,730,0O0. The taxable
incomes decreased from $11.6Oa 900
to $10,Ss0,000. The number of tax
payers increased from $4,000 to SO, 600.
The number of mortgages executed
in 1902 was $4,000 as compared with
$4,000 in 1901. The city's debts amount
to $16,0OO,O00.
Trondhjem, Dec. THE king OF
Belgium has engaged Consul Thams
to superintend the work of building
the royal stables. The total cost will
be $4,000. Consul Thams has select
ed Finn Knudsen, Kristiania archi-
tect, to execute the designs. The
buildings are to be put up in Nor
wegian style. They are to be ready
for use next summer. Norwegian
workmen will be ordered to Ostend
to erect the buildings, which will be
finished here before they are sent
away.
Gustav Vigeland is engaged in mod
cling the monument to Abel, the
mathematician. The statue will be
almost 20 fet high, and it is highly
praised by those who have seen the
rough sketch of it.
A machine for knitting fshing-nets,
which has been patented *'for the
whole world,' is the product of TWEEN
! ty-five years of work on the part of
two brothers named Hammer. They
! live in Kristiania, and are between
so and go years old. The machine
costs about $2,700 when ready for OPP
Grafton, and it can easily do the work
of ten of the ordinary machines. This
means that the price of fishing nets
will. be greatly reduced, which will
be of far reaching Importance to the
fishermen. Strenuous efforts have
been made abroad, especially in Den
mark to acquire the sole right to
manufacture the machines, and Jap
anese business men have tried to ac-
quire patents on them through their
customers in Europe.
The Kristiania board of aldermen
has issued "a beer licenses for the
coming year.
The estimated expenditures of the
city government of Kristiania for the