Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-31

gram was received from Ibsen: ''An
my thoughts today are at Gossensass. !"
The late Miss Gjercke Nelson, of
Bergen, left will providing for the
expenditure of $4,000 for the benefit
OF poor girls in Bergen. She be-
queathed $1,000 for other purposes.
SWEDEN.
A German exporter has ordered l.
200, 900 crawfsh from the Melaren dis
trlct and 100000 from Smaland. The
first consignment was sent from Swe-
den Aug. 2.
The work on the new riksdag build
ing in Stockholm is being pushed with
| vigor.
Only about half as many Swedes
emigrated to America during the sec-
ond quarter of 1904 as during the same
quarter in 1908.
A new addition has been built to the
Ito kaolin works, near Bromolla, in
creasing the daily output of kaolin to
$50 tons.
Some Swedish employers imported
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cheaper. But the Swedish socialists
are outwitting the employers by hir-
ing two young Poles by the year to
preach the socialistic propaganda to
their countrymen in Sweden.
The old wooden mills at Stigen were
destroyed by fire, and the new mills
were badly damaged at the same time.
The insurance on the property was
$50, 200.
King Oscar has appointed Governor
R. de la Gardie as auditor of the &C.
counts of the managers of the Nobel
funds.
About 1900 acres of timber land
was swept by fire at Leksand, not far
from Falun.
Hjalmar Branting, leading social
ist, has written an article for Ger
man newspaper, in which he argues
strongly against the proposed national
strike which some Swedish socialists
have advocated as means of obtain
ing general suffrage.
Prot. Knut Wicksell, of the Univer-
sity of Lund, has written a letter to
King Oscar about his connection with
the faculty of the university. Being a
free-thinker, he explains, he cannot
take the ordinary judicial oath re-
CURED by the rules of the institution;
but as he would like to perform the
ordinary functions of a regular men,
Der of the faculty, he petitions the
king to waive the oath. This is the
third case of it's kind at the University
of Lund.
A great many Swedish shipowners
have signed petition to the king,
calling his attention to the unfayor-
able condition under which the ocean
carrying trade of Sweden is laboring.
and suggesting that the government
extend some favors to the trade. The
main grievance of the petitioners is
that the bulk of the Norrland iron ore
is carried abroad in foreign bottoms.
It requires 100 steamers of $500 tons
to take care of this export.
The Avesta church building in Da-
larne, which is $50 years old, will soon
be heated by electricity. The heat
will be furnished by an electric power
station in Dial river This station SUD-
plies factory, but as this is not oper-
ated on Sunday, the water power has
gone to waste on that day. Now the
church will be heated Sundays for
about $50 a year, while the fuel used
during the last few years has cost
over 5000 year. AS far as known
there is only one church that is heated
by electricity in the whole world, and
that one is located in Switzerland.
The iron ore that is exported from
Sweden at present contains about 60
per cent of iron. 1t brings about S. a
ton at the harbor from which it is ex-
ported. If this ore were reduced to
iron it would be worth about eleven
times the above amount, and a patriot
figures out that Sweden loses $50. o00.-
600 annually because she fails to turn
the exported ore into iron.
The arrest of two strikers at Nattra.
by has aroused organized labor to a
high degree of indignation, and reso-
buttons are being passed against the
so-called Akarp law, which is claimed
to have warranted their arrest.
J. G. Egnell, of Malmo, has invented
an acetylene gas lamp, which experts
have pronounced to be very satisfac-.
tory: The name of the new lamp is
.Alfa." ~'' 49, :>>.,~s.' =. -:
An electric power plant, to. be run
by a windmill, is in process of con-
struction at the Kjefinge sugar fac
tory. 1t will be of the largest type,
the area of the wings of the windmill
being 700 square feet. The machinery
was made at the Koekum iron works.
in Malmo. "
About $4,000 has been raised in
Sweden for, the establishment of a
permanent Swedish choir in Aupust-
ana college and theological seminary.
at Rock Island, I'LL. It is said that
the Lund students chorus will add s3.-
900, to make. the donation an even
$27, 900. @&' -. .~s.,. es,z-.
The provincial government of NAL
mohus has permitted Nils Herman
Hanson of Hastad to-. change his
family name to Sverdrup, one of the
most illustrious names in the modera
history of Norway. I
! A cooperative supply society in
Barfva parish, Sodermanland, has re-
solved to plant fruit trees along the
public roads in the parish, and to let
the temperance people take care Of the
trees The plan will no doubt be tried
in other parts Of Sweden. But will
the public let the fruit on such trees