Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-17

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Eighteen men who entered the SER
vice of Kristiania Trunk railway at
it's opening so years ago are still liv-
ing, and the following are in active
service: Mr.. .Reismann, bookkeeper;
Mr.. Wiger, telegraph inspector; Mr..
Havder, engineer, and I. A. Hansen,
depot agent. The others are receiving
pension.
A widow at Bake, East Totem, lost
her life under peculiar circumstances.
On the way back from her husbands
funeral she drove against rock and
was instantly killed.
SWEDEN.
The statistical bureau has issued a
publication that shows the great pre-
ponderance of children and old peo-
pie in modern Sweden. The differ
ence touched the climax in 1898, when
only 462 out of every 1000 persons
were between the ages of Is and so
years, while the normal proportion is
500 to 1000. Since that year there
was slow but steady increase, and
the rate was 472 per 1000 in 1901. The
increase of the number of old per-
sons, especially those about the age
of 80 years, has been surprisingly
large. During the years 1S60-19O1 the
number of children below the age of
five years increased only from 513,613
to 1852, or 16 per cent in a little
over 40 years; but the number of per-
sons aged 80 years or more increased
from 1881 to 5s,2o5, or 800 per cent!
During 1901, the last year of the Pc
riod, the number increased from 81,
778 to 58,O25. It is obvious that this
abnormal distribution of the popula-
ton with regard to age is highly dis
advantageous to the material devel-
opment of the: country. Emigration,
and nothing else. is responsible for
the discrepancy. 7
A new railway is to be built from
has it's headquarters in Gothenburg,
and the capital stock must not ex-
coed $250,000.
At fire in a small house a few
miles north of Umea a woman and
her two children were burnt to death.
1t was stated in American news
papers that the Russian authorities
had protested against the singing of
Acknowledgements March" by the
Lund Students chorus in America. It
seemed improbable at the time, and
it must be put down as New York
lie.
The crown prince will be comman-
der-in-chief at the fall maneuvers in
Norrland
The cabinet authorized the depart
ment of national debts and assets to
turn $2,70O,0O0 of cash over to the de-
partment of state.
The government has been severely
criticised for withdrawing the troops
that were stationed on the island of
Gotland at the outbreak of the war.
This criticism was occasioned by the
report that Russia had commenced to-
| capture foreign merchant vessels. It
it is known that it would be pleasing
to England to see Gotland strongly
| fortified.
The monument that was originally
intended for the Poltawa battlefield,
Russia, will have to be kept in Swe-
den. But it is not decided whether
it will be erected at some public
square or showed into some museum.
A newspaper correspondent pro-
poses that the tramps that are with
out visible means of support be
picked up and utilized in breaking
new land.
A Stockholm daily favors new laws
for the prevention of unreasonable
suffering in case of a universal strike.
The paper points out that if the milk
supply were suddenly shut off, infant
mortality would increase, and that it
| would be an exceedingly embarrass-
ing proposition to have the city left
in the dark. These speculations are
a legitimate result of the general
talk about grand strike"
About 40 smallpox patients were
taken to the school barracks and the
smallpox hospital at Gelf. The pest
is supposed to have been brought to
the city by ship.
The farm .laborers' strike at Mar
svinsholm has been raised, and all
day laborers have returned to work.
Thmey are to receive 81 cents day
during one-third of the year, AZ cents
during one-third, and 401z cents dur
ing one-third., But they had to sign
Q contract to let the employers keep
one dollar week for the first four
weeks as indemnity in case Of anoth-
en- strike. 3 .y ..z=. =s e i. Q .z..s.
Prof. Q. Montelius, the greatest liv-
ing archeologist in Scandinavia, has
stated that the antiquities found at
Ringstorp are 200 years old, that is,
they are as old as Rome. All the
burial chambers found at Ringstorp
contained burnt bones, but the bones
had been burnt IN different ways.
Mrs. Fenger, nee Duwall-Rosen--
muller, rich widow, has offered q
900 acres Of timber land to the gov
lernment for about 500, 900. The land
lis q part of the q Hinge esta e, which
lis located partl IN Oppeby parish,
IOsterg ottland, and partly In Dalb bonn
lparish dllna1