Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-13
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SWEDEN.
The anthropological and geographic
cal society has resolved to publish a
volume in memory of Engineer An
dree, who was lost on his Arctic bal
loon voyage.
Solomon I.andres, a Russian soldier,
who ought to have been fighting at
Port Arthur, but wfo fed to Sweden,
was accidentally shot and killed by a
young Russian jew at Norrkoping.
Prof. Svante Arrhenius, the great
authority on the connection between
chemical and electrical phenomena,
has promised to give a series of lee
lures at the state university of Cali
fornia, and he will visit the st. Louis
fair on his return to Sweden
The Good Templars of Malmo have
bought the old restaurant known as
the Concordia Garden, Malmo, for
about $4,000, and the establishment
will be changed into u temperance
restaurant.
Olof Johnson Hof, new member
of the first chamber Of the riksdag,
had the temerity to recommend econ
omH on the military appropriations,
and he did it in such mastery man
ner that two administers of war, one
ex-minister of finance and finally Pre-
mier }ostrom himself had to train
their guns upon the man whom they
tried to look down upon until he had
proved his forensic powers.
The Luossavarak irunavara Mining
Company paid to the government
$6S7,204 for carrying ore from Gelli-
ware to the Norwegian boundary line
during the year 1903. The cost of con-
structing this line was IS, 724,541, and
the agreement was that the company
should pay 3.5 per cent. on this, be-
sides the running expenses.
The sugar manufacturers appoint
certain dates on which the beet grow
ers are expected to meet at the sugar
factories to sign contracts for devot-
ing certain area of land to beets
At the Karlshamn factory very few
farmers appeared on the day appoint
ed, and the contracts signed covered
only about twenty acres. Two of the
signers were members of the beet
growers union, and one of these
signed his wife's name, the other his
sons name.
The board of auditors of the Stock
holm bolag propose material reduc-
ton of the percentage of alcohol in
the WHISKY retailed by the bolag for
consumption on the premises. A re-
auction made in the latter part of the
eighties had a decidedly salutary ef-
feet. reducing the per capita con-
sumption of alcohol to it's lowest ebb
in the modern history of Sweden, and,
of course, minimizing the evil effects
upon the people. The consumption
has been on the increase again for the
past few years. and the board of audi
tors think a, further reduction of the
percentage of alcohol in the beverage
sold by the bolag would be beneficial
The tobacco growers around Kris
tlanstad have petitioned the king to
exert his influence in opposition to a
raise of the duty on tobacco.
Several of the soldiers who were
summoned on account of the mobiliza-
ton in Gotland were so poor that
public aid had to be extended to their
families remaining at home.
According to newspaper report
dated March p, naval maneuver had
been planned. On this occasion the
following war-craft were to be called
together: Nine armored cruisers, 4
torpedo cruisers, ~ first-class torpedo
boats, second class torpedo boats
and the torpedo chaser mode. No
such array of Swedish warships were
seen at the same time and place be-
fore.
Admiralty Church in Karlskrona is
the Oldest wooden church building in
Sweden. 1t is greatly in need of re-
pairs, which will cost at least 1000.
and the authorities think a 100000
stone structure having 1900 seats
would be more satisfactory for prac-
teal purposes.
The accommodations at the insane
asylums Of Sweden are insufficient to
such an extent that about 1900 appli-
cations for admission are pending.
Many sugar beet growers of south
ern Sweden have gone on a strike in
spite of all efforts to settle the con-
troversy by means of arbitration, the
beet growers unions at Arlof, Hell
singborg and other places having re-
solved to raise no beets next summer.
The youngest Swedish student hold
ing a bachelors degree is Miss Anna
Maria Safholm, from Smaland, who is
only II years old, and IS attending the
University of Lund.
NORWAY.
A widow who is over 60 years old
attended an evening school at Atneo-
sen, Storelvedalen, last winter in or
der to learn to write. She has learned
this useful art and satisfied her high
est wish, namely, to be able to write
to her children who are scattered all
over the world.
The Electric Bureau of Kristiania
has been consolidated with the Sic
mems Schuckert Werke, Berlin, and
the two combined will establish a
Norwegian company for selling and
mounting electric machinery, etc.
Rev. S. R. Gunnersen, who was pro-
fessor at Augsburg Seminary, Minne-
apolis, from 1874 to 1882, died as pas
tor of the Kragero congregation and
dean of Bamle. He was an authority
on the early history of the church and