Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-21
SWEDEN

Dor union almost caused a strike at P.
From's machine shops in Malmo. All
the rest of the employees are members
of the socialistic labor union, and they
threatened to quit work unless the
member of the rival organization was
discharged. Before anything was
done, however. he obtained work else
where, and he was permitted to stay
to the end of the year, his new en-
ployer not needing him until after
Jan. list. This incident reveals the
strained relations existing between
the socialistic, or political, labor or"
CARNATIONS and the non-political ones
Archaeologists state that the gold
chain found in the ground at Skofde
had never been used as an ornament.
1t simply represented wealth, and the
owner, according to the custom of the
times, had deposited it in the ground
for safe keeping, and had forgotten it.
This is the second largest amount Of
gold found in the ground in Sweden
during historical times. The largest
one was made at Tureholm, Soderman-
land. in the eighteenth century. It
consisted of ornaments having a weight
OF about thirty pounds.
A resolution passed by a laborers
mass meeting held in Gothenburg de.
mands complete emancipation of the
public schools from the church, and
''non-confessional religious instruction
in the schools of the state"
Prof. Arrhenius is not going to &C.
cept the position offered to him in Ber-
lin. The Stockholm Academy of
Sciences has induced him to remain in
Sweden by resolving to establish a
physical chemistry institute, of which
he is to have charge.
The College of Commerce and the
Academy of Agriculture have request
cd the government to loan $50, 900 to a
company which intends to build peat
factory in Oder|junga parish.
The st. Johannes lodge of Free
Masons Of Gothenbprg has celebrated
its 50th anniversary
If the Swedish papers are correctly
informed, Baron Lagerheim was
forced to retire as minister of foreign
affairs because he had personal enc
mics in the first chamber of the rigs
dag.
1t is supposed that Count Gylden-
stolpe, Swedish ambassador to St.
Petersburg, will become Baron Lager
helms successor as minister of foreign
affairs. He has been connected with
the diplomatic service since 1876. From
1884 to 1886 he was secretary of the L.
cation in Washington, and served for
a time together with DR.. ~Sigurd Ibsen,
Norwegian minister of state in Stock
holm.
Prof. Otto Nordensjo Id, the Antarctic
explorer, recently lectured before the
geographical society of Antwerp, and
the president of the society handed the
explorer its great gold medal
Prof. Gillian has resigned as chan
cellor of the universities of Sweden,
Archbishop Ekman has been instructed
to discharge the duties of chancellor
at the university of Upsala, the Caro-
linska Institute and the high schools
Of Stockholm and Gothenburg, The
university of Lund will be attended to
by bishop Billing until a new chan
cellor has been elected. The election
will take place Feb. Is
Three men and two women left Naset
in a boat late one evening for the pur-
pose of taking sick woman to Strom-
stad. A wave rolled over the boat and
washed away one of the men and one
woman, and the survivors were left in
a terrible plight. One of the remain
ing women was shut up and the other
was tied with a rope. The two men
fought the waves and the cold as we'll
as they could during the long, dark
night. But the task was too much for
them, and they finally crept into the
corners Of the boat and resigned them
selves to the mercy of the wind and
waves. The boat drifted ashore at
Hunnebostrand in the morning. By
that time both women were dead. One
man was almost dead, and his body
was blue on account of the cold. The
other man was too exhausted to give
any account of himself. After awhile
he rallied sufficiently to mention the
name of the place from which he
hailed, and gradually the above facts
were brought out. The sick woman
was a widow named Britta Maria
Nilsson, and the other women were
Mrs. Julia Glad and Mrs. Olgo Matt
son. Karl Olansson was lost at sea.
The survivors, Bernard and Herman
Mattson, may both die.
P. E. Lithander has donated 50, 700
to the government for paintings on
the walls of the assembly halls of the
new riksdag building.
A free church conference will be held
in Stockholm Feb. $40 next. The
Mission Friends, the Methodists and
the Baptists will be represented, and
four subjects regarding religious lib
erty will be discussed. It is almost
superf1uous to mention that P. P. WAL
denstrom will be there. The regular
members of the conference will be the
pastors and few other prominent
men in the above mentioned associa-
lions, and their congregations will be
entitled to one delegate for each 500
members or major fraction thereof.
This conference will be the first one of
it's kind in Sweden.
The Nobel prize for physics was
awarded to Lord Rayleigh, professor
of natural philosophy of the Royal in
stitute; for chemistry to Sir William
Ramsey, professor of chemistry of the
University college, London; for medi-
cine to Prof. Pavloff, of the Academy
of Medicine of St. Petersburg. The
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