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

woman. Her husband belonged to
the tanners union, and he was in
structed by his union to make his wife
quit work. He did not succeed in his
efforts to make her join the strikers,
and he reported the result to his
union. This led to his expulsion, and
since that time he has found it very
difficult to obtain work. He finally
sued the union, asking for $27O in
damages, and claiming that he ought
to be re-admitted into the union. The
decision in this peculiar case is looked
forward to with great interest by en-
ployers and employees alike.
FINLAND.
Prince Obolensky assumed his func-
zion as governor general of Finland
On Aug. 1S. Upon his arrival at Hell
slngfors he was driven to the cathe-
dral, where he attended divine SER
vices. Subsequently he held a grand
reception at the imperial palace. The
governor started at once on a tour of
Inspection of the grand duchy. Prince
John Obolensky, formerly governor of
Kherson, and later of Kharkoff, was
appointed July last to succeed, as
governor general of Finland, General
Bobrlkoff, who was shot June 16 by a
student, Eugene Schaumann, son of
ex-senator Schaumann. General Bob
rikoff died the following day. Prin-
cess Obolensky, wife of the new gov
ernor general, is said to have received
many threatening letters, declaring
that her husband will be killed within
a week after his arrival in Finland.
The police restrictions at Helsing-
fors since the arrival of Prince Obolen-
sky, the new governor general of Fin
land, have been increased and many
precautions have been taken to guard
his life. All the basement entrances
to the senate chamber have been closed
with cement, and the buildings ad-
joining the governor generals house
have been searched to make sure that
no secret entrances exist.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 24.-The car
has issued a lengthy manifesto on the
occasion of the christening of the heir
to the throne. Finland and the Firms
are referred to in many particulars.
The sum of 81, 500, 900 is set apart from
the state fund for the benefit of land
less people of Finland. All fines inn
posed upon villages, towns or COM
munes of Finland for failure to elect
representatives or to serve on the mill
tary recruiting boards during the
years 1902 and 1903 are RENTED. Per-
mission is granted to Films, who have
left their country without the sane
ton of the authorities, to return with
In a year. Those returning who are
liable to military service must imme-
diately present themselves for service,
but Firms who have evaded military
service will not be punished, provided
they present themselves within three
months of the birth of the heir to the
throne. The governor of Finland is
directed to consider what steps can be
taken to alleviate the lot of those for
hidden to reside in Finland. The Fin
nish military district shall be abol-
ished as a distinctive district and be
merged in the st. Petersburg district
NORWAY.
Sivert Nielsen, former president of
the storthing, is dead. He had seat
in the storthing, or parliament of Nor
way, for a generation, and was con-
sidered one of the ablest and most con-
servative of its members. He was
universally respected by friend and
foe alike. Old age compelled him to
retire from active politics some years
ago.
The wells have dried up at Horton,
and the water used in the city must be
transported about three miles (Eng-
lish).
The executive committee of the
Kristiansand seamen's union has sent
a protest to the department of COM
merce against having emigrant steam
ers officially inspected at the first sea-
port at which emigrants are taken on
board, instead of at the last seaport.
Kristiansand is the last seaport
touched by passenger steamers bound
for America, and the committee holds
that the steamers should be inspected
at that place.
The Norge disaster will no doubt
lead to a more stringent control of the
transatlantic steamers carrying pas
sengers from Norway. :
Adolf Beck, a Norwegian, was found
guilty of obtaining money on false
pretenses on two different counts by
the English courts He stoutly main
taine,l his innocence, but he had to 20
to jail Accidentally it was after.
wards proven beyond the shadow of a
doubt that another man had commit
ted the crimes. King Edward par
doned Mr.. Beck, and the parliament is
expected to vote him a cash indemnity
for false imprisonment. -,.... =
Kaiser Wilhelm's repeated trips to
Norway have drawn SO many German
tourists to the north that they are
outnumbering the English, who for
many years had almost a monopoly on
tourist life in Norway. In eastern
Norway nearly all Of the foreign tour
lists this season are Germans. :.
Three cheers for the Donvik life saw
lug globe! The Donvik life saving
globe which was dropped by the
steamer Ragne in the middle Of the
North sea landed safely with its three
occupants at Ymygden, Holland The
globe stood the test in . brilliant
manner.