Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-22
SWEDEN.

The oulitema Mining Company has
declared an per cent dividend.
Prof. Sixten Won Friesen has been
elected president of the city council
of Stockholm.
Miss Anna Nilsson of Jerrestad,
whose mind became unbalanced last
year, actually starved to death few
days ago. Though far from poor, she
had fixed notion that she ''could
not afford to eat.'
The Svalof Seed company made an
appeal for samples of all varieties of
Swedish potatoes, and 1876 samples
were sent by "a persons living in diff
ferent parts of Sweden. The COM
pany expects to be able to produce
some excellent varieties from these
samples.
The railway department has Or
dered rolling stock for $1,oo0,ooo
from Swedish factories.
Frau Helene Won Mecklenburg, the
German lady that once owned the
Lung property, has protested against
the taxes on the property, claiming
that they are exorbitant. She was
assessed on the basis of an income
of about 100000, which she is said
to have received in payment for
pitsprops.
j. Svedenborg, a travelling agent,
was burned to death in a house at
Gullskog, commune of Kind.
Mormon missionaries" are busily
engaged in inducing young women
to go to Utah. They sent 500 Swed-
ish girls across the Atlantic from
January to September, 1903. The
authorities are watching the mis-
sionaries'' this year.
The Swedish Young Mems Chorus
has been invited to give a series of
concerts in TrondhJem, Norway.
The prospects are that Skane will
have a bumper potato crop this year.
But there will be no overproduction,
because the distilleries will take care
of what cannot be eaten by man and
beast.
The Landskrona, Kjefinge & Sjobo
Railway company has contracted a
loan of $4,000.
The national Swedish Labor Union
has resolved to publish 900 copies
of pamphlet explaining the aim
and the principles of the union.
The city council of Gothenburg has
resolved to expend $4,000 on i'm
provements at the Renstrom bath
house and laundry.
The stone-cutters' congress, which
was held at Gothenburg, fixed the
weekly dues of the memhsFs at ten
cents, this rate to take effect Jan. l.,
1905.
A ball was recently given in Malmo
to the Princes Gustaf Adolf and Will
helm. The former danced with ten,
the latter with eleven different la
dies during the evening.
j. A Norbotten paper laments the de-
cadence of the production of tar
from pine stumps in northern Swe-
den. There is ia superabundance of
fine stumps, and the price Of tar is
high, but the men do not take the
trouble to extract the article and sell
it.
The so-called torpedo school is To-
Gated at Furusund. Late one even
ing three torpedo boats were sud-
denly ordered out to attack masked
enemy, and they sailed in a row,
making speed of 10 Knots. They
were all grounded, and one of them
|. was badly damaged. 1t I. Ss ~-tS
At the annual meeting of the Swed!
ish Life Saving society the first med
al of the society was awarded to Mrs.
anna sjoquist for risking her own
life in saving the life Of q child. Her
daring feat was performed at Jeno:
sund. In stormy weather and a rough
sea, and wearing her ordinary cloth
ing, she jumped from q quay into
the water and saved boy who was
on the point of drowning. !
Extensive maneuvers will take place
in the vicinity of Bollnas and Sober
Ehamn,s Sept 40 "a. q The king and
many princes are expected to be
there. -, ..
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