Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-25
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SWEDEN
The farmers of ,Skanc are organizing
q cooperative union for preparing peat
litter for use in the barns. tn lS,
The last rilSsdag passed II law which
provides that when a person dies OF
consumption I'LL the clothes with which
he came in contact shall lie either de-
stro.ycd or officially disinfeoted. The
law has been in force since jan l.
About, 70 Mormon missionaries are
said to be working in Sweden, and
they have opened IL mission house" in
Stockholm. The people at large are
hostile to this propaganda.
Late one evening just before Christ
mas an old man was seen to stop In
front of the royal palace in Stockholm,
bare his head, face the building ana
shout aloud: Il have cheated you out
OF SO much; it is only fair that pay
you back some Of it," He placed some
thing on the ground. which proved to
be silver dollar of the 18th century.
A company which has been boring
for coal in Vram, Skane, since 1892
has found that about 1000 acres of
ground contains coal in paying quanti-
ties.
The commune Of Hvcllinge is going
to open a poor house and farm at u
cost Of S., 900.
A small boat, carrying two men,
capsized near Lysekil late one after
noon. On account of dense snow
storm no one else could see them, and
they drifted to an uninhabited island.
where they had to spend the cold
night. They suffered terribly, but
their lives were saved in the morning.
The January number of Biblotheque
Universellc, periodical published in
Switzerland, contained an article by
King Oscar on the Alhambra. The
article dates from the year 1888, when
the king made trip to Spain, and it
has never been published before.
It is expected that the crown prince
and crown princess Of Denmark will
come to Stockholm to celebrate King
Oscars birthday.
The car of Russia has awarded a
gold medal to Karl Edward Nilsson, Of
Stockholm, in recognition OF his scrv-
ices in the interest of the brewing in
dustry of Russia. Mr.: Nilsson is man
ager of large brewery in Stockholm.
Southeastern Sweden was visited by
terrible snowstorm the last day Of
the old year: The city of Simrishamn
suffered the most. The damage to the
harbor alone was about $25. oo0 The
water rose seven feet above the aver
age level, smashed a number of small
craft, undermined and tore to pieces
many houses, and even pulled the rail-
way track out of it's place for some
distance. At Trelleborg the water
rose ten feet above the normal level,
but the damage done was not SO great
at this place as at Simrishamn. The
houses standing near the shore were
sprinkled with water, which froze and
made them look as though they were
made of ice.
Gothenburg has a population OF 1885,
sls, and the gain for the past year was
e,513.
The university city Of Lund has over
Is, 900 Inhabitants.
'Hildcmor Albin Liedholm of Mad
hammar is dead. He lost his eyesight
when 10 years old. But he made up
his mind to improve the dairy industry
of Sweden, and his efforts were singu-
larly successful Some of the concerns
supplying the greatest cities of Swe-
den with dairy products are the work
of this mans brains, and in his par
ticular fell of activity he gradually
came to be looked upon as the great
est Swedish authority.
Gustaf Dillberg of Malmo invented a
new method of preserving eggs. Cap
tain Johansson, of the Roberts fors,
tested the method. He took lot of
eggs treated by Mr.. Dillberg on his
voyage to South Africa. He arrived
at Cape Town three months after his
departure from Sweden, crossing the
equator and exposing the goods to the
most unfavorable weather After eat
ing the eggs prepared in different
ways, the captain and eight other per-
sons signed their names to a document
declaring that the eggs were sin cx-
cellent condition"
The brewers Of Shane, Halland and
Blekinge are tired of competing with
each other. and they are in fair way
towards uniting themselves into a
combine.
A private company has completed
new gas works in Limhamn. The ca
pacity of the plant is $4,000, 900 cubic
feet of gas per year. The price of the
gas will be about 81 % per 1000 cubic
feet. But if the consumption reaches
the limit of the capacity of the plant,
the price will be reduced to 81. O5 per
1000 cubic feet. These rates are con-
sidcred reasonable in Sweden.
About 2,2as, 900 items passed through
the local mails in Stockholm during
the New Year holidays, and they were
distributed by $50 carriers, of whom
325 were soldiers.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha is the greatest
steamship company in Japan. The
largest steamer belonging to the COM
pany, namely, the Aki Marn, is COM
manded by the oldest captain in the
company's service, and he Is a Swede
named Ekstrand. Though 70 years
old, he performs his onorous duties
with punctuality. The company has
suggested that he retire with full nav,