Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-01

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A iaborers' mass meeting in Stock
hol'n resolved to raise some money tor
the Russian strikers.
Johan Johansson Noraskog, who
was prominent in the politics of Swc-
den Tor quarter of a century, died OF
heart failure in Stockholm.
Its said that certain capitalists are
contemplating the establishment of
direct steamship line between Sweden
ana America. Parties connected with
the existing lines are already threat
en1ng the proposed concern with de-
structive competition.
kristina Nilsson Countess de Casa
Miranda) left Sweden on her way to
Paris early in February.
The Hildesborg estate, near Lands
krona, has been sold by Ex-Governor
Il. Wachtmcistcr to Consul N. Person
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Miss Eva Rodhe of Gothenburg has
received gold medal from the king in
recognition of her long and faithful
service as public school teacher.
The precious badge was handed to her
by the bishop of her diocese.
Applications have been made for
loans amounting to one million dollars
from the government fund for enab-
,:Gx poor workingmen to procure
homes Of their own.
The SHANE Farmers Protective asso-
citation is perfecting its organization
to connterbalance the influence of the
farm laborers' union.
jobs Jonsson, of Vinslof, has do
mated $4,000 to the municipality of
Vins(of for lighting the streets
Many far-sighted Danes, in looking
at the trouble between Sweden and
Norway, reason. according to the old
adage, ''It is an i'll wind that blows
nobody good" They hold that if the
ties between Norway and Sweden are
somewhat loosened, putting Norway
on an absolutely independent basis,
Denmark will be put in much closer
touch with the nations on the PENN
sula. In other words, the absolute in.
dependence of each of the three coun-
tries will mean a morally united Scan
dinavia.
Carl Fredrilz Lundqvist, one of the
most illustrious opera singers that
Sweden ever had, was dismissed last
summer, after a service of almost 40
years at the Royal opera in Stockholm.
The dismissal came without one word
OF explanation. Lundqvist is now Civ
ing concerts in the cities of southern
Sweden. Though he is Ga years old,
his voice still has such q charm that he
is invariably greeted by large audi
ences
Most of the leading Swedish news.
papers agree that it would not be
proper for Sweden to make any fur
Their concessions to the Norwegians
with regard to the consular service
question. Wort Land expects a storm
of abuse from Norway, but the Nor
wegians .'can< blow down neither the
union nor Sweden" The same paper
is hard on Baron Lagerheim, former
Swedish minister of foreign affairs,
because he was to large extent re-
sponsible for the agreement to estab-
lish separate consular service for
Norway.
Warner Ryden of Malmo lectured on
'"The Church and the Schools" at a
public mass meeting in Stockholm,
and at the close of the lecture the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted: 1.-THE
laborers of Stockholm demand impera-
lively that the school b.. liberated
from the tutelage of the church. For
this purpose a vigorous struggle must
be made against the dominion of the
church, and for he~introduction, in
the schools of the state, of an instruc-
ton which is free from religious de-
nominationalism." A committee of
five was elected to push the work sug-
gested in the resolution.
A conference representing the Mis-
sion Friends, the Baptlsts and the
Methodists was held in Stockholm dur
ing the second week of February.
About 500 ministers and delegates were
in attendance. j. Bystrom, member
of the rilzsdag, was elected chairman.
P. P. Waldenstrom spoke on the cate
chism of the state church. He criti.
cised the book, but he was afraid that
a committee of bishops would be un-
able to produce anything better. The
new catechism, he said, must agree
with the Bible, be plain and easy to un.
derstand, and not be drawn up in ques.
tions and answers, like the old one.
The suffrage reform bill prepared by
the government aud defeated by the
last riksdag has been slightly modified
and introduced a second time.
Dispatches say that serious strike
riot occurred at Helsingborg; that cav.
airy charged the rioters, and that 80
persons were injured.
A pice of ground lying between the
two cemeteries in Helsingborg have
been given to the city by Consul N.
Person. The ground, which is worth
at least $25. coo, is to be added to the
old burial grounds, making one large
cemetery.
A cooperative peat litter manufac.
turing company has been organized at
Solfvesbor6. About $50 acres OF
swamp land has been bought for the
company near Karreboda at a price OF
about 50. 900. A railroad line will be
built from the bog to the Solfvesborg,
Olofstrom g. Elmhult railway.
The Orebro wooden mills at Skeback,