Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-15
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The Malmo Industrial union and the
SHANE Engineers club .are going to
build hall OF their own in Malmo.
The e cost Of the new building is put at
$55, 900, and the city may sell site for
the building at a cost of about SIS, 900.
The hunting privileges of Halland's
Vadero and the surrounding islands
have been rented out to the king for a
period of five years. His majesty is to
pay . rent of $50 a year:
Prince Gustaf Adolf is one of the
most attractive tourists in Cairo this
winter: He possesses. to a marked
degree, the easy and pleasant manners
OF the Bernadottes.
The executive committee Of the
Skane Farmers Peat Litter union has
been instructed to select bog which
is advantageously located, for the pro-
duction of peat litter to be used in the
stables instead of straw.
Three wooden tenement houses.
sheltering over fifty families, ut Svart-
vik, Stockholm, were destroyed by fire
and one man was burned to death.
The market quotations of the stocks
of the Grangesberg and Oxelosund
Traffic company have been rising in a
manner which has started a talk about
somebody trying to acquire majority
OF the sharces. Two years ago the
quotation was 14s1, but now it is 300
An earthquake which was observed
in the country around Hoping was &C
companied by reports like those of a
gun. In some places cracks were no.
ticed in the ground.
King Oscar has announced that no
kind of alcoholic drinks shall be sent
through the mails.
The members eff the riksdag belong
ing to the Liberal Fusion parties dis
cussed the consular service question for
two hours at a caucus, and a resolution
was passed pledging said parties to
make honest efforts to remove what
ever may tend to cause unpleasant
feelings between Sweden and Norway.
The government has set aside $3.50
In order to enable Prot. Stille, at the
University Of Lund, to continue mis-
studies of archives in Malta, which
may furnish information on the stay
of King Karl XII. in Turkey.
The insurance inspector of the gov
eminent of Sweden has announced that
the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
company of New York has closed its
operations iPe Sweden. This is the re-
suit OF controversy which has been
going on for years.
E. Sjostedt, Swedish publicist, has
been made knight of the French Le-
gion of Honor.
The Cooperative Supply union of
Malmohus Ian is doing much for the
advancement of the farming industry.
Prizes aggregating $500 will be award
ed to farmers whose farms do not ex-
coed 30 acres in area, and the govern
ment is expected to spend 81, 900 for
the same purpose. Provisions have
been made for series of free lectures
on agriculture at the Hvilan peoples
high school, and the farmers attend
ing the course receive about Sill each
for travelling expenses
The strike at Stenstrom's shirt fac
tory in Helsingborg was in an unex-
pected way. An agreement was final
~ reached as to the rates But the
striking girls demanded that the strike
breakers should either join the union
or be discharged, and this demand was
met by a fat and final refusal. In
stead of keeping the conflict going,
the employers closed the shirt factory
at once. There was some unfinished
work, and this will be finished at some
other establishment.
A proposition will soon be made to
authorize the government to change
the tariff rates without asking the
riksdag. The object Of the proposition
is to prevent the speculation which &C
companies changes which are known
before they become effective.
A new brewery of a peculiar kind has
been in operation for short time at
Djurlof, Skane. It is a purely CO.
operative concern, and the union run
ming it has about 300 members There
is a law which provides that "svag-
dricka," or small beer, made exclusive
ly for members of a. club, shall not be
tested by the government. The union
in question makes it rule to sell beer
only to members of the union, and the
promoters claim that the government
has no right to interfere. The govern
ment ordered man to test the beer,
but the right to keep him at the
brewery will have to be decided by
the courts. It takes but one man to
run the brewery, and the daily output
may be increased to 500 gallons.
Southern Sweden exported over 4O,-
900, 900 pounds of butter in 1904.
Captain NJ. Johnson, of the Swedish
steamer Aldebaran, upon which. the
Russian squadron fred in the North
Sea, has gone to Paris to testify before
the commission appointed to report on
the attack made upon English fisher
men by the same squadron.
The National Good Templar order of
Sweden is endeavoring to remove some
of the objections made to the interna-
tional order of the same name by do
ing away with the regalia, dropping
some of the Offices, substi tuting purely
Swedish designations for the inter-
national titles, accepting a total absti-
hence pledge for life only after, a six