Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-12-20

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I typographers passed resolution to
do everything in their power to cut
! down the time to eight hours a day.
The employers are strongly opposed to
the change. and a protracted struggle
is expected.
The Union bakery at Reykjavik, Ice
land, was destroyed by fire in the night.
The building was a wooden one.
/ No person was injured. The loss was
about $4,000.
| r. G. Won Essen, general manager of
the Malmo and Simrishamn and other
railways, has been in the service Of
Swedish railways exactly forty years.
A team and load of sugar beets
were struck by train at Rydsgaard.
near Malmo, with such force that both
horses were killed at once and the
! wagon knocked into splinters. The
! driver got away unscatched.
A few weeks ago the Klippan cream
cry, Skane, began to export cream to
| Berlin by way of an experiment. The
venture proved a success, and now
that creamery is sending all it's cream,
or about 1000 pounds a day, to the
| imperial capital. Other creameries in
! southern Sweden are apt to follow the
example of the Klippan creamery. The
cream is carried by steamer from
| Trelleborg, Sweden, to Sassnitz, Ger
many. and thence by rail to Berlin.
The Nobel prizes were distributed at
the Royal Academy of Music Dec. 10
| by King Oscar in the presence of a
distinguished gathering, including the
members of the royal family and of the
| diplomatic corps The recipients of the
prizes We're: In physics-Phillip Len
ard, professor of Kiel university, for
researches into cathode rays. In chem
| istry-Adolph Won Boyer, professor at
| the University of Muenchen. for re-
| searches leading to the evolution Of
| organic chemistry, and the Develop
ment of the chemical industry. In
medicine-PrOf. Robert Koch Of Ber-
lin for researches looking to the pre-
| vention of tuberculosis. In literature
! Henry Sienkiewicz, the Polish novelist.
| Nine. SienkieWicz was unable to be
present, being i'll at Cracow. Each
prize amounts to about $4,000. The
Norwegian storting awards the pearl
prize, making five in ALL or about $780,
900 each year Ito the end Of time"
Alfred Nobel, the great. millionaire
philanthropist, died a few years ago,
and the prizes are a part of the interest
on the $10,000,000 which he left at his
death.
About one hundred Swedes residing
in London are going to organize
Swedish club to succeed the Scandi-
| navian club, which was dissolved az
a result of the dissolution of the union.
| Several hundred farm laborers Of
both sexes from Galizia, Austria, spent
the summer in the sugar beet fields Of
| southern Sweden, and when they re-
turned to their native land short
while ago each Of them had saved all
the way from $40 to $65 during the
| season.
| The industrial union of. Malmo has
celebrated its f1ftieth anniversary.
kilograms we're exchanged between
King Oscar and the union on the oc-
casion.
The number Of telephone messages
passing between Sweden ana sforeign
countries in 1904 was 154,969. Maimo
was at the head Of the list with 36,777,
while Stockholm occupied the third
rank with 20,842 messages. =
|
Norrkoping electric power station, re-
Gently gave lecture In which he threw
an interesting light on the chances Of
utilizing the water power of Sweden
He estimated that the railroads Of the
country require about 10000 horse
power for their operation. The Troll
haitian, in southwestern Sweden. rep
resents $4,000 horsepower, and the
other waterfalls that are already avail
able in different parts of the country.
represent 100000 horsepower, or ten:
| times what is needed for operating the
present railway system. The speaker
announced that the government has
done so much preliminary work that
everything is ready for the introduce
ton of electric traction throughout the
| whole railway system of Sweden, and
he was, in hopes Of seeing Sweden at
| the head Of the nations in this respect.
| The Introduction of electricity on the
| railways, he said, would naturally give
| a tremendous impetus to the Develop
ment of electric power for use in the
industries. * :.
| The state Of Sweden has agricul-
! tural. colleges at Ultima and A1narp.
! Appropriations are made for those
! irregular and slipshop way is causing
embarrassment every now and then,
and the department Of agriculture is
in favor of fixing permanent allow
ance Of about $4,000 a year for two
/ schools. + b. s.>..s 's.,%<~ :,
= If our authority is correct the best
COW in Skane gave over $4,000 pounds
4 Of milk last year. The percentage Of
fat was 1921, making about $50 pounds
g: butter. 49, ,.s Z
The tobacco crop of Skane was. a
very fine one this year. 49,
The government Is contemplating the
establishment of marine school at
Marstrand. go. .Sss%g< " <.j
! The Skabersjo hunting grounds in
Skane comprise about $4,000 acres. "A
list of the game killed last year has
been published, and is as follows: 1855
deer Of three different species, $40
horses, 3S5 pheasants, III partridges,
i 270 ducks, 80 quails, snipes, 9 wild
geese, 1S1 pigeons, 1e foxes, 20 bad
gers, II eagles, 30 hen hawks, 219
crows and 109 birds OF prey OF diff
ferent kinds, making 2,172 animals and
birds. At the same time the stock of
game increased . perceptibly. The
:Skaberajof hunting grounds are the
!. largest and best In Sweden. :..