Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-22

Cured in the Old Countries z
Within q Week or So. !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
David Holmgren. a former minister
ln*thc state church, has introduced a
motion In the second chamber of the
rlksdag, proposing that the salaries of
the pastors of the state church remain
unchanged until thorough inquiries
nave demonstrated that the state
church is necessary. Mr.. Holmgrcn
tries to show, by an elaborate argu-
mentation, that the state church is no
longer supported by strong popular
sentiment.
a Gothenburg engineer, represent
ing Consul N. Perssop of Helsingborg,
mas been looking. for copper in Hat
fjeIdalen, Norway.
The fund for monument to Stem
Sture, at Upsala, has been increased
by gift of 81, 1850 from an anonymous
giver.
The Halland peat litter manufac-
turing company has bought peat bog
at Landeryd for $4,000
= A philatelist in Malmo sold his col
lection of postage stamps for So, 900.
Troubles between labor unions and
employers are becoming so frequent
and serious that new laws must be
enacted for the regulation and legali-
XAflnn Of &c s~,& H.,
labor unions Bills touching upon this
subject have already been introduced
in both houses Of the riksdag, and the
government is expected to prepare one
on its own account.
A national Swedish butter label has
been registered in England, and it will
be used in Sweden as soon as the new
tubs are procured at the dairies
The German colony in Stockholm
celebrated Kaiser Wilhelm's birthday
by giving a grand banquet at Hotel
Continental.
Great excitement was caused by a
wholesale poisoning at Grand hotel,
Stockholm. No less than $50 persons
took sick, and four of them died. The
head of the staff of city physicians now
announces that tie oysters served on
the occasion ware poisoned. The ca
lamity was purely accidental
Coun: M. G. de la Gardie, governor
of Kristianstad Ian, died from the ef-
fects of a stroke of apoplexy on the
streets of Stockholm. The count be-
longed to an illustrious family, and at
the time of his death he was a men,
Der of the first chamber of the riks-
dag. For a great many years.he was
connected with the foreign service in
different European capitals He was
born in 1889.
Prof. Knut Hjalmar Stolpe, one of
the leading psychologists of Scandi-
navia, died in January. He spent
much time in making investigations at
Bjorko, an island in Lake Malaren,
where Christian mission is supposed
to have been founded by St. Ansgar in
the year $50.
Water is very scarce in some rural
communities in Skane, the wells hav-
ing dried up on many farms
;; The stonecutters of southwestern
Sweden are experiencing q dull sea-
son.
. The price of sugar has been raised
no less than one and a half cents q
pound in the course of few months.
This was a little too much even for
such a patient public as the Swedish,
and loud and persistent grumbling
has been heard. But the 'sugar bar
ons'' only predict a further raise at
no distant day. The reasons for these
conditions are not difficult to find.
Partly ON account of the reduction of
the area devoted to the growing of
sugar beets, partly to the poor crops,
at least twenty-five per cent of the
consumption from now until the next
crop is on the market must be i'm
ported from abroad. But the rise on
the worlds market has been almost
unparalleled. In Germany, for in
stance, the price of raw sugar has
doubled in the course of a year. The
Swedish refneries are importing raw
sugar, on which they must pay u duty
of three cents pound.
The visit which fifty members of
the national legislatures of the three
Scandinavian kingdoms paid to the
chamber of deputies and the govern
ment of France was a signal success
as step towards international arbi-
tration and peace that the promoters
propose to push this movement as
best they can. The Danish visitors
have already agreed to ask the presi-
dents of the two houses of the Danish
riksdag to take under advisement a
proposition to invite the French cham
Der of deputies to elect delegation
to visit Denmark. The plan comprises
a visit by such delegation to the legis-
latures and cabinets of all the Scan
dinavian countries.
Four stenographers were needed by
the ril1sdag at the opening of the ses-
sion, and the places were filled by
competitive examinations. There were
10 competitors, six of whom used
Arend's system, six Melin's system,
and one Gabel's system. All the four
places were filed by persons using
Arend's system.
p. P. Waldenstrom, who has served
as lecturer" at the Gefle high school
for great many years, has applied to
the king for a public pension.
Taken as a whole, the past year was
a poor one for the iron industry of
Sweden.
C. J. Nygren, a railway laborer at
Eskeryd, Halland lau, died a few days
ago at an advanced age. This man
had a phenomenal memory, and no
layman in his lau had a larger library