Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-08
Gossip From
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Principal Events That Have o.
CURED in tho Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
SWEDEN

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j.. Anderson, of Bruushog, near
IAund. has invented q bottle stopper
which is claimed to be superior to all
former devices of the kind. The in.
vention has been patented in thirteen
different countries
MissAnna Matilda Odhner, niece
OF John Ericsson, the famous inventor,
d'ed Feb ut Torared parsonage,
cged 81 years. Only one Of the chill
drcnsof Ericsscn's sister is yet living,
and she resides in Stockholm.
The Bible revision committee, which
is composed of Rev. Personne and the
Professors Rubin, Tegner and Knos, is
holding IN executive session at Lin
koplng for revising the cpistlc to the
Romans.
Very many farmers in Dalsland have
already fed the straw roofs off their
stables and sheds to the stock, and
still only a part of the stock can be
carried through the winter alive.
The free church conference which
was held at Stockholm and was at
tended by 500 persons representing
the Mission Friends, the Mcthodists
and the Baptists, passed a series of
resolutions, demanding that all men,
bers of independent churches recog-
nlzed by the state be exempted from
taxation for the support of the clergy
OF the state church; that tho catechism
ought to consist of only one, and not
OF two books, as at present; that it
should not be drawn up in questions
and answers; that it should agree with
the Bible; that it should be prepared
by persons experienced in teaching
children; and that every Swedish SUBJ
ject of the age of Is ought to have a
right to withdraw from the state
church without mentioning the de-
nomination that he or she intends to
join.
Most of the Swedish newspapers sup
port the government in its demand
that the Swedish minister of foreign
affairs be granted the right to sus-
pend Norwegian consuls in case Nor
way were to have separate consuls.
The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter is an
exception, blaming Premier Sostrom
for demanding SO much from the Nor
weg!ans. They all admit that the sit
uaticn is very serious, chiefly because
the Norwegians are united on a union
question for the first time since 1914,
the year of the establishment of the
union.
The consular service question will
no doubt be brought up in the riks-
dag. But SO far our authority seems
to know neither how it is to be
brought up nor how it is to be dis
posed OF.
) Foreign capitalists are organizing
a Swedish transport, accident and
burglary insurance company in Stock
holm because it is cheaper to run it
Us a Swedish than as a foreign con-
Germ.
At. the opening of the riksdag,
which was not attended by the king,
the good stairway was richly decor
ated with ported plants. The mem
bers of the riksdag were so we'll
pleased with the decoration that ar
engagements were made with the own
er of the plants for keeping them
there during the whole session.
On Saturday night, Feb. II, the
last horse street car was put out of
service in Stockholm by the intro
duction of electricity on the last por-
ton of the bedtime running between
Ostermalm and Kungsholmen.
The managers of Slottskogen Park,
Gothenburg, have resolved to permit
the erection, in that park, of statue
of Sven Renstrom, who donated more
money and property to the city than
other men.
The copy of Shalzespeare's "Titus
Andronicus, which was found in Swe-
den and sold to Lon5on firm for SlO.-
900, has given rise to a dispute about
the ownership of the famous relic.
relative of the man who sold it claim
ing to be entitled to a part of the
money. The discussion is made still
more interesting by the fact that said
relative had received written offer of
$25, 900 for the book.
Negotiations carried ON between the
manufa cturers and the labor unions of
Stockholm are on the point of leading
to an agreement about the status of
apprentices and about minimum
scale of wages.
The executive committee OF the
%nr MI -
passed a resolution last fall which
pledged the organizations to support
the Socialist ticket at the city cleo
tions. The Blue Ribbon Temperance
Union did not obey this resolution,
and for that reason the union was
excluded from the general associa-
ton of the temperance organizations
of Malmo. Afterwards the Good
Templars of the South S<ane dis
trict endorsed the action of the cx-
ecutive committee. All of which goes
to prove that the temperance organi-
cations of southern Sweden support
the Social Democrats.
Bjornson, who is staying in Rome,
said to a reporter that he intends to
return to Norway next summer to as
sist in the work of divorcing Sweden
and Norway.
While the brothers Kinstrand were
operating u drill in the Adelsword
shaft in the Bcrsbo mine the drill
struck an old charge which was not
completely burnt out, and an explo-
sion followed. Both men were in
iured, one of them very seriously.
King Oscar appropriated 1880
towards defraying the expenses of
the Scandinavian games in Stock