Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
SWEDEN.

soon have no representation in the city
council
SWEDEN.
OF the 1850 young men which the
recruiting authorities examined in
1904. 6,343, or about 20 per cent, were
found 10 be unfit for military service.
The price of live hogs in southern
Sweden is from 8 to 10 cents a pound,
and the farmers VINO happen to have
hogs for sale this season are simply
scooping in money. Pork has never
been so high before.
Flowers were placed on the grave Of
C. J. Bostrom, the great Swedish
philosopher, on the 40th anniversary of
his death. His grave is located at
Upsala.
A public appeal calling for universal
peace has been signed by "A members
Of the riksdag.
The city council, of Karlshamn has
resolved to build modern city hotel
at cost Of $4,000.
The city council of Helsingborg re-
solved to buy 1850 acres of land close
to the city for 100000. about $50 acres
to be turned over to the national gov
eminent for the building of barracks
and for other military purposes. The
vote was a tie, II against II, and the
chairman voted in favor Of the deal.
The Boden peoples high school cele-
brated its tenth anniversary March "a
in the presence Of Bishop Bergqvist,
Governor Bergstrom and Werner Won
Heidenstam, the poet. An address in
memory Of the great and good men Of
the past was made by Rev. Englund
of Gammelstad, who is So years old.
Lieutenant Allan Abemies Swede,
donated $4,000 to the relatives Of thCee
who lost their lives in the mine catas-
trophe at Courrieres, France.
An earthquake Of considerable vio-
lence was felt at Laholm in the morn
ing Of March "a.
Prof. Leon Pineau, a French histor-
ian and literary critic is studying the
peoples high schools of Sweden.
Wheat bran containing from IS to 20
per cent of saWdust has been OH the
markets Of Central Sweden.
A Swedish mass meeting held in
London recommended by a unanimous
vote that Sweden make arrangements
for an industrial exposition in that city.
Capt. w. Wrangel of the Swedish
navy has written a pamphlet in which
he claims that a number Of war ships
of small type can defend the coasts
of Sweden from large battleships; by
means of taking proper advantage of
the shallowness of the waters along
those coasts. -..
Thirty five persons who posed as
gypsies were arrested on the charge of
vagrancy in Lund, and they were
found to be natives of South Germany
who had come to Sweden to exc out a
living by means of horse trading.
The hotel connected with the Kneipp
cure establishment at Borg, near, Norr-
koping, was burned down at midnight,
and the inmates barely saved their
lives. The property was insured for
$4,000.
A number of progressive conserva-
tives have organized a reform club in
Stockholm for the purpose Of advance
ing the development of the country on
progressive principles.
The irOnclad TOrdenSkjOld is cruis-
ing in the Mediterranean sea.
The brewers association sent pro-
test to the minister OF finance against
the regulation which permits the manu-
facturers of "svagdricka,'' or ale con-
tanning only ~ per cent Of alcohol, to
use sugar instead of malt. But as
soon as the latter found out what was
being done against their business they
sent in a communication defending
the regulation in question.
Prof, Rosen claims to have found the
first flint instrument shop ever dis
covered in Scandinavia. The place is
located near Tullstorp, Skane, and the
flint had been taken out of a moraine
from the ice period. Flint tools were
made there long before the Christian
era. A, large part of the morine con-
sists Of chalk containing Jumps of flint,
and these were dug out of the chalk
with implements smade of horns from
different kinds Of animals.
The Swedes who are to take part in
the Olympic games at Athens will stop
three days in Berlin and give per-
formances before officers Of the Ger
man army. About 60 Swedes will go
to Athens. - --}.
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