Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-17
!: Gossip From,
: Scandinavia.
: Principal Events That Have o.
Cured in the Old Countries
: Within Week or So.
SWEDEN.
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the NorWegians are moving rather
slowly in demolishing the forts close
to the Swedish frontier. The agree
ment was that the forts should be dis
mantled within eight months of the
date of the Karlstad treaty.
AS usual the crown princess gave as
Christmas gifts suit Of clothes to a.
poor boy and poor girl in each of the
parishes of Stockholm
c. D. of Wirsen, the celebrated poet,
and secretary Of the Swedish academy,
is suffering on account of overwork,
and his physician has advised him to
take few weeks rest.
A number of small banks have been
absorbed lately by their stronger rivals.
Sodertalge is to have a new $4,000
public school house.
The new city directory of Stock
holm contains 10000 names. The An
derson family is the largest, consist
ing of 646 members. There are AT
Pettersons and 1913 Johanssons.
The number of messages handled at
the stockholm telegraph station on
christmas eve was 15,O42, though that
DAY happened to be a Sunday.
The crown princess of Sweden spent
the Christmas holidays very quietly at
Karlsruhe, Germany
The corvette Freja, with Prince Will
helm on board, was cruising in the
Mediterranean during the Christmas
holidays.
The government has spent s2,780,000
on new buildings at Helgeandsholm,
Stockholm, during the past ten years.
The new riksdag building required one
half of this amount.
Two men tried to cross the railway
track at Edsvalla just in front of
moving train, and they were both run
over and killed.
The labor troubles under which the
people of Malmo were laboring during
large part Of the year 1905 had g
marked influence upon the Christmas
trade, the sales being way below those
of the previous Christmas. Those who
deal in goods that are not strictly me-
cessaries of life naturally suffered the
most. The merchants of Malmo would
have suffered still more but for the fact
that the people of Southern Sweden
purchased less goods than usual in
Copenhagen: The reason for this
change which assumes the form of a.
mild boycott is the sympathy which
the Danes showed for the Norwegians
during the union conflict,
When the manufacturers national
union verkstadsforeningen) and the
labor unions came to an agreement and
closed protracted strike, they left one
point to be settled at later date The
labor unions are anxious to keep the
number of apprentices down as low as
possible, while the employers are
equally anxious to increase the stock
of Workmen by keeping a goodly num-
Der of apprentices. The manufacture
ers' union has drawn up rules for the
employment of apprentices without ne
gotiating with the labor unions, and
now the latter have begun to make
trouble On account Of this one sided
settlement of a delicate question. The
matter is already coming to a head at
the Hessleholm iron works. An engi-
neer at this shop failed in his endeavor
to have some apprentices sign a con-
tract drawn up by the manufacturers
union. He finally became impatient,
and as a new apprentice was to begin
work the engineer told him that he
would either have to sign the contract
or leave the premises at once. The ap-
prentice departed, and with him all
other apprentices in the shop. No one
can tell what the outcome of this fresh
trouble will be.
The South Sweden Electric Power
Company is enjoying the confidence of
the public to a marked degree. The
city council Of LandskrOma, on behalf
of the city, has taken stocks for $4,000
and the city of Helsinborg has invested
$4,000 in the same concern. The lat
ter city has also entered an agree
ment to use electric power for $1,000
year for 25 years.
The parish of the university city Of
Lund passed an important resolution
just before the close of the old year.
BY a vote of 4,500 to 2,617 the king was
requested to have the right Of hiring
and discharging public school teachers
transferred from the congregation to
the school board, and also to have the
general control of the public schools
transferred from the congregation to
the city council. This vote reveals a
remarkable situation. The congrega-
ton asks the king to be relieved Of an
authority which it has exercised for
centuries. It is evident that public SEN
timent is in favor of the proposed
change.
The international board of health
has recommended the appropriation Of
100000 by the riksdag for a new hos
pital in Smaland. The intention is to
have the hospital completed in 1910
or 1911. The institution may be loca-
ted in the vicinity Of Vestevik.
King Oscar has appointed a new
cabinet consisting Of the following
gentlemen: Premier and minister of
justice, NJ. STAFF; minister Of foreign
affairs, M. Trolle minister at Copen-
hagen); minister Of war, Col. L. B.
Tungsten; minister of finance, M. J. E
Biesert; minister of marine, Rear Ad-
miral Hidner; minister of education
Fridtjuf Berg; minister Of the interior
NJ. Shotte; minister of agriculture,
Goeste Tamm; ministers without port
folio, DR.. David Bergstroem, M. Hellner
and NJ Marks.
United States Minister Thomas gave
a Swedish flag to the Swedish build
ing at the St. Louis worlds fair 1t
contained union mark" of course.
Now the king has given still larger
flag containing no union mark to the
building. which will soon be re-erected
at Bethany college, Lindsborg, Kansas.
The department of agriculture pro-
poses that Sweden contribute $3.50 a
year to the support Of the proposed
international institute of agriculture
at Rome.
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