Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-08
SWEDEN.

I1lS lev clIueS VI lIlS government lot
the first half of the present year were
about $945,O00 in excess of the revenues
for the same period last year.
An original copy of Titus Androni-
GUS" one Of Shakespeare's plays, which
was discovered by Mr.. P J. Kraft, of
Malmo, and sold by him for round
lump of money to an Englishman, has
become the property Of Marsden J..
Perry, Of Providence, r. I. Our author
ity does not state the price paid by Mr..
Perry
For the first time in the history of
modern Sweden the maneuvers of the
Swedish navy will take place in the
gulf of Bothnia. The Norrland
squadron is to be made up of seven
armored cruisers, two torpedo cruisers,
two destroyers and twelve torpedo
boats. The reason why no maneuvers
have been held there before is, that
it is only recently that reliable charts
have been made of the gulf Of Bothnia.
The late Mrs. Maria Sofia Lind
gren, of Stockholm, bequeathed $621O
towards the establishment of a home
Tor sewing women. A sewing woman
may be admitted when she is so years
old, and will have furnished rooms,
fuel and light free of charge. In case
of great poverty she may also have
dinner and medical aid free of charge.
The building is to cost $4,000, and
the balance is to be used for running
expenses.
A wild moose died of anthrax a very
dangerous pest, at Lundby, Risinge
Parish, Skane, and the remains had to
be burnt up and the place disinfected.
Two men went home from an inn
late in the night at Trollhattan. They
passed a big fy-wheel leaning up
against a wall. One of them wanted
to prove his strength by lifting the
wheel. But in some way the wheel
fell on top of him, killing him almost
instantly. The other man was not
able to remove the wheel, and had
to report the peculiar accident to the
police.
This passenger traffic on the steam
ships running between Trelleborg,
Sweden and Sassnitz, Germany. is
much heavier now than last summer.
The fourteen English journalists who
made a tour of Sweden are simply
0uooAA3 oFSA VAIL p1dIoc VI 0Wou0u
and the Swedes, and through them
Sweden is getting an immense amount
of advertising in the British press.
The main reason why Prof. Schuck
was not endorsed by the king as a
member of the "eighteen immortals"
Of the Swedish academy was, that he
wrote a biography of King Gustaf III
WHICH does not please royalty by long
way. This king was the organizer of
the Swedish academy.
The government is preparing a
proposition for keeping more cavalry
in the northern part Of Sweden.
G. FROZEN, who is employed in the
Norrland Bank, at Gafle is the owner
of. finger ring which George Wash
fngton gave to General Lafayette. The
latter, in turn, gave it to Baron Stael.
the husband of the famous Madame
Stael, and from him 1t has passed @by
inheritance to its present owner. The
ring may be seen this summer at the
Norrkopfng exposition. / .,<2 ::
A number of foreigners have been
expelled from Sweden during the past
few weeks. Among the subjects were
Galatians, who were sent home on ac-
count Of vagrancy; Germans and Danes
who distinguished themselves ~
divers adventures ;==s and Gypsies and
Armenian and Persian begRars, s3S