Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-25


Norway to permit man of his
standing to preach in the churches Of
Norway.
DENMARK.
Hans Eibersen, Copenhage COACH
man, took little boat ride on Fureso
a lake at Fredriksdal. Though he
could not swim he undressed and
jumped into the lake to take bath,
believing that an active man like him
self could keep on top of the water
anyway. But he was mistaken. He
soon disappeared, to be taken up as
a corpse later on
A strike in the building industries at
Nykoping was settled on the follow
ing basis: The minimum pay is to be
II cents an hour at once and liz cents
after April /. 1907. The pay for over
work shall be 14h cents an hour, and
for night work 21k cents an hour.
sTrade members from each of the in
terparliamentary groups of Denmark
Norway and Sweden held a meeting in
Copenhagen July 16 and IT, Nothing
is known at this writing about the
business transacted.
The committee on railways will pro-
pose a railway bridge from Masnc2<,
Sjalland, to Orehoved, Falster.
The supreme court Of Denmark has
filed it's first decision in a case in
Volving whipping The man who is
to reap the questionable honor Of be-
ing the first victim Of this ancient
punishment in our own day is a butch
er named Carl Kempel whose name
Indicates German origin. He has al
DIV tn NJ
mails, and when he is drunk he as
saults anybody that he runs across.
and afterwards pleads innocence on the
ground Of jntoNication. He was SEN
fenced to four months imprisonment
and fifteen blows from a whip. The
sentence also includes the provision
that for three years he shall not drink
in public places, and under no circum-
stances will he be permitted to be
drunk while he appears before the
public
SWEDEN.
Committees are engaged in making
out reports on the proposition Of re-
organizing the diplomatic and the con-
rsular service as we'll as revising the
rules governing the administration Of
the government telegraph system.
Two Swedes drove one automobile
each from Bordeaux, France, to Stock
holm, a distance of almost two thou
sand English miles. The average speed
was about 80 miles an hour and the
greatest speed reached was a little over
so miles an hour.
During the first half Of this year
the railway traffic in southern Sweden
was heavier than ever before.
A part of the city of Umea known
by the name Of Amerika, was visited
by fire, and the burning of four houses
rendered twelve families homeless
The Swedish American day at the
/Norrkoping exposition was an unquali-
fed success. DR.. Enander, of Chicago,
delivered an address on the Swedish
Americans and he was vigorously ap-
plauded. A Geographic greeting of
about one hundred words was re-
ceived from King Oscar.
The farmers of the vicinity of Sim
risham are in great luck this summer.
Warm, rainy weather made everything
grow as in the tropics. Dry weather
set in just as haying season began, and
in about two weeks magnificent hay
crop was secured. Then copious rain
dered for the remaining crops.
Viktor Forssell, a young man from
Hanebo parish, Helsing]and, positively
refused to put on Il military uniform
when ordered to do SO by the proper
authorities, and he was court-mar-
tailed to imprisonment for 3 months
He holds that it is unworthy of a hui
man being to perform military ser
vice.
English capitalists have acquired full
control of the StOra Sranda and the
Stora LIE copper mines in Dalsland.
and they claim that the richness and
abundance Of the ore as we'll as the
facilities for working the mines are so
excellent that in the course of couple
of years they will be able to turn out
copper more cheapy than any other
known concern in the world. The ore
deposits are claimed to be practically
inexhaustible.
Miss Anna Paues, who received the
degree of doctor of philosophy at the
university of Upsala in 1902, has been
Iappointed permanent lecturer at New
ham College, Cambridge, London. her
specially being the Germanic languages
and more particularly Middle English
She recently RECEIVED a prize for q
,, treatise On Middle English Bible YER
: sions She was the first woman to re-
ceive that prize from the University OF
Cambridge
P. P. Waldenstrom had a mild at
tack of sunstroke so that he could moi
keep his appointment to preach at Kfss
church. near Linkoping.. He is recov.
ering.
Micro-telephones invented by Swede:
have been thoroughly tested in Paris
and found to be far superior to ev.
erything known in this particular field
boat carrying five young men cap.
sized on Bysion, Hedesunda parish
near Cafe, and two of them were
drowned.
, The Swedish society of Rheinlant
and Westfalen, Germany, held it's US.
t ual midsummer fest at Duisburg thi:
: year. About fifty Swedes attended the