Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-26
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GLAND. "
Stockholm had the first snow
shower: of the season Nov. 81, but the
stuff melted almost as fast as it
reached the ground.
The Vaxio and Alfvesta railway
company, a private concern, has
raised the wages Of it's employees,
thereby avoiding, a strike.
It is estimated that the total ce-
ceipts Of the postal service Of Sweden
will be $5.o19, 246 for the year 1907,
and $5,130,s7s for the year 1908.
James Keller, a Gothenburg capt.
talist, has donated a large piece Of
ground at Lundby to the city of Goth
enburg, to be used as a public park for
all time.
The Gammaltorp distillery, Fartoop
parish, near Hessleholm, was burnt
down in broad daylight. The fire was
started spontaneously in a pile of peat.
The property was insured for $500.
The exclusion Of Hinke Bergegren
from the Socialistic party by the cen
trail committee has greatly stirred up
the Socialist labor unions, and so far
it is hard to tell which party is the
stronger, the "F1inkes'' or the ANTI
Hinkes..''
The temperance organizations #
Norrkoping, which have a membership
Of 2,700, claim that at least two Of
the policemen of the city ought to be
total abstainers, and pressure will be
brought to bear on the authorities
along this line.
peasants, Tenant Farmers and
Worlkingmen," is the name of a new
labor organization in Norrland. But
70 farmers met at Hemosand and re-
solved not to join the organization on
account of its Socialistic tendencies,
and a committee was elected to draft
laws for a new farmers union.
NORWAY.
The "big herring season has fairly
started, and the prospects are good
L. B. Schibbye, proprietor of the
we'll known brickyards at Ensjo, died
at the age of eighty-four and one"half
years.
Many idle men in Kristiania are so
displeased with the public employment
bureau that they propose to have it
abolished.
Some Norwegian writers have
aroused the ire of their countrymen
by supplying the Swedish press with
contributions, the aim of which is to
prove the inehfciency Of Minister Of
War OLSON.
Posthumous work by Ibsen. The
Danish "Juleroser" is going to publish
a posthumous work by Ibsen: ITO the
Fellow-Culprits," which was written
under the impressions of the Danish
German war of 1864. The Deutsche
Rundschau has already published a.
German translation of it, and c}eilns
that it is the introduction to a length
epic poem which may be found as an
incomplete york in the Danish royal
The deposits in the savings banks Of
Norway aggregate $100,998, 740.43. This
is an average of about $43.75 for every
man, woman and child in the country
Prof. Morgenstjerne claims that the
figures do not represent the savings
Of the common people to any great
extent. For IS per cent of the de-
posits amount to $135 or more and the
amount Of the average deposit is over
$500, which indicates that a large part
of the money represents business CAPT.
tai not otherwise used by the owners.
A man from Asker lost two hooks
and part Of his line while, fishing for
mackerels in the Kristiania ford a
year ago. This fall he caught two
mackerel, each of which had hook
in his mouth, and the man was sur
prised to find that they were the hooks
that he lost a year ago. Both of the
fishes were in good condition. This
item was culled from a reliable Nor
it seems to have a sort of fishy taste
to it.
The Borregaard retail liquor store,
near Sorpsborg, is a curious institu-
ton which has caused the temperance
people great deal of worry. A ma
jority Of the people of the community
has voted it out. But two decisions Of
the supreme court of Norway sustain
the institution as "a vested right"
which cannot be annulled. Now the
temperance people have kept Prof
Toranger at work Investigating the
matter for several months, and he
seems to prove conclusively that the
right was granted as personal, not
as a perpetual privilege, to the pro-
prietors of Borregaard, in the year
1907.
The board of health Of Totem, one of
the richest farming districts Of Nor
way, reported three years ago that the
famous milk condensing establishment
in that locality was detrimental to the
health of the community. The farm
ers pledge themselves to sell all the
milk that they can spare to the milk
condensfng company, and the num-
erous working men in that part of the
country cannot obtain as much milk
as they ought, to have. The result is
that they live largely on bread and
coffee, as the plain city people, and
this diet gradually unde-mines their
vitality so that they become the easy
prey Of all sorts of diseases. This
fact is made prominent in conflict
which is going on between the farmers
and the milk condensing company.
A man who was doing his best in
acting as a spook in the Horton ceme
terry was gathered up by patrolman
and taken to the police station. The
cemetery had been haunted for some
time.r-
The walls of the new church OF
Aalesund are to be built Of granite and
cement, and the edifice is to cost about
$4,000. -
1The Norsemen's Association, an In
ternational organization for Nor
wegians in ali parts OF the world, has
published a very interesting and*valu.
able annual = j., - !; l.
The Norwegian: residents of Berlin
have organized a boat club.
Z: II Several lives were lost In recent
storms in northwestern Norway. The