Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
SWEDEN.

lost his life in an unusual manner. lie
was grinding a piece of steel on an
enlery-W wheel. In some manner the
steel cut into the wheel, and the latter,
which was revolving with great speed,
exploded with terrific force' One OF the
fragments struck Mr.. Axbergs face,
cutting off his chin, and the Injuries
were so severe that he died in a few
hours.
Sweden has secured a good market
for her surplus butter in England, the
total exports for 1905 being 1880 tons
But Finland is very rapidly coming to
the front, and few Swedes had any
idea that she was a dangerous com
petitor until it was announced that
Finland's exports for the same year
were 15,440 tons.
At the close of May there were 345
patients at the three national sanatori-
inns for consumptives at Halahult, Os-
terasen and Hessleby. But at the same
there We're 6S3 other persons who
were entitled to treatment, but for
whom there was no room.
The Swedish devotees Of Esperanto,
an artificial language which seems to
be gaining ground, are endeaVorlng to
organize themselves into a national
| union.
Lieutenant Fogman and Engineer
Holmberger made trip in the balloon
"Svenske H. starting from Stockholm
at two o'clock in the afternoon and
landing five hours and fifteen minutes
later in a grove near Linkoping.
The silver font from which the duke
of Vesterbotten was ba ptized was orig
inally made for the baptism of the
prince who afterwards became the IA
nous King Karl XII.
It is estimated that about $4,000
acres was put to sugar beets in south
ern Sweden last spring. The beets
bring all the way from SIS to 800 pei
acre. The average is perhaps about
$85 per acre, making the farmers In
come from the sugar industry about
| $5,000,000.
According to the commercial statis-
| tics Of 1904, which have just been pub
lished, Sweden had 1850 sailing YES
sells of a tonnage of 265,748, and 1,O19
steamers of a tonnage of 408,1 1874 at the
end of that year.
Hinke Bergegren, a noted socialist
agitator was sentenced to imprison-
ment for ten months on account of re-
marks made by him at an anti-military
meeting in the Stockholm Peoples
! House."
! The department of war is engaged
in collecting materials which are to
serve as basis for raising the pay
Of the non commissioned officers of
the army.
The changes Of the tariff laws Of
South Africa do not interfere much
with the export of lumber and furn1-
ture from Sweden.
King Oscar has appointed a commit
tee consisting of Gov. K. J. Bergstrom.
Rev. K. V. Karnell and Sheriff o. H. ].
Hultin to make inquiries as to the nee
essity Of having the reindeer of the
parishes of Enontekis and Juckasjarv1
taken across the Norwegian border be-
| fore the fifteenth of June
The government has granted reduced
rates on the government railways to
representa- of the press and the
telegraph system.
When Herr Roos of Karlskrona, en-
tered the new cabinet his constituents
held a mass meeting and asked him to
| resign as a member of the second
| chamber of the riksdag. Herr Roos
was elected to his seat in the riksdag
on a Liberal PLATFORM while the new
cabinet is conservative if not reaction
airy.
The crops look very fine in western
Sweden.
A syndicate was formed by Swedish
and English capitalists at Gothenburg
last year for exploiting copper mines
at Stova Strand, Dalsland. The pre-
liminary work has proved the ore to be
very rich, and the company is increas-
ing the stock of laborers in order that
the plant may be put into running order
next year. A large sorting house is to
be built, and many houses for the
laborers must be completed before reg
ular operation can be commenced. Mo-
tive power will be transmitted to the
mines from a neighboring waterfall.
The claims Of the company extend for
about three (English) miles in one
direction.
It was mentioned some time ago that
Elisa Torne'~ had written a book call
ed "Solidor." The book was a eulogy
on ''the simple life" But there were
so many sharp thorns in it that. it
aroused universal discussion. Now the
same author, whose real name is not
known to the public, has published a
book entitled Cleanliness, a Lever for
the Individual and Society,"" Much is
said in the new book about filth in
general; but a most disgusting chap
ter is devoted to Swedish filth in the
various conditions of life, and the book
is bound to be discussed. Cleanliness
is depicted as something that will
transform mortals into beings tina,
ought to feel pretty we'll at Nome
among ordinary angels
A company is being organized in
Malmo for running automobiles fol-
} public traffic along certain streets al
certain hours The people take kind,
to the proposed plan.
The land which once belonged tc
Axel Oxenstjerna, the great statesman
has been sold by Count C. c: Beck.
Friis to the Hel1efors Manufacturins
company for. $325,00O. The propert,
covers nearly all of Jader parish ant
parts Of Kjult and >Barfva parishes
; The estate is to be divided up int
, about two hundred smaller farms.
The city council of Jsnkopine ha.
resolved to borrow $500, 900 for maxim,
! public improvements. :
= A school which had been in opera
ton for 2S6 years, that is, since 1920
was closed for ever the other day a
: Malmo. It was called 'sNoya Peda,
gogi."S. The closing examinations 8
the last class was a solemn affair. TIL
: school had had eighteen principals, th
. average of service was fifteen years
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