Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-07
Gossip From,
Scandinavia.
Principal Events That Have oc-
cured in the Old Countries
Within q Week or So.

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FINLAND.
A strike has stopped the work in the
pineries in western Finland. The men
asked for an increase of their wages
sometimes amounting to one hundred
per cent, and one company which en-
ployed 5000 men closed the work for
this season.
ICELAND.
An Icelander residing in Copenhagen
has explained to reporter that it
would be inconsistent for Denmark to
cause trouble when the Icelanders some
day agree to- a war among themselves
to ask Denmark to let Iceland become
absolutely independent. Denmark
greeted the Norwegian secession from
the union with such unmistakable joy
that the Danes cannot well refuse to
comply with a unanimous wish of the
lcelanders for independence. To this
a Swedish paper adds that perhaps
Norway will be in a position to supply
the 1celandcrs with g. king when they
think they ought to have one Of their
own.
DENMARK.
DR.. Georg Brandes lectured on Hen
rik Ibsen before a select Stockholm
audience a few evenings ago, and $50
persons attended a banquet given in
honor of the great critic.
The population of the Danish cities
increased about five per cent during
the years 19O0-19O5.
The Gyldendal publishing house of
has bought out the Cam
publishing house Of Kris
tiania, Norway, the price paid being
a little over $4,000. The latter was
the most prominent publishing house
in Norway.
A subscription has been started for
the erection of an equestrian statue of
the late King Christian TX. of Den
mark.
About $4,000 has been raised for the
benefit Of the convicts that were par
doned when the new king assembled the
throne.
SWEDEN.
The Swedish Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety raised $4,000 last year by SELL
ing stamps to be put on packages
handled by public carriers.
The Good Templars of southeastern
Skane have decided to enter politics
in dead earnest, their immediate OBJ
jet being to elect a temperance man
to the riksdag from their district.
Larks were seen on the meadows
around Klagstorp as early as the thir-
teenth of February.
Prof. H. Petroni, lecturer on mathe-
MATES at the Vexio high school,
stated that there is a conflict between
the physical sciences and religion.
Prof. E. Ekedahl, lecturer on theology
at the same institution, has asked the
authorities to investigate the matter.
A company has been organized in
Gothenburg with capital stock of
$4,000 for the purpose of importing
bananas OF a large scale.
Admiral Sandstrom of the Swedish
navy recommends that the passage
known by the name of Flintrennan in
Oresund (the SounO be dredged to a
uniform dept! of % feet. He consid-
ers this matter very important from a
military point of view. Sweden ought
to be able to take warships through
Oresund so as not to be compelled to
use the Great Belt, which passage is
wholly within Danish waters.
Such large quantities of herrings
have been caught along the coasts of
southern Sweden that even the farm
ers far from the shore have had a
chance to get fresh behring's at reason
al BILE rates.
close to the Dalsland railway, near
Lake Kolungen
The salary of the Swedish minister
to London is about $4,000. But the
expenses are SO heavy that no suit
able person has volunteered to tackle
the job.
It is said that some Russian capital
lists are going to invest large sums
of money in the sugar industry of
southern Sweden.
The new tariff laws of Russia will
practically stop the exports of electric
appliances from Sweden to that coun-
try.
A number of prominent Swedes have
proposed that the Nobel peace prize
be awarded to K. p. Arnoldsson, 4
Swede, and Frederik Bajer, a Dane.
Everything points to a heavy emf
grafton from the continent, and the
German steamship companies are max
ing preparations for disposing of the
nf +1o% - ~
Europe.
The Prussian insurance laws served
as a pattern for the measures pro-
posed by the New York committee
which has been appointed to devise
some way Of putting the great insur-
ance companies of New. York into de-
cent shape.
Two deacOnesseS at the SjOtOrp
deaconess home, near Stockholm, de-
cided to take a walk on the ice, and
both of them broke through and were
drowned.
A free dispensary for poor consump-
tives has been opened at Sundsvall.
The fisheries along the coast of
Skane have given poor returns this
winter.
Prince Wilhelm made trip through
Egypt, seeing all the great sights and
stopping long enough at some hunting
grounds to shoot several birds and a
jackal.
About. $4,000 has been raised for
the establishment of home for aged
women who have spent their lives as
private family tutors. A piece Of
ground at Lindo, near Norrkoping, has
been offered free Of charge as a site
for the home. It is proposed to put
up a building large enough to accom-
modate 25 women.