Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
A strike among the farm laborers
at Eda is an exceedingly serious af-
fair to the farmers.
The journeymen BARRIERS at Lands
koona quit work because their masters
refused to grant them higher pay.
The Jarnum peat litter factory at
Vittsjo, near Kristianstad, was visited
by fire which consumed a good deal
of peat and threatened the factory
itself.
The king has appointed commits
sion of experts to propose plans for
establishing a closer connection be-
tween the railways of Sweden and
those of Russia, and for starting sub
sidized steamship line between Nyras-
hamn, Sweden, and Windan, Russia.
King Oscar has appointed Sven
Paine, of Stockholm, Vice Consul
Oscar Trapp, Of Helsingborg and City
Auditor Axel Ramm, of Gothenburg, to
represent Sweden at the eighth in
ternational congress for discussing the
question of establishing cheap homes.
The Stockholm Koeditbank, one Of
the foremost banking institutions of
Scandinavia, has suspended payments.
The action of the directors is at
tributed to the extensive forgeries by
a nobleman and an army officer. Many
firms and private individuals are heavy
sufferers.
Marseilles, Aug. 13.-Vere St..
Ledger Goold confessed here today
that he was the murderer of Emma
Levin, wealthy Swedish woman
whose dismembered body was found
in the trunks of Goold and his wife
upon their arrival here, Aug. 6, from
Monte Carlo.
The Socialists are carrying on a
very vigorous campaign in many parts
of Sweden, and their opponents are
diligently advertising their propaganda
by exploding" it, at least to their own
satisfaction. One of the latest as
saults on Socialism is a pamphlet
written by julius Sellman, who at
tempts to prove that the theories of
the Socialists are empty dreams.
The temperance rally connected
with the eleventh annual anti-alcohol
congress in Stockholm was a stipend
GUS affair. It took the procession al
most two hours to pass certain point.
Over 200 banners were counted, and
music was furnished by ten bands.
Three speakers addressed three i'm
mense audiences at the same time in
the Skansen park. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the legalization of
the drink traffic by the government
and recommending thorough measures
for combating the evils of alcoholism.
The church department is preparing
q bill for regulating the salaries of the
clergy on new basis.
The department of agriculture has
collected statistics showing that
1851 crawfish were caught by pro-
fessional fishermen in Sweden last
year. <".-
A. F. Miller, who owns several
hotels on the Pacific coast, made a
trip to Stockholm for the purpose of
making purchases for a new hotel
which he is going to build. His pur-
chases amounted to $1,000, and he will
return to buy still more next year.
The Swedish Methodist church has
resolved to send two more mission
aries to Africa, and the Methodists of
Finland were asked whether they
would contribute to the support of the
new missions.
" An eight-year-old boy was caught
bysa rod in a threshing machine on
the Reslof estate, Mariehohn, and the
scalp was torn from the left side of
his head: < s:s T. -. zzs> :. =. 's .s . IS
Excavations made for the new city
hall Of Norrkoping undermined the
foundation Of the jail, and the prison
.ers had to be removed to a safer place.