Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-17

Lie DOeiIQ Ol directors OF the PUBIC
schools of Sweden have proposed to
place the regular teachers at the "peo-
pies high schools on an equal foot
ing with the teachers in the public
| schools with regards to promotions and
pensions.
The historical museum@of Lund has
just acquired a valuable collection of
| antiquities, including the paper scis-
sors of Esaias Tegneer. a cane that
once belonged to Wilhelm Won Braun,
and the oldest and rudest bicycle to
be found in Sweden.
Both Danish and Swedish newspa-
pers are denouncing the methods Of
two Danish lottery companies which
are doing a f1ourishing business in
| Sweden. But the companies keep
things moving all the same because
they are operating within the limits
| of the letter of the law.
The past years was d very prosper
| Gus one for the sugar barons" of
Sweden. The best beets welded as
much as 10 per cent Of sugar, some
thing which was supposed to be i'm
possible two years ago. There was so
much money in the business that both
the beet-growers and The laborers
| WIZ owen SiAouSl pay " llldhe tIelll
stop their traditional 'kicking" against
the sugar barons." No industry has
brighter prospects in Sweden than
has the production of beet sugar.
Otto Goldschnidt, the husband of
Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale"
who died in 1887. died in London at
the age Of seventy-eight. He married
Miss Lind in 1852, during her American
tour, during which he was her accom-
PIANIST on the piano. Mr.. and Mrs.
Goldschmidt took up their residence in
England in 1858. He was professor in
the Royal Academy Of Music England,
in 1853, and made vice principal in
1865, was first musical director of the
Bach Choir in 1876, and resigned in
1885. He edited in conjunction with
Sterndale Bennett. 1.-The Choral Book
for England.''
] The railway department has pre-
pared a lengthy report on the proposed
finland Railway" which is to run from
north to south thru the whole coun-
try. Starting from Gothenburg and
following portions of existing railroads
for short distances, the Inland Rail-
way according to the opinion of the
railway department. ought to pass
thru the following places: Ellos, Hog
storp, Smedberg, Gesater, Ed, Billings
fors Lelangen, Silbodal, Koppom,
Ottebol. Torsby, Utterbyn, Rya, Ma
lung, Orsa, Sveg, Irenstavik, Brunflo,
Ostersund. Litsnaset. Gullastjarn. Ul-
riksfors. Dalasjo, Kaska and Geilivare.
1t is estimated that this line will cost
$39.100,00O.
NORWAY.
The public debt of the municipality
of Kristiania is little over $14,000,000.
The government sold stumpage for
$4,000 on the Kendall reservation last
year, the heaviest buyers being Swedes.
The Norwegian Life Pension Union
| has loaned SCI 800 to the Aalesund
Building Association for the erection
of residences.
Oscar Buurmann. who is residing in
Paris, is translating Ibsen's "Ghosts'
into Esperanto, an artificial language
receiving much attention in our day.
The Hygea life insurance company
Of Bergen is in a prosperous condition.
The new insurance for the past year
amounted to almost $1,000 900, and the
reserve fund is about $l,300,OOO.
The city council of Kristiania has
proposed an appropriation of $4,000
for the Western railway on condition
that the storting pass a resolution at
the present session to build such a
railway.
The government has proposed that
the importation of gooseberry bushes
be prohibited in order to protect the
native bushes from "American mill
dew" which is troubling the fruit
growers of Norway and Sweden.
Plans are being prepared at the canal
Office for deepening the passage thru
Nordsjo to Hitterdal lake so that it
may accommodate steamers Of 1000
tons. This will afford the flourishing
factories around Notodden a direct
communication with the ocean.
Sufficient money has been raised
for a monument Of Peter Dass, the ia =
nous poet and preacher of Nordland
About 5000 will be paid for the best
designs for the monument, which will
be unveiled in August, 1908, the 200th
anniversary Of Peter Dass. The monu-
ment will naturally be located at
Alstahoug, Nordland
Norfolk Va, April S.-The British
steamer Olivemoor, bound from Mobile
March 30, for Bristol, England, picked
up at sea off the North Carolina coast
yesterday fifteen Of the eighteen men,
bers of the Norwegian bark Hereford
) bound from Pensacola, March 16, for
} Buenos Ayres, which was dismasted
) in the storm of April 1, and was help
, less at sea until sighted with distress
signals flying by the Oliyemoor on her
way across the Atlantic. Three mem
bers of the> Herefords crew were
washed overheard and drowned. Capt
Jensen, commanding the bark, was
crippled by falling mast and rigging
and the first mate is badly injured. Sc
badly hurt were the captain and mate
, that the Olivemoor discontinued he,
, voyage to bring the seamen in for hos
pital treatment. The shipwrecl1ed mer
will he turned over to the vice-consu
here and the Olivemoor will proceed al
once on her voyage to England.
Bernhard Hansen of F'lekkefjor6
has ordered a steel steamer to be built
, at the Frames shipyards, Sandefjord
. at cost Of $4,000. The new steam.
err is to be used on a steamship line be.
| tween Norway and the West Indies.
'" Five fishermen who We're operating
near Voksvar, on the Frozen Island
| near Trondhjem, were drowned in {
storm. Three brothers and their father
E. were among them.
} Dale Gudbrand, noted stallion, is
dead. He was popular while living
and his. descendants. are said to be
worth about 100000.
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