Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-16
SWEDEN.

A milk meal factory is to be start
ed in Ystad.
Vale, a new torpedo destroyer, has
been launched at the Kockum ship
yards, Malmo.
Prince Eugen is stopping at Solli-
den, Crown Princess Victoria's sum
mer resort at Borghalm.
Prof. Svante Arrhenius has written
a book on a big subject, namely, Man
and the Riddle of the Universe"
A large donation is forthcoming as
soon as definite steps are taken to
establish a high school, or univer-
sity in Norrland.
The high price of whisky has raised
the price of potatoes to about 35 cents
bushel, an unusual price at this
time of the year.
Two steam plows have been bought
by farmers near Engelholm. The
plows were imported from Germany
at cost of $14, 500 apiece.
There was a violent snow storm
Sept. 20 where the Gellivare railway
crosses the Norwegian boundary line,
and a train got stuck in snow drift.
Archaeological Investigations have
proved that Frostvik has had a Viking
period, and that the place was fire.
quented by other races than Lapps
at very remote period.
The Swedish patrol boat Skagerak
pulled up the lines of Norwegian
fisherman three times in succession
ON Stenbrottet, a disputed lobster
ground near the boundary line.
Copenhagen, Oct. At is declared
here that the Swedish yachtsmen who
desire to challenge for the Americas
cup are ready to accept the conditions
under which Shamrock III sailed off
Sandy Hook. 1t has been decided to
build the Swedish challenger entirely
of wood.
The Valeberga parish, Skane, Pc
titioned the government for permits
sion to tear down the bell-tower which
is standing close by the church. The
authorities agree that the tower must
be preserved on account of it's age.
1t is supposed to have served as a
fortress at remote period in the
past.
J. LARSON Baringebol has donated
$4,000 to Frandefors commune, Dals-
land. The interest is to be added to
the principal until the whole amounts
to $4,000, after which time the in.
terest shall be given to poor farm
laborers who are unable to support
themselves on account of sickness or
old age.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna OF
Russia has commenced to study Swe
dish history and the Swedish Ian
guage. According to reliable informa
ton she and Prince Wilhelm of Swe
den are to be married early next
spring. The Russian wedding is tc
take place in St. Petersburg, the Swe
dish one in Stockholm.
Sweden produced only about forty
pounds of gold during the past year
while the production was 108 pounds
for the previous year. The Falun cop
per mine was the only one that pro
duced gold last year. This result IN
djcates that the gold fields" in Nord
land must have existed. largely ir the
imagination of sanguine prospectors.
Seed dealers in southern Sweden
have received large orders for seed
grain from Russia.
Over 5000 Swedes are serving as
seamen in the British merchant ma
rine.
The new corporations registers,
during the first half of the present
year and the additions of new stocl
to old corporations for the same per
iod added $3O,OO0.O00 to the capita
of the Swedish business corporations
A new steamship company has beer
organized for operating a line O.
steamers between the east coast O.
Sweden, and Hamburg. The capita
stock shall be somewhere between
$4,000 and 100000.
Some energetic men are providing
means for establishing "a manua
training school at Hoganas, F.,