Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-09

A Danish paper states that Kaiser
Wilhelm may possibly visit Iceland
next summer
SWEDEN.
Consul n. Person has bought the
Palsjo farm, north of Helsingborg for
s325,000.
The st. Carolus lodge of Free Ma
sons at Karls1ad has celebrated its
Tooth anniversary.
The temperance peoples high school
will soon be started somewhere in
southwestern Sweden. 1t will be the
first one of it's kind in the country.
The directors of the Ystad and Bro
sap railway have raised the wages of
all the station agents Is per cent, the
increase being counted from July last.
The building contractors of Helsing-
borg have agreed on certain rules that
prevent conservative capitalists from
, investing money in new factory build
| ings in that city.
Bishop Billing writes that he is in
favor of state ownership of the Norr-
land iron ranges. At any rate he
holds that it is unwise to export the
! ore instead Of reducing it to iron at
| home.
The chapter of Lulea proposed the
| ordination Of Olof Brandelins though
| he has not passed the regular aca-
demical examinations, the supply OF
| theological candidates being below the
demand.
| August Strindberg, the famous au-
| thor, has proposed a sinplifcation OF
the modern system of printing musical
notes. Instead of "sharps' he wants
the notes printed red, and instead OF
flats" he wants green notes.
| The Swedish newspapermen are fa1
from pleased with the fact that Swed-
isc news are cften wired to the out
side world from Copenhagen or ever
| from Kristisnia. But that is not all
The news wired from Copenhagen are
said to be worded to suit the Danes
rather than to do justice to the Swedes
| Some poor woodchoppers in the Ag-
| nsa forests, Albo parish, Skane, cu
| down a beech tree containing two bee
| hives, and after an unpleasant fgh1
| with the bees, which were quite active
on account OF the mid weather, the
men gathered As pounds of honey.
The making of baskets from cedar
twigs is an important industry in Ov.
kelljunga parish, Skane, a skilful bas.
ket maker earning from IS cents to {
dollar day. Cedar twigs are getting
so scarce that they have to be fetched
from the forests of Smaland.
A little boy at Arboga told his pa
rents that he had swallowed a nail
and that he felt pain in the stomach
They were thoroughly alarmed, AM
the doctor which they sent for let tn
boy eat as much as he could in orde
to imbed the dangerous object. Tn
boy was then taken to Stockholm
where it was proved by means of tn
use of Rontgen rays that there wa
no nail in the boys stomach.
Emil Haggblad of Vastervik, who ha
spent part of his life in South Americ
and South Africa, is one out Of tire
owners of a gold mine in Rhodesi
which is so rich that each Of the thre
got several thousand dollars a mont
as their profit after paying $50 KAT
frs for doing the hard work. Mr.. Hagg
blad has bought the Grondalen farm
near Vastervik, and he proposes t
spend the balance of his life Their,
with the exception Of one short tri
year to South Africa.
The Smaland colony in Gothenbur
has decided to take typical Smalan
church Of a venerable age and rebuilt
it in Slottskogen palace Forest),
park near Gothenberg. The necessar
funds have already been raised, but tn
particular church building has not W
been agreed upon. There are three
them, any one of which may serve til
purpose.
Representatives of the temperate
organizations and labor unions
; Gothenburg passed a resolution in ia,
or Of a better understanding and CT
, operation between those two kinds
organizations.
It is stated on apparently good a,
, thority that the national government
going to buy the waterfalls on IL
Lung estate, Ostergotland, for abo1
100000.
The South Sweden Power compar
has been permitted to build da
across the Lagan river at MaJentO
and Putsered.
, A young Chinaman is studying
Palmgren's school in Stockholm.
= There was crack in the huge IS
, Knut's Bell' in the tower of the
Petri church at Malmo. This Graz
= spoiled the sound of the bell, and ju
before Christmas it was taken dow
! and transported to a Stockholm foul
. dry where it is to be repaired.
Of the sixty young men who pass
examinations at the University of Luz
8 fifty years ago, fourteen are still Ii
ing, and they are all prominent men.
The Good Templars of Ma'lmo a
going to build public hall at co
Of at least 100000.
It is proposed to raise raoney for
'' theater at Malmo by means Of a 10