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

"A company has been formed for car
rylnS on automobile traffic in Helsing-
borg and vicinity.
The "honk' of the wild goose was
heard as early as March 10 in Southern
Sweden and the birds bravely plowed
the air northward.
The Kosmdi Mining company has
been organized in Helsingborg with a
capital stock of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of operating mines in Servia.
The Ringsjo lake, near Malmo, was
frozen for three and a half months
last winter. This was the longest
| closed season for about a quarter Of
a century.
TRIO men were burnt to death in a
house at the Naset flshermen's hamlet,
near Smogen. In another house which
was not touched by the fire a seventy
five-year-old woman was SO badly
scared that she died at the same time
The corrected emigration statistics
for the year 1905 show that the total
number of SWedes who left their coun-
try in that year was 24O46 The fig
uces for the year 1906 are expected to
show an increase Of at least one thou
sand
Major Renvall has constructed a
rifle on which the trigger is a button
to be pressed by the thumb. The
change is claimed to be of advantage
in cold weather and the invention will
be thoroly tested by the Norbotten
regiment.
Thousands of volumes of government
records in one Of the old rooms Of the
national banks at Stockholm have been
attacked by a kind of worm, and it
will be necessary to remove the books
to other quarters in order to save them
from the pest.
The books of the Trelleborg branch
Of the Skane bank were occupying so
much room that the officials of the
bank decided to get rid of them, and
four wagonloads of books, covering the
business Of the office for thirty years,
were hauled out into field and burnt
up.
The crown prince and a number of
the other leading men of Sweden have
issued a call for subscriptions to a
fund for the erection of a monument
Of Gunnar ,Wennerberg, the immortal
poet, and composer. 1t is proposed to
unveil the monument at Upsala Oct
2, 1907, his Goth birthday anniversary
About 800 members of the largest
lumber dealers union in Germany are
going to charter a steamer for a trip
to Sweden next summer. They are
going to study the numbering industry
| and the management of the forests OF
Sweden, combining business with
pleasure on the trip.
Anders Israelsson Harselet, Ramsele
parish, Angermanland, died a short
while. ago. At his death he was sup
posed to be the oldest person in Swed-
en-, having been born July IS, 1902. He
was blind and bedridden for some time
| before his death. But his courage
habit of saying: Il was just fool in
going to bed this way, for now I am
growing too lazy to get up again"
The women who are working in the
government railway offices have petit
toned the government to- pay them as
| much as the men employed in similar
positions. The men are receiving from
20 to 30 per cent higher wages than
the women for a certain amount OF
| work. s..
About 65 boys at the military school
at Skofde had a severe attack OF
typhoid fever, caused by the use OF
milk from the F'orsby cooperative
dairy
As a result of sufficient supply OF
hay and feed the prices of live stock
are higher in Southern Sweden thi.
spring than ever before.
Minister Of Foreign Affairs wacht-
meister, accompanied by a retinue Of
three persons, went to Constantinople
to hand the sultan of Turkey the chair
Of the Order of the Seraphi1a. This
honor was conferred upon the sultan II
recognition Of the manner in which
/ the crew Of the warship Treja were en-.
| tertained at Constantinople last year
The estate Of the late Mrs. Blanche
Dickson Of Gothenburg was officially
valued at $1,966,90O, and the stamr
tax on the property was about $50, 900
Several Swedish experts are goins
abroad to Ipursue studies in the inter
est OF the a gric u t.1ral pursuits 81
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