Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
ISCANDLMA VAN NEWS
III Fl PRINCIPAL Events Gathered In the
| r. Old Scandinavian Countries W

Bjornsjerne Bjornson has written a.
newspaper article under the caption,
Our Sin and Our Humiliation" CIV
ing his view of the part which the Nor
wegians played in the dissolution of
the union. He protests against the as
sertion that. the Norwegians commit
| ted "sin'' by breaking out of the
| union. Then he goes on to say: mo
Norwegian wants the work Of 1905 I'M
done. But l am sure that in a short
| time great number will agree that
we acted harshly against the dynasty,
and particularly against our old king"
At the same time he found it humil-
| iating to have the Swedes dictate a
Norwegian plebicite and the domoli-
ton of the Norwegian forts along the
Swedish frontier.
DENMARK.
Numerous orders from Iceland for
1celandic flags have attracted con-
! siderable attention in Copenhagen
This trade seems to prove that the
nag movement in Iceland is stronger
than the Danes took it to be. It is
said that the Icelanders expect the
king to give them new flag on his
coming visit to the island. When
| King Kristian visited Iceland in 1874,
he gave the island a liberal constitu-
| ton. At the time Of the change Of the
| system of government the Icelanders
were given a new coat of arms, a
| falcon. What could be more natural
for King Frederik when he goes to
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a flag of their own?
All the Polish laborers who return
| from Denmark to their native villages
in Eastern Germany must pass through
the Stettin railway station, Berlin, and
| the authorities at this station have
| estimated that the whole number of
| Polish laborers returning from Den
mark and Sweden during the late fall
and early winter was about 5000, a
! majority of whom were young, healthy
girls. They save all the way from s25
to $50 during a six-months' stay in
Scandinavia.
SWEDEN.
| On Christmas day, 1908, Skane was
visited by a storm which did much
damage to the houses. On that occasion
a small house at North Vallosa, about
a mile west of Rynge railway station,
which was the home Of a. sixty-two
year old man, was partly wrecked. His
neighbors expected that the man would
| leave his old shack, but the man has
lived there ever since. The house pre-
sents a sorry sight. The roof is caved
in, one of the gables is gone, and there
! are large openings near the door and
windows Through the leaky cell
| ing, which is exposed to the rain and
| the snow, the water has been trickling
| down and the clay floor of the house
has been a soft mass. A small ditch
was generally kept open across the
| floor to carry away as much of the
water as possible. There is no way of
heating the house, the chimney having
blown down when the rest of the
house was wrecked. The strangest
part of the story is, that the aged &C.
cupant Of the house has not been
sick; but now he will have to move out
because the house is to be torn down
At Storbyn, Dalarne. gruesome find
has been made, consisting of the skel-
etons of two old persons who are sup
posed to have been gypsies, whom
their younger fellows dispatched and
buried in order to get rid of them.
Gustaf Jorsander has published an
account of the experiences Of the Swe-
dish -Norwegian regiment which took
part in the battle of Dybbol, Denmark
in the Danish-German War of 1864
Among those who repeatedly were in
the thickest of the battles Of that wal
he makes particular mention of P. M
Ostevall, a Stockholm confectioner
who distinguished himself by singing
patriotic hymns. At first only the SOL
diers of the Scandinavian army could
enjoy his beautiful singing. But as the
Russians gradually approached the
Danish breastworks they, too, could
not but hear his rich, strong voice.
The Prussians evidently appreciated
his singing, for though he was re-
peatedly exposed at close range they
always spared him so that he came out
unscathed though his comrades fell all
around him.
| Leading citizens of Engelholm are
planning fortthe construction Of a large
watering establishment.
The city Of Helsingborg offered the
national government $4,000 and a
large tract of land as a bonus in case
barracks were built on the land for a
| whole regiment of soldiers. Now the
government is contemplating the sta
tioning of only five squads of soldiers
at Helsingborg, and the city is going
to reduce it's offer very materially.
/ Broby, Skane, will soon have ma
chine shop Of considerable capacity.
N. Sjoholm, who has been running a
large blacksmith shop at the place, has
| sold this to a company which is go
ing to enlarge the establishment.
The city council of Vimmerby has
petitioned the king for permission to
4 contract a loan of $150,000 for build
| ing public WaterWOrkS, a school house,
| a poorhouse, ETC., and for taking stock
in a local railway. 1t is proposed to
pay the loan In forty annual INSTALL
| ments.
A boy at Mala, Vasterbotten, Is
I suffering from rare disease. For two
years his tongue has been growing
both in length. and thickness until it
protrudes about two inches from his
mouth and fills up the mouth so that
| the patient can take only liquid food.
The preliminary inquiries made for
the purpose Of guiding the cabinet in
drawing up a new suffrage bill were
completed just before Christmas, and
| bulky report OIL the matter was hand
ed to the government.