Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
SWEDEN.

Ronneby has celebrated it's twenty
fifth anniversary as city.
The customhouse department wants
so more functionaries for the year
1909.
Certain partieS are organizing an
automobile insurance company in Swe-
den.
The Swedish congregation in Ber-
lin is discussing a proposition to build
a church.
The railway department has decided
to serve warm milk free of charge to
the trainmen during the cold season.
The anti-emigration society of Swe-
den held a meeting in Gothenburg, but
the work accomplished was practical
ly equal TO nothing.
Langebro, Kristianstad Ian, seems to
be regular hotbed for trichinae. OF
the bogs examined in that locality in
1906, no less than % were found to
be trichinOus.
Many Swedes who we're. thrown out
of work in America a few weeks ago
have returned to Sweden, but it is
not an easy matter to obtain work in
the old country this time of the year.
The Social Democrats of the fifth
district Of Stockholm nominated Knut
Tengdahl :or the riksdag, and he was
endorsed by the temperance people.
In other parts of the country the tenn
perance people support Conservative
candidates.
The church at Stengardshult, Mo
Commune. Jonkoping Ian, caught fire
just as the pastor was making the an
nouncements from the pulpit few
Sundays ago. The records, the organ
and the pulpit were saved, but every.
thing else was destroyed. There was
an insurance of $4,000 on the build
ing.
The Hildisch tannery in Lund was
destroyed by fire, only the naked walls
remaining. The loss on the buildings
was covered by insurance. Hides to
the value of $4,000 were also de-
stroyed. The authorities had caIsed
much trouble to the owners on &C.
count of the bad odors from the fac
tory, and it was settled at once that
the factory will not be rebuilt at the
same place.
Hinke Bergegren, the leader OF the
Young Socialists" is spending his
time in jail at Ystad, on account of
his political agitation. He was per-
mitted by the warden to write for
Brand" the organ of his party This
did not please certain conservatives,
and they tried to deprive Bergegren
of this privilege, but the national au-
thoritics have declared that they will
not interfere.
A Swedish engineer has proposed
to make the mountain of Areskutan,
Jemtland national tourist resort;
but the people of the neighborhood
are afraid that the necessary improve
ments would make their taxes too
high, and the promoter has so far met
with scant encouragement.
The savings banks of Stockholm
have raised the interest on deposits
from AZ to per cent. The new rate
is the highest paid since 1871.
A syndicate consisting mainly of
Danish business men have bought the
Limhamn glass works at Limhamn.
1t costs, considerably more to live
in Stockholm than in any other Swe-
dish city. Not only is the sum total
higher there than everywhere else in
Sweden, but the same may be said
of each one of the main necessities
of life. OF the larger cities, Jonkop-
ing seems to be the cheapest to live
:" The names of those who received
decorations. OF. honor, on the kings
birthday would fill about three COL
umns OF this paper. 80" -, = 80. =
A number of factories at Anime,
near Vaxio, were destroyed by, fire: