Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
SWEDEN.


The St. PAUL. church, Malmo, is to
be repaired at an expense of $3.50.
A consolidation of two of the larg.
est brewing companies of Stockholm
is contemplated.
A meeting attended by 400 persons
at Karlstad went on record in favor
of woman's suffrage.
Nya Kopparberg and Mellerud will
receive charters as towns at the be-
ginning of the new year.
About $4,000 has been raised for
the Wennerberg statue at Upsala, but
$4,000 more will be needed.
Herman Lagercrantz, Swedish min
lister to Washington is going to spend
the Christmas holidays in Sweden. 3
A third steamer will soon be added
to the two steamers already employed
by the Swedish La Plata Steamship
company.
The directors of the Trollhatte
canal and power plant have asked
the government for s3,O00,000 to COM
plete the work.
J. E. Wetterquist & Co., of Gothen-
burg, have made a contract with the
government to furnish 100000 hats
for the army at a cost Of $172,260.
o. Baumbach, of Stockholm and
another man sailed in a twenty-foot
motor boat from Copenhagen to Goth
enburg. A brisk wind and high seas
made the experiment dangerous one.
The average speed was 61a miles an
hour.
The armored cruiser Fylgia left
Karlskrona Oct. 80, bound for trip
to East Asia, and will not return until
some time next summer The re-
cent voyage to America proved the
Fylgia to have splendid sea-going
qualities.
The city of Malmo has given up the
practice of awarding prizes to those
school children who have the best
standing It was found that the prizes
were generally won by the brightest,
though they were intended for the
most diligent scholars.
Prince Eugen of Sweden travelled
by automobile from Hamburg to
Paris, making many detours to noted
historical places. The average speed
made by his machine was 20 Eng
lish) miles an hour, and he never
made more than 26 miles an hour.
The executive committee of the
post-office employees union has pro-
posed the organization of an associa
ton to which any government en-
ploye may belong. The plan may
eventually be extended so as to in
clude even the higher government Of
ficials.
Rev. c. A. Leopold, 80 years old,
and the vestor of the clergy of Stock
holm, who spent his life as bachelor,
has just married a 30 year old sick
nurse, to whose care he thinks he
his gratitude to her in this manner,
thus making ample provisions for her
support.
A movement was started last spring
to induce students to work ON the
farm during the summer vacation.
About $50 farmers announced that
they would like to hire students and
high school boys, and about rs stu
dents and school boys spent the sum-
mer vacation on farHs, according to
the plan.
The Tori stock company has bought
LOO acres of peat bogs in the vicin-
ity of Ljungby, Smaland, where a
| factory will be built for preparing
| peat powder" according to the Exc
| lund method. The capacity of the
factory will be 10000 tons year.
The same company has also acquired
peat boys in other parts of Sweden.
The Kristianstad Milk company has
commenced to make fancy cheese OF
different kinds, which have never
been produced for the market in
Sweden. The import has amounted
to about $4,000 a year, AID efforts
will be made by said company to sup
ply the home market. A foreign ex
pert is experimenting the work in
order that a frst-class article may
be turned out from the very start.
The Svea royal court has refused
to deliver certain documents from the
foreign Office to Helga de la Brache
This lady has fought for those docu
ments in the courts of Sweden fol
years past, but she never receives
any encouragement.
On account of failure of the crops
the people of Norrland have petit
toned the government to waive the
duties on foreign grain imported tt
that part of Sweden.
Electricity will soon be substituted
for steam on the Malmo and Linn
hamn railway.
The city council of Gothenburg ha:
set aside a piece of ground for {
home for deformed, and six OF thu
richest residents of the city have do
mated $4,000 to the proposed institu
ton.
In several instances Social Demo
cratic labor unions have compelled
their employers to discharge EN-
ployes who belong to labor organiza
lions of a different brand.
| The taxes will be Nv cents on tn
dollar next year in the city of Boras
This is said to be the highest rat
found in any Swedish city.