Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-28
DEN MARK.
SWEDEN.


moment.
SWEDEN.
Helsingborg wants a tuberculosis
sanatorium of it's own, and $4,000 has
been raised for such an institution.
About 1000 teachers attending an
educational convention in Copenhagen
paid a visit in body to the Lund in
dustrial exposition.
1t is said that Stockholm has had
no centennarian for several years past.
But P. Ahlgren of that city will be 100
years old Sept. p next.
The bishops residence at Ostrabo,
Vexico diocese, is in such poor shape
that it needs repairs for $1,000. It
was built about 100 years ago and
was once the home of Esaias Tegner,
the great poet.
The corvette Saga has returned from
a two months cruise in the North
Sea. There was scarcely single fine
day on the whole trip, and the 245
cadets and others on board were kept
"a Guy Ou0y 11OoI VI IuC t1luO
There is an abundance of lingon
berries (red berries, used as Gran
berries) in southern Sweden. On the
other hand the German fruit crop is
not rich, and the Swedes expect a
good price for their berries in Ger
many.
The friends of the public schools
of Sweden held convention at Ore
bro. One of the resolutions passed
demands that the teachers advocate
the cause of temperance ''by word and
example," Another resolution asks
for temperance instruction at the nor
NAL schools.
There is still woman living in
Sweden who can boast of having lived
in three centuries. 1t is Miss Karo-
lima Josefina Wilhelmina Magdalena
Jansson-Rask, of Sundsvall, and she
was born at Hackas, July %, 1897. She
said short time ago that she does
not expect to live very many years
more.
J. F. LARSON, mail carrier, left
his bed in the middle of the night
while on board a steamer bound from
Stockholm to Orebro, and before any
one realized what was going on he
walked into the sea and was drowned.
Mr.. LARSON was known to be a SOM
nambulist and this explains his strange
behavior.
A woman who had been saving and
pinching all around during her whole
life died in her farmhouse in Solder
slatt. After her funeral it was found
that she had left property and secu-
rites for $4,000, which her grown
children will receive And in the at
tic, under pile of rags, one of her
daughters found strong box contain
ing over $1,000 in cash.
In the course of single week the
following commercial and industrial
workers were organized in Sweden:
The Swedish Sugar Trust Company,
with capital of 1913, 10000; Stock
holm Electric Power Company, sky
scraper building concern, capital ST.
100000; Swedish Argentine Trading
& Banking Company, capital $780,
900; East African Company, capital
$1,00O,000. In addition to these the
organization of direct American and
Icelandic steamship lines is under
way. The International Harvester
Company's branch has doubled its
sales by exports to Russia from
Sweden. The government intends to
interest itself in establishing direct
lines to Russian ports, and the rtks-
dag will be asked for several million
kronor with which to substitute direct
steamer lines run by transatlantic
trading companies.
The Stockholm Tidning announces
on what it declares to be good author
ity, that Rudyard Kipling has been
designated to receive the Nobel H.
brary prize for 1907. The paper adds
that Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain)
was suggested for this honor.
The greatest field maneuvers in the
history of Sweden will take place in a
few days in the country north of Goth
enburg. The land and naval forces
will cooperate.
The destruction of fourteen houses
by fire rendered about so Karlstad
families homeless.
Sweden must produce good beer
when such good connoisseurs as Ger
man marines say so. When the Ger
man ironclad Aegir visited Sweden
the men consumed large quantities of
Swedish beer, and when they left the
country they took with them a supply
of 62 hogsheads of it at Malmo.
The commander of Helsinge regi-
ment has reported that the Mohed
drill grounds would be suitable place
for the proposed military sanatorium.
The number of divorces claiming
the attention of the consistory is on
the increase in Stockholm.