Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-24
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
PRINCIPAL Events Gathered IN the
Old Scandinavian Countries

The city council of Landskrona has:
resolved to establish a complete GYM
nasium in that city.
The walters in the hotels and
restaurants of Stockholm have gone
on a strike, and the travelling public
is greatly annoyed. It is feared the
movement will spread turnout the
country.
dispatch from Boden says that the
Lule river rose until some of the streets
were under water. Two stables came
floating down the stream, and at Boden
some fish were caught in net hung
up for drying
Carl Nordberg, a matchmaker at
Hagersfors, stepped off the train at
Stromfors before it stopped, and rolled
under the cars. One of his legs was
cut off, and his head was struck. He
was Immediately taken to the hospital,
where he soon died.
z. P. Waldenstrom was to speak at
a young peoples rally at the Owes
nolm castle park, his subject to be
China" Many people came to hear
him in particular. But the chairman
or the meeting gave the other speak
ers so much time that P. P. had to
be left off the program.
During a very violent electric storm
many farm houses in Southern Sweden
were struck by lightning. At Skurup,
| for instance, burning farm houses at
| four different places could be seen at
| the same time. At Grodly an eighty
! five-year-Old woman was burnt to
death, and at Nymo a boy shared her
| fate.
The work at the Forsee power sta
ton, Angermanland, is progressing
rapidly, and the plant will be ready for
operation late next fall. Electric power
is to be conducted by cable thru the
forests to the town Of Bollsta. The
cost of the plant will exceed $250,O0O,
and it will furnish several thousand
| rse-poWer.
A Swedish students chorus has
| given series of concerts in London.
Queen Alexandra attended one con-
cert, and she induced the chorus to
sing several numbers into a gramo-
phone. The applause was so demon
| stratlVe that LOndOners who are in the
habit of attending concerts declared
that they had never witnessed any
thing like it.
A recruit neglected to remove the
remaining cartridges from his rifle
when his regiment closed target prac-
tice at Svedala. After returning from
the grounds he began to tend to his
| rifle, the result of which was that a
cartridge was discharged sending the
bullet thru the thigh of one man and
the arm of another. Fortunately, how
ever, the wounds are not serious.
A German policeman who came to
Sweden to pick up one of his country
men whose dealings had not been per-
fectly straight, found his man and
started for home. But on the steamer
the policeman went to sleep and his
protege skipped. The latter did not
stay long in Sweden, however, until
| the Swedish police nabbed him. and
this time the Germans were careful
/ to send a WIDE awake man after the
| desired customer.
The custom house officials at Ystad
charged for 22,soo pounds of empty
sacks at the rate fixed for dyed jute
| textiles" which is 20 cents a pound
| because there was a three-inch blue
| strip on each sack. The importer of
the goods complained to the head Of
the custom house department, but as
| he could get no relief from that quar-
ter, he appealed to the king, and the
cabinet decided that the sacks should
not be taxed as dyed goods, and
as the rate for undyed material Of
that kind is only about six cents a
pound, the Ystad custom house will
have to refund about $1,000 to the i'm
| porter of the sacks