Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-15
SWEDEN.

to hold religious convention at Ell
lendal, Vestergotland, July 30-Aug. 4.
June 18th will be the 2O0th ami
versary of the opening of Ramlosa
springs, Skane, as source of military
B. w. Riemsdyk, chief justice of the
national picture gallery of Amsterdam,
has donated plaster statue of Lime
to the university of Upsala.
The king has appointed Count
Wachtmeister chancellor of the uni
versities, to be president of the board
Of trustees of the Nobel fund.
The Sodra Sverige steamship COM
pany hardly managed to cover the ex-
penses during the past year. This
highly unsatisfactory result was due
chiefly to shipwrecks.
The government has turned down
a proposition to appoint official in
spectors for the peoples high schools
because the law governments could
come to no agreement on that sub
ject.
The Swedish department at the Der
lin sport exposition is unIuestionably
the best and most interesting part of
it, and the German newspapers do not
hesitate to say so. Here is what the
Berliner Zeitung says: Sweden is
splendidly represented. Inc Swedish
exhibits are a veritable surprise, ar
ranged with consummate taste and in
every detail carried out with perfect
ly genuine accuracy. Without grudge
We hand the palm to Sweden So much
skill deserves the highest praise"
This curious news was picked from
a respectable Swedish daily: "A per-
son who has just returned to Sweden
from America has stated that the
economical condition Of the working
men is such that the SWedes over
there would gladly return to Sweden
if they were able to do so. But they
lack the means, and many who pos
sibly have the means do not like to
return entirely penniless. Those who
still are in old Sweden will do we'll
to remain there
A cablegram from Malmo says: The
Russian Socialists DESTROYS Of holding
move in the Scandinavian peninsula.
After having been ordered out of Den
mark one hundred and twenty dele
gates arrived here and were joined by
sixty others who came by way Of
olOChuOllll Lie pune, 11o"OSSA, ~
fused to permit the Socialists to re-
main here, and prohibited the holding
of a conference whatever at Malmo.
The Russians thereupon requested per-
mission from the Danish authorities
to go to Esbjerg and there embark
for England, where they hope to be
able to hold congress-.
A proposition was made in the city
council of Helsingborg to change the
name of The East Promenade'' to
"Hebsacker Street" Some objection
was made to this queer name. But one
of the city fathers explained the mat
ter. Many years ago a doctor named
Hebsacker practiced in the city. Near
his place was a pond which was called
Hebsacker's pond, and in which the
speaker and many other boys had
great fun, long, long ago. DR.. Heb
sacker had many confinement cases,
and in the course of time it became
customary to say that the babies came
from Hebsacker's pond. This expla-
nation caused a hearty laugh, and
from that moment Helsingborg has had
Hebsackersgatan.
Three brothers and sisters at Atorp,
Bohuslan, died of old age in the course
| of two days, The eldest being Is and
the youngest 20 years old. They must
have been Of German descent, their
family name being Schiller.
During the debate Of the military
budget in the German reichstag Herr
Bebel, the Socialist leader, held up
Sweden as a model with regard to the
training of the army.
Rev. P. p. Waldenstrom is making 3
successful tour of the Swedish mis-
sionary stations in China.
The provincial government OF Hol-
land has $4,000 in it's treasury and
no debt. b - 49,:
A. N. Vestfelt, a Stockholm engineer,
has invented machine for sorting
coins. He calls the machine numo-
meter, coin counter. He thinks that
his Invention will be Of great practi-
cal value to street car companies and
| other business concerns which receive
large amounts of coins Of a low de-
nomination. & e. + + II IL 80
The surplus of the post Office de-
partment Of Sweden for the year was
$622,950, which is more than twice as
much as was expected szz
| The Kristiania Yerdens Gang frank
lily admits that the SWedes greatly ex-
eel the tNorWegians at the Berlin sport
lsexpositien