Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-06
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Diphtheria has been raging in some
suburbs of Goteborg, about $50 chill
dren having been attacked.
The fishermen along the southeast
ern coast of Skane have caught large
quantities of herring this fall.
The archbishop of Sweden sum-
moned all the bishops of the country
to meeting at Stockholm, Oct. 80.
Several laborers at the Bluff mines,
near Malmo, protested against paying
taxes on aid which they received from
national strike fund, but the pro-
test was not needed.
The attendance at the University of
Lund for the fall semester is 895.
The "Malmo nation" stands at the
head with 1872 students, and Goteborg
has 131, and Neutrality-suspicious.
l21.
The addition to the hymn book of
years in preparing has been carefully
considered by all the consistories of
Sweden. They all agree that the pro-
posed hymns have many merits; but
on the other hand, they find the de-
fects so serious that they can not in
dorse the whole collection in it's pres
ent shape.
The chief of police of Stockholm,
after having experimental for months
with women as detectives and investi.
gators of immoral resorts, will recon-
mend that twenty-five young women
be permanently added to the city's
police force. 1t is we'll known that
the city counsel is in favor of the
idea and it will therefore not be long
before the city of Stockholm will have
a regular body of female police off,
GERS.
While Chief of Police Hintze Of
Stockholm was stopping at Davos,
Switzerland, burglar entered his
room at night and stole a roll of
Swedish paper money from his grip.
The burglar also entered the room
where Swedish Minister of Foreign
Affairs Trolle and wife were sleeping,
but Mrs. Trolle was awakened by the
noise which he made so that he had
to leave there in hurry without get
ting anything.
The students of the University Of
Lund celebrated the fiftieth birthday
of their musical director, Alfred Berg,
by marching in procession to the uni
versity, where they sang several songs
and expressed their gratitude to him
thru an address delivered by their
spokesman. Berg thanked them for
the honor conferred upon him, and
under his leadership they gave an
open air concert which attracted a
large concourse of people.
The national government of Sweden
seems to have loaned out over half a
million dollars at four per cent in
terest for the encouragement of the
preparation of native peat for fuel.
A patriot who is keenly interested in
the fuel question from a point of ma
tain what progress had been made in
this industry, but he writes for the
press that he found it impossible to
obtain even single sample of the
peat "briquettes" about which so
much was said when the riksdag was
induced to set aside money for this
purpose. No wonder the writer is
discouraged and even disguised. But
it may be that he is poorly informed
on the subject.
Major Claes Adelskold donated $11,.
900 to the academy of sciences for the
encouragement of education and gen.
eral progress, but the name of the
giver was suppressed until he died a
short time ago.
Vigorous efforts are being made to
complete the fund which will be need
ed for the erection of statue of Gun
mar Wennerberg, the famous com
poser, at Upsala.
The estate of the late Count A. X
T. Wachtmeister was worth $780,,
900, and the expenses of probatifg il
aggregated about 100000.
King Oscar has decreed that the
Swedish army shall be represented
at the dedication of the Gustaf Adolf
chapel at Lutzen, Germany, by on<
general, six colonels, seven captains
seven non-commissiOned officers ant
six corporals.
The University of Upsala has 1872
students. OF this number 891 belon,
to the philosophical and 1S9 to tn,
theological faculty, 4S1 to the law fac
ulty and 1913 to the medical faculty.
The London Times has given al
exhaustive account Of DR.. Sven He'd
ms travels In Tibet last summer