Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-01
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
1t is proposed to erect a monument
of Lime at Vexio.
4 Danish company is going to ex-
port stone on large scale from
Ramsjo.
DR.. Carl Bergquist of Rostanga has
accepted position as physician in
the navy of Chile.
The acetylene gas works at the
hotel in Elmhult exploded, killing two
persons and injuring five others, more
or less.
Pigs are cheaper than they have
been for years in Southern Sweden.
Occasionally five-week-old pig is sold
for 20 cents.
The Swedish colony in Berlin cele-
brated King Oscars birthday by a
banquet and ball at the Kaiserhof,
a famous hotel.
Several children have died from
diphtheria in Arlof, and the authori-
ties have failed in their attempts to
stamp out the disease.
The city council of Kristianstad has
passed resolutions to the effect that
the North Skane infantry regiment
may be transferred to that place.
Ernest Thiel, a Stockholm banker,
has donated $500 towards estab-
fishing museum for the works of
Nietzche at Weimer, Germany. Metz
che was German philosopher who
lost his mind a number of years be.
fore he died.
The municipal court of Skeninge has
handed down decision which prac-
tically makes the packing houses of
southern Sweden guilty of cruelty to
animals. The cruelty consists in hoist
ing the animals into the air by a
hind leg before the butchers knife
is thrust into their breasts. Packers
:re expected to appeal the case to
the higher courts.
The officers of the Swedish army
have reported that the farmers are
placing great difficulties in the way
of military movements by charging
exorbitant pay for damages done to
their land or even prohibiting the
use of land which. could not be ma
terially damaged by military move.
ments. The military authorities are
engaged in drawing up bill to rem
edy this difficulty.
J. Heilmann, the French consul in
Stockholm, has sent his government
an exhaustive report on the financial
condition of Sweden. He realizes that
the present industrial awakening
needs foreign capital and he wants
to give French capitalists information
on the subject. His conclusions are
not reassuring. He does not think
so much as the Swedes do of "Swe.
denis slumbering millions" and some
thing like a vein of pessimism runs
through his report. He finds that the
nestle fuel for manufacturing pur-
poses. The waterfalls also came in
for slaps of different kinds. Their
capacity has been put as high as $1,000.
600 horsepower, but he wants to cut
that down to about 100000. Many
of the waterfalls are far out of the
way, he says, and to transmit the
power to the manufacturing plants
would require an outlay of $1,000, 000,-
900. To make his report still more
disagreeable to the Swedes he points
to the Norwegian waterfalls as far
superior to those of Sweden. But
at the same time he shows that he
is biased, and impeaches the reliabil.
ity of his whole report. While he
cuts down the most conservative estf.
mates of the capacity of the Swedish
waterfalls to about one-half he talks
of Norwegian waterfalls of height
of $500 feet and a capacity of 100000
horsepower at the turbines. The
chances are that for once the French
capitalists will discount the official
report of French consul.
The manager Of the Kockune iron
works sent a vigorous protest to the
government against thevprop0s OF
the naval department to have two
new torpedo destroyers built In Eng.
land.
The ordinary hand cars used by
the section men on the government
railroads are being replaced by auto
mobile cars which are manufactured
at Sodertalje at cost of $3.50 a piece
One hundred and fourteen operators
of cotton or wooden mills who EN-.
ploy $4,000 persons belong to spe'
cial employers union.
The laws regulating the importa
ton Of cattle by water from foreign
countries are said to be violated in.
directly. The animals are imported
into Norway. and afterwards taken
into Sweden by land.
John Johnson, a farmer at Eks
herad, Vermland, has donated prop.
.erty worth $4,000 to the Mission Cove
nant. The gift is to be used mainly
in the interest Of the Congo mission
Princess Margaret has donated sew
eral beautiful articles needed for fur
nishing the English church In Stock
holm.