Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-23
DEN MARK.

DENMARK.
Crown Prince Christian of Den
mark has been appointed major gen.
eral of the Fyen brigade.
During naval maneuvers in Kattegat
two torpedo boats collided. The PROV
of one of them was crushed, and sew
eral plates were torn off. The other
torpedo boat also needs repairs.
G. H. Hagemann has put up a
luxuriously furnished lodging house
for students in Copenhagen, there is
room for 81 men, and the accommodate
tons are much more reasonable than
might be expected.
The Danish East Asia Steamship
company has sold it's ships to an
English concern which was organized
for that purpose and has a capital
stock of 100000. There are six
steamers, and seventh is being
built.
The Christensen cabinet has re-
signed, but at the request of the king
the members consented to remain in
Office until Sept. %, the time for
opening the rigsday. The cause of
the fall of the ministry is the $4,000
600 embezzlement of which Albert,
former member OF the cabinet, was
found guilty.
The premature explosion of a cart
ridge on board the cruiser Hekla was
due to carelessness on the part OF the
man who lost his life. During rapid
firing the gun was heated, and the
head gunner repeatedly warned the
men to brush the gun for every dis
charge. Helbig, one of the men, did
not obey this order, and just as he
placed charge in the gun the ex-
plosion occurred, tearing him into a
thousand tatters. Four others We're
badly injured, and two only received
light shocks. fifty shots were to be
fired, and the one that caused the ex-
plosion was the forty-seventh.
FINLAND.
The Russian government sent IS
officials, chiefly from the department
OF the interior, the department of
justice and the police service, to Fin
land to inquire into the conditions of
the country. Most of them are stay
ing incognito in Helsingfors The in
tention is to have Russian officials
take charge of certain administration
positions in Finland in case it is
deemed expedient.
SWEDEN.
Prince Carl has returned from a
hunting trip to Jamtland
A trades and industrial exposition
in Vasteras gave a surplus of s2,70O.
King Gustaf is going to visit Lon
| don, Paris and the Hague in Novem-
Der.
A considerable number of horses
have been imported to Southern Swe-
den this fall from other European
countries.
King Gustaf stayed for some length
OF time on two different occasions at
Solliden, GLAND, last summer, which
proves that he is very fond of the
place.
An International fisheries commit
tee for improving the salmon fisheries
in Tome river held It meeting in St.
Petersburg and resolved that no sal
mon should be caught in that river
until the summer of 1915
The torpedo destroyer Vale, was
grounded on rock near Kappelshamn.
1t received but slight injuries; but
It was no easy matter to raise it be-
cause the water on the sides was too
shallow for large pontoons.
Anonymous view cards of some
what sensational kind have been dis.
tributed in Sweden. They show parts
of the country along the Norwegian
/ boundary line, and in a few cards it
is stated that Sweden was wronged
when the boundary line was staked
out, and that all attempts to correct
the mistake have failed.
A wolf which has been living on
sheep on the D Skane plains was
killed by two deer hunters who ran
across him early one morning. The
bounty is $3.50. 1t is more than 100
years since the provincial government
of Malmohus paid wolf bounty,
which proves the great scarcity of
wolves in the extreme south of Swe-
den.
sverre Krogh, Norwegian agitator,
was sentenced to three months i'm.
prisonment because he recommended,
in q lecture at Kiruna, that he laws
be ignored in labor conflicts.
The city of Gafle has offered to sell
the military school with its grounds
to the national government for $67,-
500. This offer will stand until the
close of the year 1918.
So many Of the young conscripts of