Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-02
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Pt1nolpaI Events Gathered n The
Oh Scandinavian Countries
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DENMARK.
An 85-year old man near Randers
was burnt to death in fire.
The employers union has threat
ened to declare lockout which would
throw 10000 persons out of work.
w. Marckmann and wife of Svancke
have celebrated their diamond we'd
ding. They are SO and 81 years old,
respectively, and both of them are
strong and healthy for their age.
The Danish Socialists demand un-
conditional disarmament, and the con-
sistency and vigor of their agitation
makes it plain that they feel sore of
carrying their point at a date which
is not so. very remote.
The typographers' strike does not
hit the provincial post so very hard.
Out of 200 dailies published outside of
Copenhagen only so have suspended
publication, and many of these have
sent out short notices. At Silkeborg
the strikers became so indignant when
the Silkeborg Avis appeared in spite
of the strike that they smashed the
windows of the printing Office and
tried to get hold of the editors, thus
compelling the police to interfere.
The suspension of the metropolitan
press of Denmark gave the Swedes
name to reap rich harvest across the
Sound. Our Mains daily disposed of
$4,000 copies in short while just
after the beginning of the strike. The
eagerness to obtain a copy of the paper
was SO great that the clothes were
partly torn from the bodies of those
who sold the paper. The labor unions
of Copenhagen sent delegations to
Malmo to prevent the paper from be-
ing sent to Denmark, but at this writ
ing it is not known what they accomp,
lished.
Copenhagen needs no law enforce
ment league with regard to the au-
tomobile ordinances. Mr. Bagge,
printer to the court, has an automo-
bile. A man was injured, and the
doctor said that the mans life might
be saved if Mr.. Bagge would take him
In his automobile and make two or
three times the lawful speed to the
Synby hospital. The trip was made,
the mans life was saved, and-Mr.
Bagge was find five dollars. The news
papers naturally started great howl
about this sort of law enforcement.
SWEDEN.
H. Wraner, a very popular novelist,
died at the age of IS years.
The estate of the late Bishop NJ.
Johansson is worth about $4,000.
Rabbits are very numerous in south
ern Sweden this fall, and the hunters
are having grand time.
The crawfsh season has just started.
The streams Of southern Sweden are
well supplied with crawfsh, and they
fetch an average price of about one
cent a piece.
The national government has en-
dorsed plan to have the city of Lund
borrow $1,4S5,000 for purchasing real
estate, completing certain public
works and making additions to the
parsonage and a public school build
ing.
Svend krogh, a young Socialist"
from Bergen, Norway, was arrested at
Kiruna on account of utterances made
by him in lecture at Ludea He is
claimed to have encouraged his hear
ers to disobey the laws and the au-
thorities.
-Four sons of Mr.. Kehlgren, of Sauna.
are practicing medicine in England,
and their sister Redvig has just
passed medical examination, so that
five members of the Kellgren family
will soon be practicing medicine in
that country.
The British ambassador in Stock
holm has notified the Swedish govern
ment that his government wishes to
make arrangements for giving TO Brit
ish subjects in Sweden the same rights
to accident insurance as those enjoyed
by Swedish subjects.
A school boy at Silbodal, Skane, went
too far into Silbo lake while bathing.
and his teacher, Hulda Sander, rushed
into the water to save him. She fell
down in the water and was unable to
get up again, and before aid could
reach her she was drowned. The boy
was saved by one of his comrades who
came in boat; but when he came to
the teacher she was already dead.
Queen Victoria of Sweden has been
made honorary colonel of the 34th
Prussian infantry regiment This
regiment has an interesting history.
It was organized at Stettin in 1916 out
of the Swedish regiments 'Drottning-
ems Lifregemente" and won Engel-
brecht," and has always kept up con-
nections with Sweden.
Mrs. B. Tapper's millinery establish.
ment at Ostermalm, Stockholm, was
badly wrecked by gas explosion, and
three women were burnt, one of them
seriously. Gas was smelt in the room,
and the lighting of match to hunt
for the leak caused the explosion.
Parts of the front window were
thrown across the street.
Court Chaplain e. D. Herman is
dead. He was man of robust ideas,
and he did not hesitate to indicate by
public utterances that he was in favor
Of drastic means to keep Norway in
the union in 1905. Bishop Billing of.
dciated at the funeral.
p. p. Waldenstrom has decided that
the fund raised on the occasion Of his