Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-16
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
PRINCIPAL Events Gathered ID the
OH Scandinavia, Countries
DENMARK.

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DENMARK.
Tens of thousands of people greeted
the surviving members of the Mylivs-
Erickson Greenland expedition when
they landed in Copenhagen.
The number of births each year
per 1000 inhabitants has fallen from
% to 20 in 20 years. The decrease
is most marked in the large cites.
About 175,0O0 barrels of herring
were caught along the coasts Of Ice-
land during the past season.
The Danish national museum has
taken the initiative in having the bur.
ial mounds at Skibelund excavated.
In one of the mounds was found a
tomb containing the skeleton of man
who was put there more than 5000
years ago. BY the head of the skele.
ton was flint ak, and by its side a
| battle-ax
Constantin Brun, who has been the
Danish minister in Washington for
many years, and who has spent the
summer at home, will be transferred
this fall to London, when F. de Billie,
the Danish minister there, retires on
account of old age. Mr.. Brun is con-
sidered one of Denmark's cleverest
diplomats. He has shown great ability
during his service in Washington.
The sixty chauffers of the Copenha-
gen taxamOtor cab company went on a
| strike because they were displeased
with one of their comrades. The obnox.
| ious fellow was total abstainer, and
| was In the habit of turning in more
money for the day than the rest. The
strikers were promptly notified that
they were no longer needed under any
circumstances, and new men were
hired as fast as possible.
/ The great Wagner tenor at the
Royal operahouse, Herr Cornelius, has
been engaged for the coming three
seasons at the Metropolitan opera
house in New York at salary of
$17,550 yearly. He has on several
occasions sung chief parts at the Bay
reuth festival. Frau Wagner, widow
OF the great composer, considers the
Danish tenor to be one of the worlds
best Interpreters of her husbands
music.
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia university, who has de-
l1vered a course of three lectures on
modern America and Americans at
the University of Copenhagen, had
private audience with King Fred
erick. The king expressed his thanks
and admiration for the brilliant lectures
which he followed with the great
est interest. The king also expressed
his gratitude at the honor shown in
TWISTING Danish professor to lee.
ture at Columbia. President But
Ter attended. the kings dinner at
Charlottenlund. The university of
Copenhagen probably will send Pro-
lessor Jespersen to America, Columbia
paying his expenses. The newspapers
are enthusiastic over the plan.
SWEDEN.
The lingon crop is big, but the
prices on the German market are low.
The hay crop of this year is the
finest for decades past.
The state railway pension commit
tee has proposed that person who
has been in the railway service at
least so years shall be entitled to
government pension; provided, how
ever, that his age and time of service
combined shall make IS years.
The mining interests of Sweden
were assessed last year on the basis
of an income of 20,23S, 989 kronor, or
$5,464,527. This amount was distrib-
| uted as follows: Iron mines, 1O,73O,-
152 kronor; coal mines, 235, $50 kronor
and other mines and feldspar quarries,
1,7O5,64 kronOr; iron furnaces, 1876
693 kronor; and other furnaces, 49,
$50 kronor. The increase as compared
with the aggregate income for the year
1906 was over $1,5o0,o0O, or about SO
per cent. This reveals at glance the
enormous development of the mining
industries of Sweden during the past
ten years.
| OOpOAA06CA, oCpI. l.AlIcI dCtluSo
| as Swedish envoy to Denmark for
some months, Herman De Lagercrantz,
accompanied by his wife and daugh-
tiers, left here yesterday to resume his
| post as minister to the United States.
He will sail from Bremen, on tho
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, Sept. 8.
| The departure of Minister De Lager
crantz from the United States on a
six months leave of absence last Oc-
tober gave rise to considerable com.
ment in diplomatic circles in Washing
ton. It was even rumored that the
Swedish minister had become persona
non grata, but denial was at once
given to this at the White House. In
an interview at Copenhagen the latter
part of June, the Swedish minister
said: my relations with the Wash
1ngton administration now are and al
ways have been most pleasant. TAX
ing advantage of the lull which occurs
in Washington during the summer
months, my government saw fit to or
der me to take charge of the legation. -
The strike at the Malmo public
works is petering out. A great num-
Der of new men are stepping into the
places of the strikers, and the latter
are sorry that they ever started the
c0ntllct
The Vienna Tageblatt stated that
Sweden and Germany had entered a
military convention; but positive de-