Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26


firmly knit together, and is imbued
with the most intense patriotism. No
one believes, however, that Denmark
will be left to it's own resources next
time. Therefore it is sufficient that
its army be able to resist the first
assault, which can easily be done by
means of the combined land and naval
forces taking proper advantage of the
natural conditions of the country.
DENMARK.
Ellegaard was again declared the
worlds champion at the Berlin cycle
tournament.
The Blue Cross temperance organi.
cation already has 10000 members in
Denmark, tho the work was started
there only short time ago.
King Fredrik, while on a visit to
Ringkoping, called at the Jail and
gave money to Swede arrested for
begging so that he might pay his way
to Sweden, and he pardoned an eld-
erly man who was serving term on
account of larceny.
A placard calling for men at the
Valby gasworks attracted large
crowd of men, and those in the rear
pressed those in the front so hard up
against the brick gatepost that this
tumbled down and crushed the foot
of one man and cut the head Of an
ether in an ugly manner.
A house from the stone age was dug
out at Svino, near Nastved, under the
direction of a representative from the
national museum. The burial mound
is supposed to be almost 1000 years
old. There were two chambers in
the mound. and they contained the
skeletons of about 20 persons and a
large quantity of stone tools and frag-
ments of earthenware. 1t took ten
days to excavate the mound, and ev-
cry object which seemed to be of any
historic value was taken to the mu-
scum.
Bergen, Norway, Aug. 16.-The ship
Denmark, of the Denmark Greenland
expedition, arrived in Bergen yester-
day. It appears that the body of the
Danish explorer, Mylius Erickson, who
persisted in a snow storm while trav-
cling over the ice on the northwest.
ern coast of Greenland, was not re-
covered. During the explorations an
extensive group of islands was discov-
cred between ATTITUDES IS and 70.
Lieutenant Trolle, master of the Den
mark, made the following statement
to the Associated Press: "The expe-
dition carried out the objects for
which it was formed, but it paid dear
ly in having done So Myths Erich
sen and Lieutenants Hagen and
Broenlund persisted in November,
1907, in trying to return from the
north coast of Greenland by way of
the inland ice, having been obliged to
remain on the north coast during the
summer of that year, owing to the
state of the weather. Broenlund's
body was found in a crevice near a
depot. Beside it were sketches show
ing the work that had been accom-.
plished and also his diary"
SWEDEN.
The Swedish exports to Russia are
increasing at a rapid rate.
An industrial exposition at Westerns
was visited by $1,000 persons.
A women's Scandinavian Social
Democratic convention at Stockholm
was attended by IS women.
Grand Duchess Louise of Baden, the
mother of the queen of Sweden, has
just made trip to Stockholm.
A surplus of $4,000 was turned into
the national treasury by the railway
department for the month of July.
The account of the estate of King
Oscar has been turned over to the
Svea royal court. The assets amount
to about $685. 900, which is divided
among the different members of the
royal family. The stamp tax was
$17,753.5s.
A ferry carrying people across the
Laga was loaded so heavily the other
day that it capsized, and the twenty
persons on board were all thrown into
the water. BY energetic efforts they
were all saved except a man named
Rask, who was in charge of the ferry.
A man who does not want his name
published handed $3.50 to Gov. Dick
son, of Stockholm, on his own fiftieth
birthday anniversary, the money to be
donated to some useful institution.
The giver chose this way of express
ing his gratitude to the community in
which he was born and had always
lived.
Jemtland has a population of 114,-
600, and 10000 of them are Good
Templars. No other province or coun-
try in the world can point to such a
record as this, IA per cent Of the peo-
pie being Good Templars.
The sugar barons" of Sweden are
long-headed. BY an agreement with
the beet growers association they
have fixed the price of sugar beets for
the next three years.
The grand lodge of the l. O. G. T.
of Sweden has raised the capital stock
of it's publishing concern from $11, 900
to $4,000.
So many persons were injured in
the course of few days after the set.
Element of the labor conflict gave
everybody a chance to work in Stock.
holm that the hospitals would not
accommodate all of them
Baron Rothschild, who made an ex
cursiOn with his own vessel to Spitz
bergen and Greenland, was very sue