Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-22
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
DENMARK.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DENMARK.
An exposition of English paintings
at Copenhagen was visited by $4,000
persons.
The Copenhagen trades union may
take the lead in establishing trades
museum.
The Copenhagen Students union
has sold it's building to the "Hafnia"
Insurance company for $94,5o0.
The Copenhagen National Bank
borrowed IS, 100000 on easy terms in
London for the purpose of bracing
up the money market in Denmark.
SWEDEN.
The government is expected to ask
the riksdag for an appropriation for
sending an expedition to Spitzbergen.
The aim of the expedition will be to
make geographical and geological in.
vestigations. The expedition may
leave Norvik, Norway, in the early
part of July and return in the latter
part of August. The men and the
outfit will be carried across the wa
ter by the gunboat Svensksund.
The second chamber of the riksdag
spent half a day discussing a propo-
sition to apply whipping as punish
ment for certain crimes The discus
sion was very instructive. The So
cialists were opposed to a whipping
law as class legislation. The most
telling blows against the bill came
from Conservative members who look
upon corporal punishment as q back
ward step in the march of civilization.
The bill was defeated by vote Of
121 to 81.
Some time ago many Swedish pa
pers contained an announcement stat
Ing that lady who was about to in
herit wealth to the amount OF $12,-
100000 wished to marry an ambitious
young man, and 'she" offered to pay
$25 to each and every young man pro-
posing to her. Nothing was heard
from her. for several months, and
the public forgot the tempting and
most unusual ad. But in the course
OF the past few days the valiant suit
ors have received lottery letters from
a concern in Hungary. This explains
the ad: 1t was put into the papers
as means of obtaining as many ad-
people.
A Joke on the Socialists So
cialists of Stockholm made great
hit at the recent city elections by
hammering at the Conservatives for
being responsible for the high house.
rent in the capitol Ernest Solder
berg was Socialist candidate, and
he stood on low-rent platform Some
time ago the national committee of
the Social Democratic party bought a
building in Stockholm for 5000, 900.
Shortly afterwards the tenants re-
ceived notice that their rent would
be raised, in some cases the increase
being as much as ii per cent This
raise of the rent was made the most
of by the opponents of the Socialists,
but the greatest joke came when
Ernest Soderberg, the avowed cham.
pion of lower house.rent, had to sign
the papers requiring higher rent.
There are 2,239 volunteer rifle
clubs in Sweden having 1855 active
members and 15,142 passive members.
No less than 81 new clubs were or.
ganized in 1907, and only 10 dropped
out. There are 1926 rif1emen whose
records entitled them to aid from the
national treasury. In 1893 the CORE.
spending number was 5000. The
number of shots fired in 1907 was
about 100000. More than half of
| the shots were fired at a range of 1926
| yards. The government awarded L.
351 gold medals, 1854 silver medals
and 5,463 bronze medals in the
course of the year to members who
distinguished themselves at target
practice. The aim of the leaders of
this movement is to make the Swedes
deserve the name of "a people in
arms"
Stockholm, April 1.-THE Grand
Duchess Maria Paulovna, who will
marry Prince Wilhelm II, second son
of the crown prince of Sweden, on
April 81, has had a quarrel with her
aunt and guardian, the Grand Duchess
Elizabeth, widow of the late Grand
Duke Sergius of Russia, on the ques-
ton whether or not her father,
Grand Duke Paul of Russia, is to at.
tend her marriage. Grand Duchess
Elizabeth has a peculiar dislike for
Paul and declares if he comes to the
wedding she will not allow it to take
place from her palace. The bride.
to.be, however, stands by her father.
The Grand Duchess Maria has seen
little of her parent, for after the
loss of his first wife he gave up his
accustomed pursuits and eventually
married a woman who was objection.
able at court and was sent into exile
by the car. OF late, however, the
car has relented toward his uncle
and has withdrawn the degree of exile
against him. His wife, who has OBJ
tanned the Bavarian title of Countess
Hohenfelsen, remains barred from
Russia, and the couple consequently
make their home in Paris.
The committee appointed to revise
the Swedish version of the New Tesla
ment has been criticized because 1t
produced a bran new translation, and
this is not apt to be accepted in
its present shape.
The riksdag has acted favorably on
propositions which are intended to
make it easier for poor people to get