Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
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PRINCIPAL Evonfs Gathered ID the
Oh Scandinavian Countries

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The department of the navy has
asked for bids for a new destroyer
from five Swedish ironworks, and no
foreign shop will have a chance in
this case.
Judge c. o. Montan of the joint
court of Alexandria, Egypt, has been
appointed to plead the cause of Swed-
en- before the joint committee which
is to fix the boundary line between
Sweden and Norway from it's south
ern terminus to the deep sea.
The teachers in the lower grades of
the public schools of Malmo handed
the city council a petition for in
creased pay, and the scale of wages
mentioned in the petition was gal
lantly granted by the city fathers The
maximum salary is to be $445.50 a
year.
Minister of Finance Swartz was
asked whether the government in
tends to suggest some way of max
ing the government financially indie
pendent of the liquor traffic, but he
answered that he dia not see how the
government can get along without the
income from this source
The Socialists of Stockholm elected
as member of the second chamber Of
the Rikstag man named Johansson,
who has suddenly acquired national
fame in a rather unpleasant manner.
He asked for certain brand of Nor
Wegian whisky at restaurant very
late one evening, and when he found
that no such stuff was kept at the
place he abused the waiter to such an
extent that he was saved only by the
laws protecting members of the
Rikstag. The temperance people seem
to have supported Johansson, and
their organ. Reformation tries to
get rid of this unpleasant joke by de-
claring that the candidate was not
regularly nominated, but was pushed!
to the fornt by woman working in a
brewery!
Miss Magma Sunnerdahl, daughter
of the late E. Sunnerdahl, who be-
queathed over one million dollars ia
children's home, has given an outline
of the plans of the generous philan-
thropist. She says that little city
will be built in the neighborhood of
Stockholm for the care of poor, sick
ly children. A couple of years stay
in the country is supposed to kill germ
diseases and to suppress immoral
tendencies in the little ones, and if
they also learn to love country life an
additional advantage is gained. But
In the first place this children's colony
is to be resort to which children like
to go, and where they like still better
to stay when they once get there. It
will be no dark and dreary educational
institution, says Miss Sunnerdahl.
NORWAY.
Ole Bjelland, a farmer at Fister,
and his wife, nee Wage, celebrated
their golden wedding Oct. 26. At the
same time their grandson, E. B. Erik
sen, cashier of the Stavanger Handles
& Industri Bank, was married to Miss
Beathe Kloster.
The military authorities are said
to be considering the report of COM
mittee on Notifications at Horton.
Afterwards plans will be reported for
Strengthening the defences along the
entire coast. Morgenbladet states
that the work contemplated will re.
quire an expenditure of more than
$5,000,000.
The Meraker planning mill and dry
ing kiln at Hommelviken, near frond-
hjem, were completely burnt down in
the middle of the night, and the neigh
boring buildings were barely saved.
The loss was about $4,000. The 70
men who were employed at the mill
were taken to the Tangen sawmill in
Stjordalen, where they will be put to
night shifts until the Hommelviken
plant has been rebuilt.
The dock laborers in Kristiania are
engaged in a strike and serious dis
orders already have occurred. An at
tempt to load and unload steamers
with the help of the crews caused the
strikers to rush aboard the vessels
and attack the men at work. One
captain was badly injured and several
other officers were hurt. 1t is asserted
that the action of the strikers is il
legal, as they had contract which
required them to give three months
notice before stopping work, and not
to strike under any circumstances be-
foro tho hopinninr IF 1910
The explosion of gasolene stove
started fire in large fiat in Fables
Gade, Kristiania, and soon the whole
room was filled with flames. There
were 16 families in the building, and
all the inmates made a rush for the
one doorway leading out of it. Two
persons were burnt to death in room
directly above the room where the
explosion took place. One of them
was A. Helliksen, who had been a
missionary, and was 80 years old at
his death. The other victim was his
son, whose body was terribly burnt.
He is supposed to have made desper-
ate attempts to save himself and his
aged father.
Mrs Anne Martha Kuvaas, a farm
er's wife at Borseskogn, near Trond.
hjem, gave birth to triplets. They were
all girls and seemed to be healthy.
Their combined weight was about IA
pounds.
Immense quantities of small her.
ring have been caught in Kristiania
Fjord during the past few weeks. Some