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Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
SWEDEN.

1he harbor of Stockholm was com.
pletely blockaded by ice March fifth.
DR.. Hedin is to give about 25 lec-
lures during his four weeks stay in
Germany.
Swedish butter is selling so well
IN England that the Danes begin to
feel the competition.
The building inspectors of Stock
holm have started a crusade against
Objectionable bill-boards.
Cooking classes will be opened in
five public schools in Stockholm for
the benefit of workingmen's wives.
Gustaf of Geijerstam is dead. For
twenty-five years he was one Of
Sweden's most popular novel writer's.
Over one thousand men were hired
to shovel snow in Stockholm during
snowstorm, and this extra work cost
the city about $1,000.
Twenty boxes of scientific collec-
tions were recently received in
Sweden from Erland Nordenskjold,
who is making a scientific expedition
through Bolivia. The skeleton of
whale accompanied the boxes.
The cadets of the officers course
at the Swedish military school have
spent three days maneuvering in the
neighborhood of Boden, in order that
they may become familiar with the
requirements of military life in the
extreme north.
A Swede who had just returned to-
Sweden from stay of several years
in Africa asked for Swedish sardines
at Gothenburg hotel. But no, only
Portuguese sardines with French
labels could be had. The man was so
| surprised that he made known to the
press that Swedish sardines are
served at all fine hotels in western
Africa.
Fire broke out in the house of
Johan Jansson at Hultet, Ostra Seq
mon, Ed parish, Varmland, while the
family were in bed, and Jansson's
father, who was 20 years old, and
his sixteen-year-old son Victor were
burnt to death. An older boy saved
several small children, but he was so
badly burnt that he had to be taken
to the hospital. Mrs. Jansson escaped
from the fire almost naked, and she
ran to the neighbors for help. Her
| feet were badly frozen.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
NEWS Of minnesota,
Luverne Chooses Teaching Force

Luverne Chooses Teaching Force.
Luverne-The superintendent and
fifteen of Luverne's corps of twenty
teachers were elected at the last meet
ing of the board of education, as fol-
lows: Superintendent, Professor J.
L. Torrens, Luverne; high school, C.
E. Clarkson, St. Charles; Miss Elinor
Hallowell, Northfield; Miss Efie B.
Lee, Ames, Iowa. Grades, Miss Daw-
ley NJ. Anderson, Plainview; Miss
Frances Larson, Tracy; Miss Goldie
NJ. Anderson, Plainview; Miss Ethel
l.. Emery, Stanton; Miss Emma Lar
son, Atwater; Miss Ella Mccarthy, L,l-
verne; Miss Loretta McGrew, Good
Thunder; Miss Rose NJ. Oestern, Lu.
verne; Miss Lura Williams, Cando, N.
d.; Miss Volande Mackin, Minneap:
oils; Miss Josephine Curtiss and Miss
Jessie Halbert, Luverne.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

Sexton Dug His Own Grave.
: The death occurred at.Barwell, near
Nuneaton, recently of John Needham,
the oldest bell-ringer in England, who
celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday .
few months ago. As sexton Of Bar.
we'll he had dug $500 graves and been
present at 600 weddings. Some years
ago he dug his own grave and therein
h0 was interred.-London Daily Mail.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
conquerinq Failure.

Our failures are not the test of our
lives, but rather what we do with our
failures. Some men let failure mark
the end of effort; with other men,
failure is the challenge that calls
forth their best. Therein was the life
and-death difference between Peter and
Judahs. Both men failed miserably;
but Judas let his failure put an end to
further effort, while Peter turned to
Christ for power to live it down and
10 immortal as q man who conquered
failure. Our lives are great not by
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
The Greeks Of Manhattan.

Zone generally connects the idea
Of q Creek mused the melancholy
man, with Marathon sports, bare
knees, robes, togas, large eyes, per.
feet features, magnificent ruins. and
crumbling marble pillars, but New
York Greek is generally man who
keeps a candy store"
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
nine SUFFRAGETTES TO JAIL.
London Women Refuse to Give Sure.
ties for Good Behavior and Get
One Month.

London, Apr. 2.-Nine OF the militant
female suffragettes, who were ar
rested while attempting to force an
entrance into the house of commons,
were arraigned in the Bow street 20.
lice court yesterday and sent by the
magistrate to join their sisters in Hol-
loway Jail for one month. All refused
to give sureties for their good beha-
viOr.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Indictments AGAINST Four.

Grand Rapids-The grand jury for
the March term of the district court
for 1tasca county held busy session.
Indictments were returned as follows:
Norman McMasters, grand larceny in
the second degree; George Zigich, as
sault in the first degree; Mike Rado-
vac and Ellie Viacar, assault in the
first degree, for stabbing John Javenis
near Marble on Jan. %. Javenis
nearly died from the effects of the
wound. The grand jury is considering
election matters.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Last "Dry" Echo in Iowa

Des Moines, Ia, Apr. 2.-As a last
echo of the constitutional prohibitory
amendment campaign in the Iowa
legislature, motion to instruct the
committee on amendments to report
the house resolution was defeated
yesterday by vote of 26 to 13.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

st. Paul, Mimi, March 31.-The
senate will leave St. Paul Thursday
evening for a trip along the Iron
Range to inform themselves Of the
vastness of the states mining inter-
ests. When Senator George R. Lay
bourn of Duluth extended the invita-
tion for the senate to enjoy the trip
and inform itself relative to the iron
mining industry that it might be in
better position to fairly consider the
Bjorge tonnage tax bill.
By final vote of 80 to the SEN
ate late today passed the bill of Sem
ator F. E. Putnam of Blue Earth, ap-
propriating $4,000 state aid, for the
establishment of courses in manual
training, domestic science, and scien-
tiic agriculture in high, consolidated
and graded schools throughout the
state.
The senate passed the w. A. Hin
ton bill providing that passenger ele-
vators must be supplied with safety
appliances that hold the car at each
landing until the doors or gates are
opened and closed.
The senate today suspended its
rules and passed the bill to permit of
reincorporation of the town of Gil
bert, St. Louis county.
The bill to perpetuate veterans of
the civil war in state offices went
down to defeat in the house this
morning.
The electric railroad control bill
came up in new form. The house
judiciary committee presented a ma
jority report for advancement of a
substitute bill for the Nolan measure,
placing lines directly under the state
railroad commission.
The new substitute bill gives the
state railroad commission general SUI
pervision, and makes them an appeal
board, but leaves to city councils in
the respective cities the power to
specify what streets shall be used by
the electric lines, general service reg
ulations, permission or refusal for ex-
tensions, and the right to inf1ict pen
alties for violation of ordinances. The
new bill also gives the state commits
sion power to order city lines to give
terminal connections to rural electric
lines.
The house passed the trading
stamp bill. It requires that the
stamps issued by merchants must
have printed on them their value, and
must specify just what they may be
used to redeem.
This evening H. o. Bjorge of Lake
Park was given an opportunity to
make lengthy argument for his iron
ore tonnage tax bill before the senate
tax committee, which held an open
hearing in the senate chamber. Mr..
Bjorge quoted from decisions at
length to prove that his bill was con-
stitutional and would be sustained by
the courts, and also attempted to
prove that it was fair in that it taxed
property which in few years would
be all removed from the state His
argument was the same one as deliv.
cred first before the house committee
on taxes, and later before the house
itself when considering the bill.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Railway Mail Clerks Organize.

Winona-Railway mail clerks in
this section have organized by electing
the following officers: President, Will
liam H. Fry; vice president, Harvey
Taylor; secretary, Anton Berdnatz.
Mr.. Berdnatz was elected a delegate
to the tenth division convention to be
held on April 80 at Minneapolis.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
onlv Two Left.

A London writer has como to the
front with q mass Of documentary
evidence to prove that Robin Hood
was real. parsonage. Thank good
ness! The iconoclast his wiped out
everybody else. This leaves us two
the Outlaw Of Sherwood Forest and
Ananias.-New York Herald.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Kills .1Wo.Men.

Pomeroy, O., Apr. 2.-Everett White
shot and instantly killed his father.in.
law; John Fisher, and neighbor.
James Rayburn, in the dooryard of his
home at Mason City, w. Va, near
here, yesterday.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
NORWAY.

The Trondhin Aktiebryggeri stock
brewing company nas declared divi-
dend of three per cent.
The stockholders of the paper mills
along the Drammen river have re-
ceived dividend of eight per cent.
Considerable quantities of fresh
herrings are sent in refrigerator cars
from Norvik to St. Petersburg, Rus.
sia.
An Alpine sport club in London is
thinking of giving up Switzerland and
going to Norway for winter sport in
the future.
About 40 Norwegian steamers are
engaged in the coast trade along the
Pacific coast of the United States.
Most of the steamers have displace-
ment of 6,O00-S,000 TONS The Nor.
wegians are crowding out the Ger.
mans and the English in that trade.
About 100000 Goldfish were caught
on Norwegian fishing grounds from
Jan. first to March 10, and 1,458,100
quarts of cod liver oil was produced
during the same period. The herring
catch was about 100000 barrels.
There are 4,SO0 boats in Lofoten. The
prices are very low.
The Norwegian newspapers have
commenced to discuss the effects OF
anti-saloon legislation in the United
States. Our country is so far away
that there is ample room for the
imagination in this discussion, and
some of the facts are richly adorned
with poetical embellishments.
1t is estimated that 100000 women
and 100000 men are old enough to
vote at the coming election of men,
bers of the storting. But as there are
many women whose families have
not paid their taxes up to date only
about 300, 900 women will have right
to vote. This will be the first chance
that the women of Norway ever had
to vote for members of the national
legislature, and the result will be
watched with great interest both in
Norway and abroad.
Norway imported 26,030,000 pounds
Of coffee in 1907 as against 24,52O, 900
pounds in 1908. The imports of sugar
for the year 1908 aggregated 10000, 600
pounds, which was $4,000 pounds in
excess of the figures for 1907.
The owners of Grand Hotel, Kristi.
ania, have decided to enlarge the
building at cost of $280,0OO. The
tourist traffic is growing so fast that
the present quarters are too small.
A Norwegian whaling company is
operating on the coast of Chile. One
thousand barrels of oil were produced
during the week ending March 5.
Prof. Vogt recently gave an inter-
esting lecture on the mining industry
of Norway before the Kristiania poly
technic union. He enumerated six
teen different mining concerns of
which fereign capitalists had lost
; $S,000.000 since 1900.
A society has been organized in
Aalesund for the purpose of defend
ing the Norwegian-Danish book-lan-
guage against the agitation of the ad.
vocates Of the dialect language.
Savings banks for school children
have been started In ten cities and
In . great many rural communities.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Wife Murderer Retrieved.

Columbus, o., Apr Gov. Har.
mon yesterday reprieved Harry Ed.
ward Crooks, the Dayton wife mur-
derer, sentenced to electrocution on
April 13, until June I.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

the measure of few mistakes, but BY
splendid mastery over all mistakes.
Christ came to give us this mastery.
Men win it or lose it, as they accept
or reject him.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Grain Merchant BANKRUPT.

county, formerly grain merchant of
Gibbon, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy in the federal court in this
city, alleging his liabilities as $18,O84,
of which $500 is secured, and his
assets as $15,350, of which $4,61O is
exempt.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

Gov. HaskeIl's Daugt ter Weds.
Guthrie, Okla, Apr. 2.-~.Miss Frances
L. Haskell, daughter of Gov. Charles
N. Haskell, was married last night in
the Oklahoma senate chamber to Les.
lie G. Niblack, Guthrie newspaper
man.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
False Arrest Costs S4OO.

Duluth-Chief of Police Peter
Wiring and D. B. McEachen of Hib-
bing have been mulcted for $40O by a
jury in the district court in damage
suit brought by William Williams for
false arrest. Williams was employed
by the Itasca Mercantile company, of
which McEachen is manager, and was
arrested on a charge of theft, but was
discharged.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
New Well for Rochester.

ROcheSter-At meeting of the
Olmsted County Health League held
here, Burt w. Eaton, president of the
Rochester company, advocated munic-
ipal ownership of the plant Roch-
ester has been especially fortunate in
her water supply. Never has case
OF sickness been traced to contami-
mated water supply. The old wells are
to be built higher and a new one is
to be dug. The Health League will
begin an active and aggressive cam
paign to not only maintain the present
standard of healthfulness, but to
guard against any possibility of un-
sanitary conditions.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Avoiding Embarrassment.

"Dickey.' said his mother, when
you divided those five caramels with
your sister did you give her three?"
NO, ma. I thought they wouldn't
come out even, 30 I ate one fore I
began to ivide."-United Presbyter-
ian
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
One ThIna Certain.

One Thing Certain.
Paul Revere may not have made
that famous ride, but there can be no
dispute about what happened next
day.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
HAPPENINGS
Of A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
CONGRESSIONAL,

President Taft is in favor of the
creation of tariff bureau at this ses-
sion of congress.
Members of the house of representa-.
tives already are beginning to specu-
late upon their individual chances OF
securing choice committee assign.
ments. which are expected to be made
just before the present special session
OF congress ends.
Representatives Fordney of Michi.
gan and Byrd of Mississippi, nearly
came to blows on the floor of the
house in an argument over the tariff
bill.
PERSONAL.
F. w. De Wolf succeeded DR.. II. F..
Balm as state geologist at Champaign,
III.
Isaac Foster Mack, after 40 years
AS editor of the Sandusky Daily Reg
lister, retired and was succeeded by
his brother, John r. Mack.
Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia
will retire next fall from the position
of commander-in-chief of the navy, to
become grand admiral and general in
spector. He will be succeeded either
by Admiral Won Fischel or Vice-Ad-
miral Won Holtzendorf.
President Taft, in a speech at a
Harvard dinner, confirmed the report
that President Eliot of Harvard is to
succeed Whitelaw Reid as ambassa'
dor to England.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait of New
York, president of the International
League Of Woman Suffragists, deliv'
cred an address before a large mum
Der of German suffragists in Berlin
Francis e. Leupp, commissioner OF
Indian affairs. told President Taft that
he would remain in his present posi-
tion if his health permitted.
King Peter of Servia, according to
London report, intends to give up
his throne and so to Switzerland to
live.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., denied the
report that he is to wed Miss Mum OF
Washington.
Frank A. Vanderlip, on a special
train, broke the speed record from
New York to Chicago, but failed by
2S minutes to reach the home of his
mother before she died.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the St.
Paul lumber king, answering Champ
Clark's speech in the house, said
there is no lumber trust and never
has been.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
The Difference.

There is high palmistry, and then
there IL, low palmistry. Low palmistry
reads fortunes from ones hands. High
palmistry takes fortunes OF ones
haads.-NSv York Evenilk Post.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
XIII Beer Inspection Bill.

Lincoln, Neb., Apr. 2.-The senate
yesterday killed bill providing for a
state beer inspector who was to be
assisted by five deputies.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
The 9unerior ae~

nc superior Sex.
Generally q woman's reason for do.
ing thing is she hasn't any, and It
turns out much better than with q
man who has.-New York Press.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

A life is great not by the measure
of few mistakes, but by splendid mast,
cry over all mistakea
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Mistake in Termjnolouy,

"A boys conscience" says q Phila-
delphia teacher, lis never stimulated
BY . spanking" Well, that's not
where he's spanked Cleveland
Leader
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

st. Paul, Mimi, March 30.-Gov. J.
A. Johnson sent communication to
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

A judicious and reasonable estima.
tion of ones own character has moth
ing to do with pride.-Fuller.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Duluth Incendiary Sentenced.

Duluth-Kalman Light, the West
Duluth storekeeper who was convict
ed of setting fire to his store on Gen.
trail avenue, was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary by Judge
Cant in the district court. Light was
charged with saturating some paper
boxes with kerosene and setting fire
to them. The fact that a family was
living in rooms above the store made
the Offense more serious.
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07
Sues for Girls Freedom.

Red Wing-By means of habeas
corpus proceedings, Eva A. Slayton,
of St. Paul. is trying to secure the re.
lease of her daughter Genevieve from
the custody of the board of control
and Superintendent F. A. Whittier of
the training school. Mrs. Slayton con.
tends that the commitment proceed
ings were illegal and that no notice
had been served on her as guardian
of Genevieve Slayton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-22
CELEBRATE Bind ANNIVERSARY
The Royal Arcanum Rounds Ont a
Generation.

The Royal Arcanum Rounds Ont
Generation.
On June 23rd the thirty-second an
niyersary Of the Royal Arcanum will
be generally observed by members Of
the order throughout the United
States and Canada. Grand Regent
Theodore S. Glass, of Westfield, has
requested every Arcanian in New Jer-
SEQ to celebrate the anniversary by
displaying sold Glory from his resi-
dence or place Of business on June
23rd, in accordance with the usual
custom.
The history of the Royal Arcanum
is an exceptionally interesting one.
On June 23rd, 1877, nine men gathered
In Boston, Mass. for the purpose OF
founding fraternal insurance So
iety.
In November OF 1877 a charter was
obtained from the State OF Massach-
usetts.
The order was popular from its in
ception, the first annual report show
ing three grand councils (Massach-
nsetts, Ohio and Michigan), sixty-four
subordinate councils and $4,000 paid
in death benefits Two years later
there we're twelve grand councils, 470
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-22
Hahne s Co., Broad New and HaIsey SITS, Newark
Commercial Casualty Insurance Com.
pany.

Commercial Casualty Insurance Conn
pany.
" A New Jersey Casualty Insurance
company, national in it's field of oper-
alton, and within few years to take
its place in Importance by the side of
those two magnificent insurance insti-
tions Of the state, the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance company and the Pru-
Dental Insurance Company of Amer
ica.'
The foregoing is the opening para.
graph in the prospectus of the Com
mercial Casualty Insurance company,
incorporated under the laws of the
State of New Jersey and with offices
in the Union building, Newark. For
two months the projectors of the com
pany have been quietly at work and
they are now ready to place the stock
Of the company before the public as
an opportunity for legitimate invest
ment.
The men with whom this plan orig
mated and who have successfully or
ganized the company are Edward w.
Gray and James A. Mandeyille, who,
up to the first OF June, were the gem
eral State against in New jersey for
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
of the United States. Mr.. Grey is
well-knOwn In the State. Years ago
he was connected with the Preferred
Accident Insurance company of New
XnFk filfU hn tx1k
newspaper business eventually becom-
ing the president, and general mana
ger OF the Newark Daily Advertiser
fuollsning company. After leaving
the Advertiser Mr.. Gray was an.
pointed secretary to Governor Ed
ward z. Stokes, his term expiring
with the Governors in January, 1908.
Mr.. Mandeyllle is a son of the late DIR.
Frederick b. Vaudeville of Newark
and has been IN the insurance business
ever since he left college. Under Mr..
Gray and Mr.. MandeYiIle, the business
Of The Equitable, in the State OF New
Jersey, was increased nearly four
times in 1908 over that of the preced-
ing year.
The capital of the company will be
in proportion to it's wide scope of I'M
derwriting operations. The company
will begin business on a capital OF
$3.50, 900, but as soon as this is paid in
an additional issue of stock amount
ing to S750,00O will be disposed Of.
making the Commercial a million
dollar company.
Most of the first issue of stock is be-
ing disposed of in New Jersey. 1t is
the desire of the officers and directors
of the company to make the CONNER,
cial a thoroughly home institution
and they feel that within q few years
it will become one of the strongest
financial institutions in the State.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-22

The New Jersey Hospital Bed Fund
association was organized twelve
years ago, with the object of caring
for members who may meet with acct
dent or Illness and $50 members have
been helped in this manner. There
are also employment bureaus in Es-
sex and Hudson counties, which are
performing a noble work in aiding
members to help themselves. In most
of the grand jurisdictions there are
many of those kindred organizations,
and they have proved to be of material
benefit and assistance.
The History of the Royal Arcanpm
is a wonderful exemplification of the
brotherhood Of men, the example OF
self-sacrifice; its every principle and
precept being in harmony with the
highest and noblest planes of human
thought and life.