Willmar tribune., 1909-03-31
NEWS OF Scandinavia.
DEN MARK.

Alberti, the great bank wrecker,
seems 70 have spent $4,000 on the
elections in Kjoge.
Out Of the forty-two members OF
the municipal council of Copenhagen
seven are wosaen. Seven per cent
of the candidates elected in the prov
inces are women.
The steamer Aurora recently left
Copenhagen for Sicily, carrying
government buildings, 16 barracks
and 3 residences to Messina The
houses had been ordered by the
Italian government.
German papers claim that the
king of Denmark holds property and
gilt-edge securities to the amount of
about $25,000,000. The queen is said
to have received over $4,000, 10000
from the Netherlands.
The accounts of Burmeister and
Wain's shipyard show surplus Of
$54,500 for the year 1908, and this
will be added to the reserve and re-
newal funds. This means that the
stockholders will get no dividends.
NORWAY.
The cabinet wants about $5,O00,O 1000
for defenses.
Rev. A. Somerfelt has written q
newspaper article in which he makes
1t as plain as possible that he is z.
Unitarian.
The Kristiania skating club cleared
over $4,000 at skating match at
froguer, and the money will be used
for a new club house.
Mostly three-story brick and stone
houses will be put up in place of the
buildings that were destroyed by fire
In Fredrickstad some time ago.
A number OF Norwegian ship own
ers think that they can run line of
passenger and mail steamers between
Norway and America if they get a
government subsidy of about $780,
600 year.
Edv0rd Stensvlk, farmer, wanted
to save time by driving across
Nordsas lake on his way home from
Bergen, and horse, sled and driver
plunged headlong into an airhole and
disappeared under the ice.
The government has proposed the
extension of the city limits Of
Hangesund so as to add to the city
about one square mile (Engiish) be-
longing to the commune of Skaare.
When this ground is added to Hange-
sund the city will have 12,4O0 inhabi-
tants.
The government is in favor of es-
tablishing a tourist Office in Berlin.
1t will cost about $4,000 a year to
keep it running, and the railroads and
hotels are expected to contribute
$4,000 to this amount. If such an
office is opened it will be managed by
the state railways.
There were 173 strikes and other
organized labor conflicts in Norway
in 1908, and 60 strikes lasted for
some time. The receipts of the ma
tional labor union were $4,000, and
$45,000 was paid out as aid to the
strikers. The aggregate receipts of
all the local unions belonging to the
national organization were over
100000.
SWEDEN.
About fifty per cent of the entire
Swedish freight tonnage is laid up
for lack of profitable employment.
Physicians are so scarce in Swe-
den that the military authorities have
found it difficult to obtain enough sur
geons for the army.
II. A. Mueller, Swedish engineer.
claims to have devised an improved
method of preparing peat for fuel,
and the government is in favor of
granting him $3.50 for making tests
on large scale.
1t is over year since work was be.
gun on Prince Wilhelm's palace near
the geological gardens in Stockholm,
and the exterior Of the building was
completed about three weeks ago.
The lowest part of the palace is two
stories high, and the highest five
stories.
The king has commuted the death
sentence of Anton Nilsson to i'm
prisonment for life. Nilsson was
found guilty of throwing a bomb at
strike-breaker's boarding ship in
the Malino harbor. killing an English
man and injuring several others. The
pardon was granted mainly on the
ground that the killing was feature
Of social struggle of vast scope.
A general discussion carried on in
the Swedish press on the question c;
corporal punishment brings out the
fact that the rod is spared" to
much greater extent now than fifty
years ago, and those who neglect this
fact are sure to add that it "spoils
the child" But the general opinion
seems to be that the sweetness OF
temper of the rising generation is
compatible with a limitation of the
application of the redoubtable birch.
twig.
About fifty farmers occupying
seats in the Swedish riksdag have
organized themselves into group"
for the purpose of guarding the in
terests of the farmers. It is distinct.
ly understood that they do not con-
slider the new organization as a
party in the ordinary sense Of that
term. -.
The city government of Stockholm
has spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars on public works out of sea-
son in order to give as many work.
less men as possible a chance to