Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-21
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Dfphtheria has been raging at Var
berg. Two children died after having
been sick only one day.
Bishop Ekman of Upsa1a has been
confined to his private rooms by sick
ness, and the king and the queen
called at his house the other day.
Sweden was so well represented at
the hunting exposition in Vienna
that the Swedish tourist traffic in
Sweden will be sure to be benefited
by it.
Desertions from the army are more
frequent than before, and many mill
tary authorities are in favor Of max
ing the punishment for such offenses
more severe.
Southern Sweden was visited by the
first violent snoWstorm of the season
Nov. 20. The telephone and telegraph
service WAS crippled, and in many
places the wet snow on the wires pull
ed both the wires and the poles to the
ground.
The new public school building in
Adolf Fredrik parish, Stockholm, was
dedicated November 81, in the pres.
ence of the king and the queen. The
dedication sermon was preached by
Rev. S. A. Fries. The new building
is a splendid structure.
0. Erickson, of Moklinta parish,
was found dead on top Of his charcoal
pit. He had dug hole thru the dirt
covering the pit in order to fill a
cavity eaten out by the fire in the in
terror of the pit, and his death was
due to the fire from this cavity.
The room rent has passed it's high
water mark in Stockholm, at least for
the time being. For years it was diff
ficult to find a vacant room of any
kind, and the house owners kept on
raising their rates Indefinitely. They
reached limit early in the fall. In
the middle of October hundreds of
buildings were empty, about one hum
dred of them being store or Office
buildings. This state of things i'm
mediately reached upon the house
rent, which is considerably lower now
than it was few months ago.
The Thule manufacturing company,
of Malmo, has proved beyond doubt
that it is possible for concern which
has no large capital and which is To-
Gated in a country which does not
rank with the great powers, may COM
pete successfully with the whole
world. The Thule manufacturing
company has been in existence only a
few years, but it has created an ever
increasing demand for it's electric
shaping machines and other wood
works appliances in England, Belgium,
Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Switzer-
land, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.
But Australia affords a still better
market.
AS the steamer Ingeborg was ap-
preaching Stora Ekenberg late one
evening Mr.. Magnusson, the captain,
had the time of his life. One of the
passengers was under the influence
of drink, which made him boisterous
and unwilling to pay his fare. The
man was put ashore, and acted as tho
he was going to leave the landing
place. But all of sudden he turned
and made for the steamer with full
speed. He missed his mark, however,
and went headlong into the water.
The night was pitch dark, but Captain
Magnusson, without a moments hest
tatiOn, jumped in after his customer
and succeeded in keeping him above
water until both of them were pulled
out
Great pains have been taken to COL
lect the or1gtn.-- manuscripts of Franz
Berwald, the composer, who died in
1868. The original copy of his Sym
phonie Capricieuse" is still missing,
and the Franz BerWald foundation has
offered reward of one hundred dol
lars to the one who sends the missing
document to the director of the foun-
dalton, John May, Stockholm.
Competition is so brisk between the
regular BARRIERS and the cooperative
BARRIERS in Stockholm that a shave
can be had for four cents. The rate
may be cut down to three cents at
any time.
About one hundred homes in differ
ent parts of NOrrland were recently
offered for sale at a public auction at
Sundsvall. The bidding was brisk, the
offers aggregating $550,000. The lead
ing bidders we're numbering companies
that want the land for the purpose of
cutting the timber on it. The largest
bid was made by the Sund numbering
company, which offered $4,000 for
a dozen estates.
A company has just been organized
for starting and running an ostrich
farm in Sweden. The fact that the
king took ten shares made It easy to
raae1 =the. neA1Gsary capital stock .