Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-17
SWEDEN.

hamn.
A woman at Ousby who has been
married only about four years has
given birth to twins three times and
to triplets once, making nine children
in about three years.
A farmer in Sodermanland who
raises large quantities of berries has
found that some of his nimblest pick
ers can gather as much as 80 quarts
of gooseberries in a day. The pay
for this work is 80 cents.
Labor troubles are not interfering
with the harvest work so much this
year as in former seasons. Some agi-
tators are at work among the laborers,
but the latter are more careful after
the great strike about year ago.
The first wireless telegraph station
in Sweden has just been opened for
public business. It is located at Karls-
krona. The first message was sent
to Thalia, a pleasure steamer, the
whereabouts of which was known on
ly in general way. But an answer
soon proved that the vessel had been
reached.
The government sold about 700 gal
Ions Of confiscated liquors at public
auction in the mining town Of Malm-
berget, and the temperance people
bought it for about $50. The liquor
was taken to the garbage pile at the
outskirts of the town one evening and
poured on the garbage. When this
was well soaked match was applied,
and the beautiful bonfire was enjoyed
by friend and foe alike.
An unusual operation has been per-
formed at the Seraphim hospital in
Stockholm. A son Of Mr.. Bjorkrot,
station agent at Saltskog, broke his
arm above the elbow in such a man.
ner that the broken bone could not
be put in serviceable shape. DR.. Einar
Key took about eight inches of bone
out Of the boys leg, and put 1t into
the arm, and the operation was sue
cessful in every particular.
The ''thousand-wooer" is dead. A
highly eccentric man by the name
OF Hogkvist died short while ago in
Kisa parish. There was no place that
he could call his home, for he was al
ways on the move through the coun-
try. From time to time he managed
to put a little money in the bank, and
as he never used the interest he had
about three thousand dollars when
he died. Among his peculiarities was
his fondness for the fair sex, which
made him a chronic wooer, and in
the course Of time gave him the nick
name of "thousand-wooer."
August Boltzius is dead. It is not so
very many years since the name OF
this man was almost a household word
in Scandinavia. His fame rested on
his faith cures. Cripples travelled hun
dreds of miles to see the man, and
to prove what he had done he pointed
to stacks and stacks Of clutches, canes,
and similar appliances left by those
that he had cured. He lived and died
near Karlstad. When he was at the
height of his fame he could not treat
all that applied to him for aid, and to
cripples in far-away localities he would
send a piece of cloth with which he
had rubbed his head. Many claimed
that they were cured even by this in
direct method.
Ulrika Jansson, of Bjorka, Stenstorp,
Motala parish, died at the age of 80
years. She had always been poorly
dressed, and her mode of life was
pretty much that Of pauper. Her
death treated her resatives to great
surprise In her clothes and in hooks
| and corners all over the house was
found over $4,000 in cash, and her
bank accounts amounted to still more:
There were big wads of 5O-kronor
bills which had never been folded, and
some of the money must have been
kept hidden for thirty or forty years.
Only a little over $500 was in gold
| coins.
The Swedish railway department has
ordered $4,000 tons of steel rails from
Germany. This created stir among
Swedish manufacturers. But a salts
factory explanation was soon pub
lished. Swedish iron is too soft, and
Swedish steel is too expensive for the
! production of such coarse materials as
rails.
A boy 10 months old fell down
from the third floor of a building in
Karlskrona. But the little fellow did
not lose his life, because he happened
to strike little girl who was playing
beneath the window from which he
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