Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-05-04
News Of Scandinavia
Principal Happenings Of the Week
in the Scandinavian Countries.

I A stock company has been organ
lied in Stockholm for operating q
travelling theater in the interest Of
public education. Riksdagsman Wav.
flnsky is the president of the COM
pany.
A mass of dirt caved in at marlpit
in Ito, and Per Bengtsson, a laborer,
| was covered up. It did not take long
| to pull him out. But his chest was
pressed in, and his head was badly
mangled. He was taken to Bromolla
for medical aid, but when he came
| there he expired. He left widow
and six children in straitened circum-
| stances.
The aldermen Of Stockholm have
| given orders that the principal streets
and public squares be set with flag
poles and adorned with the flags of
| Sweden and America in honor of Mr..
Roosevelts account, as when the Rus
sian ruler came. The succession of
remarkable receptions accorded the
traveller since he set foot in Europe
have strengthened the determination
in Stockholm to leave nothing undone
to show admiration for him.
At Morby, not far from Orebro, tho
houses on three farmsteads were
burned down. A peculiar feature of
the fire was, that a new wind electric
plant, the first one of it's kind in Swe-
den, was destroyed at the same time.
The plant was to have been put mop
GRAFTON one day before the fire &C.
cured. But the start was postponed
for few hours, and the result was,
that it never had chance to be start
ed. The electric plant was to have
supplied the burnt houses with power
and light.
Swedish inanciers are deploring tho
fact that so many ships for the mer-
chant marine of Sweden are ordered
abroad. In looking around for rem
edy they asked Dan Brostrom, lead
ing shipowner, for his opinion. His an
swer was as follows: In my opinion
the national authorities will soon be
compelled to adopt measures for adj
vancing the interests of our shipbuild.
ing industry. It seems to me that tho
best way of stemming the tide of Swe.
dish capital to foreign countries would
be to pay bounties for the building Of
ships at home. AS shipowner wish
to state that the shippers cannot give
their orders to Swedish shipbuilders
unless the prices are practically tho
same as those prevailing abroad,
Therefore the government and tho
riksdag should, as soon as possible.
take this matter under serious consid.
GRAFTON.
The Swedish sugar trust has
troubles of it's own. When the trust
was formed there was great differ
ence in the market values of the
stocks of the nineteen factories that
| were merged into the trust. As a
means of making an acceptable eQuaA
| ization it was agreed to give the hold
ers of the prosperous stocks q care.
| fully computed rate of increase when
| the stocks of the new combine were
| distributed. In this manner some
100000 was added to the par of the
| old stocks. Now the government
| wants to compute the tax on the basis
| of the new stocks. To this PROPOSE.
ton vigorous protest has been made
by those who received extra stocks
| when the sugar trust was formed.
| They claim that the government is I'm.
fair and unjust. But the elaborate
arguments. that they have placed be.
fore the government do not seem to
contain any really strong points.