Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
SWEDEN.

About $4,000 men are still out of
work in Sweden.
P. P. Waldenstrom intends to make
a trip to America next summer.
The city of Norrkoping had 45,461
inhabitants at the beginning Of this
year.
The directors of the Gothenburg har-
Dor have ordered four self-dumping
dredges to be made at the Kockum
Iron Works at Malmo.
Mrs. Maria Kristina Sanderstrom
died at the Falkenberg old peoples
home at the age of IS years. She had
lived at that institution since 1876.
Johanna Svensson, an old woman at
the Malstad poor farm, lost her way
In the woods a few days before Christ
mas, and on Christmas eve she was
found dead and almost covered with
snow.
In Masthuggsbergen, part of Goth.
enburg, large number of the heads
Of the families are without work, and
put of the 1900 school children living
In that locality, $40 receive meals at
the expense of the public.
The postofice department has been
in the habit of selling postage stamps
at a reduction of one per cent on
quantities Of at least 300 stamps or
100 cards. From the beginning Of the
new year no such reduction will be
made.
A large Smaland newspaper instruct.
ed it's rural contributors at New Years
to cut out such news items as original
funeral verses, accounts of calves hav-
Ing two heads, etc. Yellow journalism
is evidently on the wane in dear old
Smaland.
A big squirrel managed to steal a
children's blanket almost yard
square at Molnbo station, and he
stated to drag it up into pine tree.
About twenty feet from the ground the
blanket got stuck on twig, and there
the squirrel had to leave it.
A bullet aimed at cow in the pub.
lie packing house of Malmo missed
it's mark and went into the abdomen
Of Gustaf Nilsson, a fifteen-year-o1d
boy who was working in the estab.
lishment. The boy was Immediately
taken to the hospital, but he died on
the way. About $4,000 animals had
been killed by means of similar bull
let's, and the method employed was
supposed to be absolutely safe.
The Swedish printers union and
the Swedish typesetters' union are dis
cussing a serious proposition. At the
opening of the great strike the type.
settlers broke an agreement between
the two parties, and the typesetters
were sued for damages by members of
the other party. The typesetters have
offered $4,000 as compromise: but
the plaintiff has answered that tie
$1,000 would cover only a small part
Of the damages caused by the breach
Of the contract, and the matter may
have to be settled by the courts.
A newspaper at Mariestad describes
q disease which has prevailed to a
considerable extent in that locality.
The victims are mostly virgins (gen-
orally called girls among the common
people, in new positions. The first
symptoms Of the malady are tired
feeling, unwillingness to work, i'm
paired ability to digest foods eaten by
the farmers POTATOES and herring, for
instance). After a while the patient
may be seen picking up her belong.
ings and putting them in transportable
ri, oh ho~ So
stage she is apt to disappear at any
moment, never to return.
A chicken pest has broken out at
Fogelsta. It is very contagious and
sometimes bird will die only few
minutes after taking sick. The name
of the disease is apoplectic septicemia
and its source is supposed to have
been grain imported from America
Rigid and comprehensive measures
have been taken to prevent the
spreading Of the disease to other
places.
The striking glass blowers at Vaxic
have returned to work on the condi
tons offered by the employers. The
new agreement is to be in force unit
Van. /. 1915.