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

DENMARK.
Munchen has $4,000. Leipzig hak
585,743 inhabitants, and Nurnberg 1872,
$780,
Five miners were instantly killed by
the explosion of fre-damp at the Vic
toria shaft, Essen. Their bodies were
fearfully burned before they we're re-
covered.
A preliminary census report gives
the city of Berlin and it's suburbs a
population CT 100000. 1t will take
several weeks to ascertain the exact
number.
Kaiser Franz Joseph's hunting cas-
tie at HOlich was destroyed by fire.
The castle contained some very val
liable trophies of the chase and all of
them were lost.
Wholesale poisoning by eating
oleomargar1ae is reported from Ham
burg. No less than thirty families
consisting of one hundred members
are sick. All of them took sick after
eating artificial butter. The author
ties have taken steps to locate the
manufacturers of the poisonous stuff
Minister OF Justice Bulow has intro
duced bill in the Danish folketing
for replacing the so called Albert
whipping law, which will not be in
effect after Sept. 1, 1911. The new
bill does not contain the paragraph
providing for whipping. This form
will hn oh
only with regard to assault and bat
terry and social crimes but also with
regard to the whipping of children and
the scourging of persons between fif-
teen and eighteen years of age.
When the International grammo-
phone company began it's operations
in Copenhagen, seven years ago, it was
next to impossible to induce the sing
ers to sing into the funnel A great
change has taken place with regard
to this matter. Now the individual
singers as we'll as the chorus count
on the grammophone for very mater
ial part of their regular receipts. Dur
ing the past few years the internation-
al grammophone company has paid out
about $4,000 to Danish singers.
Time and again the police have raid
ed gambling den on Victoria Street,
Copenhagen. The last raid took place
few nights ago. Some way or other
the police had obtained the password,
and squad of twenty-three patrolmen
laid siege to the building. Half of the
men were stationed at the front en-
trance and the kitchen door, and the
rest went for the gambling rooms.
The password proved effective. The
door of the den was opened slowly,
but suddenly closed again. It was
plain that the gamblers were on to
the game. An order to open the door
Tin the name of the law was not
needed. Axes had to be applied. It
was found that the inside of the doox
was protected by thick iron plates and
closed by means of heavy iron bar
It took some time before the patrol.
men could enter The greatest sur.
prise remained. In & wall was large
opening to the next house. The gam
blers were just creeping out thru the
hole, from which they had hung a
rope by means of which they intend
ed to reach the street below. One fell
low was clinging to the rope some
distance down, but it was evident
that rope-climbing was not his pro-
fession. He was promptly pulled up
again and marched to the police sta
ton in company with five others. It
was found that two OF the captives
were old acquaintance at the station.
Kaiser Franz Joseph dedicated the
second water-works system of Vienna.
The ceremonies took place in the
court house before a splendid au--
dience. The water is taken from the
moutains of Steiermark. It took ten
years to build the system, and the ex-
pure, and this improvement is expect
ed to contribute very materially to
the improvement of the sanitary con-
ditions of the city.
After discussion of thirteen hours
the Austrian reichsrat resolved to per-
nit limited importation of meat from
Argentina.
Kaiser Wilhelm dedicated the new
technical high school at Breslau. The
kaiser read his address, in which he
pointed out the intimate connection
between the technical sciences and
the industries. It afforded him great
pleasure, he said that he was permit
ted to take the lead in dedicating
school of this kind for the second time
during his reign.
In view of the confession by Dr..
Frederick A. Cook, that he is not cer
tain he discovered the north pole, the
University Of Copenhagen will cancel
the degree conferred upon the explores.
when he returned from the fal north.