Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-28
SWEDEN.

The annual meeting of the Swedish
dlstillers' association, representing 1876
distilleries, has just been held at Kris
tianstad.
A strong syndicate is being organ.
lied in Ostergotland for preparing
stable bedding and fuel from the peat
boys OF the community.
The crown prince Of Sweden persists
In drinking water and soft drinks while
those dining around him take cham
payne and other liquors.
The new law for the regulation of
stock companies is much more strict
than the present one. 1t will not be
effective until Jan. l. 1912.
Rains have caused heavy losses in
the southern part Of SHANE Much
grain has been ruined, and the sugar
crop has suffered severely.
Thousands Of geese have been i'm.
ported this fail from Berlin to southern
Sweden, where they nre taken out on
the FARMS and fattened, and finally
sold to the butchers.
A preachers convention at Jonkop-
Ing took a firm stand against Sunday
work, and the civil authorities were
called upon to stem the tide OF desc.
Grafton of the Sabbath.
A fire in the new police station at
kungsholmen, Stockholm, compelled
the fire department to destroy part of
the copper roof in order to reach the
Dire. and though the building was not
destroyed the damage was large.
OF the $5.500.0O0 voted by the r,ks.
dag for a power station at the Porjus
falls and for electrtfying the railway
line from Kiruna to the Norwegian
frontier. 100000 has just been paid
out from the national treasury for
building railway TO the falls and for
doing other preliminary work.
King Gustaf has decreed that para
graph 9 of the statutes of the Nobel
foundation shall be amended 40 as to
read as follows: AT the festival of
the Foundation, which occurs on the
anniversary of the founder, Decen1.
Der tenth, the judges OF award shall
deliver to- the winners OF the prizes
checks for the amounts of the prizes
as well as diplomas and gold medal
showing a picture of the, testator. ana
suitable inscription. The prize win
ners shall. il possible. be required to
appear. within six months of the festf.
val. at Stockholm, and in the case of
the peace prize at Kristiania, to give
public lectures on the work for which
the prizes were given"
The Mars manufacturing company
Of Stockholm received, an ORDER from
the government Of Austria to furnish
number OF ten centimeter Unge tor.
pedoes and a so-called torpedo throw
or. Part of the torpedoes are loaded,
part OF them are blank. The torpedoes
will be tested at the Steinfeld proving
grounds, Austria. and Captain Unge.
the inventor. will be present to con-
duct the tests. The ten centimeter tor.
pedoes have maximum range of
about three English mites. The tor.
pedoes are loaded with the propelling
as well. as the bursting explosives at
the Annelof gun cotton factory. ~
King Gustaf has just spent several
days hunting in reserve forests in the
vicinity OF Storfors, Vermland. The re-
suit is not known at this writing. But
his majesty was expected to bag some
Dig game. moose and deer being plen-
tiful on those hunting grounds.
The head of the telegraph depart
ment OF the government of Rumania
recently visited Sweden, and the tele-
graph station In Helsingborg struck
him 80 favorably that he ordered a
complete copy Of II to be, made in
Sweden and shipped e Rumania. The
order va Givea TO Z. N. Ericsson. &
gteckholm drm, .5.=5.5 |.#5