Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-13
SWEDEN.

The royal pleasure yacht Drott, with
Queen Victoria on board, has been
making cruise along the southeast
ern coast of Sweden.
Fire broke out in the national park
at Engelholm, and many young trees
were destroyed, the fire department
succeeded in putting it out.
At a target practice at Nora, near
Orebro, woman, Mrs. Thyra Lindes-
joo, won the first prize, which was
a snug sum of money, and silver
cup.
While some boys were wrestling at
Bonan, Cafe, one of them Erik Oscar
Abrahamsson from Cafe, fell on his
back and broke his neck. Life did not
flee until two days later.
Henry Hermansson, a fifteen year.
old girl who was washing bottles in
the drug store at Herrljunga, came too
close to running shaft, and in the
twinkling Of an eye her scalp was
pulled off.
A Stockholm court has handed down
a decision in which newspaper men
are particularly interested. A certain
newspaper was sued on the charge of
having printed certain data that had
been copyrighted by the paper from
which the information was supposed
to have been taken.
August Strindberg is writing ex-
tensively for the daily press to expose
what he calls an abnormal tendency
in the works Of some Of the writer's of
the so-called school. His points are
vel taken, and, as usual, he deals out
stings and blows that prove the man
to be in dead earnest.
The farms of Sweden are opening
up a new field for the use of electric
ity. On thousands upon thousands of
large farms it will pay to use elec-
tricity for lighting and for running
threshing machines and other contriv-
ances. In some places it will pay to
run even the plows by means of elec-
tricity.
Seventeen motor boats are going to
race from Bothenburg to Stockholm,
starting from Nynas harbor at three
o'clock July II. The competitors
must land at Kalmar, Simrishamn.
and Helsingborg, and round the Falls
terbo lighthouse ship, but otherwise
they are free to choose any route
they please.
The Swedish exporters are in favor
Of reducing the value of the Krone
(about q cents) to the value of the
French Franc (about 20 cents). They
claim that the proposed change would
be an aid to the Swedish export trade.
Having a similar monetary system,
Norway and Denmark are also in
terested in this matter.
The manufacturers of soft drinks
are organizing themselves into a I'M.
ion for the purpose of crowding sac
charine drinks out Of the market.
Those who belong to the union guar
antee that only sugar has been used for
sweetening their drinks. Saccharine
costs two dollars a pound, but as a
sweetener it is still twenty-five times
cheaper than sugar, and some manu-
facturers Of small quantities of soft
drinks are said to take advantage Of
the cheapness of saccharine.
A journalist who had been working
for the defendant at the time being
was summoned as witness. He sent
a written communication to the court,
calling attention to the law guarantee
ing the liberty of the press, and asking
the court to define to what extent he
was bound to testify in the case. The
court answered that he had to testify
as an ordinary witness in any ordi-
nary case. If this ruling is upheld
by the higher courts it will be q hard
blow to the press. The following quo
tation from daily paper voices the
sentiment among the newspaper men:
If such inquisitorial investigation
with regard to the origin of the con-
tents of a newspaper becomes general
practice in court, there may arise
consequences which never entered the
minds of the fathers of the law guar
anteeing the liberty of the Swedish
press"
About 20 delegates are expected to
attend a Socialistic congress which
is to be held in Stockholm in the
latter part of August. Hinke Berge-
gren and the Young Socialists are not
going to have anything to do with
the convention, which is to discuss
business propositions rather than ma
tional politics.
At a yachting regatta at Sandman
Princess Maria, the Duchess Of So
dermland, was at the helm Of the
Dafne. fine yacht, and the winning
of the first prize by this vessel made
the princess still more popular than
she was before. = "
While lady was sealing a letter at
the post Office at Malmo her hat came
too close to the fame used for melt
ing the sealing wax, and in the next
instance the stupendous headgear was
in a blaze. Fortunately she had pre-
sence of mind enough to tear the hat
of her head and throw it on the floor
before the fire had a chance to hurt
her. But she had to see the dear
garment destroyed right before her
eyes.
The number Of person, drowned in
the lakes and rivers Of Sweden during
the past lew weeks Is distressingly
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