Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-03-01
SWEDEN,


duced the rate of discount from SIS
to S per cent.
About $50 bills were introduced in
the Swedish riksdag in one day, break
Ing all former records.
Sweden received $3,375, 900 in cash
from America last year. These figures
beat all former records.
A COW at Ostrede had to be killed on
account Of anthrax, and two persons
who did the work contracted the same
disease.
The ravens at the Skansen zoologi-
cal gardens in Stockholm began to
build nests one of the last days of
January.
Gustaf Froding, the poet, is slowly
recovering from his recent sickness,
and he is in full control Of his mental
faculties.
A shockingly large number of chill
dren were drowned during January
and February by falling through the
Ice while skating.
The committee conducting re-
searches into the local names of Warm.
land has received a donation of $3.50
from Miss Selma Lagerlof.
King Gustaf has issued a proclama.
tion designating the Sundays of March
IL. May IA, July 9, Oct. is as special
prayer and thanksgiving days.
The late DR.. Mrs. Dahm bequeathed
almost 100000 to the city of Kalmar,
the bulk Of money to be spent for the
benefit of the old peoples home.
The national government received
an inheritance tax Of $270, 900 from the
Seippel estate. This was the high
est Inheritance tax ever paid in Swed-
en-.
Goteborg has had about $50 cases
OF d1phtheria during the past twenty
weeks, and "a cases were fatal. The
past is now on tho point of being
rooted out.
The icebreaker In the harbor of
Stockholm began its operations for the
season Jan. 30. It was an easy matter
to clear the harbor, for the ice was on
~ about two inches thick.
The Reymersholm distillery has pe-
titioned the king for permission to
denature alcohol by adding ten DER
cent of benzole and use the mixture
AZ fuel for heavy automobiles.
Many people in Karlstad were
aroused from their sleep in the night
by an earthquake. The next morn
ing cracks were noticed in the streets.
In some places a leadpencil could be
put into the cracks.
Inc Socialists are maturing new
plans for checking lockouts. It is
proposed that as soon as lockout
is declared against a union it's mem.
bers are to withdraw from the union
in order that they may keep their
jobs as non-unionists.
The Wahlquist wooden mills nj
karlskrona were destroyed by fire.
The factory was established in 1924.
and one OF its specialties was uniforms
for the army. The insurance on the
property was about $3.50, 900. One
hundred persons, mostly women. were
thrown out Of work by the fire.
A great festival in the interests of
the defences Of Stockholm was to be
held at Hasselbacken Feb. q. The
proceeds will be used for the encour
agement Of the use Of firearms by the
school children and for replenishing
the treasury Of the union Of the OH.
GERS Of the Stockholm .1andstorm.
The chaplains at the tails IN Var
berg and Haparanda agree that the
accommodations at those institutions
are 80 comfortable that the inmates
learn to look upon prison life as some
thing desirable. The chaplains think
that the institutions in question fail
to accomplish their purpose.
Many prominent men in Stockholm
have signed petition to the govern.
ment, asking for laws defining the
duties Of heads Of families with regard
70 the support Of those who are de-
pendent upon them for q living. The
petitioners wish for something definite
and stringent II that line.