Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-10-23
SWEDEN:

Werner Won Heidenstam has been
made member Of the Swedish acad.
envy.
Mrs. Gov. Wersall Of Vasteras was
awarded a gold medal by the execu.
tive committee of the Olympic games.
The largest pulp mill in Sweden is
to be built in Varmland. The plant
will turn out $4,000 tons of pulp
year.
Prof. Henry Schuck is mentioned
as successor Of the late c. G. Malm.
strom as member of the Swedish
academy.
The market value of certain parcels
OF land at Boden has increased 10000
per cent since the railroad reached
that place.
About so prominent persons. in
Stockholm have taken steps to organ.
lie society for combating the cpl.
demic Of infantile paralysis.
Almost $4,000 has been raised for q
statue Of P. H. Ling, the father Of
Swedish gymnastics. The monument
is to be placed in front of the new
gymnastics high school at the Stock.
holm stadion.
The number of new cases of infan.
tile paralysis reported during the
first half OF September was $50. as
against 681 during the previous half
month. This indicates that the pest
is on the wane.
A deputation from the city Of
Halle, Germany, visited Malmo and
made arrangements for buying meat
in Sweden. Halle, which has about
250,000 inhabitants, is going to take
10000 pounds of meat from Sweden
every week.
Lieutenant Borell, an officer of the
Swedish army who was sent to Persia
as military instructor, was shot In
the shoulder while engaged in a
skirmish with highwaymen near
Hamadan. He returned to Teheran,
but his condition is not serious.
An engineer named Lindkvist has
Invented an apparatus for preventing
trains from being derailed at sharp
curves. It consists of a mechanical
contrivance which automatically
checks the speed of the locomotive as
soon as the stress at curve becomes
dangerous. Patents have been ap-
piled for in different countries.
While the Uppland regiment was
practicing on the target at the Marina
proving grounds, near Upsala, a So
called Brisant bomb exploded before
leaving the Howitzer gun from which
It was fired. The gun was completely
destroyed. The bomb bad been made
at Bofors. No such accident ever oc-
Cured in Sweden before. The cost Of
the gun was $4,000. No one was in
jured.
The government has asked for new
bids for the construction of the F
gunboat, which is going to be built
for the 100000 raised by private
subscriptions. The first bids were
all identical, which looked too much
like pool to please the government.
The worst feature of the pool was
that the bids seemed too high. The
hull may be built at the government
shipyards at Karlskrona.
The crop Of lingon berries around
6kelleftea is very great. Several Ger
man agents have been sent to the
neighborhood. Up to the Goth of Sep
TENDER 81 carloads of berries had
been shipped out by rail and 5000
crates by steamer. The pickers re.
ceive all the way from to s cents a
pound for picking the berries. The
Ingon crop helps very materially to
make Skelleftea prosperous com.
munity this year.
The death of Gunnar Jonsson, Of
Vaplan, removed one of the most pc.
culiar men of farmland. He entered
practical life as travelling merchant,
and he gradually acquired a passion
for buying farms which made him the
owner of about 200 farms in Jamtland.
He was hard up" most Of the time,
but in some way he managed to avoid
serious losses. On one occasion he
had to borrow 1910 for railroad fare
to Sundsvall. But when he came to
that city he bought the Soraker saw.
mill for $4,000.
When a policeman in a Swedish
CITY ASaS AAS SAOIAO9 WILL Ny q ASCo&'
citrant customer that he tries to pick
up, the damage to his clothes is paid
by the city. Not SO in the country
districts. II a rural policeman has
his wearing apparel torn when he
makes an arrest he has to stand the
loss himself, unless indeed, he can
get financial satisfaction out of the
arrested party. This peculiar differ.
ence does not always tend to the con.
| servation Of public order, and it ia
now proposed to have the public
treat city and country policemen
| alike on this score. ...r
The homeopathic doctors in Gabe
are losing ground. One of them has
just removed to Stockholm; one has
announced that he is going to. Vast
eras; and the three others look fo1
customers mainly in the adjacent
country districts.
The board Of education Of Stock
holm has collected figures showing
the occupation Of the parents Of the
children attending the public schools
According to these figures the parents
OF 1853 children are engaged in
Industrial work; the parents Of 6,791
children are engaged in commerce
and traffic; in 2,621 cases the occupa
: ton Of the parents 9 not given; II
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