Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-03-30


unconditional principle of free trade
has obviously failed to stand the test
of actual experiments.
A potato meal factory will soon be
esta blished at Klep, Jaderen, at cost
of $4,000.
A silver wreath from the liberal soci-
ETY. of Norway was placed on the coffin
of Captain Markell, of Stockholm.
More than per cent of the popula-
ton of Christiania were born in Swe-
dea.
The Morgenposten and the Nyheds-
and ADVERTISEMENTS both pub
lished in Christiania, have been sold to
Mr.. Tonsager, the manager of Verdens
Gang, and others. for $170, 900.
The Embretfos wood pulp factory,
near Drammen, has been sold to Ger
man syndicate for $4,000.
The snow slides started in the noun
tains around Veblungsnes by a recent
thaw were so frequent as to suggest
the bombardment of some distant city.
The supreme court has just handed
down an interesting decision. For
long time past merchants in the differ
ent cities have been in the habit of
buying meat of all kinds in the shape
of carcasses or parts of such, which
they have cut up into smaller portions
and retailed. The butchers of Chris
tlania finally came to the conclusion
that this trade was an illegal Interior
ence with that of the butchers who
have to pay license, and a test case
was gotten by the institution of legal
proceedings against couple of we'll
known Christlania merchants. The
final decision was unfavorable to the
butchers, the court holding that the
merchants handling meat simply buy
certain article in wholesale and sell it
in retail, without modifying the char
acter of the article sufficiently to COM
pete directly with the butchers trade.
Westye Egeberg, of Christiania, Gel
ebrated his 60years' jubilee as public
officer, March 4, having been elected
alderman of Christiania on that date in
the year 1887. He is 50 years old.
Bjornstjern Bjornson arrived in Nor
way Feb. p, after an absence of sew
eral months abroad. The liberals make
no bones of the fact that he has been
"a splendid ambassador for Norway"
chiefly by means of his contributions
to the foreign press.
Dagbladet explains with great clear
ness how the Norwegian people is
anxious to conclude treaties of neu-
trality with the great powers whether
Sweden cares to do SO or not. Thus.
the paper reasons, Sweden will not be
forced into war on account of Norway,
while Norway, on the other hand, may
have to fight for Sweden if the latter
country does not guard against wars
by treaties of arbitration.
Bjornson will be the speaker at the
St. Olaf festival in Trondhjem, July 20.
The liberals are taking no backward
steps. Their latest platform demands:
A majority government, special min
lister of foreign affairs and special
consular service; ratification of the
pure flag; general suffrage; moderate
protective tariff on agricultural
products, excepting grain; an hours
day; the prom otion of sobriety; the es-
ia blishment of orders and decorations;
and the adjustment of contract labor
DENMARK.
The goddess of justice seems to be
able to make the proven bal distinction
between big and small thieves in Den.
mrrlz as well as elsewhere, The owner
of one of the largest millinery estab-
lishments in Copenhagen notified the
chief of the detective police that
lady who moves in the very quintes.
sence of the Copenhagen society, had
oh hy1r 1111
worth of goods at the store. The in
former, therefore, made the chief OF
police to understand that the matter
might be settled without any fuss.
The next day the husband of the lady
called at the millinery store. and in
guarded language explained that his
wife was very nervous" and that
while in a state Of abstraction" she
had taken home some goods which he
would return or pay for, as the owner
of the goods might choose. 1t goes
without saying that the matter was
settled then and there without any
fuss"
An officer in the Danish army, re.
Gently, put an end to his life. He had
been very popular in the army, and his
comrades decided to have HIM buried
in the usual manner. Two of the state
church ministers of Copenhagen were
requested to ofticiate at the funeral.
But they interposed so many objections
ana conditions as to utterly discourage
the supplicants, and as a last resort
Rev. Jungersen, of the free church,
was secured for the occasion.
1t is rumored that if the minister of
war does not get substantially what he
demands from the rigsdag by way OF
appropriations, he may resign. This
threat looks like an i'll advised bluff,
however,
An old lady at Slagelse had been
greatly troubled by rats. In the night
they would actually attack her; but
she succeeded in warding them off with
stake until a couple of weeks ago,
when they succeeded in biting her in
different parts of the body SO that she
had to be taken to the hospital the next
morning.
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