Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-03-23

other power. We want peace, Pc ice
with all nations"
The Bank of Norway declared div
idend 9.3 per cent for the year 1886.
Besides this, the government receives
33 per cent, making the total earnings
1T per cent on the capital invested.
This is the best showing ever made
in the history of that institution. Thus
the hard times seem to have brought
an unparalleled amount of hard cash.
Now, this is too funny for anything
We will tell it in the words of Chris
tiania daily: 1T seems to be getting
to be common sport for married
women to walk the streets and "cap-
ture men whom they induce to see
them home, where the husb of the
women next play the role of avengers
of the honor of their virtuous wives
Yesterday married couple appeared
in court, the charge being that the
wife had captured an artisan, had in
duced him to see her home, and had
stolen S2.70 from him, and that her
husband had beaten the artisan most
numerically when the latter threat
ened to report the theft to the police. "
~he number of persons suffering
from poverty has been considerably re-
duced for this winter from the winter
before. says reliable authority on the
economical condition of the population
of the metropolis of Norway.
bill concerning arbitration has
been introduced in the storthing. 1t
reads as follows: The storthing, &C.
cording to the report of the committee
on nominations, shall elect commit
tee of nine to draft resolution about
the conclusion of treaties of arbitration
with foreign states" One of the
strongest arguments in favor CT the
bill is that the present era of general
peace is the most opportune for con-
Guiding treaties of peace and neutral
ity.-Later: The storthing has passed
the above bill by unanimous vote
Large quantities of herring were
| caught around Karmoen from the 18th
to the ED of February, and the returns
of the Lofoten cod fisheries were fairly
good during the latter part of Febru-
airy.
A cellulose factory in Bamle has been
closed by the courts as public nui-
sance Oh account of the stencil in its
vicinity. Several hundred persons
were thrown out of employment by
his step.
Trondhjem will soon have new
hospital for which s140, 900 has been
appropriated.
liver Larsen, of Stavanger, on account
of religious scruples declines to serve
IN the army, and now he Is languishing
in jail for a term of 25 days.
Edward Grieg recently gave concert
in Amsterdam. Holland. The grand
chorus consisted of 500 to 400 ladies
and gentlemen, and every one of these
pinned to their breasts.
1t is generally conceded that large
city will grow up in few years at the
western terminus of the proposed
speninsular railway from Ofoten
to the extreme north of Sweden, and
the question is: What can be done to
make this an essentially Norwegian
city? For it seems very likely that
Swedes, Finlanders and Russians will
A proposition to abolish the Ameri-
can consulate in Trondhjem is ener.
getically opposed by the people of that
city.
No less than 80 girls took part in Il
ski running match in Asker, in the
neighborhood of Christiania. The
hill was steep, and, to tell the truth,
| most of them tumbled down. But a
few of them kept their feet not only on
the plain track, but even cleared a lear
of some 30 to so feet.
Only 33S per cent of farmers now
| choose farming as their life work,
while 54.5 per cent are engaged in
manufacture, trade, etc.
-Four cases small pox have been
treated in Stavanger.