The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-18

I The typographical Union Of Christiansa
, tus purchased 2 farm IN Holland, where
I q nome vvsu % bsI.F. tor type settlers SUI
( 1erfu+s syI-a pulmonary and chest diseases
+ The tov>s - Levanger. Nauaos ard
! Szudr.ds FTe.e last month totally destroy
| "a ~ fire.
! The swe6lsh Republican League for the
state o. Minnesota has been organized
with ,he following officers: a @. Rom
ming. president, P g. sjohiorn. secretary
. ard 7. F.. EDWARDS, treasurer.
( Japetus steenstrux. the weli-known
Danish scientists. il dead al the age -
! a years. The deceased was for forty years
Z professor a. the royal university. and WAS
+ recognized throughout the world as an
E eminent authority on geology. zoology
: and archaeology. He was the author u
= Numerous scientific books which have
+ been translated into several languages
( IN 1sS5 ne resigned his professorship at
the university.
I The German emperor arrived a. Stall
/ helm, Norway, the llth inst.
( Norway has excellent public roads and
I Ehways. which are greatly admired by
I foreigners. But then they have cost
+ enormous sums. 4 recent report Of the
/ srperinteA lent OF public highways shows
| that from July. ls23. 10 July. lsas. the
/ snug little fortune OF 53f41 4Sa crowns
/ have been expended on public roads.
/ Consul Axel Heiberg and the we'll
| known ChristIania brewers. Ringnaes
/ Brothers. have subscribed setso crowns TO-
| ward defrayirg the expenses OF Capt.
! Sverdrups pciar expedition.
| The European railway route commits
I sion recently met III Chrlstiania. Norway.
| ghteen countries were represented at
| the conference by 20 delegates. Greece
/ and Luxembourg were the only countries
| not represented.
| Gerdt Meyer. the late manufacturer q
| Bergen. has beQueathed 5000 crowns as
| a legacy TO be divided equally between
| al his employees.
| The Norwegian government has granted
| st!pends averaging oo9 crowns 10 eighteen
/ teachers, who will spend few months
| abroad. studying the school systems and
| educational institutions of foreign co,n-
/ tries. These stipends are granted annu-
! ally in amounts appropriated by me
storthing.
The Norwegian capital has lost one OF
! its landmarks Peter Larson's old build
| ing. as 1t was Familiarity known. situated
| in Toldhodgaden. opposite to the military
| academy. The building belonged TO the
| Auker family in the beginning OF this
| century. and Count Herman WedeI lived
| there during the spring of 1879. His
| home was the rendezvous of the political
| leaders of Norway prior TO the deciara-
| ton OF independence. The count a
| hberal--liberal I'm politics and a liberal
| hest. AT his political soirees the political
| map and institutions of Norway and Den
/ mark were shattered and altered at viii.
| The prince regent VAS a frequent guest
| at these soirees. The plans for the con-
| sututional convention and declaration Of
| independence in 1914 were matured and
| mapped out in this house, which was re-
| Gently torn down.
! y. @. A. Won MeIen. n Swedish officer.
| has been murdered by natives in y DirA,
| kongo. Won Meleu had served ten years
! I'm the United States army. and enlisted
, two years ago in the service of the Kongo
! state drill master of black soldiers
Last fall he left Stanley falls for Tanua
| nellie, which i situated in the interior
| and where he was TO establish a govern
| mcnt station. He found the natives "ery
| unfrendly and troublesome. Several OF
| his native soldiers were killed with u isCn-
| cd arrows. He was on his way back 70
| the coast when he was shot from amblsn.
| On his last trip he had gathered a very
| valuable collection OF arrows. bows. rings.
| ivory hides etc. He was accompanied
| on his last expedition by one white man.
Belgian. and 200 native soldiers.
The Chicago Record owned and pub
| Nshcd by Victor Lawson. son of Nor
| weglan immigrant. Is gaining il Is clam
! ell. some Nttle notortcty for It's unreliable
| S8udiuaNtau news. manufactured oUt of
whole cloth ny some. person writing under
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