Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-06-28
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The crown prince and crown prin-
cess of Italy are travelling along the
entire western coast of Norway. But
as they keep themselves strictly incog-
nito. there is no chance for enthusi-
astic demonstrations.
A national subscription has been
started for the benefit of the children
OF the late lambs Lyche, the untiring
editor of the periodical Kringsjaa.
Verdens Gang has Is, 400 subscribers,
the largest circulation of any political
daily in the country.
Fritz Thauloe has received the great
gold medal of the Vienna jubilee ex-
positioa for painting representing
IA Factory in Norway"
Now that it is definitely settled that
the projected railroad between Kris
tiania and Bergen will be a broad
gauge line, the business men of south
western Norway demand that the
Kristiania and Drammen line shall
also be made broad gauge, with a
view to its extension as a great south
western trunk line toward Bergen.
About 200 men employed in the Boss
mo mines in Nordland have struck for
higher wages.
The Bergen railroad will be COM
pleted in 1907.
The condition of the health of Bishop
Sverdrup is rather serious.
The receipts from the customs duties
f0p hn al hc ~
ent fiscal year are more than a million
dollars in excess of the corresponding
receipts, last year.
The painters strike in Kristiania is
still kept up to some extent; 152 en-
ployers have signed the scale of wages
drawn up by the employees, but % en-
ployers refuse to sign the scale, and
against these the employees have united
their efforts
A new church building will soon be
put up at Taalerengen, Kristiania, at
a cost of $4,000.
The unexpected appointment of Mr..
Ameen as consul general in New York
by Count Douglas, the minister for
foreign affairs. without consulting the
Norwegian cabinet has ruf1ed the
Norwegians- Even the conservative
papers have criticised the last act of
Count Douglas, the great Swede.
Bjorn Bjornson has been appointed
manager Of the new national theater
in Kristiania. He is to enter upon his
duties Jan. l, 1899, and his salary will
be $1,000.
Rain and sleet and chilly winds are
complained of in the Southwest
Henrik Ibsen, in an address given by
him at a banquet arranged for him by
the woman's society of Kristiania,
made the following remark: II have
never looked upon woman's emancipa-
ton as question by itself. have
seen it as q human question, not as a
woman's question alone 1t is desir-
able to solve the woman's problem in
cidentally, but it has not been nv
whole AIM"
A number of Kristiania bankers
some time ago established clearing
house; but the friction resulting from
mutual jealousy became so great that
the new institution was broken up be-
fore it was in fairly good working
order.
The Kristiania turning society car.
ried away the highest honors from the
Copenhagen gymnastic tournament
The storthing has amended the con-
stitution of Norway so that. the elec-
tions to the storthing shall be closed
by Sept. 81. The storthing convenes
Oct. 10. and the fiscal year is to begin
April l.
The committee on military appro-
priations is in favor of the govern
ments bill making an extraordinary
appropriation of more than 81, ZOO, 900
for the military defenses of the coun-
try.