Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-05

have agreed to pay damages amount
ing to $40, 900.
Holland Hansen. member of Birke-
lands expedition to Finmarken to
study the northern lights, was so bad
~ frozen that eight of his fingers had
to be partly or wholly amputated.
1t is claimed that the government of
the United States offered to pay much
more for the cruiser Harald Haarfagre
than the price paid by the government
of Norway, but the offer was not con-
sidered for moment Certain gov
eminent circles are somewhat nervous
in view of the fact that the govern.
ment of England may simply appro-
pirate the Tordenskjold, a cruiser
which was ordered by Norway in Eng
land and which will be ready for de.
livery in April
The people of Romsdalen have sent
$4,000 worth of homemade shoes,
clothing, etc, to Loften to be sold to
the fishermen. This is fine showing
for single settlement for one season
A large number of the most promi.
nent ladies in Kristiania have organ
lied society for the improvement Of
homes. The membership fee is 81
cents. Servant girls who join the So
ciety shall have the benefit of the en-
ployment bureau of the society free of
charge.
A majority Of the constitutional COM
mittee favor woman's suffrage, but do
not think it is expedient to press that
reform just at present.
Jacob Sverdrup was to have been Of
fcially installed as bishop of Bergen
March %, but an attack of pleurisy
kept him in bed, so the ceremony had
to be postponed.
Norway contributes about S14O, 600
annually to the diplomatic and con-
sular services, and Sweden about $751;
900.
1t is expected that the government
will sanction the pure Norwegian flag,
so that the present storthing will not,
by means of adopting the pure flag bill
third time, be compelled to ignore
the government. It is now claimed
that even the coalition ministry which
resigned few weeks ago might have
sanctioned the bill if it had pressed
the matter upon the king.
Some of the heroic railway project
ors propose the construction of new
line from Sci, Gudbrandsdalen, to Vel
lungsness, by way of Romsdalen; one
from Sci to Opdal; one from Opdal to
Orkedalsoren; and finally one from OPP
dal to Storen, an old railway station
few miles above Trondhjem. One of
these lines would pass within twenty
miles of the pyrites mines at Foldal,
and branch would naturally be built
to that place. The above plan may
not be carried out, but it is certain
that line will be built from Sci to
the sea-
A majority of the committee on
liquor legislation proposes to sweep
away the present local option laws.
Sven Aarrestad, the author of said
laws, who is also member of the
committee, dissents, of course, from
the proposition of the majority.
Verdens Gang advocates the restora-
ton of the old apanage to the crown
prince in the following terms: Thirty
thousand kroner (ss, 1907 is too little at
any rate. If Norway wants to vote
throne, this amount is below the dig
nifty of the country. It puts the stamp
of pusilanimity upon US to an uncom-
Portable degree. Besides, the ante
cedents to the appropriation of the
original appanage of $4,000 kroner
were such that the crown prince may
be morally entitled to that amount"
There is serious lack of servant
girls in Kristiania.
No national ski tournament took
place at Holmenkollen last winter be-
cause there was not enough snow for
systematic practice.
Scarlet fever and typhoid fever are
said to be epidemic in Steine, Lofoten.
The reports from the fisheries along
the west coast are unfavorable.
For two months the sea was in such
a condition that next to nothing could
be done. The Goldfish shoals are closer
to the shore than usual, and if the
weather improves the loss may yet be
partly made up. The price at the
grounds is from to Z cents per cod
fish. and fine herring commands from
S1.25 to 81. so per barrel.
DENMARK.
Three Copenhagen hoboes offered a
confrere 81 if he would jump into a
canal. He did so as promptly as
drunken man could. But his temptors
were surprised to see him swim like a
fish to the other side of the canal,
where he was received as a hero by a
large crowd of spectators.
The first representation of 'Volund
the Blacksmith" Holger Drachman's
latest play, was decided success, and
the applause would not subside until
the author had risen from his seat in
the parquet and said a few words to
the audience.
The United Steam ship company has
distributed a dividend of 10 per cent
A Copenhagen dealer in embroider-
les has informed the public that one
fourth of the needlework handled by
him is made bV men.