Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-03-22

things; and the latter, instead of filing
three vacancies by men from their own
party have nominated two conserv-
atives and one liberal for the positions.
This means that the election of the
three will be preceded by no such
thing as campaign.
I. Busch, shipowner in Risor. and
his wife cele brated their diamond we'd
ding March 2.
During the last week in February
500, 900 Goldfish were caught at Nord-
more.
Mr.. Kildal will be appointed to the
Craftsmanship of the committee for the
Paris exposition as successor to the
late Astrup.
The oldest son of the crown prince is
II years old, and as he may become
king of Norway in due time, the Nor
wegians think he ought to begin to
learn their language.
The Stangfjord electric peat coal
factory has just been completed. Its
capacity is 800 tons of peat coal week.
The I. o. G. T. of Kristiania holds
property to the value of SIS, 500.
d
the king of Italy, may have good in
tentions, but his ideas about North
Pole expedition are very crude. and
short stay in Norway has modified most
of his plans in regard to his proposed
assault upon the North Pole.
The freight traffic on the railway be-
tween Kristiania and Trondhjem has
been phenomenally large during the
past few months. In former years
there was dull spell in January, but
this year everything has been kept
moving, and on the southern portion
OF the road extra trains must be run
almost every day to forward freight
somewhat promptly.
The exports for the month of Janu-.
airy last were slightly below that of
the corresponding month of 1897, while
the imports changed in the opposite
direction. This unfavorable showing
is said to be due partly to the radical
protective policy inaugurated last year.
The city government of Kristiania,
by a unanimous vote. recommended
the so-called self-assessment system
for the whole country. The character
istic feature of this system is that
every person shall be required to re-
port his income and the value of his
property to the assessors, such data to
be used in computing his taxes.
The brickmakers of the southern
part of the country are figuring on ex-
porting brick to England. But it seems
to be foregone conclusion that the
nso1
barges are made for transporting the
material across the North sea.
The music hall at the Bergen expo
sition will accommodate 500 musicians
and an audience of 1850.
1t is expected that the storthing will
amend the constitution so that the next
session will begin in the fall, and not
in the winter of 1899.
Many dry" cities and towns show
an increased number of arrests for
drunkenness for the year 1897.
Idefjord, a very narrow body of
water between Norway and Sweden
where the boundary line runs into the
sea, has caused trouble. Lars Gulsvik,
an SO-year-old Norwegian, took his
boat and two sacks of -four and started
to row some distance along the ford.
But the wind drove him out of his in
tended course, and when he came with
in three or four hundred feet of the
Swedish shore, two Swedish guards ar
rested him and confscated his flour.
A radical Norwegian daily stamps this
incident as proof positive that the Ide-
ford has practically been annexed by
Sweden.
The Salvation army has opened up a
lodging house for homeless men in
Bergen. The establishment cost over
$4,000, and it contains 100 beds.
Prot. Hagerup, retiring premier, will
resume his work in the university.
DENMARK.
The largest vessel in the merchant
marine of Denmark is the Siam, which
has just been built at Flensborg for
the Danish East India company. Its
first cargo consists of 5000 barrels of
cement, and it will take between three
and four months to carry that load to
Siam and bring another cargo back to
Denmark.
1.-THE Illusion of Fortune" is the title
of a new book by Edward Brandes.
Prince Christian has been appoint
ed to captaincy on the kings body
guard.
About one hundred authors have
signed an address to lola.
Mr. Zahle, member of the folke-
thing, pleaded for the adjustment of
corporal punishment in the Danish
army in the West Indies, and his re-
marks were favorably received by the
other members. Even the premier ad-
mitted that this kind of punishment is
Objectionable, but was in quandary
as to what to put in place of it.
At least one prominentxpaper claims
to know that King Christian TX. will
soon abdicate in favor of the crown
prince. This rumor may be due to the
fact that the king will soon elebrate
his S0th birthday.
The hog cholera is rampant on the
island of Bornholm.
The queen is in the habit of inviting
a number of prominent ladies to an oc-
casiOnal chocolate party.