Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-12
SCANDINAVIAN [: J! NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
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Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.

Va ~ GUST 18SCs
Inc following cablegram, dated London,
2>pru g. Is sent out, and it was evidently
eo'ten up for the purpose of creating
prejudice against the Norwegians:
me Daily Mails correspondent at Goth
enburg. Sweden, referring to the warlike
preparation of Norway, says: The onlv
possible object of these preparations is
to attack Sweden, whose defenses and
ornaments are inferior and whose in
fantry are armed with obsolete weapons.
Should the Norwegian fleet attack Goth
enburg. the city must inevitably fall
NORWAY
The widow of the late millionaire AS
trup has donated the Svanviken estate in
Romsdalen to committee which has
been constituted for the purpose of pro-
V1d1ng homes for vagabonds The prop
erty cost Astrup $50, 900. One hundred
COWS are kept there. and it is one of the
finest farms in Norway. Rev. Walnum
was instrumental in having said COM
m1ttee constituted. The vagabond colony
which is to be established at Svanviken
Will, OF course, be managed so as to make
Itself self-supporting.
Nils Bjorgum has sold the patent on
his new rifle to stock company in Ber-
gen.
A rainstorm played on the country
around Trondhjem from the 18th to the
I'th OF March, and the railroad traffic
was interrupted by extensive washouts.
1t is proposed to open up a peoples
high school at Sund Inderoen, near
Trondhjem.
The. refusal of 60 members of the
storthing to attend a supper given by
Grown Prince Gustaf does not indicate
courage and manliness," says Verdens
Gang.
Electric cabs are used in Kristiania by
way of experiment. If the enterprise
proves to be paying venture, a stock
company will be ready to carry on the
traffic on a large scale.
About 100000 persons were entitled to
vote. March 20, on the question of clos
ing the saloons (samlag) in Kristiania.
The returns have not arrived at this
writing, but it is safe to say that the
capital went wet by a large majority.
The local option law provides that all
men and women of the age of 25 years
who do not vote are counted in favor of
the Saloons
The profit of the samlag (saloons) of
kristiania for the year 1898 amounts to
$l12SOO. One hundred and twenty-seven
different institutions and organizations
have applied for aid from this fund.- and
the aggregate of the amounts asked for
by the applicants exceeds the available
sum of $1l2,S0O by $4,000.
signed contract with the government
to construct a new steamer in such a
manner that it may eventually serve as
an auxiliary cruiser. The speed of it will
be Is knots. The government is to pay
the company an annual bounty of g. 7OO
About 80 large vessels were laid up in
the Kristiania ford during the winter,
but less than one-fourth of them re-
manned to the Goth of March. The tug
boats were not equal to their task during
March, many sailing vessels being COM
PEELED to wait several days before they
could be pulled out of the ford.
Prof. Birkeland recently gave a lecture
on the sun spots. The Norwegian papers
contained misleading accounts of the lee
ture, and when the matter reached as far
as Paris, a daily in that city made out
that the professor had said that the sun
would turn black in less than ore hun
dred years.
A peculiar snow shower fell at Agder
1t covered the ground to a depth of 10 to
II inches. About two inches on the sur
face was white and clean; then came six
inches of a grayish color, and at the bot
tom the snow was clean. 1t is supposed
that the middle layer contained ashes
from some 1celandic volcano
Ibsen's works are no longer popular in
Paris.
The government has ordered a quantity
of projectiles for the army and navy
from Armstrong Co., England.
The lark began to sing the first days of
March in the southern part of the coun-
try.
The 1874 new stock companies which
were registered in Kristiania last year
represented capital Of $6,500.O0O.
3. Serum. a Skien gunsmith and I. NJ
Berg, shoemaker in Porsgrund. have
invented a new continuance for buttoning
shoes.
The London papers receive numerous
letters from the Scandinavian countries
on the union controversy.
The river Driva is threatening to under
mine and destroy the Sandal church and
parsonage, and it will take $500 to pre-
vent such calamity.
SWEDEN
The sugar manufacturers have agreed
to limit their production within the
bounds of the demand of the trade. But
a new company is about to build a new
factory in Gotland. and this has caused
quite a stir in the sugar ring or trust.
1t is even probable that the trust will
start a factory of it's own in Gotland for
the purpose of killing the would-be COM
petitor in his infancy. At any rate, the
necessary capital has been subscribed by
the members of the trust.
The herring fisheries along the west
coast have given very satisfactory re-
turns. The men engaged in the pursuit
made $135 apiece on the average, and
some crews made as much as $500 per
man for the season. The catch was: not
heavy, but the prices were very stiff dur
ling the season. Not single life was lost.
Axel Orling claims to have discovered q