Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-01-18

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Bishop Jacob sverdrup is sinking again.
ms trouble Is tubercular pleurisy and it
enough vitality to recover.
The city council of Bergen has ordered
all the public flags to be changed ac-
cording to the new law. Which means
that the union jack must be cut out.
taurant was opened in Kristiania. All
the customer had to do was to drop a
nickel In certain slot and he would get
astounding success. Those who invested
money in it have already cleared $142 on
the e dollar, and their stocks are worth
$3.50 on the dollar in the market.
The Christmas trade was unusually ac-
tive. and everybody seemed to want good
stuff and lots of it.
The liberal members of the new city
council of Kristiania have formally re-
| fused to affiliate with the socialist men,
bers.
1t seems to be standing question in
the Norwegian army: How can the food
DC decently cooked in the barracks and
at the drill grounds?
Prizes have been awarded for competi-
tive designs for the Norwegian pavilion
at the Paris worlds fair in 1900: The
first prize, which amounted to $3.50, was
awarded to Architect H. .sinding. His
however. The committee having charge
of the matter will most likely take the
best features of the four best designs and
construct composite design.
The state has bought the Bake estate
at Gravdal, near Bergen, for 5000. The
ground will be used for military pur-
poses.
The liberals, in discussing the improve
ton of new ones, seem to make military
and strategic considerations fully as
prominent as the business interests of the
country.
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permitted the soldiers I'D doing garrison
duty to do as they pleased in regard to
the attendance at religious services.
Karl i,d Halls 5; 7 the Il late panG
the labor union of Kristiania.
1t was fifty years Dec. II, 1898, since
the first labor union was organized in
Norway. It's cradle was Drammen. and
its father was Markus Thrane, who was
arrested and bounded and prosecuted as
the wickedest Norwegian of his age.
Thrane died April 80, 1890, in Eau Claire,
Wis.
In Osterdalen man who kept 80 hens
made $1.lO for each hen in one year.
Beer will be retailed at % places in
Stavanger this year.
Eight hundred Norwegian women have
sent an address of thanks to the car
of Russia for the publication of his peace
manifesto.
One August Reymert. "a business man
New y York wh9 has just
an unwarranted lot of war talk. In the
first place he talks through his hat, his
t to lea speaking, about the union jack
put into the pure Norwegian flag as
late as 1874. Then he goes on to state
Scandinavian peninsula may lead to war
between Norway and Sweden unless the
powers intervene" AS might be expect
Using such headines as these: theses " e1i o IN
Norway" war with Sweden" The
truth is that Mr.. Regiments statements
are at war with the facts in the matter.
Ex-members of the cabinet Berner and
Lange are receiving 81 $50 year each as
"waiting-money'D. The committee on
pensions proposes that Lange be paid a
regular pension of $1,000.
Ten bids for the construction of the two
new armOred cruisers have been received
from English and German shipbuilders.
Venereal diseases have been spreading
at such disgusting rate in Kristiania
the introduction Of control of the
vice vice Of prostitution by means Of peri9d1ic
proposed move is extremely distasteful
to the better class of people. but their
opposition eIp is apt to be overridden by
Well-being of the community.
DENMARK.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the United States Steamship Com
pany has purchased the Thingvalla line.
this information: 1he Thingvalla line
went to the wall over year ago, and
whatever remained of it was gobbled up
by the United Steamship Company OF
Denmark
ment, we believe, is running Ill steamers
of different sizes.
The German colony in Copenhagen has
passed resolutions vigorously denouncing
the expulsion of Danes from Germany.
The resolutions state that the policy Of
expulsion makes it difficult, nay, i'm
possible for Germans to earn a. living
world The resolution will be circulated
for signatures and finally handed to the
minister for the interior of Prussia.
,z The he city Of Copenhagen now has about
past five years has been only a little over
1000. There is a striking falling. off in
the nat growth the number c Of births
Politiken is pleased. to know that
Of Crete ana the cretans. But on the
other hand. the paper is inclined to pity
tons fight among themselves, the winner
is allowed to settle the squabbie to suit
himself. But when the Turk thrashes a
Christian people-as he did the Greeks
the Christian nations jump onto him and
shout, Hey. look out there! Well make
you suffer for your unspeakable cruelty!
Give up Crete, or Wen knock your dirty
brains out!' Politiken uses many more
words; but they are to the same effect
as those given.
The royal theater celebrated it's $50
years jubilee, Dec. 10. The program was
opened with a prelude by Johan Svend-
sen which was we'll received. Next came
a representation of 1.-The Penthouse Poll
tician," the first comedy written by
Holberg. An epilogue, written by Prof
Peter Hansen, was finally sung by the
foremost opera singers in Denmark
It does not seem to be quite settled yet
whether the national government sus-
tains President K0ller of Slesvig in his
policy of banishing Danish citizens from
his province. At any rate, he is pursu-
ing his policy with vigor, and the rumor
that he will compel all young people
studying in Denmark to return to Ger
many is strengthened by the announce
ment that If the parents did not take
their children back before Dec. 20, all the
Danish citizens living In the neighbor
hood of such points would forthwith be
expelled from the country.