Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-31

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as thick as the ice on the lakes in Min
neSOta.
o. A. Overland has written a large
book on the Thrane labor movement,
which shook the whole country fifty
years ago.
The students society has forwarded
an address to a national convention of
Finnish students at Helsingfors.
The Norwegian peace society sent
the following telegram to the Finnish
students national conventions: "The
Norwegian peace society tcstifcs to it's
profound sympathy with the people of
Suomis (FinlanU. All progress is bold
by the noblest. 1t will also change
the motto might is right to right is
might"
Bjornson will return to Venice about
the last of May. He is very busy
writing on his new drama
There is general lack Of officers
both in the infantry and artillery; but
the year 1900 the supply will at least
! equal the demand.
Electricity will soon take the place
of horses on the Kristiana horse street
railway.
The historical buildings at Bergen
harbor, known as Tyskebryggen, will
be RACED to the ground and that part
of the city will be thoroughly recon-
structed.
The dock laborers in Kristiana struck
for higher pay Maya.
1t is proposed to establish a new
peoples high school in Vefsen.
The telegraph department has pub
lished a report in which a complete
telephone system for the whole country
is proposed. The plan requires an
expenditure of $500, 1000 year for ten
years.
The deficit of the government in
surance department up to 1897 was
S133,00o, and this year it is expected to
run up to at least $25O,OOO before the
new rules can be put into operation.
The total sales of the Kristania
SamIag (retail liquor company for the
year 1898 exceeded $500, 1000
Fifty-tive special standing commit
tees have been appointed at the instance
OF the government in the course of the
past 20 years. Some of them have
been working a dozen years, and the
expenditures of all Of them combined
amounts to about $500, 900. The COM
mite on penal legislation alone cost
the government $40, 900, and was in OPP
Grafton for IL years.
The surplus of the saloon (Samlag)
OF kamor for the year 1898 was SIG, 900,
and part of this amount was donated
as follows: $4,000 to public hall, $500
to school kitchen, $270 to the public
library, $270 to a home for servant girls,
$500 for planting trees, $50 to the
| asylum for inebriates and $27O to a
singing festival.
The government proposes an extra
| ordinary appropriation of So, 900, 900 for
the navy and the Notifications.
DENMARK.
Sixteen dollors month instead of
SIS is what the Danish sailors demand
ed and as they failed to get the desired
raise they quit work. The United
Steamship company, the strongest of
it's kind in the North, is badly crippled
by the strike. Office clerks have been
pressed into service; but this is rather
risky business, especially in cases
where the ships have to enter the open
sea. The fremen are threatening to
inaugurate a sympathetic strike unless
the employers yield to the demands of
the sailors. Copenhagen is not the
only place affected by this latest labor
conflict. A dispatch from Aarhns says:
"All sailors employed on steamers be-
longing to the steamship owners union
suddenly quit work and went to town.
Among the strikers were the employees
| on the passenger steamers running be-
tween Aarhns and Copenhagen.
Copenhagen has a gardeners strike
at the very moment when everybody
wants the aid of gardner.
The Danish tourist club has made ar
engagements for pleasure trip to Ice
land.
N. c. Predecessor, in matter-of-fact
editorial in great daily, predicts that
Europe will have decidedly hard times
after the Paris Worlds fair.
Two enterprising citizens have sue
cessfully burglarizcd 81 parsonages in
Denmark.
Danish sanitarlum was opened up
at Davos, Switzerland, last summer,
and it's success was so decided that
500, 900 will be expended in charging
the building.
The sailors strike was of short dura-
ton. The employers yielded to the
demands of the strikers, and the latter
have been drawing SIG month since
May 8. The agreement is to cover one
year.
The East India company has secured
new steamer for it's growing trade.
| 1t was constructed at the dock of
Burmeister & Vain, and is the largest
vessel yet turned out by that firm.
Princess Marie christencd the steamer,
which received the name of AMMAN.
Kristeligt Dagblad Christian Daily
is gaining ground largely by means of
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