Willmar tribune., 1899-02-15
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

hnud Asker, of Stavanger, expects to
celebrate the year 1899 in several ways
IN the course of the present year will oc-
cur his SOth birthday, his sixty years
jubilee as farmer, and his diamond we'd
ding
AT least two Swedish papers are on the
point of advocating the dissolution of the
union of Norway and Sweden.
A new dairy at Thine has been in oper-
alton only two months, but it is already
receiving the milk from 1000 COWS, and
the establishment must be enlarged
Number of births in Kristiania in 1898,
almost 5000; deaths, almost 1000.
King Oscar is expected to make a trip
to Norway about the middle of February.
The ice men of Stavanger think they
are doing we'll when they reap ice that is
four inches thick. And yet people say
that Norway is cold country
The private seminary Of Bergen has
such small attendance that its doors
Will have to be closed for good.
In Lenviken. Tromso, the taxpayers
observed that the taxes for the support
OF the church were very high and large
number of people withdrew from the
state church in hurry.
kristiania has a merchant who speaks
Norwegian and German we'll, but as he
never learned to write anything but He
brew, he keeps his accounts in that sa-
cred language.
The stomach of a Goldfish sold in Ber-
gen contained a gold ornament in the
form of heart, enclosing a diamond
worth $50.
There are instances in Stavanger where
the prices of real estate have doubled
in the course of one year.
Rev. Johannes Berg, of Kristiania, lost
his pension because the government
found out that he was getting rich by
means of dealing in real estate.
The Trondhjen iron works have finished
their S3rd steamer 1t is named Otto
Sverdrup, and has been bought by a
company in Indherred. 1t may carry 32o
passengers. but it is most suitable for
freight traffic.
Ostlund captured first prize at three diff
ferent races at an international skating
tournament in Davos. Switzerland.
Thirty-one young people in Skien were
recently summoned to the public head
quarters and fined for coasting in the
public streets.
Ole Have, one of the oldest and rich
est farmers in Hitterdal is dead. He
was typical Morse farmer of the old
school, and his funeral brought out the
best people in that part of the country.
The products of the paper mills of the
country for 1898 had value of 81, ,1OO, 600.
The Norwegian bark Henriette left the
Baltic Sea for England Nov. T. but met
with so much unfavorable weather that
1t had to keep cruising in the open sea
for two months before it could safely
land in England The deck cargo was
swept away by the waves. and the crew
were exhausted, but the vessel itself
came out of the fray without damage.
DENMARK.
The minister of war. in an address to
the folkethng during the discussion of
the war budget expressed himself to the
following effect: Our military aim must
be to protect our neutrality, so that a
great power will hesitate to attack us
in case we refuse to yield to demands
made upon US from the outside. TO ac-
complish this. little is needed above and
oAAN>
Two men from Fredricia took a boat
and went out fishing in the Belt. A gust
of wind struck the boat and upset it.
and its occupants were drowned Both
of them left wives and several children.
Mrs. Madsen. who accidentally caused
great explosion at Svendborg, died
from burns received in the fire succeeding
the explosion.
Mrs. Olsen Getrener, widow in Co.
penhagen. died under mysterious circum-
stances. Her rooms remaining closed
late in the morning. attempts were made
to unlock the door. But as these failed
ladder was raised to a window. The
body of the lady was found lying in a
pool of blood on the kitchen floor, and a
physician announced that she had been
dead for some time. Her rooms were
searched. and in a chest were found S.
600 in cash and her last will. Another
lind was an oaken coffin. In fact the de-
ceased was known to have been a very
eccentric lady In her life tme When
she moved into the house couple of
years ago she had dog. which she
called her ''only friend" and the coffin
just mentioned. At that time she told the
owner of the house that she wished to
be placed in that coffin when death
should come. No one seems to know
what sort Of man her husband was: but
it is gradually leaking out that she de-
voted much time and money to philan-
thropic work. and in her last will she
bequeaths considerable sums Of money to
different charitable Institutions in Copen-
hagen She left a fortune of $4,000
Later advices state that the cause of her
death was heart failure. resulting in
hemorrhage.
w. Carfitsen. who has written a num-
ber of comedies and is highly gifted
man. was recently picked up on the
street by the police. His clothes were of
the most wretched nature. his shoes had
no soles and the man himself was half
dead from cold and hunger.
The United Steamship Company will
keep steamer plying between the Scan
dinavian countries and Argentina, South
America.
The Danish expedition which is to
search for Andre. under the leadership
of Captain Daniel Bruun. will start from
the east coast of Iceland. where Captain
Bruun proposes to embark on a whaling
steamer chartered for that purpose, With
this he is to sail to Jan Magen island,