Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-01
SCANDINAVIA NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
tho Old Countries About the
North Sea Within q Week
or So just Past.
NOWAY.

or 30 just Past.
NOWAY.
Fridtjof Nansen spoke at an entertain
ment given in the Odeon of Munich, Ger
many, for the benefit of those who suf-
f6red from the recent floods in southern
Germany.
Eighty-one different parties are willing
to sell ground for the new military acad-
envy which the government is to estab-
lish near the capital.
The estimated expenses of the storth-
azg for the present session is put at $780,
coo.
The fruit crop at Hardanger was very
rich, and yet the prices remained high.
In many cases the plum trees yielded
from one to one and half bushels of
plums a tree. I'm some places the hill
sides were dark with cherries"
During the first eight months of the
present year the exports aggregated
about S26,OOO,000 and the imports $50, 000, 900.
In other words, the imports amounted to
little more than twice the exports. On
the average, every man, woman and child
imported goods for $13 over and above
what was sold to foreign countries. How
long will it take to get rich at this rate?
A series Of entertainments given for the
restoration of the medieval castle at
Akershus, Kristannia, netted $4,000.
The extreme stringency Of the money
market has compelled the Bank of Nor
way to raise its rate of discount to Z
per cent. The rate has not touched this
mark since October, 1877. The trouble in
the money market is due almost wholly
to the reckless speculation in real estate
and the unwarranted expansion of the
building trade in the Norwegian capital,
but now the whole country suffers more
or less
The Liberal club of Kristiania has re-
solved not to agitate for the setting aside
of the seventeenth Of May as legal holi-
day, because the country Is not yet
wholly Independent.
The storthing convened at 10 a. M Oct
II. Ullman was elected president by 60
votes, and Stang received 81 votes Horst
was elected president of the odelsthing
"a branch of the storthing) by 40 votes
The session of 1S99-19OO was formally
opened Oct. u by Premier Steen, who
read the speech from the throne.
The government proposes the establish
ment of an agricultural department at an
PCSOoo.
Kristiania, Oct. 1O.-The budget of the
government closes with total receipts
amounting to s24s21, 900 and expenditures
amounting to $24,s54. OF the surplus 1854,
600, about 100000 is expected to be covered
by the tax on incomes from property,
$2646,0O0 is proposed for the construction
| of new railroads. The proposed increase
of expenditures as compared with those
| of the present year is $945,O0O, while the
| anticipated increase in the receipts is
| only $G75,OOO The extra taxes which were
| levied on account of the special appro-
| priation of $11, 100000 for the strengthen
ing of the defenses were to be discon-
! tinued at the close of this year, but now
| the government proposes that they be
continued for another period of four
| years.
Swedish paper of Oct. says: Heavy
showers of snow have occurred through
out Norway"
! The government has put $1,000 on the
budget for entertaining members of the
Scandinavian school congress which Is tt
convene in Kristiania next summer
| The negotiations for a new loan OF
| Sc, $4,000 for the city of Kristiania have
been discontinued for the time being or
account of the great stringency in the
| European money market.
| SWEDEN.
The Liberals made a net gain Of thir.
teen seats in the second chamber of the
riksdag at the recent elections. OF the
230 members of this body, So are new. Or
the question of extending the franchise
lis stand against u.s. AS the first cham
| hor 10 ho fron hxyo 1or
majority, it is not likely that any mater
! ial extension of the franchise will b.
| made during the next three years.
DR.. Ekholm is of opinion that Andrea:
polar buoy had been used as a dragging
| anchor across an open sea, and that i
had been torn loose by striking agains
some hard object.
The famous buoy found in the Arcti,
ocean little over a month ago wa
recognized by the manufacturers as tn,
one intended to be dropped from An
dree's balloon as soon as the North Pol
was reached. The object was CAREFUL!
examined by experts in Stockholm, bu
there was no consensus Of opinion as t.
the conditions under which the buoy wa
separated from the balloon. The top o
the buoy, which was made for keeping
dispatch, was screwed off when the buo,
was found, and what was left of tn
buoy contained absolutely no written O
printed communication from the expedi
ton. Every particle of the buoy wa
carefully saved, and all of it will be pre-
served in the national historical museum
The litigation about the ownership o
the Trollhattan water falls has assumes
new phase. Private parties organize
the Trollhattan Electric Power Company
having previously secured titles to tn
necessary ground along the river at tn
falls. But at this juncture> the govern
ment claimed the sole right of the com
pany was temporarily abandoned. Wha
remains of the company now proposes
compromise. If the riksdag endorses tn
new scheme, the government will be pei
mitted to utilize $4,000 horse powers b
means Of a tunnel under the land owne
by the company. The company claim
that without this privilege it will be
very expensive affair for the government
to make use " its water power at ALL
The bicycle rules of the city of Stock
holm were violated by 1893 lady cyclist
during the past season. a.s
IA committee Is busily engaged in dc
vising plans for providing homes fo
homeless wOrkingmen in Malmo.
Two million pounds of lingon (hilbel
ries) have been exported to Germany thi
fall. T. s-E<.
For School and Home, Swedish Ii,
erature," is the name of selection c
some Of the best productions written b
Il Swedish authors. The price Of the pull
!: LEGATION is so low that it will be brougf
]. within the reach Of common people. TIL
of1cial organ Of the I. O. G.. T. has dc
nounced the publishers because Bellman