Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-02
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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
..r.~ or So just Past.
NORWAY.

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! ,. NORWAY,
The receipts Of the custom houses
for the past year were $40, 1875, 900, which
Is more than 81, 500, 900 in excess of the
receipts of the previous fiscal year.
The estimates for the past year were
$1,000, 600 below the actual receipts.
The sheriff who arrested Mr.. Tynes,
a native of Norway who took a promi-
nent part in the strike in Norrland,
Sweden, has defended his action by
producing a document signed by thir-
| ty-one persons to the effect that they
were glad to.get ride Tynes." Mr..
| Tynes is not charged with any crime,
and many respectable Swedish papers
denounce the action Of the parties who
are responsible for his arrest.
The Lund students chair has been
giving concerts III many Norwegian
cities and towns and in most cases
they are received with enthusiastic re-
joicing.
The provincial council of Finmark
(Amtsthing) has resolved by vote of
| 10 to to recommend that no whale be
killed in that country from Jan. to
June Is.
At Lunde, Jolster, huge snowdrift
slipped from the top of the mountain
and killed nine cows which were graz
ing below. Two boys saved their lives
at the last moment.
| The appointment of Ravn as consul
at New York is new proof that the
king does not propose to let his govern
ment be taken care of by the ultra
conservatives in Sweden. It is good
sign. however, that these same con-
servatives praise the impartiality of
the king in appointing a Norwegian to
this important position.
Gabriel Finne, young and promising
author, died at the age of 80 years. -
Prof. Hagerup has been elected to
succeed Stang as chairman of the cen
trail committee of the conservative
party.
It is limited that there was crooked
work behind the failure of great lum-
bering firm of Christopherson & Co.
The truth seems to be, however, that
this particular firm was the first one to
break down as result of the era of
speculation and of unwonted imitation
of values through which Norway has
just passed. 1t will be strange indeed
if this failure is not followed by 9TH
ers almost equally as serious. If this
ends the trouble it may prove a bless
ing in disguise by way of putting a
healthy damper on the mad rush of
speculation.
| Heavy showers came just in time
July ito save the crops around
Kristiana. just before the rain the
thermometer registered Sc degrees
Fahrenheit in Kristiana.
Five persons, including three of Rev.
Arctander's children, were burned to
death in a fire at the Busknes parson-
age. ..:t
The central committee of the con-
servatives cannot:*do much hustling
during the, comingaeampaign. as there
will be no regular secretary for the
balance Of the year.
! The financial crisis has brought out
a lot of money sharks of the worst
kind, the amount of interest charged
for only few weeks being expressed
by two figures. They are plying their
trade so smoothly that the arm of the
law cannot reach them
The aggregate income of the Nor
wegian people for the year 1890 was
about $3.50, 900, 600 and for 1898 about
800, 900, 900.
Over three thousand people attended
concert given in Stavanger by the
students chorus of the University of
Lund, Sweden. The concert was a
greater success than any concert ever
given in Stavanger by male singers.
The Introductory number was ia, vi
Elsker," which the students rendered
with uncovered heads.
| Verdens Gang has $1,000 subscribers
about half as many as some Nor
wegian papers have in America.
The number of bicycles registered in
Kristiana this season is 1900.
The critical works:of George Brandes
on the literary activity of Bjornson
and Ibsen have just appeared in Eng
| lish. 1t is a superb book from several
| points of view, and the Norwegians
are a trifie proud Of the attention
which it pays to their greatest living
poets. '.,. 8 sS=4 a-> ~
| '-:. j., &c. SWEDEN. ,..
| A silver snuff box containing $50 in
gold was presented to II. Nilsson on
! the occasion of his resignation as pub
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