Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
ISCANDN AVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
.s Ocean. 't' H..
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About tho :.
North Sea Within a Week
r. or So just Past.

the Old Countries About tho -
North Sea Within Week
49, or So just Past. i
Count Douglas was compelled to re-
sign the portfolio of foreign affairs of
Sweden land, de facto, of Norway,
because he persisted in refusing to en-
dorse the policy of the king, in enforc-
ing the Norwegian flag law. Baron
Lagerheim, the successor of Count
Douglas, has just entered upon his du-
ties. 1t is interesting to see the views
of the new minister on the union
question, and we quote him from an
interview in Verdens Gang: "Solidar-
lty in everything pertaining to the re-
latlon OF the kingdom to foreign pow
ers and government authorities seems
to me to be not only an actual, but
also a constitutionally established
fact. By agreement between the two
Kingdoms, any changes whatsoever,
may be made in the present solidarity,
out without the consent of both king
doms no change can be made. This
applies to both Kingdoms to the the
same degree, and Norway has not sue
ceeded in convincing Sweden of the
utility, the desirability, or, the least
OF all, the necessity of separate diplo-
matte or consular services, or of any
radical reform in regard to the exist
ing joint consular service. AS to the
demand for separate diplomatic
service and separate minister of for
eign affairs, I, for my part, am con-
WINGED that such an arrangement
would be exactly the same thing as
the dismemberment of the union.''
NORWAY.
"Female help" above par, male"
way below. On record of the public
labor bureau of Kristiania for the first
week of the present year shows that
236 men applied for work, but that
there were only 80 applications for
male help. At the same time there
were 63 applications for female help,
but only AZ applications for positions.
The population of the country on
Jan. 1, 1899, was 2,122, 400, of whom
55S,60O were residents of the cities
The increase for the period of thirty
years, since 1869, is 1000. The
growth of the cities has been especial
1y rapid during the last ten years.
The prince regent of Bavaria has
conferred the order of St. Michael,
first class, on DR.. hansen.
Mandal will soon have public bath
house, the equipment of which is to
cost $1,000.
Bjornson, in speaking of the war in
South Africa, says that the English
have again proven themselves to be
1.-The most barbarous and hypocritical
of the so-called civilized nations.''
Steamers were running regularly on
certain parts of Lake Mjosen, the first
week of January.
The number of rides on the street
cars in Kristiania for the past year
was equal to so for every man, woman
and child in the CITY,
The lieutenants of the Norwegian
army receive better pay than those of
the Swedish army. --~~-':z7sfr7 7ees<* >as'
The causes of the need of public aid
among the poor people of Kristiania
are enumerated below in the order of
their frequency: 1. Lack of employ
ment; 2, sickness or old age; 3, intern
perance; 4, other causes.
The commune of Vegardsheicn, has
voted $4,000 for new railroad from
Risor to Tvedestrand.
The receipts of the Kristiania Inner
Mission dropped $2,7O0 in one year,
and it is impossible to avoid running
into debt.
A Danish steamer towing a fish
crate, containing 10000 pounds of cod
fish, struck cold water and ice near
the Norwegian shore, and by the time
the steamer reached Kristiania every
fish was dead.
The profit of the saloon (sam lag of
Hamar, for the year 1899, was $40,
About $50 steamers engaged in for
eign shipping are owned by parties
in Bergen. The capacity of this branch
has increased from 100000 tons in 1890
to 100000 tons in 1900. The number of
new ships ordered is: 10, having an ag-
gregate tonnage of almost 10000. :.
The government wants an appro-
priation of $4,000 in order to be able to
keep two military experts at the seat
of war in South Africa for six months.
-&:i SWEDEN.
There were 1,OO7 societies of differ
ent kinds in Stockholm at the BEGIN
ming of the current year. Only "a of
them were national organizations. the
rest of them purely local. More than
one-half of the total number have
been added during the past ten years.
Excavations under the Bonde Palace
in Stockholm have brought to light a
very rich and varied collection of i'm
plements, ornaments and coins from
the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries. The remains of two
ships made of oak planks were found
at the same place. A pail cover of tin
bears runic inscription, showing
that it was made in the middle ages. -
The monument on the grave of
Princess Anna, of Wasa, at the Maria
church, in Thorn, East Prussia, is in
a dilapidated condition. AS soon as
this became known in Sweden the
Idun, the Swedish woman's journal,
issued q call for voluntary subscrip-
lions for repairing the monument, the
queen heading the list with a sub
scription Of $50. %
Erland p. Nilsson and wife, of
Uranes, Alghult, Smaland, celebrated
their iron wedding, Dec %, having