Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28


s The govern merit has In. tr ,ctel Dr.
sSigurd lbsen, the chief clerk Of the
foreign division OF the department of
the interior, to write an exposition Of
the relation between the consul and
the diplomatic service. .Verdet,s Gang
holds that this is the Hrst step towards
settling a question which is causing
mo end OF friction 5between.pthertno,
Scountriea.,a 81 IS +;
e Three Of the retiring members of
the binet have been we'll prov ided
for Hoist has been made governor of
kristians amt, Nysom director general
of the state railways and Lochen asso-
ciatc Judge 81, the, supreme. court. But
Thilesen was dismissed even without
:. pension III -1. s.s,g>.ys., 80
The Norwegian Rible society has
issued it's s4th annual report. The
nuintier of copies of the Bible or parts
of it published during the past year
was 81, ,yI9, and the whole number Of
copies published since lSl64is S65. SSH.
Chr. Christophersen. whose failure
caused q seriesofl financlah disasters in
southern Norway, is so i'll that the
legal proceedings against him have
been suspended:
A boy and q girl lost their lives in
a peculiar manner in Tysfjord. They
were rowing close to IL shoai of her
ring, and q whale struck their boat
with his tail, breaking hole through
its bottom and, tippingit over.
j. 1t is stated on, fairly good authority
that Premier Steen5 intends t. re-
sign in the near future.
" Tonnes Torgersen Haugeland of Hit,
tero is dead. He was born Sept. 2S,
l795. and ut his death was certainly
the Oldest man in Norway.
G. N. Anderson's' gold mining cxpe-
'dition to Finmarken has closed its
work for the, third season. About 80
men we're engaged last summer, and
they dug gold to tho value OF So, TOO.
Most Of the time. however. was spent
in removing u: ,norainca ovcrly,ng the
gold-bearing bed Of an old rivulet.
Gold is found along this bed for miles,
but uoone has been able to locate the
native rock from which the gold was
washed away. The camp of the ex-
:pedition is located on the Sarge ejok.
tributary to the .Tana river. The dis
tance, tn the next neighbor is GO Eng
lish miles, and the provisions are
hauled by reindeer from Alien, a dis
tancc of 300 miles. Mr. Anderson is
confident that when lie is ready to be-
gin gold washing in earnest. gold will
tie found in paying quantities. lIav-
ing spent 20 years in the gold fields Of
Montana Colorado. and Alaska, he
ought to be an authority on the SUBJ
ject of gold digging.
Thorwald Sletten. who was found
guilty of killing his foster-moti,er. has
beens denied a, new. trial in -sF,ik&. of
Bjornson's assertion that his guilt was
"psychologically impossible" but as
the evidence WAS purely circurnstan..
tial the government is expected to
commute the sentence.
The custom house receipts in Kris.
tiania will be about $500, 600 less this
year than last. This reduction is due
to the hard times, the people being
to cut down their expenses
III the line of imported luxurieA.
= DENMARK
The czar of Russia has ordered a
new. pleasure yacht from Burme,ster
& Vain. The new steamer is to tc
used for navigation ON the Neva river
The; Standard, which was built by
Burrneistcr & Vain a few years ago, is
used iu the Black Sea
.. A symd,cate of Danish and Swedish
bankers has begun negotiations with
American bankers for a ST. |, OOO, 900 loan
for the Copenhagen municipality.
Emil Poulsen, the greatest living
actor ON the Danish stage. has for
mally withdrawn from public life. old
age having told greatly ON his physi.
cal strength. though his mind IS as
bright as ever. lie gave his last per.
formance at the Copenhagen Royal
theater., representing .> Shylock in
Merchant Of Venice
A tremendous ovation was given h,m
at the close of the performance. and
the university students unhitched his
horses and pulled Miscarriage through
the streets to mis- home. The leading
Scandinavian authors sent greetings
to h'". Poulson has represented 's49
on the stage and has taken
part in 4,U67 performances.
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'" The Paivalehti newspaper has been
suspended for three months, and the