Willmar tribune., 1900-03-28
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
i'm the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.

The Assumptionists, an order of
French friars, are having hard row
to hoe in France. Father Fallise, the
Catholic bishop of Norway, has in
vited the monks to remove to Norway.
To this invitation Morganbladet says:
''The kind invitation of the kind
bishop may arouse mingled feelings in
Norway, and our country will not re-
ceive the monastic orders with ecsta-
cy. Indeed we have abolished the con-
stitutional prohibition against Jesuits
and monastic orders; but if attempts
are made to effectuate the bishops
proposition it may be Necessary to
block the proceedings in time by
means of proper legislation. The
Norwegian authorities have not re-
nounced the possibility of pursuing
such a course"
The Kragero Shipowners' Union has
passed resolution protesting against
year. The reason for this rather un-
patriotic move was that 1.-THE seamen
are hired out and the merchant ships
ready to set SAIL
The old country people are natural
ly very much pleased with the efforts
of U. S. Senator Knute Nelson to
change the consulship at Kristiania to
general consulship, thereby placing
Kristiania on the same footing as
Stockholm in regard to the consular
representation of the United States in
the two Kingdoms of the peninsula.
Norway exported 41,OO0 tons of ice
in February.
The department of war has ordered
$4,000 pounds of butter for the navy
from the Tonsberg creamery.
1t cost $4,000 to KEEP the streets of
Kristiania in a passable condition dur
ing February.
The remains of the late j. B. Hal
vorsen were taken to Gothenburg for
cremation because there is no crema-
tory in Norway.
Verdens Gang of March contained
a good picture of Pope Leo XIII. on
the occasion of his ninetieth BIRTH
day, and the text was short but
sympathetic account of the ''captive
in the Vatican" and his work.
Edward Grieg is down with the grip
at Hotel Kongen, of Danmark, Copen-
hagen.
DENMARK.
A Russian princess has entered the
St. Joseph Catholic nunnery in Copen-
hagen and is serving as sick nurse
under an assumed name
The largest dairy establishment in
Denmark is located at Haslef, and
when fully equipped it will cost $780,
900. It is creamery and cheese fac
tory combined.
The Danish Society, of Copenhagen
has finished new school building
which is the finest structure of its
kind in the Danish capital. Prof. Rolf.
ding spoke at the dedication of it.
The attendance this winter is about
fifty, and the classes are very small.
Aarhus is to have new home for
aged people. The establishment is to
cost in the neighborhood of $65,OOO
The United Steamship Company has
sold it's steamers plying between Den.
mark and Sweden, to a new syndicate
composed of Danish and Swedish cap.
italists. The purchase covers nine
steamers and wharves at the landing
places on both sides of the sound
The price paid for the whole outfit
was 100000.
A dispatch of March 10, from Cop.
enhagen, announces the death OF
Hartman, the Danish composer. Emil
Hartman was the son of the still more
famous composer, J. P. E. Hartman
who, in the early part of the century
ranked among the cultivators o1
music in Denmark. The younge,
Hartman, whose death is now an
nounced, was about 65 years old. HI
has composed and arranged several
collections of Scandinavian folk music
and was popular in all the Scandina
Wan countries as we'll as in GERMANY
Rev. w. C. Schouscoe, the bishop Of
Aalborg, died at the age of 50 years
Chr. Gullman, the editor of "Vort
Land" was sentenced to term of two
days in Jail and fine of $5 for an
nouncing wedding which he had not
been requested to announce. His mis-
demeanor came under the category o1
violation of the sanctity of private
life.
Who is to be the next archbishop o.
Sweden? Fifteen different bodies art
entitled to vote for candidates for the
position, namely, the consistory O,
each of the twelve dioceses, the con
sistory of the city of Stockholm, thu
academical consistory of Upsala ani
the clergy of the diocese of Upsala
Out of the three receiving the great
est number of the fifteen votes thu
king shall appoint the new archbish
op. Both laymen and clergy may bt
proposed. At the appointment O,
Sundberg, in 1870, Count Hamilton
and Victor Rydberg received votes
Bishop Billing is the strongest mar
for the potion, but he doe not want.
to move from Lund to Upsala. Bisho1
Lindstrom of Vexio, is the mex
strongest man. Bishop Won Scheele
of Visby, is an ambitious man anc
would like to be appointed; but it i:
stated that he is not likely to b<
among the three receiving the great
est number of the fifteen 'consistoria
votes. It must not be forgotten, how
ever, that the king and Won Scheelt
are 'great chums.''
It is next to certainty that a large
Swedish students choir will give two
concerts in Paris next summer. The