Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-20

declared that they are too independ-
.ent to submit to the party whip. The
party whip, by the way, is denounced
about as roundly in Norway as in
America, and surely not without
cause.
The property, of the Bohndalen
Maqpufacturing Company. which was.
crowded to the wall last year, has
been reorganized, English capitalists
having invested $7s5,OOO in cold cash.
The factories will be managed by Nor
wegians. +. .t.
On the nineteenth of August, the
Oplandske Kavalerikorps (upland cav.
airy corps) celebrated the one-hun.
dred-and- fiftieth anniversary of it's or
ganization. Prince Carl was present,
and the Swedish army was represent
ed by Major de Mare, and the Danish
army by Lieutenant Colonel Wedell
Wedellsborg. ..<...s~. ~~. ~..s.::s
The first election of the year 1900
took place at Gryteen, Romsdalamt
This locality being Liberal hotbed,
the Conservatives had no candidates
in the field. The vote was exceedingly
light, only 40 out of total of 600
voters taking the trouble to go to the
polls. This apathy bodies evil to the
administration.
The town of Stenkjar, few miles
from Troudlijem, was visited by de-
structive fire Aug. IS. The fire orig
mated in a paint shop. A quantity of
varnish was kindled while being
melted, and the flames at once swept
the nearest wall and communicated
the fire to this before anything was
done to check it. Two large blocks
were burned down, including the.
church, the drug store, hotel and
some of the largest stores in town.
About one-third of the town was de-
stroyed.
! The ''Numedal Expedition" which
left Minneapolis for Norway a few
weeks ago, has attracted much attenz
ton in Norway. On August about
300 Observation-Disclosures, including
said expedition, held a reunion at
Vagli, Numedal, and hundreds of ma
tives' were also in attendance. Mr..
Jerde, of Madison, Mimi, eulogized
Norway, and Rev. Seip spoke in glow
ing terms about America. Ole Mates
tad emigrated from Numedal in 1887,
and committee was appointed to
erect monument to his memory.
DENMARK.
An earthquake was felt Aug. Is, in
many localities in Jylland. At Hurup,
for instance, the shocks were strong
enough to make windows, wooden
walls and articles of furniture rattle.
The Rungsted hotel and baths have
been completely destroyed by fire.
The establishment was only one year
old.
Ex-Minister of Justice Rump is
dead, aged &c years. He began his
political career as judge in the Farce
islands. At later date he was mayor
of Korsor, and in 1873 was appointed
to q seat in the landsthing. From
1896 to 1899 he served as minister of
justice in the Reedtztholt cabinet. He
was one of the most learned jurists
in the country, and his capacity for
work was great. In, politics he was
consistent but not fanatical Con-
servation.
A German does get left once in a
while even in South Upland. Herr
Won Kohler, the provincial governor,
has an organ called Die Schleswigsche
Grenzpost, which is published at Had
ersley. Everything Danish seems to
throw the editor of this paper, Herr
Strackerjan, into fits Last spring
he used obnoxious language on sew
eral occasions about business. man
in Copenhagen, whose name is V. E.
Hellerie. The latter could not stand
this, but had recourse to the law, and
the district judge of Flensborg has
sent Herr strackerjan to Jail for a
term of four days, besides charging
all the expenses up to his account.
Empress Dowager Dagmar is visit
ing at the Danish court.
A 'dininutive man in Fyen, had a
fine, good-sized wife. But what he
lacked in physical size he eked out
by a most rabid temper, and he was
in the habit of beating his wife. "A
short while ago he took sick. AS he
lay in bed he thought his wife felt
fully as well as when he was on his
feet tending to his work. This made
him desperate. When he was alone
in the house he managed to conceal
cane in his bed, and when his doc
tor came he was holding his wife by
her hair with one hand and beating
her with the other. The doctor in
terrupted the performance. But the
performer was completely exhausted,
and went to sleep. This happened
in the forenoon. SIN the afternoon
he passed away by calm and peace
full death like man who knows that
he has performed his duty"
Viborg, Aug. 2o.-The eighty-year-
old Bishop svane, while on his way
home at ten o'clock in the evening,
was knocked down by two wheelmen,
and he broke his right thigh-bone. A
third wheelman, who was in company
with the others, Immediately after
wards passed the bishop lying on the
ground, but they all rode on without