Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-17
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HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND

HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week >
or So just Past. -
NORWAY.
The Kristiania Aypotek Bank has
borrowed So, 700,0 900 in France, the ac-
tual rate of interest being not quite
AZ per cent.
The city of Stavanger will have it's
first lady physician in few days.
Her name is Mrs. Martha Persen.
N. A. Nordahl, of Field, near Ber-
gen, has formally withdrawn from
active work, having served as school
teacher for 81 years. He is rs years
old.
Dense shoals of herring have been
struck near Romsdal. Some of the
boats that had caught almost nothing
for eight weeks, cleared from $3.50 to
$500 in one night. Good hauls are also
reported from the southern district.
All the large cities of Norway are
making extensive preparations for
utilizing the water power in their
neighborhoods for lighting and man
ufacturing purposes. But the trans
mission of the power by means of
electricity is so complicated and the
chances of breakdowns are so great
that many deem it necessary to build
auxiliary steam plants to be used as
reserves in emergencies. In Bergen,
for instance, an auxiliary steam plant
is already in process Of construction.
Now that the era of speculation is
we'll past it is realized that many
minds must have been excited to the
brink of madness. Anything that
could be called stocks was picked up
as bonanza. In Kristiania, for in
stance, a certain concern was started
and adorned with captivating name.
1t was announced that the shares would
be sold at par. But this method was
too slow for the promoters. Besides
making regular sales they ''saw'' their
friends and gave them private "tips''
that limited amount of shares in
said concern could be had, but, Of
course, only at a handsome rate above
par, and the offers were often grasped
with eagerness by the customers who
did not take time to find out the reg
ular rates at headquarters.
December fifteenth, the date of the
enforcement of the pure flag law, was
celebrated by torch-light procession
through the streets of Kristiania in
the early evening and by banquets and
speechmalxing later on. The pure
colors were displayed above numerous
buildings controlled by the liberals,
while many conservatives expressed
their feelings by not hosting flags at
all. The people in the rural districts
displayed the pure colors, but the
large business buildings in the differ
ent cities and the ships generally
presented the usual worlday aspect.
Bjornson made public address, at
Bergen, on the occasion of the en-
forcement of the pure flag law. The
ever recurring picture in the address
mid-winter roses-the pure colors.
Therefore her children were happy on
that day, there was ''spring-time in
their hearts," to use his own poetical
language. The feelings of his audi
ence rose to remarkable intensity,
even for such emotional people as the
inhabitants of Bergen.
The municipal government, of Eisor,
has voted $175,00O for new railway
from Risor to Tveitsund or Softestal.
It goes without saying that the Lib
erals are in favor of separate Nor
wegian consulates. Now the Mod
crates are going to join the demands
of the Liberals on this point. Some
of the Liberals are sanguine enough
to predict that even the third party,
the Conservatives, will take the same
side. This would mean united Nor
way in favor of a separate consular
service for Norway, and in the face of
such facts Sweden would be apt to
yield on this point. It would be
strange indeed, however, if the Con-
servatives abandoned their former
position on the consular service ques-
ton.
The houses on the Thorso farm near
Fredrkstad were burned down. A
valuable library which it had taken
over a hundred years to collect was
destroyed.
A Conservative paper charges the
radical wing of the Liberals with the
intention of keeping up the flag agita-
ton by demanding the removal of the
union mark even from the military
flag. In that case, the paper predicts,
the Norwegian people will stand by
the common symbol of the union.
Viggo Ullmann, the president of the
storthing, has just recovered from a
sickness which at one time threatened
his life.
The first lady who ever passed a
theological examination in Norway is
Miss Valborg Lerche, who was born in
1873, in Tonsberg. She proposes to
devote her life to teaching.
SWEDEN.
Fifteen wells have been bored at
Grefvie for the supply of the water
works of the city of Malmo. These
wells yield about 2,04o gallons a min
ute, or 24o more than the present
need of the city.
1.-THE Dawn of the Golden Age" is
the name of new periodical just
started in Malmo.
The budget of expenses of the city
of Stockholm for the year 1900 is
$6,sO0,OO The receipts will fall short