Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-25
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.

North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.
The purchase of piece of property
in Kristiania by the cabinet without
the knowledge of the storthing IS caus-
ing the present cabinet no end OF
worry, and Verdens Gang expresses
this fact somewhat indignantly by say
ing that the mouthpieces of the cabi-
net make one think of ''crazy bed.
bugs" The amount involved is over
100000. This affair will certainly IN.
jure the Leftists. at the coming cleo.
ton, and it may be the straw that is
destined to break the cameps back.
Bjornson's drama, "Over Evne," has
scored signal success on the stage in
Berlin.
The Ktistiania packing house dis.
posed of 1900 hogs in the year 1899.
The surplus was 5000.
The Gyldendal publishing house in
Copenhagen is publishing popular
edition of Bjornson's complete works,
About 10000 subscriptions have been
received.
The chances are that the export OF
ice will not be SO profitable next sum
mer as in former years because the
winter was unusually cold in England
and Germany, so that those two coun.
tries have large home crop on hand.
The national debt of Norway has in.
creased S14,O0O,O00 since 1893, and the
whole amount is $62, $4,000.
Prof. hansen recently lectured to a
crowded house in Kristiania on the
history of the Arctic explorations.
King Oscar and Prince Engen attended
the lecture.
The managers of the Kristiania cleo.
trio works have reported surplus OF
$4,000 for 1899. The estimated sur
plus was only $4,000.
The Kristiania Dairy company han.
died 100000 gallons of milk last year.
The average price paid was liz cents
a gallon. The production of butter
was 10000 pounds.
Three strictly Norwegian concerts
will be given in Paris the latter part
of June.
Prof. Gerhard Gran has just entered
upon his duties as professor of Scandi-
navian literature at the university.
His Introductory lecture on the early
romantic school was enthusiastically
applauded, and his friends are conf
dent that he will soon become a power
at the university.
Both Bjornson and Ibsen have been
slightly indisposed for a few days.
Bjornson had to stay in bed for awhile
on account of an attack of influenza.
The Hammerfest labor union has or.
gained a. stock company for the pur.
pose of mining coal in Spitzbergen by
way of experiment.
A peculiar mass meeting was held in
Kristiania the other day. The arrests
made by the police in that city are
very numerous, and the common peo
pie are none too fond of the police
force. The latter, on the other hand,
vehemently protest that the common
people of the city are rough and hard
lot of citizens. The object of the mass
meeting was to settle this question.
Strong and spicy words were used on
either side. DR.. Nissen said that the
public of the Norwegian capital were
as 'raw as imaginable." But he struck
no responsive chord, and the one thou.
sand people present passed a resolu-
ton IN which the press is requested to
take up the matter for the purpose OF
reforming the police force and having
the regulations of the police depart
ment revised.
One hundred citizens of Roros have
signed an address of thanks to Biorn-
son for his campaign against the at
tempt to substitute pure" Norwegian
for Danish-Norwegian. Roros is To-
Gated where the narrow strip of north
ern Norway joins the broader portion
in the south. This is significant. The
most of the Norwegians living north
of Roros do not understand the mail,
or patched-up Norwegian Norwegian
tongue near so well as they do Dan
ish-Norwegian. The southeastern
portion of the country is largely in
the same predicament. True, it will
be seen that only the western part,
containing one-third of the population
of the country, is solitlly in favor of
the maal. This fact also enables us
to see that Bjornson did not run such
an awful risk by turning his t:emen-
dous broadside upon the mad propa-
ganda.
A snowslide destroyed the houses
on farm in Lyngen. Ten persons
were carried away by the snow, but
no human lives were lost.
The new electric light plant in Der.
gen is partly finished, and the cur
rent was turned on for the first time
March 10. The plant is owned by the
city.
SWEDEN.
In many places in southern Sweden
cows could be seen grazing on the
hillsides as early as the twenty-sev-
enth of March.
A young man was attacked by a
dangerous gang of toughs on his way
home from dance in the neighbor.
hood Of Engelholm. His life seemed
to be in imminent danger, and, pre-.
ferring drowning to being knitted to
death, he resolutely jumped into the
river. He did not know how to swim
and went to the bottom at once. But
just as he came to the surface again a
cake of ice happened to pass by. He
chung to this until he was carried to a
shallow place, and as soon as his feet
reached the bottom his life was saved
Ludwig Rossels car shops at Arlo1
are EMPLOYING 400 men. and three