Willmar tribune., 1900-05-30

compelled to make an assignment.
His liabilities are large. About 70
persons will be thrown out of employ
ment for some time to come MI
T &. kirkaas, a Kristiania building
contractor, has failed. His liabilities
are $4,000, and his assets less than
10 per cent of this amount.
The finest coast steamer in Norway
has been launched at the Trondhjem
Mechanical Works.
John Engh, the oldest missionary in
the service of the Norwegian mis-
sion society, is dead: A few months
ago he returned from Madagascar,
where he had spent 80 years among
the heather.
Some of the Swedish papers speak
very highly of the recent maneuvers
of the militia in southeastern Norway,
and suggest that similar maneuvers
be arranged for in Sweden. The
Swedes, however, do not like the re-
fusal of the Norwegians to invite
Swedish officers as guests on the occa-
sion. '.-''
Some homemade carpets in the
Norwegian department at the Paris
exposition have attracted general at
tention, and several parties have Of
fered good prices for them. But they
cannot be sold until the Norwegian
government has made an offer.
The wood pulp manufacturers have
already sold 100000 tons of pulp to be
delivered next year. The prices are
stiff, and very little remains unsold
of this years manufacture '
The colonization enterprise of Cap
tain Lerner, German explorer, is not
booming, to say the least. He settled
on Bear Island in the Arctic ocean
and began to mine coal and make
improvements. But he exhausted his
resources before the receipts were
forthcoming, and few days ago it
was announced that his Bear Island
kingdom would be sold at public auc.
tion in Hamburg. But there was a
debt of $4,000 attached to the prop
erty, and no bids were made. Capt.
Lerner, himself, is furious because
he thinks the company" which ad-
vanced the money and which is try
ing to dispose of the property has not
treated him fair. The Norwegians
are naturally interested in these pro-
ceedings because they think Bear
Island might as we'll belong to Nor
way.
The constitutional committee de-
mands that the endorsement of the
Hague peace conference by the Nor
wegian government be made, not by a
common ratification for Norway and
Sweden, but by a special ratification
for Norway. The Norwegian govern
ment, with Premier Steen at it's head
however, does not favor special rati-
fcation for Norway.
The appropriations made by the
storthing for the current year are SO
| large that many far-seeing business
! men have sounded note of alarm to
the powers that be.
Kristiania has 4O2 manufacturing
establishments that are subject to
public inspection and partial control
The whole number of employees at
these Establishments is about 17,3OO
four thousand seven hundred OF
whom are women.
DENMARK.
Several buildings belonging to the
Fyen glass works, near Odense, were
destroyed by fire. The loss was $40,-
900.
A. new church building has been
dedicated in Copenhagen. The king
| and several members of the cabinet
were in attendance. The building
has a seating capacity of 1,OOO
1t sounds like legend, says Co.
penhagen daily, but it is true that a
the recruits that when they are fol-
lowed by civil persons on the street
they must see that the latter salute
when the recruits pay their respects
to their superiors.
A new torpedo boat was launched
May at Karlskrona.
The university of Lund has con-
ferred the degree of doctor of philoso-
ply upon Premier Bostrom, President
NJ. G. Blk, of the university, Prof
Hagerup, ex-premier of Norway
Prof. J. Steenstrup, of Copenhagen
and Water Runeberg, Swedish scu1p-
tor.
Johan Karl Kristian Brosboll (his
nom de plume was CART Etlar), a
very productive Danish novel writer
is dead at the age of "a years. His
most noted novels are ':The Son of the
Smuggler'' and 'The Chief of the
Gonges." He also wrote several
dramas. His best novels will doubt
less be read for centuries to come.
Prof. Ussing and a young scientist
named Boggild are on their way to
Greenland, where they propose to
study the geological formations and
the minerals of the country.