Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-25

Numerous cases of typhoid fever have
caused wild panic in Kristiansand.
A crypt built Of stone slabs and con-
tanning burnt bones, potsherd and
some bears claws were found in the
garden of the chaplains residence in
Voss' The tomb dates from the sixth
century, and the claws show that the
dead body was cremated with a bears
hide around it,
Norway is importing less and export
ing more butter from year to year, the
total imports and exports being about
100000 and 100000 respectively.
The steamer Einar Tambarskialver ran
up on dry land at Hestvik, Hitteren, the
man at the helm having gone to Sleep
No lives were lost.
Norway exported $1,000 tons of icA dur
ing the first half of the month of Aug
ust.
Unless there is heavy rainfall very
soon the potato crop will be failure.
About one hundred men are engaged III
building dam in the Kragero river
about fifteen CEnglish) miles from the
city of the same name. When completed
1t will furnish valuable water power for
that locality.
About 1000 Kristiania school children
have spent the summer vacation in the
country at the expense of philanthropic
persons.
The annual report of the English Lloyd
shows that only 2S9 per cent of the Eng
fish ships are wrecked and no other ma
ton has such low percentage Nor
way has the unenviable reputation Of
heading the list with loss of $50 per
cent, and the Daily News calls the Nor
wegian ships floating collins"
Norwegian hay has found good mar
ket in England this fall.
A forty-eight year old Swede who has
been expelled from Norway fifteen times.
has been sentenced to imprisonment for
20 days, on a fare of bread and water,
and at the end of that term he will be
sent out of the country for the sixteenth
time.
The spire of the Trondhjem cathedral
is almost completed. Its height is 267 feet
A man was burnt to death in a fire
at Moss He aided his sister and her
little boy in getting out of the burning
building through the window, but he did
not escape himself The loss was s25,-
OOO and thirty families were rendered
homeless.
This would insure to the Norwegian
government the payment of all running
expenses and an interest of 3S per cent
on the money invested in the Norwegian
portion of the line. The two min
ing companies in question are closely con-
nected, and if the former fails the tinan-
cial standing of the latter may be i'm
paired to such an extent that it will be
HE to
of ore a year to the Norwegian harbor at
Narvik. The danger is not great how
ever. Even If the threatened crash
should come the mineral wealth of
Swedish Norrland is so immense that a
reorganization of the two companies is
expected to insure the fulfillment of the
contract between the Norwegian gov
eminent and the latter company Men
ton must also be made of the fact that
the Swedish government has some $s-
600 a stake on the Swedish side This
capital will be partially dead unless the
mines are rapidly developed and the
Swedish government will naturally take
a hand in the matter in order to protect
its own interests.
Verdens Gang insinuates that the gov
eminent made a bad break in ordering
Rheinische Metallwarcn fabrik in Ger
many. said factory having a poor repu-
tation in than one respect
A series of statements. purporting to
have been cabled from Gothenborg, Sept.
6, are to the effect that Peary has met
Capt. Otto Sverdrup on the west coast
of Greenland. This is not improbable,
but the whole story is ~ edited by the
| stat oorot ho
| prepared to go around Greenland
DENMARK.
! White uniforms have been ordered for
the officers of the Danish army The cut
and the buttons must be of the same pat
tern in all cases, but the officer who is to
wear the uniform may select the ma
terial out of which it is to be made.
1t is stated that A. c. Meyer. mem
Der of the folkething, intends to with
draw from active politics and open a
popular variety theater.'
The second Danish temperance con-
| gress was held at Odense. About 90 dele
gates were in attendance. They repre-
scented 115 societies, which have $500
members.
Washington dispatches mention gen.
| have been sold to the United States for
| a little over four million dollars: but the
| latest advices from Denmark, by mail
do not indicate that the deal has been
| closed.
One of the first official acts of the new
! cabinet was the adjustment of the &C.
clesiastical council which was estab-
ushed in 1888. This body was created by
| the cabinet in spite of the fact that the
! folkething, the popular branch of the
rigsdag, declared by a vote Of 50 to 16
| that the institution was contrary to the
constitution. The ecclesiastical council
was composed of the seven bishops of
Denmark and two professors, and it con-
vened once a year to give advices to the
cabinet Its influence was never great,
and Politiken does not wrong its mem
! bers by calling it "a useless creature"
The recovery of Sorensen and Horup.
members of the new cabinet, IS prc1-
| tically certain.
FACTS OF FINANCE.