Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-20

The returns of the cod fisheries are
below those of last year, as well as be-
low the average. The total catch
along the whole coast is put at 8, TOO
600 Goldfish, as against 4, $50, 900 for last
year, and from 5000. 600 to 5000, 900 for
good seasons. During the last DAYS of
February the catch was small and the
weather poor.
The cost OF the new normal school
| at Levanger bids fair to exceed the
appropriation made by the storthing
by almost $4,000.
The Norwegian gardeners have just
organized themselves into a national
association.
On account of serious irregularities
at the Lindaas election, the four mem
oers of the storthing from South Ber-
genius amt were unseated by vote
OF IS to 48. That district will not be
represented in the storthing for the
next two months.
So many people were stricken with
typhoid fever at Rombaksbotten, near
Narvik that the Hundal school house
and the railway building had to be
converted into temporary hospitals.
Bjornson has written q strong arti-
Gle in favor of having the Norwegian
government pay for decorations OF
honor conferred upon Norwegians. Sc
far the king has paid for all such in.
sigma out of his own pocket.
Col. I. F. w. Haffner died at the age
of 66 years. He had been at the head
of the department of geographical sur
vey since 1883. OF his literary produc-
tions, the most noted are several arti-
cles in Salmonsen's cyclopedia.
The retail price of beer has been
raised several per cent in Kristiania.
Attempts were made in the storthing
to nullify the election in Finmarken
because liquor had been used very
freely at the election room in Alien,
but the member from Finmarken was
sustained by a vote of g. to 80.
Thomas 1versen Kvaro, Of Luro,
Nordland. has saved 80 men from
drowning during his life of Sc years.
No one seemed to make any fuss about
the heroism of this man, and he is
eking out the last days of his life in
poverty.
DENMARK.
Minister of the Interior Bramsen has
drawn up labor bill which has been
communicated to the employers union
and the associated labor unions. The
bill contains twenty-six paragraphs
and treats of the relations between
employers and employees. Two years
ago such law would have met with
determined opposition. But the ma
tional lockout of 1899 and the subse-
quent work of the labor organizations
have practically solved many of the
problems covered by this bill.
A young couple at Assens have three
children who were born on Feb. II,
1899, Feb. II, 1900, and Feb. IA, 1901.
Thousands of people attended ski
tournament at Ulvedalene, near Cop
enhagen. The performers did not
hesitate to risk life and limb in the in
terest of the great Norwegian sport,
and three gentlemen and one lady
broke their legs Several others were
badly bruised.
Public sentiment is strongly in ia.
vor of doing something radical in the
shape of combating tuberculous dis
eases. Conservative people are en-
deavoring to meet the demand by
means of organizing a voluntary asso-
citation. But the social democrats have
started comprehensive and powerful
agitation in favor of having the prob
lem solved by the government.
The smallest rural congregation in
Denmark is Heldum, which ha. 70 in.
habitants; and the most populc'1 one
is Dronninglund, which has 6. 545 in
habitants
The so-called sanitarium resolution
was introduced in the folkething by
P. Knudsen. 1t had been passed by
IS mass meetings which were held in
Copenhagen and other places on Feb.
II and the following days. The reso.
luton urges the government and the
rigsdag to establish aud operate sani-
tarlums for poor people who suffer
from tuberculous diseases.
Ihe capacity OF the harbor and the
custom house facilities of Copenhagen
were severely tested during the latter
part of February, because the neigh
boring harbors were closed by ice.
The Aalborg grist mill has been re-
duced to ashes. It was built in 1854
and employed 40 men. A large amount
of grain was also destroyed. The
stock and buildings were insured.
FINLAND.
An imperial rescript demands that
the rifles of all the reserve troops OF
Finland shall be forwarded to St.
Petersburg for safe keeping. At the
same time all the old rifles of the &C.
tive troops shall also be sent to the
Russian capital. This indicates that
important events are impending. But
all Finnish materials of war were pur
chased for money raised by Finland
and still belongs to that state.
EDUCATION ABROAD.