Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-10-02
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
interesting Notes From Across the
s, Ocean.
aAPPENlNCS>N THE FAlHERLAN i;
Principal Events That Have Occurred
an the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
NORWAY.

or So Just Past.
NORWAY.
The petition for the appointment or re-
celvers for the Gellivanre Mining Com.
pany OF northern Sweden may possibly
anect the Norwegian government fnan.
clally. The Norwegian government has
made contract with the Snossavaara.
hiirunavaara Mining Company for car
fy'ng 100000 tons of iron ore annually
on the Norwegian portion of the Ofoten.
or trans-peninsular railway. 49,.
The assets Of the Kristiania Nat,ona,
brewery are about $243, 900, and the La
b1lities $4,000 in excess of this amount
Inc plant was offered for sale at nuhlic
auct1on but an offer Of SIX, 900 was not &C.
cepted.
Another North Pole Chaser.-Captain
Amundsen, of the Gjoa, reports that
on July Fl he met Captain Bauen-
oanl at Danes Cat. Spitzbergen. The
latter was building a craft which was tn
De % feet long and feet deep, and was
10 be furnished with two masts. The
builder intended to use it for an expedi-
ton to Greenland. The crew is to con-
slst or two men, and the expedition is to
oe EQUIPPED for two years. stay Cap
tain Bauendahl proposes to pass along
the east coast of Greenland as far as
possible. Two years from now Johannes
NASen OF Hammerfest, is to make
search for the expedition unless it returns
meanwhile.
The official canvas shows that the city
of Kristiania has $3.50 citizens Of age
and Of good standing, but almost 5000 of
them cannot vote at the next city cleo
ton, either because they have received
public aid or because their husbands
have not paid their taxes. About ~ per
cent of the whole number are women.
In east Moland near Arendal, the two
leading political parties have put up a
common ticket, each party having an
equal number of candidates on the ticket.
The fisheries around Aalesund are be-
coming more important from year to
year, and forty new steamers ar In pro-
cess of construction for this trade Hail.
but is the most important fish caught,
except when large shoals of herring
crowd up to the shore for a short period.
Three hundred children died Of cholerine
in Kristiania during July and August
AS a steamer passed the Nokken noun
tain, near Hellesylt, rock broke loose
about 1000 feet above the water, and this
started others, until immense masses of
rocks, gravel and trees rushed down the
mountain side with tremendous rum
bling. The passengers on the steamer no
ticed three persons who were carrying hay
at a place which lay in the course of
the landslide. and when everything had
become quiet, the steamer landed at a
search was made for whatever remained
OF the hay-carriers. But they were found
to have sustained no injury. Being IA
milar with landslides, they had sought
refuge under a perpendicular rock as soon
as they had heard the ominous sound
above them. One Of them was woman.
The space was so small that part of her
dress was cut into shreds by the rocks,
and one of the men received a light blow
on the hip.
Magnus Andersen, the captain of the
Viking ship at the Chicago worlds fair,
and editor of the leading marine gazette
IN Norway, finds fault with the statistics
on which an English paper based it's
statement that the Norwegian merchant
marine is lot of floating coffins.'' The
statistics were collected by the English
Lloyd, and he points out that they are
partly incorrect. partly misleading even
when correct. The Lloyd, for instance,
stated that the vessels Of one hundred
struction at Norwegian shipyards, aggre-
gate II, 600 tons. while the actual tonnage
is $4,000. Capt. Andersen also contends
that the Lloyd has been unfair in count
ing those vessels as condemned which
are demasted and used as barges; and he
finally calls attention to the fact that the
Lloyd does not concern itself with the
percentage of actual wreckage or the
her If %
that the statistics of the Lloyd were
gathered for the purpose of supplying the
insurance companies with information,
not for the purpose of ascertaining the
loss of human lives or the loss sustained
by the shipowners.
The Voss congregation some time ago
resolved to use Blix's pure Norwegian
hymn book. The bishop was petitioned
for a reconsideration Of the question, and
at the next meeting the resolution was
repealed.
The Woman's Suffrage Association has
resolved to put up separate official
ticket at the local elections this fall.
Both sexes will be represented on the
ticket. nominating committee of twen-
ty women shall cooperate with the ex-
ecutive committee In making out
ticket.
The Heggedal factories. near Kristiania,
are in the hands of receivers. The LA
bilities are about 100000, the assets
$135.OO0.
Rev. s. E. Jorgensen,, in Luthersk
Kirketidende, proposes that the pastor of
a. congregation be authorized to decide in
q each particular case whether marriage
shall be solemnized by the church or SIM
ply made binding by civil contract, the
conduct of one or both Of the contracting
parties before marriage to be the pas
tors guide in deciding to which kind Of
marriage ceremony they are entitled.
Rev. Eugene Hansen tainted while
standing in his pulpit at Old Aker church.
Kristiania. and Rev. Wexelsen, the min
lister of ecclesiastical affairs, assisted in
carrying him out of the building. An
other minister was sent for to finish the
services. :...'--.... -. =
Hans Ellefsen's oil and sguano factory
at Onundayjord, Iceland, was destroyed
by fire. The plant was owned by Nor
wegians. The destroyed property was in
sured for $4,000 in a Copenhagen COM
pany. - =
SWEDEN. -, =
= According to the latest advices. the
Nerrbottens bank has withdrawn Its Pc
titfon for the appointment of receivers
Tor the Gellivare Mining Company. But
that does not end the trouble by any
means This. in fact, may be only the
lull before the stcxm that breaks up the
present management and prepares the
way for a reorganization Of the COM
pany The company is exporting iron
ore for almost s100,O00 week.
The number Of emigrants who LETT
Sweden by way of the four leading sea-