Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-12
DENMARK.

belonged to NOrwegians. The whole
number of whales caught was 1892,
and $1,000 barrels of train oil was
obtained from them. Five steamers
were engaged in the same traffic
among the Farce islands, and the re-
turns were 235 whales ana 1O,O47 bar
rels of oil. The value of the whole
catch in the two localities was about
$G5O,OOO.
Denmark has As breweries, which
produced 70S,OOO barrels of taxable
beer and 100000 barrels of untaxed
beer in 1901.
Greenland has ILLS native inhabi-
tantS, OF whom sos are males and
$500 females. The increase for the
past year was 104. OF the 300 deaths,
A were due to accidents. Abdominal
and chest ailments caused many
deaths, and the grim reaper gathered
Il rich harvest among the children.
Hunting was fairly good last year,
and the production of blubbcr was
1850 barrels.
1t has been stated over and over
again that Prince Carl is to be nat
uralized in England by special act
of parliament, and that he will be APP
pointed to a prominent position in the
British navy.
lgnotus (Henrik Cavling), the
brightest newspaper man in the king
dom of Denmark, advises the labor
organizations of Copenhagen to pay
little more attention to the waste
caused by their extensive use of
strong drinks. He does not preach
total abstinence, he only thinks they
might drink Il little less than they do.
The suggestion came quite urexpect-
eddy from that source.
George Rrandes was GO years old
Feb. 4.
AS far out in the winter season as
FEB. the ice was not strong enough
for skating ON the lakes in Copen-
hagen.
There are only about o5 Danish off,
Gals in the Danish West Indies who
are entitled to pensions, and several
OF these will not begin to draw pen
sions at once because they can be APP
pointed to positions in Denmark.
There is great commotion in Had
erslev amt, part of the territory
annexed by Germany in the sixties.
carry the next elections. In order to
avoid this several hundred Danes who
voted in favor of Danish sovereignty
before 1870 but failed to retract their
declaration, have been notified that
they will not be looked upon as Ger
man citizens and voters at the next
election. The Danes answer that they
have voted for so or more years; but
the Germans meet this by claiming
that the Danes were never entitled
to vote, and that the authorities are
only correcting bad mistake of long
standing.
\ stock company has been organ
lied at Rosl<ilde for the purpose of
building a factory for the preparation
of artificial coffee. The capital stock
is $4,000.
The minister of justice has granted
Emma Soeberg, a typewriter, permis-
sion to wear male clothing.
Influenza is raging among the
horses of Copenhagen. More than
one-fourth of the horses of the city
scavengcrs' union have been crippled
for the time being.
The peoples cremation society of
Copenhagen, which was organized
last year, has 500 members. No less
than 81 bodies were cremated in that
city last year. The cremation of
Sophus Schandorph, the poet, popu-
larized this way of disposing Of the
dead.
Minister of Traffic Horup is sinking,
and it is only a question of time when
he will be forced to resign. Marcus
Rubin, u noted statistician, is favor
ably mentioned as Horup's successor.
Marcus Rubin is Jew.
NORWAY.
A company. of Danish playwrights
who had been giving performances in
Bergen, broke down in that city for
lack of funds. They will have to un-
dergo various hardships before they
again reach their native land.
The Norwegian foreign department
received 15,473 communications and
RENTED 13,45s in 1901. The amount
of money transmitted through the de-
partment was $141,21O.
The storthing sent the king greet
ings on his 73rd birthday anniversary,
Jan. 21.
A large three-story fiat in Aalesund
caught fire at ten o'clock in the even
ing, and though the fire department
fought desperately for three hours
nothing was saved. One fireman was
killed by falling chimney, and two
others were injured. Twenty families
were made homeless.
A meeting of the North Trondhjem
amt agricultural society at Levanger
was attended by 400 farmers. A reso-
luton was passed in favor of pro-
tective tariff on potatoes.
The societies for the protection of
animals are working, tooth and nail,
SO to speak, in favor of a law against
4 vivisection. 49,
The municipality of Flekkefjord
has issued bonds in the sum of $751;
I 900, payable in 40 annual installments
and bearing Az per cent interest. The
rate of discount is a secret. g.
5 5sS Norway contributes $4,000 to the
diplomatic service of the union.
a portrait painting Of Jonas Lee,
\ by Bernhard Osterman, was bought
& by the Gothenborg museum, the price
4 paid being $500.