Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-01
SCANDINAVIAN news
increasing Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN TIE FAIHERLAND.
principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within Week
or So just Past.
NORWAY.


c''ns' honorary doctors degrees were
conferred upon twenty-nine foreign
ers by the University of Norway. The
ceieoratlon took place Sept. 6.
"A Norwegian American named
folkeseth has bought a tract of land
at hornsjo for about $4,000. Gold is
what he is after. Being a practical
miner from Montana, he claims that
ne knows what he is doing. He sent
samples of the ore to America, and
ne claims that the assay showed the
following results: Gold, $50 per
ton; silver, $500 per ton; copper,
s249.2l per ton; total, $273.51 per ton.
An electric power station will be
completed in the course of year at
Evenstadfos Materially and wires
Will be strung to Arendal and Grim
stad for transmitting the $500 horse
power which it is estimated that the
plant will produce.
The government has given the fol-
loving names to the stations along
the Voss and Taugevand railway:
1gre, Refine, Mjolfell, Upset., Myrdal
and Hallingskeid.
The cereals are not expected TO
mature in the northern part of the
country this year, and even at the
very best the potato crop will not
supply the home market.
Nothing has been heard from Otto
Sverdrup's expedition since the sum-
mer of 1890. 1t is natural that some of
his friends should begin to feel I'M
easy about his fate. But the expedi-
ton has provisions for at least one
year more. Prof. Nathorst, leading
authority ON Arctic expeditions, is
inclined to think that Captain Sver-
drup, having failed to force his way
around the north point of Greenland,
proceeded in a northwesterly direc-
ton, and that he may return by way
of the Behring strait.
dam burst in the Rinden river
at Heitlo, near Levanger, and the
damage done by the mass of water
thus let loose was $4,000 No lives
were lost.
The Norwegian Socialists held their
sixteenth national convention at
Frondh .ieni. There are Pill societies,
having total membership of 10000
Prospectors representing Chr. Ank-
er are said to have discovered large
veins III iron ore near Naranger ford.
in the extreme northeastern part of
Norway. Some of the veins are said
to be over 600 feet in thickness. If
this is true they rank among the
very largest in the world. The area
of the iron range is about Is square
kilome tcrs, and the land is owned
by the state. The distance to the
sea is less than one (English) mile,
which fact is of very great import
ance because the ore must be shipped
away by sea if it is mined at ALL
The percentage Of iron is said to run
all the way from 40 to 60. Close by is
a waterfall, the capacity of which is
claimed to be from 10000 to $4,000
horsepower.
DENMARK.
Queen Alexandra of England, is ex-
pected to spend about two weeks in
Copenhagen next fall. The statement
made in the European press to the
effect that her health is shattered is
wholly unfounded. But it is true
that her dullness of hearing is steadi-
ly increasing.
The revolutions in Haiti, South and
Central America cause much uneasi-
ness in the Danish West Indies.
The Porto Rico Investment company,
which is backed Gy American capital,
is buying up land on large scale in
the Danish West Indies.
A newspaper war against dogs is
being fought in Copenhagen, the OBJ
ject being to reduce the number of
dogs to minimum and to Undue that
minimum with a maximum of good
behavior
1t is proposed to build a passenger
elevator in the noted Round Tower
in Copenhagen. A six-foot shaft runs
through the center of the tower, bu.
50 far this has been of no earthly
use.
Holger Drachmann, while staying at
Skagen, put the finishing touches to
Leopold Bugge, a noted author and
educator, died at the age of 66 years.
His literary appeal mostpAfi 60: klker
His literary works appeal most
strongly to the minds of children and
plain people.
King Oscar has accepted the resig-
nation of Premier Bostrom as director
of the agricultural college.
: Lieutenant C. Myrin, of the North
ern Skane Infantry Regiment has in
vented a combined table and writing
desk for use in military camps. 1t is
made of aluminium and weighs less
than one pound. 1t may be suspended
from the branch of a tree, from a
tripod made of rifles, or from the
hte hilt of bayonet stuck in the
ground. The table is furnished
with a candlestick and a clothes rack.
The inventor proposes to have this
piece of furniture patented.
Two cases of cerebro-spinal mening-
tits occurred at the Froso barracks,
Jemtland One of them proved fatal
A large and varied collection of OBJ
.jects from the bronze age has just
been discovered at the Harnevi par
sonage, near Enkoping. Most of the
articles weres. made in Scandinavia,
and they are said to be about 2,7O0
years old.
The city council of Helsingborg has
i offered to build stables for 100 horses