Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-22
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLADD.
Principal Events That Have Dcc,...a
IN the Old Countries About thu
North Sea Within = Week
or So Just Past,

As~1sA sen W. tn10 = week
or So Just Past.
Evelyn M. Baldwin, the Arctic ex-
piorer' has given his explanation of
the trouble on board the America.
Capt. Johansson, a Swede, and Pilot
Arnsen, Norwegian, could not agree.
Here are Mr.. Baldwin's own words:
The trouble first started between
the captain, or to give him his proper
title. sailing master, and the ice pilot,
whose rame is Arnsen. The ice pilot
took up his place in the crows nest
on the ship when we were in the ice
fields, and should have had. and
eventually did have. complete charge
OF the directing of the ship. The
sailing master objected to the ice
pilots holding absolute sway. I, of
course, took the side of the pilot and
saw he was kept in command while
we were in the ice. The pilot had
had Twenty-Five years experience in
the ice fields, while the sailing mas
ter had practically none"
FINLAND.
H. Flander, a banker at Jyvaskyla,
is the owner of the writing chair
used by Johannus Messenius, the his
torlan, at Kajana palace, when he
wrote his Scandal Illustra. The chair
has been inherited from father to
son in the Flander family.
DENMARK.
Kew. Ifversen persists in refusing
to otficiate at the wedding of d.
vorced bricklayer, and the minister of
public worship has instructed the
minister of justice to appoint COM
mittee to investigate the matter and
to propose some way of disciplining
Rev. Ifversen because he does not
obey the instructions of his superiors.
The police department of Berlin
has prohibited the sale of Danish
newspapers on the streets because
they contain too much politics."
Berlingske Tidende, which always
supported the Conservative party
when this was in power, faced about
a few days ago and joined the Liberal
Party-climbed upon the band wagon.
The change was so abrupt that some
OF the old-time editorial writer's have
cut sorry figures, and the other Lib
eral papers are wicked enough to
make merry at the expense of the
new convert.
Perry holds that Greenland ex-
tends farther north than any other
land. If he is right the kingdom of
Denmark is next neighbor to the
North Pole.
The physicians of Copenhagen re-
ported 6o,215 cases of sickness for the
year 1901. Of these cases 6,7S6, or
17H per cent, were fatal. Less than
per cent of the cases of diphtheria
were fatal. The venerial diseases
headed the list, with s,3O5 cases, and
Influenza was q close second with
$500 cases.
The cablegrams point to a speedy
United States.
Empress Dowager Dagmar of Rus
STA is staying with her father, King
Christian of Denmark. She is guard
ed with great care, because the au-
thorities are convinced that Italian
anarchists are coming to Copenhagen
to attempt to assassinate her.
Pail Thorkelsson, an Icelander who
has spent large part of his 5O-year
life in continental Europe, has in
vented world-language. 1t differs
from Volapuk and all other artificial
languages in that it is neither writ
ten nor spoken, but is expressed by
signs-it is, in fact, sign-language.
Thorkelsson knows Arabic, Chinese
and other languages, and celebrated
linguists have declared that his in
vention is very ingenious piece of
work.
Engineer Frankel explains the ex-
plosion of "svenske," Capt. Unge's
balloon, as follows: II spent two
nights experimenting the filling of
the balloon. In the night before the
ascent the artillerists who performed
the work failed to wake me in time
though I had warned them. When I
got up it looked as though the bal
loon was going TO explode. I opened
the valve, but for long time it did
not seem to have any effect. Finally
the gas began to pour out, and I
think something like 80 cubic meters
escaped. If my arrival had been de-
layed a little longer think the bal
loon would have exploded then and
there"
Count Clarence Won Rosen, noted
sportsman, will soon remove from his
palace at Strandvagen, Stockholm, to
the vicinity of Katrineholm. The pal
ace will be occupied by Richard
Tjader, missionary, whose wife and
two sons were drowned in q Norwe-
gian lake few years ago, and who
afterwards married rich Chicago
lady.
The Northern Wood Works COM
pany is the name of a strong COM
bine which has just been formed by
number of the leading woodworks
manufacturers in Norrbotten. The
limits of the capital stock shall be
So 900, 900 and $5,oo0,0oo, and the
headquarters shall be at Lulea.
The provincial legislature of Oster-
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