Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-07


kotf's right hand, is said to have sent
in his resignation. The Lokalanzeiger
may be mistaken. But it is fact,
that Bobrikoff's policy has defeated
its purpose. Instead of crushing the
spirit of independence it has intensi-
fed the local patriotism of the Fin
landers and united them to degree
DENMARK.
Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen
cate April first.
\ dirigible balloon may be one of
the attractions of the Tivoli pleasure
resort next summer.
The United Steamship Company has
ordered two new ten-thousand-ton
steamers, which will be built by a
Glasgow firm. \ Danish shipbuilder
would have received the contract for
one of the steamers if his bid had
not arrived half an hour too late.
Denmark's oldest schoolmaster is
dead. Mandrup-Poulsen, the oldest
citizen of Soro and the oldest school
teacher in Denmark, died at the age
of 81 years. He taught school until
he was 80 years old.
Captain F. Ishoy. of Copenhagen,
has made an invention which is
claimed to be of great Importance to
steamboat navigation. The purpose
of the invention is to substitute
number of small propellers for the
great stern propeller. \ stock COM
pany has already been organized for
exploiting the invention.
NORWAY.
The kristiania Socialdemokraten
warns the Norwegian workingmen
agaist an agent hiring men for Can
adam company. The wages stipu-
lated in the contract are so low that
no laborers in the United States or
Canada would accept them. The men
are to work twelve hours a day, and
they sign an agreement to work
wherever the company sends them, in
mines, factories, pineries or else
where. It is left to the company to
determine whether the work is to be
performed in the day or at night.
But the most remarkable clause of
the contract is that which provides
that the company may hire out the
men to other persons or corporations
that are engaged in different indus
trial enterprises outside of the ter
ritory owned by the company. The
contract is made out in the name of
the Algoma Commercial Company,
and its traffic in Norway and Sweden
is branded as nothing short of lin
portation of slaves to Canada"
The kristiania NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
contains the following article by
Bjornstjerne Bjornson: ''Russia's
great apostle of peace, Friedrich Won
Martens, professor of common law at
the university of St. Petersburg and
the lyceum of Emperor Alexander,
and Russia's representative at the
Hague congress, is of Norwegian ex-
traction. In April, 1889, he drafted
declaration of neutrality, in the first
place for Denmark and the Sound, but
eventually for the whole North. His
intention was, that in case his meas
ure was adopted by the DANISH gov
eminent he would place it before the
governments of Norway and Sweden.
The proposition was supported by
Chancellor Won Giers of Russia, who
was thoroughly in sympathy with it.
In May it was also placed before
Alexander III, who favored it. New
ertheless, it was defeated in Den
mark. At that time Estrup was at
the head of the government. The re-
suit was, that it never came so far as
to the governments of the two other
countries. At the present moment,
when declaration of neutrality, pre-
ferably joint one, is discussed in the
three national assemblies of the
North, it is important to know that
not only Russia, in 1889, was friendly
disposed toward such proposition,
but that the author Of it was Rus
sian."
Prof. Vogt has investigated the
Flaa nickel mine at EVE, and he
claims that the nickel ore deposits at
this place are the most extensive of
all those known in Europe.
The Kristiania typographical union
has requested their employers to hire
no new lady typesetters Or appren-
tees for some time to come. At the
next annual meeting of the union
motion will be made to withdraw
from the Labor party, and it is pre-
dicted that the motion will be car
ried.
Norwegian decorations for Swedes.
King Oscar has made K. Wallenberg,
a Stockholm banker, commander of
the order of St. Olaf. first class, and
Prof. NJ. ]. Salin of Karolinska Insti-
tute knight of the order of St. Olaf,
first class.
Commanding General L'Orange has
the army. On the whole, the changes
are made in the direction of greater
simplicity.
= The crown prince, who is acting as
viceroy during the absence of the
king, will spend half of his time in
Norway and the other half in Sweden
until the king returns. .-
During the week which ended April
IL no less than 1900 persons left Kris
tiania for America. At Washington it
is supposed that Congressman Eddy
from Minnesota IL behind this record
breaking migratory movement #