Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-23
NORWAY.

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The storthing has authorized it's
| presidents to gather information with
regard to the proposition to erect a
| bust of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish mil
| lionaire philanthropist and apostle of
peace, in the halls of the storthing.
Some of the public functionaries in
kristiania pay an income tax of 8 per
! cent on their salary.
Almost 100000 logs were RATED on
the Drammen river system last
srring. This is 100000 logs below
the record of last year.
1t is proposed to consolidate some Of
the steamship companies that are en-
gagged in the coast traffic.
Rear Admiral Borresen is said to
have devised a method by which tor
pedoes may be shot in any direction
regardless Of the position of the ap.
paratus with which they are sent out.
The inventor is securing patents in
several countries, and he is confident
that his invention will prove to be
very valuable.
The Berlin Lokalanzeiger states that
the name of Bjornson's next drama
will be ''Mennesker" (men, or human
beings), and that it is continuation
of ''Laboremus."
During naval maneuvers at Horton
torpedo worth $4,000 was lost. It
was shot certain distance and was
| expected to come to the surface after
it had touched the bottom of the
ford, but no trace of it has been
found.
The business men and manufacture
ers of Norway are in fovor of organ
| izing a new political party, the chief
| aim of which shall be to build up the
industries of the company.
The libel suit instituted by the de-
scendents of former Premier Johan
Sverdrup against Bjornstjerne Bjorn-
son has been dropped for good by the
plaintiff. The case was a peculiar one.
Bjornson wrote a drama in which he
made one of the leading characters
guilty of duplicity, which caused the
| suicide of one of his friends land
| Bjornson admitted that he intended to
represent Sverdrup in this character.
Bjornson was severely censured by
the press, and as he voluntarily
changed the wording of the drama on
this point the children of Sverdrup
have agreed that the honor of their
illustrious father has been sufficiently
indicated.
Christiana, Norway, July 2.-The
fire which broke out yesterday at
Laurvig, province of Jarisberg, was
subdued this morning. About $50
buildings were destroyed. The loss is
estimated to be over million kroner
(about $28o,ooo).
The gross receipts of the merchant
marine of Norway for the year 1900
were $3S,610,000. OF this amount,
Great Britain and her colonies con.
tributed over one-third. The trade
with the United States yielded fully
$4,0O0,O00.
| From January l to June I no less
than $3.50 Norwegians left their coun-
try for good.
Nils Astrup, missionary in South
Africa, has been appointed bishop OF
the Schroeder mission.
SWEDEN.
Prof. G. Mittag-Leffler has been ap-
pointed foreign member of the Hun
garian academy of sciences.
The employees of the state railways
are strictly prohibited from collecting
money among themselves for presents
to some of their fellow employees.
Russia is yielding to the demands
of the tourist traffic. At the three
largest railway stations in Sweden,
combination tickets are sold for round
| trips through Russia, Austria, Ger
many and Sweden.
The friends of the public schools of
Sweden have petitioned the king to
provide for revision of the catechism
60 that it's Technology may exactly
| correspond to that of the revised edi-
ton of the Bible.
The journeymen bakers strike in
Gothenburg has been settled by a
compromise. Sixty-three hours shall
constitute weeks work, and a new
| scale of wages has been agreed on.
The employers will be permitted to
hire non-union men if they see fit.
The German strike-breakers have
been discharged. The agreement
shall be in force for three years.
Our latest advices state that insects
are doing considerable damage to the
fruit, potato and root crops of south
ern Sweden. In north Skane the fruit
trees were stripped of their leaves as
late as the 18th of June. ~,
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