Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19


The department of the navy has in
structed the officials of the nationa,
government in Norrbotten to report
on the supply of coal along the coast
OF that province at the beginning of
the second, third and fourth quarters
of 1903 and the first quarter of 1904.
The reports shall also specify all the
steamers and barges which may be
used for carrying coal and are owned
by parties residing in the above mem
toned territory. No reason is given
for the instruction given by the de-
Partment of the navy.
The explosion of Capt. Unge's bal
loon was due to the fact that the bal
last was too small. The captain in
tended to rise to height of only
about 1900 feet. But the balloon
rose very rapidly to height of al
most 5000 feet. The result was, that
the pressure of the gas in the balloon
became so much greater than the
pressure of the air at that elevation,
that the cloth of the balloon could
not stand the strain. Capt. Unge and
Engineer Wikander, his companion,
did not hear the explosion, but they
soon noticed that they were sinking
at rapid rate, and they threw out
the remaining ballast, which reduced
the speed of the balloon very materi-
ally. They remained perfectly cool
during the descent, and they landed
in a forest near Stockholm. The bal
loon was caught on telephone post
and some tree-tops, and the men
struck the ground without receiving
the slightest injury.
NORWAY.
The He'll and Sunnan railway line
is finished as far as Levanger, and
this part of it was to be formally
opened for public traffic Oct. 20.
Reports from different parts of
Norway show that when the snow
storm of Oct. Is swept the country,
from rs to Is per cent of the grain
was still in the fields, and in few
places the potatoes had not been dug.
Wilhelm Singer of Vienna has pro-
posed the establishment of a tribunal
of honor for the settlement of news
paper controversies. This proposition
gave Bjornson occasion to remind the
public that he made similar sugges-
ton to an influential newspaper man
number of years ago, and the poet
further produces some plausible ar
guments in favor of such a tribunal.
The cutter Rose from Arendal cap
sized in the North Sea. Captain
Peder Tonnesen and sailor sue
ceeded in climbing up on the keel
after the craft had turned around,
and there they fought against death
for eighteen hours. They were final
ly saved by steamer that passed by.
The Kristiania Orebladet is respon-
sible for the following: Henrik
1bsen has rented rooms at the cor
ner of Albinsgade and Drammensvei,
an exceptionally fine location. The
department of agriculture has been
looking around for new quarters, and
this building seemed to be the most
suitable. When Ibsen found out what
was apt to happen he dictated this
ultimatum: IF I am driven out of
this building shall 60 to Germany"
The department abandoned it's plan,
and Norway is permitted to keep
Ibsen.
The Norwegian Geographical So
ciety has ordered it's first gold med
ais, which are to be awarded to Nam
sen, Captain Sverdrup and DR.. Hedin.
A tall, fine girl who was enjoying
dance at Bratland, not far from
Bergen, suddenly died of hemorrhage.
It was found that she had laced her.
self so tightly that her corset had
to be cut open with knife, and the
doctor declared that her death was
due directly to tight lacing.
The plans and specifications for the
new ironclad have been agreed upon.
It is to be of a minor type. The
committee in charge of this work for
a time contemplated a more modern
type. but careful inquiries induced
all the members but one to vote for
the general plans on which the four
old ironclads were built.
The Paris Figaro holds that the
establishment of separate con-
sular service for Norway will tend
to bring out more conspicuously than
before the subordinate position Of
Norway in the union of Sweden and
Norway.
DENMARK.
A number of Copenhagen students
are organizing a students fencing
club.
It seems to be an easy matter to
raise few thousand dollars by pop
ular subscription for a monument to
the late Minister of Public Traffic
Horup.
Mrs. Marie Konow has written a
small book about the family life and
personal habits of her father,
Ohlenschlager, the great Danish poet.
A forty-foot we'll caved in at
Svendborg, burying two men and
killing them almost instantly. 1t
took % men "a hours to reach the
bodies of the victims.'
A subscription has been started for
the erection of an obelisk at Koge in
memory of two naval heroes, Niels
Juel and liver Hvitfeldt.