Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-08-27
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FAIHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.

50 s"e OAu countries About tho
North Sea Within a Week
or So just Past.
DENMARK.
Navigation has been greatly i'm
peded by ice along the coasts of
Greenland this summer.
"A monument consisting OF four
teen-foot granite block has been rails
ed In memory of C. Berg at Bovbjerg.
MIR. Berg for two decades was the
genius of the Liberal party. The
monument was unveiled July % in the
presence of 5000 people.
A Dane who resides at Moscow.
Russia, writes to Danish daily. that
the Danish buttermakers should not
be over polite to Russians who go to
Denmark for the purpose of learning
how to make the finest butter in the
world. In few years those Russians
may thank the Danes for the accom-
mediation by destroying the butter
export trade of Denmark.
Bojarin, the new Russian ironclad
which was built at Burmeister &
Wain's shipyards, will be launched in
a few days.
NORWAY.
Waldeck-Roussean, the French
statesman, had long talk with
Kaiser Wilhelm in Norway. On this
occasion the latter said the Norwe-
gians were lot of dad radicals"
But he excused them on the ground
that this inclination must be due to
the natural grandeur of the country
in which they live Such country,
he thought, will naturally produce
Missionaries and iconoclasts. As II
matter of fact, however, the Norve-
gians are rather slow in adopting i'm
portant reforms, says Verdens Gang.
Many of the great nations have had
general suffrage for decades, Norway
only for the past four years. The jury
system was introduced only after it
had been in vogue for long time in
other civilized countries. Socialism is
a very tiny plant in Norway, while
scores of socialists are occupying
seats in Kaiser Wilhelm's own reich
stag, and Waldeck-Rossean admitted
Verdens Gang closes it's comments on
the subject thus: 1--WE are LIBERAL
but radical? Did ever nation of
radical commoners exist? No; all this
talk about the terrible radicalism in
Norway is due exclusively to our de-
mands for an equal standing with
Sweden in the union. It has been in
vented to arouse hostility towards us
in Europe. The sympathy of Europe
for the Beers was famed into fame,
though they have lived only a few
decades in their country. We have
possessed our country as a united ma
ton for more than thousand years.
May we not be allowed to vindicate
our rights to control our own at
fairs without being branded as
dreamers and visionaries?''
Scraps of news from the city Of
Bergen. Strandgaden, the quaint old
street, will be partly changed. The
great fire of 1901 cleared the way for
the change by sweeping away lot of
buildings of divers categories, ages
and styles. Completely new and mod
ern streets will be laid out, and most
of the buildings will be large ware
houses. The Encouragement of the
streets alone will cost about four
hundred thousand dollars. The city
is about to establish a new naval
academy at a place called Nord-
nespynt. A nautical observatory will
be connected with the institution
The city has also donated sites for,
new library building and new
business college.-The poor depart
ment is managed according to the So
called Elberfeld system. This system
is somewhat expensive, but it works
so well that no one favors a return to
the old state of things.-Bergen has
contributed almost $1,OOO,OOO to the
railroads which in few years will
connect this city with Kristiania and
the great railway system of the coun
try. 1t is expected that the new rail-
way will draw the bulk of the passen-
ger traffic between Bergen and the
eastern part of the country, and con-
siderable quantities of fresh fish will
no doubt pass along the same route.
But most of the freight will go by the
old waterway. The new railway is
bound to be patronized by the tour
ists.-For centuries Bergen was the
great center for the export of fish and
fish products. But she holds this
point of advantage no longer. Most
of the fish caught along the coast of
north of Bergen for a dis
lance of almost a thousand miles is
exported directly.-The merchant ma
rine of Bergen is large and is enjoy
ing healthy and rapid growth, the
of Bergen being as intel
ligent and wide-awake as any in the
whole world.
The joint consular service commit
tee completed it's work July rs, all the
members signing the report.
Admiral Crowninshield permitted
the Music band of the Illinois to give
a concert at Sankthanshougen (St.
Johns Hill, near Kristiania, for the
benefit of poor children. The attend
ance was 1900. 1t was a magnificent
musical treat, and formal address of
thanks was forwarded to Admiral
Crowninshield. -,
Sven Ulsaker, young and highly
r;ffo1 N4vxporion musician 1io1 n