Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-18

justly or unjustly, have been taken
to be spies sent out by the Russian
government. Two such "saw filers''
| have traversed Ibestad, Trondenes,
Harstad, Lodingen and parts of Lofo-
ten, filing saws and grinding knives
and scissors. One of them. has been
arrested on a charge of having COM
mitted rape. They are by no means
skilled in their trade. Two other
Russians are spending the winter in
the vicinity of Bodo.
A conservative authority thinks that
the absence of fish in Nordland this
winter is due to the fact that the wa
ter is much colder than usual
| The hotel keepers of Hougesund are
on strike, the first of it's kind in the
world. The city council deprived them
of the right of selling beer, and now
they refuse to accommodate travel
ers, thereby expecting to induce the
city council to rescind its resolution.
A Kristiansund druggist tried to sell
liquors on his apothecary's license,
but he came to grief. He was fined
! $50, and 40 gallons of cognac was TAX
en- away from him.
Prof. Sophus Bugge, in a public ad-
dress, expressed grave fears as to the
| future independence of the Scandina-
Wan nations. AS to these fears Born
| son says: Our nations are so rich in
possibilities that we should neither
fear nor grieve. The three national
Municipalities into which our people
are divided are among the healthiest
and the most capable of development
on earth"
The exports of Norway for the year
| 1902 aggregated $45, 4s3, 800, as against
S42,516,900 for the previous year. The
imports for 1902 were $79, 457, 400,
those for 1901, ST. 1885, $50. Barley and
rye were imported to the value of
100000 in 1902, and the coffee bill
was about $3,000,000.
The public school of Thorsnes, near
Frederikstad, has been closed on ac-
count of diphtheria- Several children
have succumbed to the disease.
The storthing is cutting down the
budget of expenses prepared by the
| government.
The ''sport week. at Holmenkollen,
Kristiania, left a deficit of several
| thousand kroner, which must be paid
by the guarantors.
! Considerable quantities of herring
have been caught between Bergen
and Stavanger.
A loan for converting old bonds to
an amount exceeding 100000 has
been secured from the Paris Comp
toir National d. Escompte, the terms
being the most favorable on which
any Norwegian loan has been made
since 1897.
The Vesterdalere mines at Naver-
ford, Finmarken, have been sold to
Consul Person of Belsingborg for
s67 500.
SWEDEN.
| A person who prefers to have his
name withheld from the public has
bought Erland Nordenskiold's collec-
tons of fossils from South America,
and donated them to the National
Museum. The price paid was $2,7o0.
Crown Princess Victoria arrived at
Rome Feb. 81. She begged to be ex-
cused from attending a reception.
DR.. Martin Ekenberg of Stockholm
has invented what he calls an exsic-
Gator for turning skim milk into
dry powder, or "milk-hour.'' A sam
pie exsiccator has been in operation
for several months, and the invention
is said to be past it's experimental
stages. The apparatus which has
been in use the longest can reduce
500 gallons of skim milk to "milk-
four in ten hours. The "milk-flour''
can easily be dissolved in water hay
ing a temperature of 10 to 1875 de-
grees Fahrenheit, and as food the
new milk is said to be almost as good
as the milk out of which the -four was
made. An exsiccator of the above
capacity will cost little over one
thousand dollars. The dairymen are
eager to find out everything about
the exsiccator, for the dairies of
Sweden have about 150,000,00o gallons
of skim milk to dispose Of every year.
The new labor union of Ma1mo is
in q highly prosperous condition, it's
liabilities being $4,000 and its assets
81, 600. IN. + 4 ~ i
a large proportion OF the railway
employees along the line which runs
through Jemtland to rondjem, are
making preparations for emigrating
= Canada And this g not GO strange.
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