Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-07
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FINLAND.
d]aimar Lagerborg, postmaster
general of Finland, has handed in hi.
resignation. He would not have tax.
en- this step unless pressure had been
made to bear on him from above. His
removal indicates that the secrecy OF
private correspondence is at an end
IN Finland. Col. Holmsen, a Norwe.
g1an by birth, is mentioned as Lager.
oorg's successor. This gentleman il
married to Governor General Bobri.
koft's daughter. The old mail service
cannot be radically changed. however.
without the discharge of the bulk of
the present functionaries.
The Social Democrats of Finland
are contemplating the nomination Of
candidates of their own for the COM
Ing election of members of the landt-
dag.
The Swedish candidates were elect
ed at the city elections in Helsingfors.
This was not strange, however, mas
much as the other parties had nomi-
mated no candidates.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg
states that 100000 Finlanders are des-
t'tute and starving as result of the
failure Of the crops.
DENMARK.
A strong young man died under the
surgeons knife at Aarhus. A tumor
was to be removed from his neck, and
chloroform was applied; but he died
without recovering consciousness.
Danish and Swedish capitalists are
organizing syndicate for the estab-
hshment of paper mills in Copenha-
gen, and contracts have already been
made for supplying most of the Dan
1sh newspapers.
A number of influential men repre-
senting the different political parties
organized society in Copenhagen for
establishing closer relations between
Denmark and her colonies, namely,
Iceland, the Farce islands; Greenland
and the West Indies. The society will
enter upon it's work at once.
The fund for the erection of a mon
ument to Queen Margrete, the great
ruler OF Scandinavia, has reached the
$4,000 mark, and the work of raising
money will be continued.
The largest carpet ever woven in
Denmark is the one made for the
large hall of the new court house in
Copenhagen. 1t measures $40 square
yards
The snow is from four to six feet
deep on the island of Moen. West
Moen received no mail in 4s hours,
and at Fanefjord milk wagon was
blockaded for three days.
The Gefion cement factory at Esb-
jerg, which had been closed since 1900,
was reduced to ashes the other day.
The insurance was $4,000.
A Copenhagen mass meeting which
was attended by $50 men resolved to
organize an anti-Socialist party. The
Immediate aim of the new party is to
fight the Socialists at the city cleo
lions next spring. The new organiza-
ton is hailed with enthusiasm by GER
tain elements.
Prof. Theodor Mommsen, the great
German historian, is of Danish ex-
traction, his birthplace being in Sles-
Wig.
Rev. P. O. Rothe, former dean of the
diocese of sjalland, died at the age Of
01H years. He was one of the most
prominent clergymen of Denmark,
and belonged to a family which has
been connected with the church since
the Reformation.
At the Oresuhd chemical works, Co.
penhagen, an employe named Rasmus
Andersen slipped and fell into a tank
of boiling soda lye. He was pulled
out at once, but was so terribly scald-
cd that he died at the hospital.
NORWAY.
Knut Hamsund wrote the finest
poem on the occasion of Bjornson's
birthday.
The Kristiania board of education
spent about 100000 last year. The
taxpayers think a reduction mig hit be
made without seriously hampering
the work.
The idle workingmen Of Kristiania
have asked the storthing for an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for distribution
among the most destitute of them.
Whatever remained of the provi-
sions of Captain sverdrup's Arctic ex-
petition was sold at public auction.
The goods commanded high prices.
The Stockholm Aftonblad sent the
following question to a number of IA
nous men: what rule of conduct
do you consider the most Important"
Bjornson gave the following answer:
IL. Cleanliness. 2. Sexual absti-
nence until a person is full-grown."
Five Norwegians who left Lillesand
in sailboat August first arrived at
Cape Town, South Africa, December
sixth. They had touched at Dover,
Madeira, Cape Verde and Bahia. They
were driven far out of their course by
contrary winds.
{, It is claimed that Prince Gustav
Adolf is going to attend the univer-
Ssitv of NORWAY during the spring term