Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-02-03
DEN MARK.

SuHleu ,oUU tons or peers u de-
cember
DENMARK
AS none of the old steamship COM
panies are making any provisions for
taking care of the local tourist and
pleasure traffic in the beautiful
Sound a new steamship company,
Iuristen, has been organized in Co.
penhagen in order to save this traffic
from humiliation. Aksel Olsen, an
attorney, is president of the COM
pany, and enough money has been
raised to buy a German pleasure
steamer, which is to be called
''Prins Hamlet" The intention is to
run this steamer between Copenha-
gen, and the following places: Hell
Singer, Kullen and Aveen. 1t is ex-
pected that private parties will oc-
casionally charter the steamer for
short trips. The company will run
this steamer one year as an expert
ment, the success or failure of which
will determine the future course Of
the company.
A committee of p members has
been elected to have charge of the
rebuilding Of the Kristiansborg pa
lace, which was burnt to the ground
few years ago.
The magazine du Nord of Copenha-
gen received an order from the gov
eminent to furnish the fixtures and
furniture for the new government
building in Iceland. The steamer
Laura carried the goods, consisting
of 60 boxes and bales of furniture,
curtains, carpets, etc.
Oscar Jensen, who assisted in tear
ing down the Svanholm brewery, Co.
penhagen, was covered by the debris
of a falling wall. He was dug out
by his comrades and they were agree
ably surprised to find that he had
the hospital it was soon discovered
that his abdomen was crushed and
he died an hour later.
NORWAY.
The board of aldermen of Kris
tiania declined to confer with the
temperance people with regard to
holding of a special election to vote
on the question, Saloons (samlag) ar
no Saloons?
Hans Olsen, a Drammen merchant,
has donated $3.50 to the Nansen
fund. He made a similar contribu-
ton few years ago.
The national games at Holmenkol-
len will take place Feb. T. s and 10.
A whaling steamer has been built
! for an English firm at Nyland's iron
works, Kristiania.
DR.. G.. Armauer Hansen of Bergen
has received second appeal from
| the government of Colombia to go
down there and try to check the
ravages of leprosy.
Jan. 6 was the Tooth anniversary Of
the establishment Of the diocese Of
Tromso, and the jubilee was celebrat-
ed with special service.
| Rev. Erikson, one of the four So
cialists in the storting, made an in
f1ammatory speech at a Kristiania
mass meeting the other day, and the
applause was frantic when he predict
ed that within three years the strug
gle between capitalism and Socialism
would be raging.
| About 60 steamers were anchored
in the harbor of Hangesund in the
early part of January.
! Some of the farmers of Helgeland,
| in the northern part of Norway, were
blowing their fields on the last day
of the old year; and at Bodo daisies
were picked in the open air on New
Years day.
| Sweden exported 100000 tons of
iron ore via Narvik, Norway, in 1908,
and the imposts received by the city
from this source amounted to 3d.
900.
A demented man who had been
cared for at Sundby, Hurum, ran
away into the woods in the early
! part of January, and his frozen body
was found in the forests at Roken.
| The Norwegian cabinet has resolv-
ed that a royal proposition shall be
introduced in the storting to specify
the public Offices which may be held
by women. One of the features of the
bill is that in all cases where women
may serve, the two sexes shall COM
pete on equal terms. The cabinet
does not believe women ought to be
appointed ministers, provincial gov
errors, policemen, jailers, managers
! of insane asylums, consuls, officials
at the mines, bailiffs, civil or mill
! tary officers. The theological facul-
ty and all the bishops had objected
more or less emphatically against
women as ministers. Women shall
| also be excluded from the cabinet and
the office of secretary of state. The
proposition makes no distinction be-
| tween married and single women.
Schoning, a member of the cabinet,
was in favor of permitting women
errors, etc.
Rome, Jan. 6. The pope today re-
ceived the kings adjutant, Col. Rus
tad, and wife in audience.
Victoria Hotel, Kristiania, has been
bought back by it's former proprietor,
P. o. Persen, for $141,750.
The will of the late G. E. Loren
zen, a lumber dealer in Drammen,
provides that $4,000 shall be set
aside for the care of consumptives.
The Stavanger poor-house, at Hille-
vaag, was destroyed by fire. One of
the 70 inmates, namely, an old man
named Hommestad, was burnt to
death. The stock was saved, but the
furniture and the crops were destroy
ed. Everything was insured. A new
building which was in process of
construction was saved.
OF $4,000 Kristiania school children
that were subjected to ARCHAEOLOGICAL