Willmar tribune., 1904-11-16
NORWAY.

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The number of properties insured in
the city of Aalesund at the time of the
destruction of the city was 666, and
the aggregate loss to the insurance
companies was $2,551, 500.
Less than $4,000 barrels of ''fat her.
ring" was caught in Norway during
the past season, as compared with
375, 900 barrels last year.
About $1,000 has been raised for a
new church building at Vahls Plads,
Kristiania.
Free lunch is served to $4,000 chill
dren in the public schools of Kristiania.
The farmers of Totem have notified
the milk condensing company that they
will not sell any milk to the company
after Jan. /. They are also making
preparations for reopening dairies,
years. The milk condensing company
and the farmers could not agree on the
prices of milk, and the company
, would not yield to the demand of the
farmers to use certain kinds of feed
which the company claims to be in
furious to the milk.
Nordmore had good hay crop. and
even the mountain hay was stacked in
good condition. The grain yielded a
fair crop, but the potatoes are way be-
low the average.
Election returns from Tromso, the
socialist amt: At Bardo. leftists and
rightists were elected. Malmselven
will not be carried by the socialists
because the upper part of the valley
has elected none. At Bjarko the elec-
ton was non-partisan. At Tromso-
sund and Helgo socialists were elected.
In Berg and SEMEN the combined op-
position won great victory. The
elections in the rural districts of
Tromso amt are closed, and the result
for the whole amt may be put down as
an overwhelming defeat for the social
ists
The stockh olders of the Totem pota-
to flour factory at Gjovik have resolved
to dissolve the company and close the
plant
In many settlements in Norway
and in Norwegian settlements in
America, too, for that matter-it is
still customary to bring all sorts OF
good food (barsolmad) to woman a
few days after she has given birth to
a child. At Nordmore farmers wife
trudged to neighbor's house few
days ago, carrying a rich mess of cream
mush (rommegroD for the housewife,
who had recently become a mother
But the mother of the youngest citizen
of the Sc tlement was not at home
she had gone to the place of election
to cast her ballot, which goes to prove
that the new woman is not an un-
known quantity among the Norwegian
farmers.
One hundred and fifty persons were
expelled from Norway during the first
half of the present year. Among these
were eight Armenians, or Persians-
The storthing resolved to send Is
representatives to the interparlia-
mentary congress in Paris.
Three young people were drowned
at Sandsvar in attempting to cross the
Laugen in an overloaded boat. Eleven
persons, who had attended a festival
In a chapel, crowded into boat late
at night. But the boat could not
carry such a big load, and it sank
about 40 feet from the shore. Eight
of them were saved, but two girls and
one man were drowned.
Lars A. Havstad declares with en-
emphases that so little money has
been spent on the Norwegian navy
during the past five years thet it is in
a state of rapid and dangerous de.
cadence.
The Berlin Boersen Courier has dis
cussed the financial condition of the
government of Norway. stating that
the deficit Of the budget must be GOV.
cred by new taxes Several German
papers have mentioned the PROPOSE
ton to introduce a protective tariff
system in Norway.
Sagenes bakery, Kristiania, was
started 80 years ago by stock com
pany, which issued 144 shares at S;
each. The plant has enjoyed a healthy
growth, and the market value of tht
stock has risen from So to $50 in 81
years. The stock is owned mainly BY
laborers living in the vicinity.