Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-21

The 80 public school teachers OF
Mallno who signed IL protest against
the custom of having the bishop call
the school children for a public examl-
nation, conducted by himself, have
been officially censored by the board
of education.
Consul N. Person, of Helsingborg,
has sold his mines at Kaafjord, Nor
way, to the Sulitelma mining company.
The memorial medal of the Swedish
academy for the present year will be
issued in honor of st. Birgitta, who
was born in 1893 and died in 1873.
The extension of the time of service
IN the Swedish army will necessitate
the erection of new barracks for fifteen
regiments by the year 1909. The cost
OF erecting and equipping the build
ings will be over 5000, 900.
The old Bosjo mansion DIT East
Ringsjo, Skane, will soon be left empty,
the proprietor, who resides at Slofde,
having rented out the grounds, but not
the building.
John Hammar has sounded a clear
note OF warning to the Swedish manu-
tacturers on account Of the plan of the
American steel trust to sell farm i'm
PIGMENTS at much lower rates in Swe-
den than in America.
DR.. Emil Nilsson, of Ystad, who is
employed by the Swedish Anti-Tuber-
culos's society, is lecturing on tuber-
culosis in the cities of southern Swe-
den.
About $500 women are entitled to
vote at the local elections in Malmo,
and they may cast II, 200 votes in ALL
NORWAY
After month of wet weather there
was heavy snowfall in the country
south of Trondhjem before the ground
froze.
Hay and straw is imported in large
Quantities from the country around
Irondhjem to southeastern Norway.
There are vacant rooms in nearly
every Hat in Kristiania, and poverty
will cause much suffering during the
coming winter.
| The chemists of the Kristiania Polv-
technic society have passed a resolr.
ton in favor of protective tariff on
chemicals.
The public debt of the city of Kris
tlania has grown from So, 1876, 900 to
10000, 900 since 1883.
The estimated expenditures of the
city government of Kristiania for 1905
are $780,, 900.
A. Bjercl<, who has charge of the
storthing library, has finished COM
plete catalog of its 10000 volumes
The city council of Trondhjem has
voted S., 900 for a new weather signal
station at Ladehammer.
Nine whaling stations have received
lndennities from the government on
account Of the law prohibiting the
killing of whales along the coast of
Norway.
| The remains of the Viking ship at
Oseberg are still piled up at the burial
mound where they were found, be-
cause the government cannot agree
with the owner of the ground about
the price.
Considerable quantities of fine her.
ring have been caught at Smolen,
south of Trondhjem.
The storthing has cut down the pen
s'ons of many superanuated clergymen.
The storthing voted 1880 for re-
ligious services at the military drill
grounds
A new church building is to be erect.
ed on Bygdo ALE, Frogner, Kristiania.
The cost Of it will exceed $50, 900, and
its seating capacity will be 1000
The Swedish Artists union has
asked Gustav Vigeland, the Norwegian
sculptor, to open a separate exposition
in room rented by the union. A
similar honor has never been bestowed
on foreigner by the union during its
20 years existence.
General pOrange has written
lengthy newspaper article on the de-
lenses of northern Norway. In case
OF foreign invasion of that section of
the country, he says, the present de-
lenses would be wholly inadequate.
Norway cannot keep very large num-
Der OF soldiers in that part OF the coun-
try, and If they are to face powerful
| enemy they must either contend
against we'll nigh hopeless odds or re-
| ceive achievements from the south.
| The reinforcements have three routes
to choose between: They may march
from the northern terminus of the
| railway; but that would take several
weeks, and that much time would be
lost. They might go by rail through
northern Sweden; but that would pre-
suppose that the extreme North of
Sweden is in the hands of the Swedes.
which would be an unwarranted sup.
position. The water route is the re-
naming one. But that expedient
would be the most precarious of all.
Norway has comparatively small
navy. A powerful squadron would
| find it easy to patrol the coast of north
ern Norway so that no reinforcem znts
could be sent by sea. These and other
| arguments are paraded by General
lOrange to demonstrate the stratepical
Importance, not to say necessity, of
building a railroad to Nordland. con.
| Meeting Narvik, the western terminus
| of the Gellivare and Ofoten railway.
with the railway system of southern
Norway: The proposed railway has
many strong supporters, and it NAV
be built in few years. though such
an improvement means an increase of
the public debt.
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