Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-15

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scientific observatory in Greenland. 1t
is expected that the government will
pay the running expenses of such a
station.
NORWAY
The town board of Hollcn has
voted $4,000 towards building rail-
road from Skien to Lunde and Notod-
den, which will make portion of
the western railway.
About $500, 900 is being spent for i'm
provements at the Embretfos factories.
In MEDIUM. Over 400 men have been
employed at that place during the win
ter.
Endeavors will be made this wear to
celebrate the Seventeenth of Nav in
such a way that the political party
lines cannot be seen in the arrange
ments.
About 400 voters held a meeting in
Kristiansund and passed a resolution
instructing the storthing to establish
a consular service for Norway.
There is an ominous sound in news
paper editorials about the successful
fight which little Holland put ND
against the power of Spain in the six.
tenth and seventeenth centuries
Fire destroyed factory and Meth.
odist church in Porsgrund.
The women's union of the Kristiania
labor party passed resolution in favor
OF preventing children below the age
of fifteen from obtaining tobacco.
A boy from Aarnes station was driv-
ing horse along the Vormen river,
when the rig rolled into the stream.
the boy and horse were drowned.
The appropriations made by the
storthing before Feb. 20 aggregated
So, 1873, 00O This is about $45, 900 less
than what the government proposed
for the same purposes.
Prince Wilhelm was to take part in
bear hunt at Drangedal. But there
| could be no bear hunt for the simple
reason that there was no bear in that
quarter of the globe.
The cabinet proposes the establish
ment of fund of $4,000, from which
Finmarken fishermen may borrow
| mouey on easy terms.
It is proposed to pay subsidies to the
families of poor soldiers The rate
mentioned is cents day for fam
lily. and cents a day additional for
for every child in the family, during
the time spent in military training by
the head of the family.
Rev. Wexelsen, ex-membev of the
cabinet, has been proposed as bishop
of the diocese of Trondhjem.
The parish of Frogner, Kristiania,
will have new church building. 1t
will have seating capacity of 1000.
! Rjornson is against the establish
ment of a Norwegian consular service
at the present moment. He wants to
continue the negotiations with Swe-
den.
The Norwegian cabinet has adopted
rule, according to which superanu-
ated officers of the army shall be per-
mitted to wear their uniforms But
they must also report changes of their
address to the military authorities, SO
that they can be reached on short no.
tice in case of mobilization. If they
fail to obey the latter rule they shall
be deprived of their pensions for the
time being.
The Refine property, near Ibbestad,
! was visited by a great snow-slide. The
snow started near the summit of the
Relnetindcr mountains, which arc
! about 1000 feet high, and when the
mass reached the beach it covered a
path about 500 feet wide. A house
containing five persons was buried
under the snow. The neighbors soon
ca lie to the scene, but it took several
hours to find the buried people. A
young man was dead when found, and
young girl was badly hurt.
The bodies of eight of the 81 per-
sons who lost their lives in the Loen-
wand disaster have been recovered,
The whole number OF buildings de-
stroyed was 80.
The H. D, singing society of Trond-
hjem has resolved to cancel concert
in Ostersund, Sweden, ION account of
the present political situation" A
Scandinavian rife tournament which
was to have been held at the same
place may also be declared off for the
same reason.
Over 5000 able-bodied persons are
without work in Kristiania.
Crown Prince Gustav, the regent.
has asked Nicholson, former minister
of finance, to form a new cabinet in
place of the Hagerup ministry, which
resigned March l.
Most encouraging reports have been
received from the herring fisheries at
Hvaler and Ferder; rs much rs $4,000
barrels having been caught in, one
week. In other ports of the country
the returns are. much smaller than
last year and the year before.
A new steamer has been ordered
for traffic on Leon lake in place of
the one which was destroyed by the
avalanche which caused the death of
81 persons a few weeks ago.
The snow was in magnificent condi-
ton for ski running in the mountains
around Trondhj em in the latter part
of February.
In Lier, not far from Drammcn, a
woman had her feet terribly burnt
in n peculiar manner. She had her
feet wrapped in tarrcd okum which
caught fire.
The Goldfish along the coast of Nor
way are in better condition than for
many years past, and the liver is