Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-01

gift OF. 81, 1000 from a person who does
not want his name published.
A Stockholm steamer named Sgd.
kusten sailed from Lubbock Dec. 80,
and since that date no trace of it has
been seen. It must have gone to the
bottom Of the Baltic with all on hand.
The new church building at Tygel'
sjo, Skanc. was dedicated Jan. %.
bistop.Ri was unable to DO pres
cnt.
The profits of the government bank
ct Sweden for the year 1904 were ST.
SAC, 49,, an increase of $337, 500 as COM
pared with tho previous year,
Whenever the tariff is.raised on any
particular article, Spectators are on q
sharp lookout for the purpose OF i'm
porting large quantities of such article
before the raise is enforced In this
manner the spectators manage to reap
what was intended for the govern
mems How can this sort of specula-
ton be avoided? is a question which
has troubled the government 1t is
agreed that when raise has been de-
c'ded upon it ought to be enforced at
once. But the executive committee OF
the general commercial union of Swe.
den proposes to 60 much farther by
enforcing the raise as soon rs pro-
posed by the government, before the
riksdag has had time to act upon the
proposition.
NORWAY
The consular service committee ap-
pointed one year ago has made a COM
plctc report to the government, recon-
mending that Norwegian consuls gen.
eral be sent to st. Petersburg, Berlin,
Antwerp, London, Paris, Barcelona,
Genoa, New York, Montreal, Capetown
and Shanghai; consuls of the first class
to Archangel. Hamburg and Bilbao;
and vice consuls to Hongkong, Lon
don, New York, Cardiff, Liverpool,
Rotterdam, Rio dc Janciro, Buenos
Ayres, Kobe and Melbourne The sal.
| aries OF these consuls will be $37, 800
! in excess of what the Norwegian gov.
eminent contributed to the joint con.
| sular service of Norway and Sweden in
1904
Prot. p. Vinogradoff, the great au.
thority on the history of Russian law,
is pursuing special researches at the
university of Norway. He reads and
speaks Norwegian with ease.
The chapel at Holmenkollen, near
krlstiania, is not yet completed, and
the building committee is making
fresh efforts to raise the necessary
funds.
A storm did considerable damage in
the northern part of the country Jan.
Il. At Porsangvik a boat occupied by
three men was lost. At Sortvik, HELM.
SO, a snowslide carried away a house
| and killed two men. At Havnnes,
Skjervo, small farmstead was GOV.
! cred by snowslide. People visiting
at Rotsund hurried to the place and
| dug out the people, all of whom were
| alive, but more or less bruised. It
took long search to find three.
month-old baby, which seemed to be
uninjured, though its cradle was split
up into kindling wood.
A course of scientific temperance lee.
| lures has just been given In Kristi-
| ania. One of the lecturers was Hon.
Sven Aarrestad, who stated that there
are 1,700 total abstinence organiza-
tions in Norway; that 10000 temper
ance meetings are held every year, and
that 100000 persons contribute about
100000 in cash to the temperance work
each year.
Miss Ida Lie, a lady who distin-
| guished herself as a music teacher in
kristiania for period of so years, died
Jan. 5. She was sister of Mrs. Erika
Nissen, the famous pianiste, who was
her first scholar.
More logs are cut this winter than
ever before in the government forests
at Famund.
MIR. Berner was elected president of
the storthing
The Norwegian papers are growing
| more and more bitter against Sweden
on account of the complications be-
tween the two governments with re-
gard to the consular service.
Three school houses were closed in
Glemminge, near Fredrikstad, on &C.
count of the prevalence of diphtheria
Karl Aas writes in Dagbladet that
the Norwegians now begin to look
upon the union as dissolved, and that
the formal separation of Norway and
Sweden may be effected in perfectly
peaceful manner. The Norwegians
will let Oscar II. remain their king un-
til he dies; but they will elect his sue.
cessor as soon as possible. Mr.. Aas
thinks >the Norwegians will choose
either Prince Carl, a son Of King Oscar.
or Prince Carl Wilhelm Ludwig, the
second son of the crown prince of
Norway and Sweden. Either of the
two, Mr.. Aar says, Twill be received
with Joy by the Norwegian people, ="
Norway is free country" with a ven.
geance, or such stuff as this could not
be published with IMMUNITY in a great
daily.
Coal from Spitzbergen was tested on
the Voss railway, but no definite re-.
suits were arrived at No difficulty
was experienced in keeping up the
steam, and but little smoke was devel.
oped; but the coal left large amount
of Stag. Twenty tons were used at
the Bergen elecric power station, and
the man who conducted the expert
ments at that place was pleased with
the results.
The Kristiania labor market was in
a worse condition in December, 1904.
than in any corresponding month since
the public employment Office was es.
tablished, in 1898. In December. 1904.
tho rate IF annlicatiope -uo.,.