Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-01
NORWAY

NORWAY
Rev. Erikscn, socialist member OF
the storthing, introduced bill abol-
lshing the Offices of bell-ringers and
bishops. The committee on church at.
fairs proposed that the bill be re-
ferred to the government All the
members of the committee agreed that
the bell~ringers, or xt ms, might be
dispensed with, but m. of them firm
~ believe that the bi h Fps are ncces-
sary.
1t looks as if the receipts of the gov
eminent for the current year will run
about Sl75, 200 below the estimate on
which the budget of expenses was
made.
a number of Norwegian authors, ar
lists and scientists have petitioned the
Russian government to set Maxim
Cork free.
Gustav Vigcland has finished
stat lie Of. Niels Henrik Abel, the great
Norwegian mathematician, and the
| Abel monument committee has re-
solved to accept the work.
Three persons were living on one of
| the Roseth farms, West Totem. Their
ages were 81, GO and ~ years, and all
of them died of pneumonia within ten
days leaving the house empty.
In Tuddal, Telemarl1en, 43 buildings
were either blown down or damaged
during storm.
Bjornson said: IF I were to sign
the petition to have Maxim Cork lib
Grated he would be sent to Siberia
Paul Nessjo made leap of SO feet,
standing, at a ski run on Graakallen,
Trondhjem. He made another leap of
125 feet, but fell down when he struck
the ground.
! Kristiania had o2e, BAG inhabitants
Dec 81, 1904. There was decrease
of ! 1903 in one year.
! A cablegram of Feb. IS stated that
the storthing, by unanimous vote,
referred the question of establishing
separate Norwegian consulates to a
committee of 10, to be composed of s
Rightists, Leftists, Moderates and
l Socialist.
| Harbor Inspector Gloersen, one of
the oldest citizens of Kristiania, cele-
brated his 9th birthday anniversary
Feb. l. For number of years he
commanded sailing vessels, and in
1856 became captain of the steamer
Gauger Rolf. Mr.. Gloersen has lived
under eight different kings
The whole number of deaths caused
by the Leonvand catastrophe was 81.
Col. I. Munthe Bull, brother of the
great violinist, died at Bergen, aged
50 years.
Lofoten was visited by a storm
which proved more destructive than
the first reports indicated. In the
parish of Buksnes the damage was
perhaps SIS, 900, while in Flakstad par
ish the destruction of boats and build
ings was SO extensive that the loss
may reach 100000. At Refine MANY
houses were SO badly demolished that
their occupants were actually rem
dered homeless Adolf Steffensen's
house at Torsfjord was blown over and
crushed, and all of the occupants were
badly injured. One of them, child,
died the next day. Adolf Steffensen,
the head of the family, was away from
home when the storm set in, and he
started for the house as fast as he
could. But the storm overlook him,
and only fragments of his broken boat
were found.
| Ministers of the state churches of
Norway and Sweden were to have a
joint conference, but the executive
committee of the Norwegian ministers
union decided that the Norwegian
ministers cannot attend the confer
ence if the consular service plan is
foiled.
The American millionaire explorer,
Mr.: Mcmillan, has engaged number
of Norwegians to take leading part
in carrying out his project of estab-
fishing chain of trading posts be-
tween Abyssinia and the Blue Nile.
The party is to meet in London and
go thence by way of Alden to Harrar.
The real starting point of the expe-
dition's work will be at the source of
Blue Nile.
Fredril< 0. Juell Hansen, district
cashier of the Bergen railway, and
Johan Theodor Nilsen, his guide, are
supposed to have persisted in the noun
tains near Voss. They were lost while
on the way from Finse to Voss Six
separate expeditions and so laborers
went in search of them, but in vain.
The lost men were expert ski runners.