Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-15
DENMARK,

to bookseller In London for to-:
thousand dollars. The book was in
herited in the Kraft family for sew.
eral generations.
knut Paulsen, brother of Valdemar
Paulsen, the inventor of the tele-
graphone, discovered by the merest
accident that spruce cones contain q
substance that strongly resembles RAJ
dunn BY means of chemical COM
btnation, which he guards as a pro-
found secret, he succeeded in demon
strating the presence Of the substance.
1t Is highly explosive, and is self-lum-
inous. resembling of phosphorus A
Norwegian scientist, to whom VALDEZ
mar Paulsen.. confided his sdiscovery.
has paid the greatest attention to it.
NORWAY
The police Of Kristiania have caused
the killing of hundreds OF dogs whose
owners had failed to have their ami
mails properly registered.
The general feeling in Norway at
the present moment seems to be that
king Oscar is the only real bond of
union between Norway and Sweden"
King Oscar donated 81, $50 to the suf-
fering survivors of the Leonvand dis
aster
King Oscar donated over 81 900 to
charitable concerns in Kristiania on
his 10th birthday:
Bjornson still maintains with unmis-
taxable ardor that Bertha Won Suttner
is entitled to Nobel prize.
Memorial services were held in Aale-
sund on Jan. %, the first anniversary
OF the fire which reduced the the whole
city to ashes.
Harbor Inspector Fische, of Bodo,
died from the effects of being run over
by vehicle on the street. He was 65
years old. The authorities will make
it hot for the driver of the vehicle.
The city of Trondhjem had 40, 347 in.
habitants Jan. l. The increase for
two years was 1.494.
The number of new cases of diph-
there reported in Kristiania for the
week ending Jan. 81 was 1os. The
disease is spread all over the city.
Many bodies of persons killed in the
Leonvand catastrophe are still MISS
ing. Some of them may never be re-
covered, because the water IS 200 feet
deep where they are supposed to be
lying.
Two gentlemen and lady, the wife
OF a Bergen baker named Hilland. fell
through the ice on Fjosanger lake,
near Bergen, and the lady was
drowned
A boat occupied by two men cap
sized at Storfcsen, not far from Trond-
hjem. When upset, the boat could not
support both of them, and they low
cred themselves into the water on
either side, holding each others hands
across the keel of the boat. While
they were drifting in this position one
of them was seized with cramps and
died. but the other was picked up be-
fore life had fed. A week before
Christmas the survivor had similar
experience In that case his companion
also died, and he himself was not
saved until he had become unconscious.
Two Skien business men killed fe-
male bear at Sauland, Telemarken,
and her three cubs were taken alive.
The will of Shipowner Christensen
OF Haugesund was opened Jan. %. It
provides for a large fund for the aid of
worthy poor in Haugesund. Chris
tiansen's relatives will get S35, ZOO, and
his widow Sill, 200 in cash and all the
property owned by him. The aid fund
shall be kept intact until it amounts
to S1S9,000. The estate of the de-
ceased was worth $425,0Oo.
The city of Bodo has resolved to con-
tract for a loan of 100000.
A representative of the Copenhagen
Politiken has interviewed number of
leading Norwegian politicians on the
consular service question, and if their
expressions forecast future events, one
of the first definite steps to be taken
by the Norwegians will be to make
provisions for the establishment of a
consular service for Norway. The
next step may be a memorial from the
storthing to the king, requesting him
to use his good offices in effecting a
peaceful dissolution Of the, union of
Norway and Sweden, ga union which
the Norwegians more than ever look
upon as an objectionable caricature. {"
The loss caused by the falling of a
part of mountain into the Leonvand
lake is estimated at ST., 1000 Sixty
persons lost their lives, and large
amount of stock persisted. Directly
across the lake from the avalanche the
water rose about 1875 feet, and the
steamer Lodalen was left by the wave
about 100 feet above the level of the
lake.
A young lawyer named Irgens has
an interesting proposition with regard
to the celebration. of the 18th of
May, 1914, the Tooth anniversary Of
the independence of Norway. He does
not want a Scandinavian exposition
that year, he wants Norwegian one,
and he would make great efforts to
enlist the interest of Norwegians of
all countries in the undertaking. He
is particularly anxious to have the as
sistance of Observation-Disclosures
Capt. Otto Sverdrup, the Arctic Ell,
plorer, has gone to Cuba in the inter-
est of an industrial enterprise in that
island. j.:
The Norwegian storthing has been
in the habit of voting considerable
sums ofmoney as aid to gifted young
men, in order that they may continue
their studies abroad. Last year two
of the bountied young men quarreled
md fought in Copenhagen restau-
rant. The Danish newspapers cracked
a lot of jokes about it, and the present
storthinv. after, a hot debate. t1ronnn1