Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-16


as the Americas representative az the
DANISH court President Roosevelt last
Monday appointed Thomas J.0'Bryan.
OF Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. OBryan
is lawyer and for thirty years has
been general counsel for the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railroad He was
the Republican candidate for supreme
court Judge in 1893, and has been
delegate to national Conventions Mr..
Swenson has represented the United
States at Copenhagen since 1897,
Are the Interests OF sport more
sacred than those OF hollaw-eyel
wantY' asks the Gothenburg AIolnn
Post, and registers sharp protest
against the action Of the state rallr0al
authorities in carrying free Of charge
from Stockholm To 0stersund tn,
horses used in winter sports races
shortly after having refused the e
quest for free transportation of hay,
straw and other fodder to the famished
districts of Bohuslan and bal IN west
ern Sweden.
The consolidation OF the two large
manufacturing plants of the Separator
and the Centrifugal companies tmakers
of cream separators) was set for March
z, when a meeting was held i'm Stock
holm to complete arrangements. ~
the same time 300 new shares were TO
be offered, representing 100000
kronor added capital Separator shares
of 1000 kronor par value now selling
at 900 kronor.
Conspicuous in pro-Russian demon
stration IN the Piazza del Popolo, in
Rome, were a number of Norwegian
residents of the eternal city. The vie
of TTolger Drachman. the poet. took
so active n part that she barely es-
capped arrest when the military pro-
ceeded TO dispense the crowds. 0lof
Bull, an art student. who made obstin-
ate resistance. was among those ar
rested
The benefciaries of the Hoyen fund
for the current year are: Triotltf
Backer Grondahl, the piano virtuoso;
oluf n. Thorne, the painter; Eina
Schou. the architect: Stub Wiberg the
actor. Gabriel Scott the author; who
received 1000 kronor each; Karl VOID
who received 600 kronor. and Macody
Lund and Sigval Schmidt Nielsen,
who divided 1000 krcnor.
For the Hans Christian Anderson
centenary 10 be celebrated with great
festivities early in April. extensive
preparations are being made. most
interesting feature will be the study
chamber of the author. restored to its
original order Most OF the furniture
and other articles are now in the pos
session of the Collin family as high
ly priced relics. =
Charges Of election fraud have been
preferred against II. Halvofsen, high
school principal and leader of the
Rightist party In Haugesund. The
teetotalers have produced evidence
showing that Halvorsen tempered with
the polling lists at the last city cleo
ton, and the rigsadvokat has taken
the case In hand.
Johannes Larsen Relstad, Of Berge,
Lofoten, who was born In 1899, is the
| oldest known person in Norway. He
Is still hale. but suffers from weak
ness of the knees. For some years
past the old man has been mowing his
crops of hay, crawling about on his
knees
fire caused by an explosion In one
Of the buildings Of the government
arsenal at Karlskrona, Feb. 90 de-
stroyed the building and threatened
large stores of explosives I'm the i'm
mediate vicinity, which. II reached.
would have wrought widespread ruin.
At the dedication OF the new Pan
Protestant cathedral In Berlin. Feb.
q. the Norwegian state church was
represented. at the special invitation OF
Emperor William, by Pishop Bang.
and Revs. Einar Skavlan and Jorgen
! Brochman. of Kristiansand.
No American mails arrived In Chris
| tiania from JAN 81 and Feb. T, the
mail steamers having been delayed by
severe weather. On the last naraed
| date incoming steamers brought no less
than seventy-three bags Of mail from
| the United States.
The German steamship lines have
agreed to stop their competition for the
/ Scandinavian business on condition
that the Scandinavian american line
discontinues bidding for the transporta-
ton Of Jewish emigrants from Russia
and Poland.
At a preliminary election of chan
cellor Of the Swedish universities the
former governor of Stockholm, Count
q. Tamm. received a majority Of the
votes, but declined to stand as candi-
date for the office.
Government ownership and operation
Of the Gotta canal, the famous water.
way through southern Sweden from
Gothenburg to Stockholm. is proposed
In the second chamber of the riks-
dag.
Lensmand Aars and wife, Of
Hamar, have donated $1,000 kronor to
society of Christiania whose work
consists in providing lodging for the
houseless poor.