Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-03-18

capital.
! To succeed Minister L. S. Swenson,
as the American representative at the
! Danish court President Roosevelt last
Monday appointed Thomas ]. O'Bryan.
of Grand Rapids, Mich Mr. O'Bryan
is a 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 1888, and has been a
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 hollow-eyed
Want?' asks the Gothenburg Mornin.
Post, and registers a sharp protest
against the action of the state railroad
authorities in carrying free of charge
from Stockholm to Ostersund the
horses used in winter sports races
shortly after having refused the re
quest for free transportation of hay.
straw and other fodder to the famishe0
districts of Bohuslan and Dial in west
ern Sweden.
The consolidation of the two large
manufacturing plants of the Separa tor
and the Centrifugal companies (maEers
of cream separators) was set for MARCIA
Z, when meeting was held in Stock.
holm to complete arrangements. AT
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 a pro-Russian demon.
stra ton in the Piazza del Popolo in
residents of the eternal city. The wife
of Holger Drachman. the poet. took
so active part that she barely es-
capped arrest when the military pro-
ceeded to dispense the crowds. Glof
Bull. an art student, who made Obs*in.
rested.
The beneficiaries of the Hoven fund
for the current year are: TridtiGf
Backer Grondahl, the piano virtuoso;
Oluf N. Thorne, the painter; Etna
Schou, the architect; Stub Wiberg, th@
actor, Gabriel Scott, the author; who
received 1000 kronor each; Karl Void
who received 1,60O kronor. and Macody
Lund and Sigval Standardization.
who divided 1000 kronor.
For the Hans Christian Anderson
centenary to be celebrated with great
festivities early in April, extensive
prepare tons are being made. A 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. Halvorsen, 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.
aOlidtiliSS A+dI SCA I've Stdtl VI 1,Sl5C
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 moving his
crops of hay, crawling about on his
knees.
A fire caused by an explosion in one
Of the buildings of the government
arsenal at KarlskrOna, Feb. 20, de-
stroyed the building and threatened
large stores of explosives in the i'm
mediate vicinity. which, If reached.
would have wrought widespread ruin.
At the dedication of the new Pan
Protestant cathedral in Berlin, Feb.
y, the Norwegian state church was
represented, at the special invitation of
Emperor William, by ishOp Bang, !
md Revs Einar Skavlan and Jorgen |
8rochman, of kristiansand.
No American mails arrived in Chris
iania from Jan. 81 and Feb. Z, the
nail steamers having been delayed by
|evere weather On the last named
late incoming steamers brought no less
han seventy three bags of mail from
he United States.
The German steamship lines have
greed to stop their competition for the
business on condition
hat the Scandinavian-Amer line
iscontinues bidding for the transpOrta-
ion of Jewish emigrants from Russia
nd Poland.
At a preliminary election of chan
ellor of the Swedish universities the
ormer governor of Stockholm, Count
I. Tamm, received a majority of the
otes, but declined to stand as candi-
ate for the office. So
Government ownership and operation
f the Gotta canal, the famous water
yay through southern Sweden from
to Stockholm, is. proposed
4 the second chamber of the riks-
ag.
I.ensmand Aars and wife, OF
lamar, have donated $4,000 kronor to
society Of Christiania whose work