Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-04-05
DENIM

The bricklayers and carpenters OF
Copenhagen and their employers held
a joint meeting which turned out to
be complete success, a new scale
of wages being agreed upon for the
whole country. This agreement put
off the impending strike for the time
being.
The Good Templar order of Den
mark has celebrated it's. twenty-ffth
anniversary. The order has about
10000 members in Denmark.
The Catholics have dedicated new
hospital Of their own at Roeskilde.
The very house in which Gustav
WED, the goddess author, used to
write novels and comedies, has been
turned into a chamber of prayer and
penance for the monks of St. Mary's
monastery.
1t LOOKS as if Denmark is going to
re-establish the whipping post as a
penal institution.
NORWAY
Premier Nicholson closed his first
address as premier to the Norwegian
storting with the following state
ment: ''The Norwegian people have
no loftier desire than to be permitted
to live in peace and good understand
ing with all, and especially with our
Swedish neighbors, in order that we
may exert our whole national
strength in developing our national
resources and that culture which in
our times gives honor and rank even
to small nations; but as surely as
we Norwegians are entitled, both
historically and constitutionally, to
live our own national life as free
nation, just as surely are we con-
yinced that the unified and inflexi-
BILE will of our people will make any
sacrifice in order to enjoy Norway's
constitutional rights, and that this
will is bound to carry us to our goal.
A systematic census has shown
that there are 5000 idle men in Kris
tiania.
Mrs. Karoline Knudtzon of Kris
t;anssund donated $13,5O0 to the poor
in her city.
About 1850 tons of dressed stone
was recently sent in one consignment
to Santa Cruz, South America.
motion to distribute money
among those who are without work
was referred by the storting to a
committee whose chairman is Rev.
Eriksen, the Socialist leader; but the
committee reported adversely.
The central committee of the Nor
wegian employers union declared
lockout which was to apply to 760
moulders. This will affect several
thousand men employed in allied
trades.
The Nicholson cabinet is a new
thing in: the history of modern Nor
wegian. politics. It is composed in
such a way that the different politi-
cal parties are represented. Under
ordinary conditions such a party
would drop to pieces in few months.
But those who built it think the
general demand for Norwegian con-
suls will keep lit together long
enough to serve its purpose. The
storting is also expected to officiate
as an omni-partisan affair OH all
questions not affecting the overshad-
owing issue, the establishment of
consular. service for Norway.
Verdens Gang insinuates that it is
not the Swedish people, but clique
of powerful politicians that have
caused q hitch in the work of estab-
fishing consular service for Nor
way. This clique is also accused of
cowing the king SO that he cannot
always act as he feels towards Nor
way. '~:.
Mrs. sGjems- Selmer has been lectur-
ing in Sweden on 1.-THE Women in
Bjornson's Writings" and the news
papers contain flattering comments
on her lectures. s.>.<.=s. II .4s Fat
A wood dyeing factory will soon
be established at Gjoyik, ].