Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
NORWAY.

Alexander Lange Kjelland, the popu-
lar Norwegian poet and author, died
OF paralysis of the heart. He was born
in 1S49.
An interesting find was made a few
days ago at Tjollingvold, near Larvik
1t was tin can containing about $50
! large English. Danish. German and
Swedish silver coins from the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. The money
is supposed to have been concealed in
| the ground during some great war
The work of demolishing the forts
along the neutral zone between Nor
way and Sweden is progressing at a
rate which satisfies even the Swedes..
who are naturally watching this oper-
alton with great interest.
The guard of the Crown Prince
| is the name given to a new semi
! military organization in Kristiania. It
consists of big boys, many of whom are
apt to become nuisance to them
selves, and still more so to the public.
1t was started by the authorities for
| the purpose of keeping such boys away
| from the downward path.
Sergeant Hovde, Of Tune tried to
! cross the Glonmen above the falls at
Sarpsborg, but he and his canoe were
carried over the falls, where he lost
his life.
Bjorn Bjornson. manager of the
| kristiania national theater, is staying
in Paris to study the repertoires Of the
theaters of that city.
The storting rejected the proposition
| of the government to spend $13,500 for
putting the government building in
| Trondhjem in such shape that the King
and the Queen might reside there.
Minister of War OLSON has perfect
ed a plan for recognizing the army
and navy of Norway, but the plan is so
far known only to the higher officers
| of the army and the cabinet.
| While two young brothers named
Anderson were removing charge from
an old drill hole at a stone quarry in
Saltvik, Hvaler, the charge exploded,
| tearing off the hand Of one of them
| and crushing the face and destroying
| the oversight Of the other. The chisel
which they used, after having made
/ an immense trip into the air, struck
I the ground with terrific force close by
1 the father .of the young men, barely
! missing him.
| Night work. has been prohibited in
| the bakeries for some years past. The
! employers were. opposed to the law
| from the start, and many of them have
| tried to evade it. Finally they sue
ceeded in convincing a majority Of the
members of the storting that the law
is too injurious to the trade to be kept
in force, and the storting undid it's
own work by repeating the law. The
Socialists set up a great howell. and
| they threatened to- make it hot at the
next election for those members of the
storting who voted for the repeal Of
the law and still have the temerity to
ask their constituents to re-elect them.
! 1t is admitted that the men appoint
ed by the government to represent
Norway abroad as ministers and con-
! suls are the best that could be had for
| the positions, and as a rule they. are
we'll received abroad. The chief aim
| of the foreign service. both diplomatic
| and consular, will be to advance the
, commercial interests of Norway.
The carriage in which the King and
the Queen are to ride to the coronation
| is made by o. Sosensen. a Kristiana
wagon maker.
A daughter Of Mr.. Gartner the light
! house keeper at Floro. has been en-
gagged to marry an American million
aire named Townsend.
Dr. o. Johan Olsen, in a lecture be-
! fore the Kristiania academy Of sciences,
| gave an account Of d series Of OBJ
servations which he has made during
| the past few years" and which have led
him to the conclusion that there must
be a world of beings very much
smaller than those that can be OBJ
served through the microscope. DR..
| Olsens theory is, that the former live
as parasites on the known microbes,
checking them in their growth and
limiting their ravages. DR.. Olsen
| has called his unseen little crea-
lures "elassophytes," literally, smaller
growths.''
The mormons have made many con-
verts in Trondhjem.