Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-01
NORWAY.


NORWAY.
Emigration from Kristiania has been
almost as heavy this year as last year.
The Kristiania meat inspectors re-
port that most of the stock butchered
in that city is raised in Norway, only
comparatively small quantities being
imported from Denmark and Sweden.
The Lorenskogen church was slight
ly damaged by lightning, the course Of
the thunderbolt being traceab1e from
the top of the steeple to the ground.
/ Norway exported $4,000 pounds of
caraWay in 1905.
Berte is the name of the wife Of
Andreas Feier, who spends the sum-
mer catching fish in Lake Mesna, near
Lillehammer. She is IS years old, but
she can carry % pounds of fish to town
and be back again early in the after
noon, though the distance is six eng
lish) miles, and the road poor and
hiEly "She is sWift-footed as a young
girl" says a local paper. The doctor
says that her vigOr is due to the fact
that she spends most of her time at
Lake Mesna, which is located way up
In the mountain wilds.
A fire did damage for about $4,000
at the Meraker carbide factory, about
forty. (English) miles east of Trond-
hjem. The power station, which is To-
Gated close by, was saved.
The Conservatives of Hallingdal
have nominated Dean Chr Knudsen,
ex-minister of ecclesiastical affairs. as
candidate for member of the storting.
and he has consented to accept the
| nomination.
The government spent about 100000
on account of the coronation. It is
stated that the extra receipts of the
telephone and telegraph department,
due to the transmission of news from
the coronation, will cover this amount,
so that the jollification will really cost
the government, nothing.
Kristiania exported 100000 feet of
lumber to foreign countries in June
The Kristiania industrial school for
girls had an enrolment of 3O4 during
the past year.
Empty bottles or parts of bottles
have repeatedly started fires in the
vicinity Of Kristiania by focusing the
rays Of the sun on the dry grass.
The cornerstone Of the new church
at Aalesund was laid July II by King
Haakon. Among the few things that
were saved from the great fire were
the silver trowel and hammer placed in
the cornerstone Of the old church in
| 1858. On one side Of the trowel are
| engraved picture Of the old church.
20. l." (King Oscar y and april &c.
1853" On the other side have just
been engraved, III. VII (King Haakon
V1D and July II. 190e.G. The trowel
| and hammer were used by the king
at the laying of the cornerstone
| The division Of the country into as
@1any storting districts as there are
numbers, and the election of those
members by a direct vote, have greatly
simplifled national politics. One of the
Immediate results of these changes is.
, that great number of men are noni-
! mated for members Of the storting
Many man who formerly was un-
known to fame but who had a respect
able bunch of good friends suddenly
finds himself to be a nominee" for
the national legislature, and he may
have no idea what this honor really
means until the notes are counted
Count Marshall Rustad thinks the
Norwegians are going too far in
democratizing their new court.
Five sealing vessels arrived at
Aalsund from the Arctic ocean, all
of them we'll loaded.
In an address which Kaiser Wilhelm
! made in Trondhjem he spoke about
1.-The exceedingly sympathetic Nor
, wegian people"
Efforts are being made to build a
| soldiers home at Terningmoen, Ell
Verun.
Jorgen Flaten, of Romskog, near
Kristiania, was killed by lightning
| while walking through a field in a
! thunderstorm. He is mourned by a
great number of friends, and his fate
is Particularly sad because he was to
have been married in the near future.
| The employees at the Stavanger can
| neries have resolved to strike because
! the employers will not agree to nav
minimum wages to extra help.
The ladies of Porsgrund have given
the king and the queen a highly ar
tistic porcelain vase made in Pors-
grund as coronation gift. The mod
crate party has endorsed the govern
Thesrailway between Voss and Myo-
dalen, a portion of the line which in a
few years will connect Kristiania and
Bergen, was opened for general traffic
July 1. The valleys through which the
new portion Of the line runs are beau
tiful and picturesque. The line runs
through the Gravehals tunnel, which IS
three and half (English) miles long.
An old man was left alone for a few
minutes in a farmhouse in West Totem.
While trying to light his pipe he set
fire to his beard, and when his screams
brought succor his beard and haiyWere
gone, and his breast was covered with
burns. He was too weak to survive