Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-14
NORWAY,

The journeymen bakers strike in
Kristiania has been settled in favor
of the employers.
Norway sends more servant girls 70
London than the other Scandinavian
countries combined.
Berner was elected president Of the
storting by 80 votes, and Gunder
knudsen vice-president by 80 votes.
It was 40 years Oct. Is since Edward
Grieg gave his first concert in Kris
tiania and entered upon his career as
consumate master Of his art.
It is feared that the bricklayers' and
stone masons' union at Aalesund may
Interfere seriously with the construc-
ton of the new church in that city.
Commanding Admiral Spare and
Rear Admiral Borresen are at logger
heads, and committee has been DIP
pointed to settle the trouble.
The houses on the Haugli farms in
Skedsmo were burnt to the ground
The damage was about $4,000, and
One-fourth of this amount was covered
by insurance.
Rev. Ludemann, who refused to con-
firm a class Of catechisms, has de-
confirm whole classes in the d-fash-
toned, business-like way.
The present storting now proves to
be composed of rs Leftists, SO Fusion
lists and II Socialists. It is said that
the first mentioned polled 100000
votes, the second $4,000, the Social
lists $4,000 and the "Castlberg group"
$4,000.
Rev. Otto Ottesen, of Lillestram, has
been in active service as a clergyman
for so years. About one hundred
prominent persons from Eastern Nor
way attended his semi jubi-
lee, and among the presents which he
received were a silver pitcher and an
elegant piece Of furniture Of mahOg-
any.
A little girl eighteen months old, the
daughter of farmer at. Tango, Vet
traaken, was snatched by an eagle
while she was sitting all alone near
the house and carried away. The re-
mains Of the child was found in a ter
rible condition in the eagles nest at
the top of neighboring mountain.
1t is 70 years since a child was lost
the same way in that locality.
Sven Darrestad, the acknowledged
leader Of the temperance party in the
Norwegian storting, made a speech at
an entertainment in which he stated
that "a out Of the 1913 members of the
storting stand on the platform Of the
temperance party, 81 out Of the "a be-
ing Leftists, II Socialists, Rightists
and Moderates, and Labor Unionists.
No less than 33 are total abstainers
The Borregaard distillery at Sdops.
borg has been a great stumbling block
to the prohibitionists, claiming an in
alienable right to run that distillery in
spite Of the vote Of the people of the
community. Sven Aarrestad promised
that Prof. Aaranger, who has been
studying the subject, will soon pub
lish a report on his research, showing
that the people may close the Bore
gard distillery at any time.
The merchant marine Of Norway
numbered 1883 vessels at the close of
the year 1905, and It's aggregate ton
mage was 1,486,502. There was a. de-
crease Of 81 vessels as compared with
the previous year, but the tonnage in
creased $4,000.
It tickles the royalfsts to read that
W. J. Bryan admitted that the best
thing the Norwegiaps could do under
the circumstances was to choose a.
king rather than a republic.
The storting passed a resolution to
support the Nicholson cabinet only
the Socialists and some radicals voting
in the negative. This means that the
present cabinet will remain in power
Fritz Thanlon, the artist, died a few
days ago in Holland, where he had
been engaged in making landscape
paintings since last spring. 1t is %
years since he became known to the
world as an artist Of high rank, and
at his death he had firmly estab-
lished international reputation. His
largest canvas, can Evening in Pitts
burg" shows President Rooseve1t's
room in the White House.
The Norwegians caught 10000 bar
rels Of herring along the coasts Of Ice
land last summer.
A strong syndicate has been organ
lied for building steel works in Txxnd-
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