Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-13
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson is the leading
taxpayer OF East Gansdal. The as
sessed valuation of his property is
$4,000, and his income is put at $500.
His taxes amount to $4S2.22.
Baltimore, Feb. 5.-The Norwegian
steamer Joseph Di Giorgio, from Port
| Antonio, Jamaica, for Baltimore, with a
cargo Of bananas, went ashore at
Smiths Point, Chesapeake bay, during
a snowstorm.
The temperance people and the NUM-
| cipal authorities Of Fredrikstad have
made compromise. The Temperance
| people threatened to precipitate an
election on the question Of prohibition.
But they finally yielded on this point
and agreed to an arrangement by which
the samlag is to stop all retail sales Of
| whisky in the city Jan. 1, 1908, and to
become the sole retail dealer in beer
at the same time.
Boston, Feb. 5.-The fishing schooner
| Morning Star, which arrived here yes
terday, reported that on Saturday last
she passed the Norwegian steamer
Mamma, with broken shaft. The Nam
mas captain requested Capt. Dwyer Of
! the schooner to send aid as soon as he
| reached port. A tug was sent from
Boston but was obliged to put back
| on account Of the storm which was
sweeping up the coast.
The opposition parties in the stort-
ing are making a new effort to over
throw the ministry. A committee is to
be formed to consider the question Of
sv,x,o e. ~
This matter was discussed during the
late electoral campaign. The innova-
ton would be costly one, and the
ministry thinks 1t would be impossible
to adopt it at once. 1t proposes that
alternate propositions shall be dis
cussed by a special commission. The
Radicals are opposed to any alterna-
tives, and demand the whole reform in
| the shape proposed by themselves
They say they will nominate a new
commission in spite of the ministry.
Premier Nicholson has notified the
storting that it is the privilege of the
government to nominate commission,
and that If it is thwarted the ministry
will resign. The outcome is uncertain.
In letter to Foreign Minister Loev-
land, who is president of the Nobel
committee, President Roosevelt, who
was awarded the peace prize Dec. 10
last, writes that he will value the d.
ploma and medal as long as he lives
and after his death they will be highly
priced by his children. The president
| in informing, Minister Loevland of the
disposition of the money part OF the
prize adds that peace among the vari-
! Gus classes of society in modern civil
ization is of just as great Importance
! as peace between nations. He believed,
| therefore, that the use to which he was
putting the money was entirely in SYM
pathy with the aims Of the Nobel
foundation. The letter shows that
President Roosevelt is aware of the
fact that prominent Swedes (Nobel was
a Swede) have argued that Nobel in
tended the prize for persons who have
distinguished themselves in the agita-
ton in favor Of international peace,
and that he never had domestic. labor
conflicts in mind when he set aside mill
lions of his vast fortune for the ia
nous peace prizes.
| The temperance people of Arendal
held mass meeting and resolved, by
a vote of 290 to II, to ask for a vote on
the question Of making the city dry
or wet"
A large flour mill at Skien was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. The loss will
be covered by insurance, mostly in
foreign companies.
| Four sons of the late Haakon Farden
Of Honefos have donated enough prop
erty to the Honefos children's home to
net the home regular income of 800
year.
Bernt Johannesen, Of Bergen, has
celebrated his thirty years jubilee as
an actor. .. -.-:<s; '.-..-4.-.e So
Some time ago the government re-
fused to grant permission to Consul
Person OF Welsingborg, Sweden, to ex-
! plot number of iron mines at Rust
vangen. This has been followed by a
fresh refusal. Consul Person held
claims at Dyro, Trano and Sorreisen,
covering about $50 square miles eng
lish) but the government has turned
down his application for permission to
work the claims. The people living In
those localities are not pleased with
the decision Of the government.
M Prof Boeck Of the nal ional hospital
In Kristiania proposes the establish
mert Of q Finsen light Institute fo1
the reatment Of skin aiseases