Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-02
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Principal Events Gathered In the
Old Scandinavia, Countries

Ian Countries n 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The national museum has bought
three of Bruno Liljefors' paintings for
$780,
The crawfish in the streams of Fin
land are infected with a contagious
disease, and the Swedish government
has absolutely prohibited the impor-
tation of crawfish from that coun-
try.
Members of the students chorus
which became famous by giving
concert in Paris in 1867 held re-
union at Upsala Sept. Z. The chorus
consisted of 100 men, and So of them
are still living
A scientific expedition under the
leadership of Prof. P. Shottsberg, one
of the members of an Antarctic expe-
dition, has gone to Argentina to make
preparations for going to Terra del
Friego later in the fall. The expedi-
ton will try to come in close touch
with the natives of the island, and
does not expect to return to Sweden
until one year from next winter.
A new stock company has been or
ganized in Gothenburg mainly for
the purpose of applying some inven-
tons made by v. Wengelin, an en-
gineer. One of the inventions is
tube for carrying letters and other
light objects at a speed of 300 ENG
lish) miles an hour. The company is
for lighting gas lamps and ringing
church bells by means of electricity.
The strike on the farms in southern
Sweden has aroused widespread ap-
prehension not only among the farm
ers but also among Wide-awake think
ing people of other classes. BY many
it is looked upon as a most serious
blow at the agricultural interests ct
the country, and the comments of the
newspapers constitute literature all
by itself. One paper takes occasion
to give a rap to the government for
being so slow in it's movements in
the face of such grave dangers. If
similar strike had occurred in Ger
many, the paper says, the kaiser
would have ordered out a sufficient
number of soldiers to do the work
formerly done by the strikers, and
choke off the movement in it's infancy.
NORWAY.
Mrs. Adeline Hagerup, mother of
Mrs. Edward Grieg, died in Bergen,
at the age of 81 years.
The music of Grieg produced a Pc
culiar ecstacy among the Russians
| and Polanders.
The establishment of a private the
| illogical seminary in Norway seems
to be only question of time. The
| prospects are that the necessary
means will be forthcoming without
any extraordinary efforts. The church
| people are becoming enthusiastic over
the proposition. Several persons have
| subscribed from $25 to $3.50 a year
| for running expenses. In a short
while an appeal will be published by
bishops, preachers and laymen. The
new faculty is to consist of Prof. Cd
land, Rev. Hognest and a third man
whose name cannot yet be announced.
Rev. Dahle has been suggested as the
third man, but he does not want to
give up his work as secretary of the
foreign missions.
The following figures prominently
appear in the American press just
now: A Norwegian army officer, bear
ing semi-ofhcial credentials from Pre-
mier Nicholson, has come to the Unit
ed States for the purpose of sounding
Norsemen as to their desire to return
to Norway. The officer is Lieut.. Col
Morten H. Magnus of the Land
storm" division of the Norwegian
army, who arrived in Chicago direct
from Christiania. Col. Magnus, who
is regarded as one of Norway's great
patriots, declared the government has
opened it's eyes to the enormous loss
to America of Norways young men
and women. My mission in the Unit
ed States is to sound emigrated Nor
wegians as to their desire to return
to Norway" said Col. Magnus %
know that most No. wegians are hap
py in their adopted country and will
never return, no matter what induce
ments their Fatherland may be able
to offer them. But there is large
number of Norsemen in America who
would return if assured of eQrally
good economic and social condition:
| in the land Of their birth II is ff
this class of people that my appea
mainly will be made. 1t is absolutel,
essential to the life and continued
prosperity of Norway that emigration
be checked, and that as many as pos
sible return, carrying with them thu
practical experience they have gainet
in America. The government now il
engaged in devising a plan by which
farmers may take homesteads as il
America. This is one of the thing
that is being done in an effort to i'm
prove conditions for agricultural work
ers. Following the dissolution OF tn
union with Swedes and the election
of King Haakon great impetus has bee1
given to manufacturing, mining an,
industrial enterprises of all sorts.''
An old cemetery was struck b
some men who were making an e.
cavation for new parsonage a
Skjerstad, Nordland. The collins wer
solid affairs, each one having bee
made by the following out of a singl
block of wood.