Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-05-16
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news FROM SCANDINAVIA
Principal Events That Have Trans
pired in the Old Countries
Within Week or So.
DEN MARK.

The national subscriprJn tor the
erection Of monuments of King Chris
tan TX and Queen Louise brought $751;
$50
A husky Danish shopheeper named
Eidemand in Berlin had startling
adventure with burglar. A young
man called upon him and handed hun
a letter. The visitor was invited with
in while the shopkeeper read the let
ter. 1t requested him to give the bear
er 500 marks, under penalty of death.
and was signed, 1.-The Committee 0:
the Black Mask" The shopkeeper
who remained cool after reading the
1eceer, suggested that his visitor was
mad. The latter, who had covered his
face with a black mask, replied: "Au
right" Then, drawing a revolver
from his pocket, he fired three shots
at the shopkeeper, wounding him in
the arms and breast. The wounds
were fortunately not serious, and the
shopkeeper was able to open the win
dow and shout for help His cries were
heard and a large crowd So" gath
cred in front Of tho house. The masked
man now struggled with Eiaemand.
During the struggle the revolver was
discharged, the bullet entering the
masked mans forearm. He tried to
escape but was arrested by the police,
He is a young workman named Busse,
residing at Charlottenburg.
NORWAY.
The government has proposed an
appropriation Of $1,757,700 for new
railways.
Bjornson has been asked to lecture
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Trondhjen.
The present storting has made the
unenviable reputation Of being a. great
talking body.
About 100000 will soon be spent
1orsgrund and Skien with the sea.
-Four persons died Of typhus at
Kaattorden. and thirty or forty others
were more or less severely attacked
The Norwegian cabinet has permit
ted Mrs. Agnes Christensen, an ac-
tress, to adopt "Symra" as her family
name.
Porssrund Is hot-bed for the agi-
A4tion against foisting tie. NJ r~Eesian
dialect language upon the schools OF
Tie country. 4:>-->
The Dovre mining company is go
Ing to pump the Vinslen mines at
Tolxsn dry 20 that work may be re-
stunned as an experiment.
Stavanger is one Of the cities which
has been swept by the new revival
with it's speaking in tongues" YELL
ing, lying on the floor, fainting, etc.
About 10000 girls are working in
factories in Kristiania and immediate
vicinity 1t is generally admitted that
they are not leading very happy lives.
At the twenty-five years jubilee OF
the Kristiania social purity union
"The Jolly Widow which had con-
tinuous run Of one hundred nights at
the National theater.
A book giving an account of Capt.
Amundsen's Arctic exploration will be
ready for the market just before
Christmas, and it will appear in sew
eral languages at the same time.
The Ketland parish, near Stavanger,
has a larger income than any other
parish in Norway. Most of the in
come is derived from the interest on
money raised by the sale of parts OF
the parsonage.
held a convention at Flekkefjord and
expenses have increased so much dur
Ing the last few years that they had
to raise the prices of their products
in the same proportion.
The smallest amount of money ever
sent by money order in Norway was
recently received by the Gudbrands-
dalen newspaper. The order called
for 2 ore, which is tri1e over hall
& cent, and had been issued by a law
firm in Kristiania as the share OF
Gudbrandsdalen in the Gjovik cellulose
factory. which failed some time ago.
Many hotel and restaurant keepers
In Copenhagen, Denmark, were arrest
ed last winter by a kristiania firm
dealing in herring. The Danish news
papers took up the matter, branding
It. of course as Norwegian swindle.
The Kristiania police made inquiries
and soon found that the pretending
herring dealers were Danes, but that
they had skipped the country just in
time to escape the arm Of the law.
The hydro electric nitrogen stock
company. which holds a patent on the
Birlleland- Eyde method Of producing
salt meter from the nitrogen Of the
air, and the Baden aniline and soda
manufactu company, which also
owns valuable patents in the same
line as the former, have jointly organ
lied two Norwegian companies one
for the utiliza ton Of the water power
of Norway, the other for building fac.
tories for the production Of salt peter
The combined capital stock Of the two
new companies is put at S9,OCO.OOO.
The Kristiania police were notified
that some one had built fire in the
D. forest at Liam, near the city. When a
policeman cawe to the place h fOunt
a woman sitting all alone by the fire
Her talk was incoherant, and she was
cared for at the nearest police sta
ton. She told sad story. She hailed
from Kristiansund, but she had spent
10 years in America and 10 years ir
Kristiania She had spent seven nights
in the forest and although she hao
built fire she must have suffered great.
" from the cold, poorly dressed az
she was. In the day she would exc ou
q living by going from house to house