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

leeeer, suggested that his visitor was
mad. The latter. who had covered his
face with a black mask, replied: "All
right" Then, drawing 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 q large crowd sou gath
cred in front OF the house The masked
man now struggled with Eiaemand.
During the. struggle the revolver war
discharged, the bullet entering the
masked mans forearm. y He tried to
escape, but was arrested by the. police.
He is a young workman named Busse,
residing at Chaalr,lloattenburE;
NORWAY.
The government has proposed an
appropriation of 31.757.7ooE for new
railways. ~ = ~
Bjornson has been ssked to lecture
e. the prepo,sd Do~rs ra rail n,
Tfondhjen. t<5 NJ
The present storting has made the
.ns reputation p q being great 81
tslking body. $ '
About 100000 viii soon be spent
Tor deepeniKK The channel connecti9s
1orsgrund and skien with the sea. -
Four persons died. of typhus at
Ka4f5orden. and thifty or forty others.
were more or less severely attacked.
The Norwegian cabinet has permit
ND Mrs. Agnes Christensen, an ac-
tTess, to adopt "Symra" as her family
name.
RorssruQd ID q hot-bed for the agi-
AAtton -as&lhsta foistfns, $stjks sNer~sassin
Asiect: language upon the schools Of
To GoWhtEy, ss;4..ssrgs--@@, %i, I.
The novre mining company is GO
inG to pump the vinglen mines Of
T1lgsn dry y that work may bs re-
stunned az an experiment.
Stavanger is one of the cities which
has been swept BY the new revival
with its 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 a con-
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
sral 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
Sixteen furniture manufacturers
held a convention at F'lekkefjord and
agreed on a uniform price list. Their
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 newspa per. The order called
for ore, which is trifle over half
q cent. and had been issued by law
firm in Kristianla 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 We're Danes, but that
they had skipped the country just in
time to escape the arm of the law.
The hydro-e electric nitrogen stock
company, which holds a patent on the
Birkeland- Eyde method of producing
salt peter from the nitrogen of the
air. and the Baden aniline and soda
manufacturing company, which also
owns valuable patents in the same
line as the former, have jointly organ
lied two Norwegian companies. one
for the utilization 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 s900000O.
The Kristiania police We're notified
that some one had built fire in the
forest at Liam, near the city. When a
policeman came to the place h. fount
a woman sitting all alone by the fire.
cared for at the nearest police sta
ton She told sad story She hailed
from Kristiansund, but she had spent
Il 3 years in America and 10 years in
Kristiania. She had spent seven nights
In the forest and although she had
built fire she must have suffered great
~ from the cold poorly dressed as
she was. In the day she would exc out
living by going from house to house
In Aker. She was finally taken to the
Tonsen hospital.
"a new water basin is to be con-
structed in connection with the water
works Of Kristiansund. 1t is to BE-
located in Storsanddal, and the im-
provement will cost $4,000. 55
st "a perfectly modern creamery was
opened near Tromso April 5.
Sixty mine iron shops were built In
I Norway in 1906. They had a combined
tonnage Of $4,000. Many Of them had
been ordered by people living in for
eign countries. even Japan furnishing
some orders.