Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-12-05
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The Bank of Norway raised the rate
of discount Nov. from 6 to 6h per
cent.
Rev. E. Swerdrup is going to write
| articles on church matters for lead
ing newspaper.
A boy at Rognan, Saltdal, went out
hunting alone, and as he did not re-
turn it is supposed that he lost his
life.
A newspaper claims that a foreign
iron trust is behind Consul PETERSON.
the Swede who has been permitted to
operate certain iron ore beds In Rust
vangen.
Misses Anna and Augusta Sorensen,
who had a millinery store in build
ing which was burned down In the
night in Kristiansund, lost their lives
in the flames. The total damage
caused by the fire was $4,000. =
When the Gydendal Publishing com
pany of Copenhagen bought out the
strongest publishing company in Nor
way many Norwegians were dis
pleased. Now the Gydendal company
is willing to sell out the Norwegian
branch to Norwegians, but the Nor.
wegian poets think the present ar
rangement is satisfactory.
O. Banst and wife, nee Vik, of Hor-
ten, celebrated their diamond we'd
ding Nov. 7. Mr.. Banst descended
from a German family that immigrated
to Norway in the seventeenth CEN
fury, and he was born at Brularas in
: 1922. His wife was born one year
; later in Trondhjem, and they were
| married in Bore church Nov. 7, 1847.
, Mr.. Banst worked in machine shops
} during his early life, and afterwards
he followed the sea- He has witnessed
, collisions and shipwrecks on several
-, occasions. It is fourteen years since
! he withdrew from active life.
A farmer near Stavanger lost steer
in an unaccountable manner When
several weeks had passed he wrote tt
Johan Flottum, the clairvOyant boy
at Singsaas, near Trondhjem, and g
$ little later he received the following
= laconic answer: Never mind the loss
s Of the steer, he will soon come back.
And shortly afterwards the steer was
J. found standing at the stable door a.
j. if nothing had happened.
q Vigeland's famous drinking fountain
It is to be put up at Eidsvold's Plads,
public square in Kristiania. TIL
s. fountain will cost little over $83
: 900 when completed and put in it
!. proper position. About 100000 ha
It been raised by private subscription
J. the Kristiania samlag A(retail liquo
r company has contributed $4,000, an
the city council has taken steps t.
II provide for the payment of the bal
d ance.
1. A bran new political party has bee
j. launched in Norway.-H It's name Is 9Th
d Norwegian Church Party and it's air
t. Is to protect the Christian faith az
L cording to the Evangelical Luthera
t. creed" The language Of the platfor1
+. does not clearly indicate what the ne,
O. party proposed to do with the stat
n church. Most Of the, officers electe
a. are minister's or school teachers, an
,r the first chairman of the execiltiv
Al committee is Dean Hartvig Halvorsol
le of kristiania: This party may 500
ID cause readjustment of the old part
N lines, which, however, are not marke
at the present time. a3.5.
rs Two students from Kristiania WI
IS have been exploring the Himalay
Sc mountains reached an elevation ,
u $4,000 feet. At first they made 9
es attempt to get much higher, but faile
The second time they were acco1
g. panied by 80 coolies, and the abo,
he record is a good one.
he The church department. is consi
nd ering proposition to change Il
er. names of the ecclesiastical division
Of the country.
~ Small Goldfish are abundant in Il
60 fjords OF southwestern Norway, but
is difficult to catch them.