Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-09

results, the minds OF two OF the per-
sons taking charge of her remains hav-
ing become unbalanced. A woman who
assisted in dressing the dead woman
for the burial went home in the darn
after the work was finished. All Of
sudden she thought she saw her own
home wrapt in lurid flames. Her mind
was so shocked that she had to be
taken to the Visby insane hospital, and
her condition does not improve A
strong man who drove around in the
neighborhood inviting the farmers to
the funeral said that he met two fu-
neral professions. The first one drove
straight there But when he met the
second one he turned to the side, up
| setting his vehicle in the ditch From
that day he is demented part of the
time, and the physicians claim that his
case is hopeless.
TWO fellows who claim to have come
from Turkestan have been raising mon
ey in Afbo, Skane, for church and a
school house in their native land!
Their equipment was so miserable that
sympathetic people gave them clothing
and cash; but it is only a matter Of
time when they must fall into the
hands Of the police.
One hundred and thirty-five Cali
zians who have been working at the
Ito Kaolin factory, Skane, left Swed-
en- for their homes in Austria a few
days before Christmas.
Only about 1900 pounds of silver was
| produced in Sweden in 1905. Ten years
ago the annual production was over
| 1000 pounds, but it has been declining
ever since.
The executors Of the will Of the late
Mrs. Simon Sachs, of Stockholm, have
found that she owned property to the
value Of about 81 500 900.
NORWAY.
The savings bank at Elverum is &C
years Old
There is something like a horse FAM
inc in Sarpsborg.
Copper has been found in paying
quantities in Karmo.
The Nobel committee has reelected
| Lovland as chairman.
A Kristiania paper claims that Roald
Amundsen is eager to make a dash for
the north pole.
It will cost about 100000 to run the
| government Of the city of Drammen
during this year.
A syndicate in Baden, Germany, has
rented some waterfalls IN Fiskaa river,
near Kristiansand
| A factory employing thirty persons
was burnt down at Hammesand, near
Stavanger. The property was insured
for $4,000.
The late Mrs. Thea Nilsen, Of Aren-
dial, willed $4,000 to the poverty strick-
en- seamen and pilots of Arendal and
vicinity
A savings bank was started about
ten months ago in connection with the
public school at Risor and about 500
children have deposited altogether 500.
winter in Norway. the Land Of the
Midnight Sum- is the name of a pub
LEGATION which is selling like hot cakes
1t is published in English, Norwegian
and German.
O. Mustad & Son, Kristania, are
goint to start a factory in Tolosa.
Spain. The company already has fac
tories in several cities in Norway and
also in Sweden and France.
1t is proposed to build an electric
railway from Larvk to Hvittingsfos,
distance of 40 (English) miles. The
cost of the plant will he 100000. 1t
is estimated that electricity will cost
$4,000 year less than steam.
A person was found dead in a snow
drift in the mountains rear Dagalid.
above Drammen, and it proved 70 be
Dane who had been tramping around
in southern Norway since 1864. Nobody
knew his proper name, and he was
| ~, hi i~1,% ;,,1 IL
ally known as "the Danish Warrior"
The Narbo dairy, Jaderen, exported
some skim milk to Newcast as an
experiment. The milk was sour when
it reached the place of destination.
But the English dealers want such
milk even if it is sour, provided it is
not curdled. The price paid for the
milk is so high that the venture will
, be paying one.
The Eidsvold monument committee
, is going to work hard during this year,
its aim being to unveil great national
monument at Eidsvold May II, 1914,
) the one-hundredth anniversary Of the
adoption of the constitution Of Nor
, way. Only small part Of the neces-
, sary amount of money has been raised.
2 The city council of Bergen has re-
/ solved to established a public pension
E fund for the benefit of the public func-
l tionaries. The ordinance provides that
the officials shall contribute from 3h
to AZ per cent of their salary to the
!, pension fund. Those whose salaries
. do not exceed 1910 year will receive
!, SIS per cent thereof as a pension; but
D those having salaries exceeding $27C
will receive a percentage which di-
p minishes as their salaries rise, the min
4 imum pension to be 40 per cent of the
d salary.
a The sale of Bjornson's Mary j:
y very large. Four editions were sold W
e to Dec. IS and ON that date a fifth
t edition of $4,000 copies was thrown
f upon the market. There was no such
e scramble for any Of Bjornson's forme,
books.
e A little girl at Bjerkedok, Nedrt
If Eker, fell into a kettle of hot water
= Only about one-third of her body wa!
= covered with the water, and she wa:
# snatched out at once; but her lif'
could not be saved.
l. The Skandia Copper company is ,
Is new syndicate which has been. organ
lie lied for producing copper in northern
It Norway. Its capitalization is $4,000
and it's headquarters will be at Narvik
" The Bjorstad farm, Faaberg, Gud
m brandsdal, has been sold to I. Mengs
g hoel, Lillehammer, for $4,000.
The Hangar estate, West Totem, ha