Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-21
NORWAY


The Drammen Privatbank gave a
dividend of 10 per cent for the year
1906.
The fishermen of Aalesund and vi
entity are reaping a rich harvest from
the briny deep this winter.
The storting will be asked to con-
tribute $4,000 towards paying the debt
incurred by Amundsen's Arctic expe-
dition.
The stone dressing establishment at
Vikedal, near Stavanger, is to be en-
larged, and modern machines have
been ordered from America.
H. G. Stang, former minister of
safe, died at Kristiania March /. He
was born in 1880 and served as Nor
wegian minister 1t state in Stockholm
in 1SS8-89.
ThOrvald Sletten, who was convict
ed of the murder of his foster-mother
on circumstantial evidence and was
pardoned after serving several years
in the penitentiary is receiving much
attention. He declares that he wants
his case tried again. He is so confident
of success that he is calculating on
using the indemnity which he expects
from the state for starting a dairy
business on a somewhat large scale.
His fancee has remained faithful to
him during all his troubles, and the
two are perhaps married by the time
these lines reach the readers. Sletten
has received a great many congratu-
lations from lawyers, friends and rela-
tives. The first congratulatory tele-
gram came from Bjornson, who fought
the courts On the ground that Sletten
was innocent.
Particles Of plants fell with the snow
| in such large quantities in southern
Norway few days ago that the snow
| looked gray. At first it was supposed
| to be volcanic ashes; but university
! professor reported that there were no
| ashes, and that he had turned the stuff
| over to the professor of botany, who
| is expected to explain the phenomenon.
A young German who claims to
have left his native land to avoid mil
| itary service has had some interesting
| experiences in southwestern Norway.
| He came to Segedal the 18th of Feb
| ruary and told the people of that
| place that he wanted to cross the
z.
| raging, and they told him that he
| might get lost and freeze to death.
! But after he had had something to eat
| he started off. He actually succeeded
| in crossing the mountains in five hours.
! When he came to FORE he told them
! that he had seen two sheep far up
among the mountains, and the sheep
| were found a few days later. The ami
mails, which had been up there since
last fall were in a remarkably good
| condition. The man does not seem to
be in his right mind, but as long as
he does not do any harm he may be
| left to take care of himself
A Norwegian south pole expedition
headed by Captain Bull left for the
south last summer. Katrine, the yes
| sci of the expedition, was wrecked
Dec off an uninhabited island west
of the Kerguelas. The outfit was de-
stroyed, but no lives were lost. Three
men left the island in an open boat
Jan. 8, and they arrived at Melbourne
whence they wired the news to Nor
way. The Norwegian government hes
ordered a relief expedition to be sen
from Cape Town to take the clever
men who were left on the island.
1 The committee on railroads will II
the storting for an appropriation
i $4,000 for the purchase of Waterf Il,