Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-15
DENMARK.

ereetien~of monuments of King Chris
tan TX and Queen Louise brought $67,-
$780,
A husky Danish shopkeeper named
Eidemand in Berlin had a startling
adventure with a burglar. A young
man called upon him and handed HIM
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, THE Committee OF
the Black Mask The shopkeeper,
who remained cool after reading the
letter, 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 a large crowd sJ1n gath
cred in front of the house. The masked
man now struggled with Ei@anand.
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.
A great labor conflict has taken place
at the Sulitjelma mines.
Bjornson has been asked to lecture
on the proposed DoNre railway in
Trondhjem.
The present storting has made the
talking body.
Four persons died of typhus at
Kaafjorden, 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.
Porsgrund is hot-bed for the agi
tation against fOisting the Norwegian
dialect language upon the schools Of
the country.
The Dovre mining company is go
ing to pump the Vinglen mines at
Tolgen dry so that work may be re-
sumed 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 Kristania social purity union
;ol, =
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.
Sixteen furniture manufa cturers
held a convention at Flekkefjord 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 Gudhrands-
! dalen newspaper. The order called
, for ore, which is a trifle over half
cent, and had been issued by a law
firm in Kristiania as the share of
Gudbrandsdalen in the Gjovik ceilulos>
60 y,-l,; Ell
Many hotel and restaurant keepers
| in Copenhagen, Denmark, We're arrest
| ed last winter by Kristiania firm
| dealing in herring. The Danishnews-
papers took up the matter, branding
| it, of course, as a 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
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 fae.
tories for the production Of salt peter
The combined capital stock of the two
new companies is put at s9,000,000.
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 he, foun(
woman sitting all alone by the fire.
Her. talk was incoherant, and she was
cared for at the nearest police sta
tion. She told a sad story She hailed
from Kristiansund, but she had spent
10 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
ly from the cold poorly dressed as
she was. In the day she would exc out
a 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. It. is to be
located in Storsanddal, and the Inn
provement will cost $4,000.
| A perfectly modern creamery was
opened near Tromso April 8.
Sixty-nina iron shops were built in
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.
"A new paper mill will be built in
Drammen at cost Of 100000. 1t is
to turn out grease-proof paper as a