Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-05-14
NORWAY.

A landslide at Feiring buried
house, and boy named Einar Fag-
ernas lost his life.
Capt Finn Abrahamson has pre-
pared a new map of Norway on the
scale of : 250,000.
Mrs Ellen Gulbranson is singing at
a London opera this month, and in
July she will take part in the Wagner
performances in Beyreuth.
A Paris magazine has chartered
steamer for a trip to Norway next
summer. The expedition is to be in
charge of a scientist, and those who
accompany him propose not only to
see but also to learn to know the coun-
try
At a discussion in the Norwegian
chamber of commerce in London most
Of the speakers we're in favor of using
foreign capital in developing the re-
sources of Norway, while Minister IT.
gems would not let foreigners acquire
too much power in Norway.
Teachers from the western part OF
Norway who teach in the eastern part
IRE carrying on vigorous agitation
in the interest of pure" Norwegian.
The main reason for their special
efforts is that the pure Norwegian
for which they are fighting so hard
is mainly western dialect.
l. Johannes Irgens, who served as
charge d'affairs ad interim at the Nor
wegian legation in London, has been
appointed Norwegian minister at that
Irgens was born in 1869, and is a
lawyer by profession. He has been
connected with the foreign service for
about fifteen years.
The Norwegian people were quick
@ take liking to King Edward,
Queen Alexandra and Princess Vic
toria on their recent visit to the Nor
wegian capital The visitors walked
about freely in the city, and thousands
# people from southwestern Norway
aocked to the city to get a glimpse
Of their majestfes.
Capt. Road Amundsen, the discOv-
erer of the Northwest Passage, who
has Just returned to Norway from New
York, expressed himself as delighted
with the reception he received every
where in the United States. He was
especially proud at being the first to
'eceive the medal of the Geographic
Society of Chicago, endowed by Miss
Helen Culver, and of being so greatly
IGNORED by different geographic socie-
ties. Capt Amundsen will take a
short holiday before beginning prepa'
raticns for a new voyage. NJ, .
A political and ecclesiastical con.
vent.1n for .Jorlsberg and Larvick was
| recen, " held at Sandefjord. Rev. Won
der Lippe presided. and many other
ministers and some school teachers
took leading part in the delibera
tic11s% The speakers favored Nor
wegian tree. church. Some of them
wanted TO drop the Athanasian creed
as one of the constituent symbols OF
| the church. A committee of twelve
| men was elected to work for the cleo
| ton of members to the storting who
are willing to, vote for a reorganiza
ton of the church on plan agreed
| upon several months ago.
The whaling steamer John, from
| Sandefjord, was burnt shortly after its
| arrival at the fishing grounds, among
the Shetland islands. It's crew con
sisting Of 10 mon, left the ship in two
boats and arrived safely at Balts
Sound. 55] Iss 5s 8z
Agout 2,Oee persons employed in the
textile industry in Kristiania are en-
gagged in labor troubles, and hundred:
Of them are already out OF work.
Ole Jensen, q well known character
who had been selling hsh on the pub
lie market II Stayanger for more thar
nifty years, died Astew days aSo.
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