Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-01-09
NORWAY.

son an easy passage Will be provided
between the locomotive and the cars.
NORWAY.
A new church is to be built at Hal
lingskarven, Hallingdal.
A new cemetery has been dedicated
at Steilnas, near Vardo.
King Oscar of Sweden died on
Bjornson's 18th birthday.
Bertha Somme, a ninety-two-year.
old lady in Stavanger, is cutting new
teeth.
The city of Kristiania has reduced
It's debt 100000 during the past few
years.
The net surplus of the Kristiania
samlag (saloons) for the past year is
$17S,000.
, A Kristiania publisher Is publishing
memorial edition of Edward Grieg's
romances and songs.
It will be necessary to enlarge the
harbor Of Haugesurd at cost Of sew
eral hundred thousand kroner.
About $4,000 has been raised for
the erection of Vigeland's drinking
fountain at Eidsvold Plads, Kristiania.
Enormous quantities Of herrings
were hauled in with seines in Kali
ford, about seven miles from Tromso
An electric power station has just
been completed at Storefos, Valdres.
The power will be used at the Valdres
stone slab Quarries.
Some members of Sandvigen con-
gregation in Bergen intended to be-
gin legal proceedings to compel their
chaplain, Rev. Konow, to resign be-
cause he is Unitarian. But the de-
partment of justice has stated that nc
private parties but only the govern
ment can GUST him from his office.
A joke. The samlag Of Moss was
voted out. But there are two private
concessions in that town. They are
united with the samlag. But now that
the samlag has been knocked out.
those concessions will be withdrawn
from the samlag and made use of.
Thus the town will not be dry after
all. There will be two saloons of the
old, old style.
The Kristiania Ungsocialist says:
There is no direct antagonism be-
tween the Socialist and the Anarch-
lists. There is only this difference,
that the anarchists are several de-
cades ahead of us socialists; which,
however, does not prevent them from
joining the socialistic proletariate on
the day Of reckoning and cooperating
with the latter In expropriating the
capital" ..
Meraker, q picturesque mountain
valley east of Trondhjem is gradually
turned into manufacturing and min
ing district. There is plenty of wa
ter power, copper ore and lime, and
along the mountain sides are thou
sands of acres of valuable timber.
One concern, a mining company, en-
ploys several hundred men, and new
buildings are going up at different
points for the accommodation of the
laborers and their families. The wages
range all the way from one dollar to
two dollars a day.
The official opening of the Bergen
railway has been indefinitely post
poned because parts of the line are
blockaded by snow. For distance
of 70 tEnglish) miles the line is built
through a mountainous country, and
in some places the snowdrifts are Is
feet deep. The rotary plow was brok-
en-, and an ordinary snow pillow was
tried. But the engine toppled over
and tore up the rails. Some Of the
stations are shut OFF from the rest Of
the world. BY next winter a system
of snow sheds will he furnished, and
that will obviate further blockades.
DR.. Buckholz has donated his sum-
mer home, Vestre Helmen, to the
commune Of Gran, Hadeland, near
Kristiania, to be used as children's
home. The property is worth $4,000.
Rich beds Of iron ore have been
found at :Kalsletten, near Tromso, and
Consul Pehrsson, the Swedish mil
lionaire mine owner, is said to have
offered $4,000 for the claim. h.
About 100000 barrels Of .Yat her
rings have been sailed down during
the past season. The catch for the
corresponding period IN 1906 va IS,
900 barrels. y.
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