Willmar tribune., 1908-07-29
NORWAY,

NO0"AIs
Constantine Flood, a popular novel
writer, died at the age of II years.
A mining company at Advent Bay,
Spitzbergen, has sold the first cargo
of Spitzbergen coal to the state rail-
ways of Norway.
Rev. Schelderup was installed as
bishop of the diocese of Kristiansand
at the cathedral OF Kristiansand.
Bishop Bang of Kristiania preached
the installation sermon. The latter
gave dinner to the clergy and
few other invited guests at the Ernst
hotel.
J. M. Sorensen, a dock laborer at
Tromso, is supposed to have gone to
sleep while sitting on his wheelbar
row on the dock and he fell down on
the pier about ten feet below. The
wheelbarrow fell on top of him and
struck his head so hard tnat life was
extinct when he was found. He was
80 years old and left widow and four
children.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Chris
IOpuO1 SCA gave a uAllO1 III uOAOA VI
Herr Gunther when the latter retired
as Swedish minister to Norway.
Among the guests were the members
of the diplomatic corps and their
ladies, Premier Knudsen with his wife
and daughter, President Berner of the
storting and the chiefs of the bureaus
of the foreign department.
The grangers' convention of Rou-
mania elected Bjornstjerne Bjornson
honorary president and sent him a
telegram thanking him for his news
paper articles against the jingOism
and clannishness of the Hungarians.
The telegram states that when the
cause of justice is fully vindicated the
name of Bjornson, surrounded by the
immortal glory of poetry, will also
beam forth from the annals of the
struggles for human liberty like the
northern lights from the heavens OF
his far-away native land.
The question of building series
of ports along the west side of the
central zone'' between southern Nor
| way anu OWCOCA Ad0 UCCA uloIuooON
by the storting, and the attitude of
that body on the subject has been
ascertained. A resolution covering
the subject is piece Of diplomatic
word architecture. But it amounts to
this: Norway must build forts wher-
ever they seem necessary. The vote
was 113 to 10, the latter being So.
cialists. The Socialists voted against
''The Glommen line," the usual name
for the proposed line Of Notifications,
because 1t runs along the Glommen
river.
Miss Birgitte Monsen, Bergen
lady, was drowned in Muggelsee, near
Berlin. She was about 30 years old
and had been running manufactur
ing establishment Of her own in Ber-
lin for a number of years.
Fridtjof Nansen, who has occupied
the position of professor of zoology"
at the university of Norway, will
henceforth be styled professor of
oceanography."
Ellef F. Gumo of Kragero and wife
Ingeborg, nee Mo, celebrated their
| golden wedding at the Aas agricultural
| college.
The houses on the Ovre Egeland
farmstead, Konsmo parish, near Man.
dal, were burned down in the middle
Of the day. The owner of the place,
Jens Gundersen. lost his life in trying
to save something from the barn.
L. Nielsen, a native Of Trondhjena,
and formerly employed in the cus.
tomhouse service, and his wife Alette.
nee Schmidt, celebrated their dia'
mond wedding in Kristiania.
Consul Emil Werring of Kristian.
sand has donated $1,000 to the gym
nasium Of this city, the money to bo
expended as fellowships.