Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1908-01-25
six hundred and fifty automobiles
There is great field for some enter.
prisilig American auto manufacturer
NORWAY.
ChrisGiana.

The following item has caused pro-
found interest among Norwegain
women and has caused no end of COM
ment among the women suffrage lead
ers of the country: 1.-The presence of
women as members of the landtdag of
Finland is watched with interest. No
less than twenty-seyen women have
been appointed as members of commit
tees. Some of them were appointed
either because they are women or on
account of vacancies, and in few
cases they are evidently unfit for the
positions which they occupy. This
will place the women in an awkward
position and give their opponents a
chance to point to their unftness for
legislative work All the bills intro
duced by women refer to the interest
Of women and children in social, edu-
cational and other problems of an
ethical nature. One of the bills pro-
vides for changing the age of consent
from fifteen to eighteen years.
Consul Selmer's beautiful country
home, Overvig, in the vicinity Of
Rauheim, about five English miles
from Trondhjem, was totally destroye
by fire last week. An old servant
named Karen Snustad was suffocateL
by the smoke, and an eleven-year-old
child was saved by being thrown out
of a window at the very last moment.
It was entirely uninjured. The loss
entailed is estimated at about 100000
crowns The origin of the fire is IN
known. n ...-. ill.,.
The Christiania Morgenposten has
proposed that the Nobel peace prize be
awarded only once in five years and.
that the money intended for the other
prizes be used for the establishment Of
permanent international court of ar
bitration in Christiania. This has
aroused general indignation in Sweden
and it is only the beginning Of a.
series of petty squabbles which will
be inaugurated between the two coun7
tries at no distant date. q
Christiana has during the past
month entertained large number Of
Norwegi who came
home to spend Christmas and New
Years. They have been here in large
numbers and all seem to have enjoyed
their visit The mail and post money
order receipts from America has also
been unusually heavy this year.
That Ex-Premier Nicholson is held
in great esteem in Norway is evinced
by the fact that the fund which is to
be raised in his memory already
amounts to $4,000. This amount has
been raised in Bergen alone and it is
estimated that Christiania will raise
at least $4,000.
Emperor William has ordered a |
number of cottages of peasant design,
which he proposes to erect about bis
new castle in Schleswig. A repre-.
sentative of the emperor was recently
in Norway to take the order and make
arrangements for their transportation
to Germany.
Statsminister Richter has left a
sealed package of memoirs with or
ders that they should not be published
until after King Oscars death. AS
the great Swedish king Is now dead,
these memoirs will most likely soon
be published. .Ea ".2
The first session of the storthing
was held Jan. II. The sitting was
brief and informal, as the ceremonial
opening by King Haakon did not take
place until ian. 10. M. Berner was re-
elected president and M. Knudsen vice
president. s "E.
Oven Guide, who was recently ap-
pointed Norway's minister at Washing
ton to succeed the late Minister
Hauge. will assume his duties at th,.
American capital April ]. f. :.
The Oplandske Credit bank is erect
ing $4,000 crown building in Hamar,
which 1t Is expected will be completed
before May l.
The widow of the late Consul Bors
has donated 10000 crowns to Bergeu's
new library building. 4