Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-13
NORWAY.

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 a
steamer for trip to Norway next
summer. The expedition is to be in
charge of 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 were 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
are 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
Johannes Irgens, who served as
charge d'affairs ad interim at the Nor
wegian legation in London, has been
appointed Norwegian minister at that
place to succeed DR.. Fridtjof Nansen.
Irgens was born in 1869, and is a
lawyer by profession. He has been
connected with the foreign service for
about fifteen years.
Capt. Roald 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
receive the medal of the Geographic
Society of Chicago, endowed by Miss
Helen Culver, and of being so greatly
honored by different geographic socie-
ties. Capt. Amundsen will take a
short holiday before beginning prepa-
| rations for new voyage.
A political and ecclesiastical con-
vention for Jorlsberg and Larvick was
recently held at Sandefjord. Rev. Won
der Lippe presided, and many other
ministers and some school teachers
took leading part in the delibera-
tions. The speakers favored Nor
wegian free 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 IL men, left the ship in two
boats and arrived safely at Balta
Sound.
Agout 1000 persons employed in the
! textile industry in Kristiania are en-.
gagged in labor troubles, and hundreds
of them are already out of work.
Ole Jensen, a we'll known character,
| who had been selling fish on the pub.
lie market in Stavanger for more than
fifty years, died a few days ago.
At Notero a noted horse was butch.
cred the other day. He had been used
at more than $500 funerals, and in
nearly every case he was hitched to
the hearse. It is said that no other
hopco IN Norwav has 6rawn On manv
people to their final resting place.
Miss Aasta Hansteen, the great
champion Of woman's rights, died at
the age of "a years. Her magnificent
funeral proved that her work is ap
] preciated-at last.
Halvor Thoresen, an inmate of the
Trogstad poorhouse, Fredrikstad, IL
said to be 103 years old.