Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-01-30
NORWAY.
Chrtstiana.


women and has caused no end OF com
ment among the women suffrage lead
ers of the country: The presence Of
women az members of the lanitciag OF
Finland is watched with interest. No
less than twenty-seven 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 4
chance to point to their mtitness 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 IN
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
Ranheim, about five English nile
from Trondhjem. was totally destro @
by fire last week. An old servant
named Karen Snustad was suffo a+e !
by the smoke, and an eleven-year-old
child was saved by being thrown ou'
Of window at the very last moment
1t was entirely uninjured. The loss
entalcd IL estimated ut about 100000
crowns. The origin of the fire is IN.
known.
The Christiania Morgenposten has
proposed that the Nobel peace prize he
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 n
series of petty squabbles which viii
he inaugurated between the two coun-
tries ut no distant date.
Christania has during the past
month entertained large number OF
Observation-Disclosures 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 an Bergen alone and II 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 his
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 n
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.
The first session of the storthing
was held Jan. IL. The sitting was
brief and informal, as the ceremonial
opening by King Haakon did not take
place until an. IL. NJ Berner was re-
elected president and NJ. Knudsen vice
president.
Oven Guide, who was recently ap-
pointed Norway's minister at Washing
ton to succeed the late Minister
Hauge, will assume his duties at the
American capital April 1.
The Oplandske Credit bank Is erect
ing a $4,000 crown building In Hamar.
which II is expected will be completed
before May l.
The widow Of the late Consul Bors
has donated 10000 crowns to Bergen's
new library building.