The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-06
IN The SCANDINAVIAN NORTH.
Clcanings Of Important Ne.us Of Norway Ssoeden
and Denmark, spith Occasional Commend,
MARTIN
NORWAY.
BY MARTIN ". oDLAxD,

.- NORWAY.
Helix Floetaker, wealthy agricul
turalist. has presented $4,000 crowns
to the heather mission society.
The death Of Bishop Thorliildsen
last month is keenly mourned through.
out Norway. He was born at Chris
tiansand in 1S45, and was one of the
noblest workers in the Church of Nor
way.
The private library of H. j. Hvit-
feldt has been sold to the library of con-
gress at Washington, ID. c. 1t contains
| most interesting collection of works
| of travel and genealogical books of a
| personal nature.
This year will prove record break
er for herring fishing. In Southern
Norway the catches have been aston
ishingly large and the prices have
fallen so low that it is reported that
the fish has been fed to swine.
The Commercial Bank of Frederick
stad has gone to the wall. The other
banks have guaranteed the minor de-
positors against loss, in order to pre-
serve confidence among the people in
the integrity and safety of banks in
general.
It is believed that new party in in
the storthing, sort Of church party,
is possibility. However, as quite
number of the storthing members do
not belong to the state church, there
would be opposition to the organiza-
ton of such party.
The storthing appropriated 25O,OO0
crowns for the improvement of the
royal palace, but it develops that
about $4,000 crowns more than this
sum has been expended, and King
Haakon has announced that he will
pay this out of his own pocket.
Minister Michelsen's health has i'm
proved to such an extent that his ply.
sicians think it will not be necessary
for him to visit the baths of Germany
and Italy, as formerly contemplated,
and it is probable that he will continue
at Fjosanger for an indefinite period.
The report that the reason for DR..
Nansen's resignation as minister to
England was due to the fact that he
is going to make another attempt to
reach the north pole, is ridiculed in
| Christiania. where the facts are
| known. AS have said before in these
columns, DR.. hansen resigns because
| he prefers to reside in Christiania with
his family, and it is presumed that he
will resume work as a professor in the
University of Christiania
Three Norwegian ski runners, Tan
gen, Solberg and Jesvold. participated
| in a notable ski tournament at Cha
mouix, France, in competition with
| French and Swiss experts, and were
successful in all the contests, the
cross-country runs as we'll as the
jumps. The crowd went wild with en-
thusiasm over them, making the three
Norsemen the heroes of the day, and
when they arrived in Paris few
days later they were received by the
French minister of war and enter
tanned as guests of the city.
|
| Christian Nicholson, the ex-premie:,
Consur Mohr and Rasmus Meyer, the
merchant, have subscribed $4,000
crowns toward the building of the new
Bergen theater, about which l wrote
few weeks ago. This sum- in connec-
ton with other large sums already
subscribed, removes all doubt as to the
success of the movement to replace
the old theater with a new one, ade-
quate to the needs of the city. The
Bergen savings bank has given 1OO,-
900 crowns and private parties have
subscribed 10000
1t is proposed in governmental cir
cles to appoint commission of eight
to consider questions affecting the fu-
ture of the State Church of Norway
the king to choose four and the stor.
thing to select the others.
This action is suggested by the
growing discomfort among the people
with the conditions prevailing within
the church at the present time, the
Konuw case being one of the things
most responsible for dissatisfaction
and restlessness.
| SWEDEN.