Willmar tribune., 1909-06-16
NORWAY.

was so badly burnt that she died the
next day.
Officers and soldiers of the army are
going to spend three months clearing
the boundary line between Norway
and Sweden.
AS late as the sixteenth Of May the
snow was eighteen inches deep at
Sailor, and sleds were used for hauling
logs and manure.
BY the premature explosion OF
royal cracker" at the seventeenth OF
May celebration at Arendal boys
head was split and he died at once.
The authorities permitted the young
socialists to carry an anti-military
banner at the seventeenth of May cele-
bration in Kristiania. The motto Of
the banner read as follows: Death to
Militarism. Down with those who
cause and wage war"
Frederik Bajer, the Dane who re-
ceived one-half of the Nobel peace
prize of 1908, gave the required lecture
in Kristiania. He said that navigation
on the straits between the North sea
and the Baltic ought to be regulated
by treaties. King Haakon was pres
ent, and the speaker expressed his
thanks to the king and the storting
Nobel committee.
Capt. Egenas, commanding the st.
Olaf, reports that he was surprised by
an airship in the middle of the night,
on the North sea. The airship passed
right over his steamer, and at the
most oportune moment the deck was
strongly illuminated by searchlight.
The airahip left in a southerly direc-
tion. Capt. Egenas could see that the
airship threw searchlight on the
deck of another steamer, too.
Former Premier Lovland defends
the "maal," or pure Norwegian Ian
guage, in the following strong terms:
the Norwegian language by the side
of the Norwegian-Danish is just as i'm
portant a matter as it was to secure
political sovereignty and self-govern-
| ment. From national point of view
the matter is still more important. If
our political independence is lost-it is
more of an external thing, and may be
recovered. But IL people loses its
mother tongue and adopts another lam
guage-that loss can never be recov.
| cred. think our opponents ought to
understand that the language purifiers
cannot support any organization that
does not explicitly avow its loyalty to
the present arrangements for placing
the two languages on an equal foot
| ing"
Bjornson was interviewed in Paris
with regard to his new drama. and he
gave out few facts with regard to its
nature: "As to the title and contents
Of my work you are not going to find
out anything. have seen that Her
man Bang, who was permitted by my
son to see the piece, found one act to
be of a very comieal effect. This I
don't understand. The comic features
Of the play lie in it, composition; they
rise from the underground structure.
so to speak, but they do not wholly
break through to the surface in any
in the ordinary sense Of the word. It
is not going to be published until It
is played, October next, in the Scan
dinavian capitals and Berlin. At the
latter place it is to be put on the
stage by my son, Bjorn. This is all
that I am going to tell you. Maybe
better add, however, that among the
few who have read my work have
had Joy from it."
| There is great STIR among the tenn
perance people on account Of the re-
duction Of the tariff on French wines,
and If they agree on some definite
plan they will soon be felt as factor
in Norwegian politics. But so far
! they have not succeeded in agreeing
on any definite platform.
The common people Of the Norwe.
gian capital want its name changed
from Kristiania to Oslo. But the con-
servative business men are opposed to
the change because they think it will
hurt their trade" In foreign coun-
tries.
A young American sailor IL under
arrest at Fredrikstad as a self.con.
fessed murderer. He told his captain
that he helped Mrs. Belle Guinness
kill four persons on her farm near La
Porte, Ind, and that ho then killed
Mrs. Guinness herself. The case has
been reported to H. II. D. Peirce, the
American minister TO Norway.
A peddler named Roed 10 supposed
to have gone 70 sleep while sitting on
. rock by the roadside at Lier, near
Drammsu, and 70 have fallen down .
precipios Just; below. for he was found
lsa4 In the moI1ing.