Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-14
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
It is almost certain that FTnmarken
will have poor crops.
Rainy weather. interferes with the
harvest work in southern Norway.
Owing to dry weather the crops look
poor in the country around Trond-
hjem.
King Haakon will open the new high
school Of technology at Trondhjem in
the middle of September.
Knut Hamsun, the author, is said
to have been the first man to Offer
himself as volunteer at the time OF
the dissolution of the union in 1905.
Mr.. Leivestad, teacher at Gjovik,
swan across Mjosen, the largest lake
in Norway. It took him an hour and
quarter. This is supposed to be
the first time that a man swan across
said lake.
Major H.. Angel, who became very
popular while, making tour of the
Norwegian settlements in America,
has been promoted to the rank of
colonel in the Norwegian army.
It is figured out that the members
| of the city and town councils of Nor
way are made up of 1916 men and
40 women. The women are doing
good work in those positions. Since
1904 women have also had a right to
TY11>I nj
! woman is elected foreman of the jury.
The Good Templars have proposed
the publication of temperance daily.
| This proposition was placed before
! the Total Abstinence Association,
which answered that such paper
would he highly desirable. But as it
| would take a capital stock of at least
$4,000 to make a. good start the plan
had to be abandoned for the time be.
ing.
The Norwegian-American Steamship
Company has been organized, with 2
copital stock of $2,700.000. The fast
steamer Kaiser Friedrich has been
bought for $1,300,000 and renamed
Left Erickson. E. H. Hobe. the Nor.
wegian consul at st. Paul, Mimi, was
elected director, and six other men
from America were elected members
of the advisory board.
! The receivers of the. great mining
| plant in Meraker which failed some
time ago reported that fully 100000
has been sunk in the enterprise. II
the property can be sold with view
of operating the mines and smelling
| furnaces, the common creditors will
get their money back, but otherwise
they will get only about six per cent
1t is pointed out that the business was
poorly managed. It is still maintained
that the ore in the copper mines is
rich enough and copious enough to
warrant a successful operation Of the
plant.
Two men were killed in collision
on the Thamshavn railway in Orke
dalen, few miles south Of Trond
! hjem. A gravel train went up from
/ SvOrkmO to the Lokken mine. At the
sharp curves at Lierne this met q
regular passenger train, both running
at full speed. The engine Of the gravel
train ran half way into the electric
motor OF the passenger train. There
were twelve men on the gravel train
Mr.. Bokvold, the fireman, was fear
fully mutilated, and he died almost in
stantly. The conductor, Mr.. Lindgren
was forced up through the roof of the
| locomotive and thrown down a steer
embankment. He complained of ter
rible pains in the abdomen and the
back, and he died after being taken tt
the hospital. The conductor of the
passenger train jumped out through
the window down the embankmeni
and saved his life. There were nc
passengers on the passenger train
The ten laborers on the gravel trair
Jumped off and slid down the soft EN-
bankment without sustaining any in
juries. The men who lost their lives
were heads of families and highly re
spected by their comrades. The blame
for the accident is put on the depo
agent at Svorkmo.
Viggo Ullmann's health is SO poo
that he has handed in. hts resignation
as amtmand, or governor, of Brats
berg. He was appointed to that offic.
in 1902. For months past his health
has been so poor that deputy ha:
done his work. Viggo Ullmann dis
tinguished himself as an educator, art
later on as a member of the stortinf
and the cabinet.
Nils Bjorgum has invented a new
Calling gun on which he has take1
patent in many countries. The force
of the recoil is used for reloading, an<
the apparatus is very simple and dur
able.
Immediately after the dissolution O
the Union many Swedish fishermen
who were operating along the south
ern coast Of Norway would avoid deal
ing with the Norwegians along tn,
coast. In the course OF time, however
they have gone back to the old Gus
tom of buying what they need at tn,
nearest market. Their trade is appre
ciated by the Norwegians.
i . Typhoid fever has broken OFT a
the Neevengaard insane asylum II
4 Bergen, four Of the functionaries be
ing on the sick list. "A strange fea
] ture Of the epidemic Is, that onl]
women bsve been attacked.