Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-05
NORWAY.

some little girls VINO were handling
matches in a backyard in Kristiania.
set fire to some excelsior in wooden
boxes. A boy who was playing among
the boxes was so badly burned be.
fore he could get away that he died
at the hospital a few hours later.
The extremely liberal views Of the
theological professors of the university
of Norway resulted in the establish.
ment of an Independent divinity school
about two years ago. Now something
has happened which indicates that the
university men are going to make Ger,
tain concessions to the orthodox PEG.
pie. At the reception given to this
years freshmen DR.. Oskar Jaeger, pro.
lessor of political economy, made a
carefully prepared address in which
he emphasized as general axiom that
the laws Of nature are not contrary
to the religious theory of an invisi.
BILE, supersensual world in which a
personal life Is continued after tho
death and dissolution of the body.
The Berlingske Tidende, Copenha-
gen, gives the following gloomy history
of the steamer which the new Norwe-
gian-American steamship company has
bought: "The history Of the steamer
is a veritable tragedy. It is said that
it cost Schichau 100000 to build it,
and though the extension Of eighteen
months was granted the company for
making the alterations that were nee
essary in order to satisfy the contract,
still the company never succeeded in
having the neutrality-suspicious. line &C.
cept the ship. The speed could never
be carried above fourteen knots in
spite of colossal consumption of coal.
1t is reported that the former director
Of the Schichau company died on &C.
count of this steamer. The old gentle
man would sit for hours staring at the
huge hulk which lay useless In the
harbor. He found the whole affair
hopeless, and in this way the steamer
lay for ten years. Several parties were
bargaining for it during that time. Dur
ing the Russo-Japanese war there was
some talk of selling it for 100000.
The amount of the guaranty demand
ed, however, was so large that it was
found to be more profitable to let
the ship lay right where it was. The
reader should keep in mind that tho
Danish United Steamship company is
now taking care Of most of the trade
that the new Norwegian-American line
is figuring on.
The steamer bought by the new
Norwegian steamship line, the Kaiser
Friedrich, was built in 1898 by F.
Schichau in Danzig. She is of 1880
tons gross and can make twenty
knots if necessary. She was recon-
mended as brand new vessel, as she
had been built for the Hamburg-Ameri'
can line, but was refused, owing to
lack Of contract requirements. Since
then she has been lying idle, but
has been kept in tirst-class condition.
She will be Y@christened Left Erickson.
and will be Che first of continued
line of steamers to ply between Ber'
gen and New York.
A boy in Simrisham took his toy
pistol with him to school to show
it to- his friends. It was loaded with
powder and a little chunk of lead. A
boy who did not know il was loaded"
handled it in such manner that it
was discharged, the chunk OF lead pass.
ing thru the arm of a daughter OF
the pastor, Rev. Dahlberg. A sur.
geon dressed the wound, which waa
not serious
August strindberg has withdrawn
from the authors union because ite.
executive committee awarded honora
to persons that Mr.. strindberg con
siderod unvorthy and without hasoH