Morris tribune., 1910-09-02

SulaIl uOLOT UOdL. Inc MIAhSASGn G&p
petition left Copenhagen June -.
1909, in the Danish Arctic ship Ala
bama to search for the bodies of the
Erickson Greenland expedition, two Of
whose members persisted in Novem'I
Der, 1907, while trying to return from
the north coast of Greenland, The
returning explorers report that Cap
tain Mikkelsen and the engineer OF
the Alabama proceeded to North
Greenland after the vessel was
wrecked. The body of one of Erich
sens companions was found on the
ice, but it is supposed Erichsen's body
was carried out to sea by one of the
ice foes.
The Tromsoposten relates that tbs
Swedish vaudeville singer, Hjalmar
Svedlund, while on board the steamer
Midnattsolen during it's recent trip to
Finnmarken, was discovered in the
act of robbing the strong box of the
vessel, in which there were deposited
several thousand crowns. He had Sc
cured file and with this he was in
the act of breaking the box open when
from the room. One of the ships
crew, who had discovered Svedlund
coming out of the Office, went in to see
what he had been up to. He found
the box lying on the floor and broken
| file lying alongside of it. Svedlund
was Immediately taken in charge by
one of the ships officers and in the
beginning he denied that he had been
in the ships Office at all After q
while, however, he confessed and
stated that he had intended to take
the money contained in the box.
From Christiania comes the report
that representative of the firm of N.
A. Andersen & Co. was robbed of a
sum of money amounting to II 400
crowns at the Offices of the Kredit.
bank a few days ago. The person
! who carried the money is considered
absolutely trustworthy and reliable
and claims that when he put aside the
purse containing the money, while a
record of the amount taken out was
being recorded by the bookkeeper,
some person was on hand to nab it
was committed when the person who
carried the money had temporarily
placed it on one of the writing tables
to go out and send a couple of tele-
grams.
1t was certainly unique party that
was held in Bergen the other day,
when the directors of the public baths,
CARRIED in their bathing suits, received
about fifty of their friends in similar
costumes at the Bergen pubic baths.
After the bath hosts and guests were
invited to lunch at Soldiers Bridge,
in which all participated while still
wearing their bathing suits. Levity
broke loose and one jolly speech fol-
lowed another and the affair was writ
ten up in all the daily papers and re-
ported as one of the jolliest and most
pleasant affairs that has been held in
good old Bergen for many day.
The Mormons have been getting so
active in Norway that the department
of justice has in consideration the in
PRODUCTION of laws in the storthing
which will curtail their operations I'M
der their present methods at least.
Lately the Mormons have been SO
active in Norway that the government
authorities have become alarmed over
the situation.
Captain Amundsen's vessel Fran
has finished her Atlantic photographic
cruise and, after putting on board the
last lot of provisions and ninety-one
Eskimo dogs, which arrived from
Greenland lately, the expedition is
now ready to make the start around
South America to Behring strait. The
first place where the expedition will
stop will be Madeira,
There is such a scarcity of houses
for rent in Christiania that the city
authorities have appointed a commtts
tee, which has arranged to have erect
ed at once at least fifty tenement
houses, each with capacity for hous-
ing four families, .,--~; =. u! "~-'.'7' 4
The commander-in-chief of the Nor
wegian army, General Ole Hansen, re-
signed the other day, having reached
the age limit. He had been doing mil
itary service for forty-seven years, il
Officially speaking, Emperor Will
lam has become Norwegian property
holder inasmuch as he has purchased
a farm on which will be erected a
statue of Fritjof the Brave, -e~wnT |
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