The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-23
NORWAY.

The Red Cross of Norway has re
ceived a gift of $1,000 from Gen.
Thanlow.
Permission has been granted for
opening a drug store at Sandnessjoen,
Stamnes, Nordland.
The finest tourist ship ever owned
by Norwegians has been put in serv.
ice in southern Norway.
Albert Gron, a shipowner at Sandef.
jord, has established a fund of $4,000
for combating tuberculosis.
1t is said that a barrel fctory hav.
ing a daily capacity of 200 barrels a
day is to be started at Tangen.
The people of Bergen consume one.
third of a quart of milk a day per
inhabitant, while in Kristiania the
consumption is half a quart.
At the Henaaen farm in Modrem. no
less than nine brothers and sisters
have died of consumption. There is
some talk of burning the building to
the ground.
Three men at Kvanangen were lost
on a trip to Skjorvo to get a motor
for the fishing boat that they were
using. Only one-half of their boat and
their caps were found.
The so-called liberal church peo-
pie" of Norway have held their fourth
convention. These people wish to
keep the state church but they think,
1t ought to be reformed along certain
lines.
A man named %Steffensen, who had
been in the service of the fire depart
ment of Stavanger for 81 years, lost
his life in a building which was on
fire. He was picked up dead from the
floor OF the second story, and paraly-
sis is supposed to have been the i'm
mediate cause of his death.
The English coal strike caused a
loss of hundreds of thousands of dol.
lars to the Norwegian shipping in
dustry. Several thousand tons of
~Spitzbergen coal came very handy in
this pinch. About $4,000 tons will be
mined in S~pitzbergen this year. Spitz-
bergen coal is as good as the best dug
in England.
The cabinet appointed Bishop P. w.
K. Bockman of Trondhiem and Rev.
Hans Nilsen Hange of Skien to go to
America to represent the church of
Norway at the annual meetings" of
the Observation-Disclosures church asso-
Citations which are to take place in
June. They are also going to attend
an unusual ceremony at Moorhead,
Mimi, namely, the unwilling of a gran
lite monument-bantasten-of Nor
ways greatest evangelist, the grand
father and nalnesake of one of the
above visitors, Hans Nielsen Hange.
Mrs. Laurits S. Swenson of Mime.
apolis, Mimi, wife of the United
States minister to Norway, died a few
days ago in Kristiania. Mrs. Swenson,
who was Miss Ingeborg Idgegaard of
Norseland, Mimi, was married to Mr..
Swenson in 1887. They lived at Al
bert Lea till Mr.. Swenson was ap-
pointed minister to Denmark. They
lived in Copenhagen eight years.
Upon their return they located in Min.
neapolis, Mr.. Swenson assisting in or
ganizing the Union State bank, of
which be became vice president. In
1910 he was appointed minister to
Switzerland. Mr.. Swenson last June
was transferred from Switzerland to
Norway. King Haakon sent a per.
sonal representative to the funeral OF
Mrs. Swensou, and the whole of the
members of the diplomatic corps
some Of them with their wives, as
we'll as the members of the Norwegian
cabinet and a representative gather
ing of the American colony attended
Mr.. Enebo, the plan school maste,
who stole a march on the astronomers
of the world by discovering a new
star, says that his star is getting
smaller and smaller. It has come
down to the seventh size, and if il
keeps IN dwindling at the present
rate, he says, it will disappear in
couple of years.
G. S. Hovde, at Orlandet, nea,
Trondhjem, is a farmer who makes i
a speciality to raise hogs, and hi
took pride in announcing that from
9 p. m.. April 10, to 2 p. m. the mex
day 70 healthy little grunters wer,
born in his pig-sties.