The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-15
NORWAY.

Three boys broke through the ice
on Trete lake, near Bergin, and all
We're, drowned. 49,.
Mrs. Bergljot Ibsen, a daughter OF
Bjornstjene Bjornson, is giving CON
certs in all parts Of the country for
the benefit of the military defences.
The new hospital at Hankeland has
been formally turned over to the city
of Bergin. The cost of the institution
was 100000. The plant consists of
the main building, two epidemic pavil-
ions, an epidemic building, a pathologi.
cal laboratory, and a electric power
station.
A fire at the Mathiesen saw and
planning mill in Fredrikstad leveled the
latter with the ground in a short time.
A box factory close by was also de-
stroyed. Two old men who were work
ing in a small room on the first floor of
the planning mill did not notice the dan
ger until it was too late, and their
charred bodies were found in the ruins
The negotiations about the govern
ment of S%pitzbergen are in progress
in the Nobel institute, Kristiania. The
session was opened with an address of
welcome by Foreign Minister Irgens.
According to suggestions made by
kropensky, the Russian minister.
and Falkenberg. the representative of
Sweden, Prof. Hagerup, the Norwegian
member of the commission, was made
chairman.
The Social Democrats have been
planning to capture the small farmers
OF the country, and they actually made
encouraging progress. But now the
game may be spoiled. The Social
Democrats propose to introduce meas
ures which would greatly curtail in
dependence of the small farmers, and
they love their liberty too dearly to
sell it to a power which they begin to
look upon as a modernized shape of
tyranny.
Just imagine! The Socialists are
1ocking around a preacher as their.
leader, and they want to make him
premier, that is to say, actual ruler of
the kingdom of Norway. 1t is the Rev.
DR.. Alfred Erickson, who a few years
ago was an unknown preacher on a
dreary island in the North Sea, way
above the polar circle, but whose skill
as a politician and leader of men
and women-has been amply demon
strated during his short public life.
During a fierce storm on the North
Sea the bridge of the steamer Resolut
was torn loose and thrown into the
ca. The captain, the mate. and the
helmsman were all standing on it,
and they would have been lost if the
ship had proceeded on it's course. But
something very remarkable had hap
pened. The accident disturbed the
steering apparatus, giving the signal,
Reverse engine, with full speed" The
engineer Immediately reversed the
engine, the ship stopped, and the three
had a chance to get back to the ship.
A recent cablegram from Kritsiania
says that severe and persistant cold
threatens to cut off navigation in sew
eral of the harbors of Norway. In
Kristiania harbor the larger steamers
are able to maintain traffic with diff
Guilty, while the smaller ones have
ceased operations. Many fishing YES
sells from Denmark have been stopped
by the ice. Rivers are frozen and the
producing capacity of factories relying
On w~aterpower has in consequence
been greatly reduced. Electric light
ing in Kristiana is threatened from
the same cause.
Miss Ragnhild Lund, a native of Ber-
gen, is acquiring a sort of interna-
tional fame. She has been staying in
Rome for a number of years, and she
stands high among the s~uffragettes of
the eternal city. But this is nothing
as compared with the stir executed by
the announcement that she is to marry
Father Murri. This man was once a
noted prelate in the Catholic church
but as a leader of the ''modernist"
movement he fell under the ban of the
pope, and since that time has been
outside the pale of the Catholic church
Nevertheless the announcement that
he is to get married, caused a shock
to all good Catholics. Miss Lund is
a beautiful and highly accomplished
lady. After the marriage Father
Murri is going to South America to
lecture on modernism"
AT the deepest point in the SO.
called Kings Shaft" at the Kongsberg
silver mines a silver carrying vein
Of rock was struck after the shaft had
been sunk about $50 feet without any
silver. It will take some time to as
certain the real value of the discovery.
But it is hoped that the vein carries
silver in paying quantities. The find
was at a critical period, for the pros
poets have been far from bright for
several years past.
At an international skiing contest in
Starkenback, Bohemia, the fifteen
kilomete7 long distance race was 10.
by Ostgaard from kristifnia.