Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-02-15
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were drowned.
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, PATHOLOGY
cal laboratory, and electric power
station.
A fire at the ,Mathiesen saw and
planning mill in Fredrikstad leveled the
latter with the ground in short time.
A box factory close by was also de-
stroyed. Two old men who were work
ing in 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 Spitzbergen 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 q power which they begin to
look upon as q modernized shape OF
tyranny
Just imagine! The Socialists are
aocking around preacher as their
leader, and they want to make him
premier, that is to say, actual ruler of
the kingdom of Norway. It is the Rev.
DR.. Alfred Erickson, who few years
ago was an unknown preacher on q
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 fierce storm on the North
Sea the bridge Of the steamer Resolut
was torn loose and thrown into the
sea. The captain, the mate, and the
helmsman were all standing on It,
and they would have been lost II the
ship had proceeded on its course. But
something very remarkable had hap
pened. The accident disturbed the
steering apparatus, giving the signal,
Reverse engine with full speed" The
engineer INN ediately 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 persistent cold
threatens to cut off navigation in sew
era1 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 waterpower has in consequence
been greatly reduced. Electric light
ing in Kristiana is threatened from
the same cause.
Miss Ragnhild Lund, native Of Ber-
gen, is acquiring a sort Of lnterna-
| tional fame. She has been staying in
Rome for number of years, and she
stands high among the suffragettes 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 Il 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
i several years past
Al an int tern tional king contest in
/ Starkenb back, Bohemia, the fifteen
IHkilometer long distance race was Won
4 by ostgaard from Kristiania.