Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-22
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The Red Cross of Norway has re-
ceived gift of $4,000 from Gen.
Thanlow.
Permission has been granted for
opening drug store at Sandnessjoen,
6tamnes, Nordland.
The finest tourist ship ever owned
by Norwegians has been put in serv.
leo In southern Norway.
Albert Gron, shipowner at Sandef-
Jord, has established a fund of $2,7O0
for combating tuberculosis.
1t is said that barrel fctory hav-
Ing 4 daily capacity of 200 barrels a
day Is to be started at Tangen.
The people Of Bergen consume one
third Of quart of milk day per
inhabitant, while in Kristiania the
consumption is half 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 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.
It 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
hre. He was picked up dead from tho
aoor Of the second story, and paraly-
oils is supposed to have been the i'm
mediate cause of his death.
The English coal strike caused q
loss Of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to the Norwegian shipping in
dustry. Several thousand tons of
epitzbergen coal came very handy in
this pinch. About $4,000 tons will be
mined in Spltzbergen this year. >Spitz-
bergen coal is as good as the best dug
in England.
The cabinet appointed Bishop P. w.
K. Bockman of Trondhjem and Rev.
Hans Nilsen Hange of Skien to 20 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 gran
lite mOnument-bantaste Nor
ways greatest evangelist, the grand
father and namesake 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 1dgegaard 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
aeapolis. Mr.. Swenson assisting in or
ganizing the Union State bank, Of
which he 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. Swenson, and the whole of the
members of the diplomatic corps,
some of them with their wives, as
well as the members of the Norwegian
cabinet and representative gather
Ing of the American colony attended
Mr.. Enebo, the plan school master
who stole march on the astronomer
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 on dwindling at the present
rate, he says, it will disappear in 8
couple Of years..
g. s. Hovde, at Orlandet, nea,
Trondhjem, is farmer who makes II
a specially to raise hogs, and he
took pride in announcing. that from
p. m, April 10, to p. m. the next
day 70 healthy little :grunters wer,
born in his pig-sties.. .,<.y@. -.
There are many good people in the
ecandinavian countries that feel pref.
" uneasy about the increasing
strength Of the temperance element
and the prohibitionists. A few years
ago number of prominent Nor.
weglans started a society called For
Z Freedom and Culture and against Pro-
hibition and Coercian," as means Of
checking the aggressive prohibition
I propaganda. The object of the So
( cisty was too plain. and the public
i soon learned to look upon 1t as q
Booze concern. The ridicule heaped
I apon the leaders was too much, and
the society is-as quiet as mouse.
Under such circumstances it 10 inter.
lltinS e note that similar society