Lögberg-Heimskringla - 15.09.2006, Blaðsíða 6

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6 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Friday 15 September 2006
GENERAL NEWS,
From Abroad.
Among the most remarkable re-
ports, which have taken place in the
Western Europe from the end of the
month of May this spring until the pres-
ent, is the double fall of the Gladstone
government from power in England, if
one may put it thus. In the fi rst place it
fell for the voting in Parliament, and in
the second place for the voting of the
common people in the parliamentary
elections in the past month of June.
It went as was expected, that the Irish
problem brought it to its knees.
The matter of exiled princes in
France was long ago agreed on and
they have been driven from the coun-
try. The Count of Paris chose for him-
self as a home a castle in Switzerland,
and has stayed there since. He was of-
fered sanctuary in various countries in
Western Europe, as were others of the
princes...
From America.
United States.
The American parliament came to
an end Thursday 5th last month at 4
o’clock in the afternoon, after sitting
241 days. Over that time the House of
Representatives met 185 times and the
Senate 164. In all 13,292 preliminary
bills were proposed, or 2,945 more
than were brought forward in the gov-
ernment last year.
“ARMISTICE” — the end of the
Great War dominates the front page
of Heimskringla 14 November 1918.
Original editors Frímann B. An-
derson and Eggert Jóhannsson are
honoured, along with then-current
editor Sigfús Halldórs, in a 42nd an-
niversary issue 3 October 1928.
The fi nal issue of Heimskringla, dat-
ed 22 and 29 July 1959.
Other notable front
pages over the decades
of Heimskringla