The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-11-01
IN FAR NORTHLANO.
important Events in Sweden,
! Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North So
lected for scandnavIans and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Sweden.

The SO called Helga de Ia Brache
case has again come to the front, Mr.,
Johannson, the we'll known member Of
the Riksdag. having demanded that
suit be brought against Queen Louise
at Copenhagen to compel her to sur
render the celebrated letters supposed
to have belonged to the Bernadotte
family.
The children's aid day at Stock
holm, which Is an annual affair. was
this year more successful than ever.
The receipts amounted to $4,000
crowns, after all expenses had been
paid. One of the chief attractions at
the stadium was the tug Of war be-
tween the police team of London.
which took part In the Olympian
games, and team representing the
police OF Stockholm. The London
team won an easy victory.
Lieutenant Won Essen, the Swedish
soldier who waJ arrested in Russia
as spy, has returned to Stockholm
after his liberation from prison He
says that he had spent five days in
st. Petersburg prison before he
learned the cause Of his arrest, and
nine days more elapsed before he
could get into communication with
the Swedish legation. He asserts that
he Is entirely innocent of any at
tempts of espionage, and that he i'm
pressed his innocence upon the Swed-
fish legation, which took up his case.
pushing 1t so energetically that his
release was speedily accomplished. He
was arrested for taking photographs
of the Russian troops, but he asserts
that he did not take any photographs
without receiving permission to do 30
beforehand.
The Russian government has made
a move at Torneaa which has created
a sensation in Sweden. At that point
of the Swedish border Russia has hith-
erto maintained guard consisting of
only two officers and half hundred
| soldiers, but now it is announced that
q regiment will be permanently sta
toned there, equipped with artillery
as we'll as with rifles, and that bar
racks costing a million and half
crowns will be erected at Torneaa.
I General Nordensvan, who Is well post
ed as to Russia's military strength
and activity in Finland. does not look
Upon this move on the part OF the
Russian bear as dangerous, but others
feel that 1t behooves Sweden to be
watchful and to strengthen her guard
and Notifications at Boden.
DR.. Montelius, Sweden's noted na-
{onal antiquarian, has celebrated his
twentieth birthday anniversary. and
IN that occasion was signally honored
by the scientists rot only Of Sweden,
but of the outside world as we'll. Over
400 kilograms of congratulation pour
ed in upon him from all quarters OF
the globe, and volume containing
articles by 40 of Europe's greatest
scholars was presented to him. This
volume was planned at a congress Of
scientists held at Stockholm in 1872,
at which time a committee was ap-
pointed to look after its preparation.
It Is doubtful II any other northern
scholar was ever so signally hon
| ored.
The crops OF Sweden are perhaps
a trifie below the average this year.
The rye crop is about 2.5 per cent
below the average. but the wheat is
32 above the average. Rainy wealth
er did considerable damage to the
grain before It was hauled In. The
quantity of the potato crop is above
the average. but the potato pest has
appeared in different localities. Root
] crops OF all kinds have been making
great Roadway of late. The second
crop of hay is expected to be heavy
A Stockholm firm Is ready to import
frozen meat from Argentina.