The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-12-11
IN FAR NORTHLAND'
Important Events III Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting items From The Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North %.
iseted for scandInavIans and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN ". ooLAND.



BY MARTIN w. oDLANp.
Denmark.
Six years ago Consul N. X. Stroy-
berg bought the steamer "Haver". for
10000 crowns. Before the war 1t
was valued at 100000 Now he has
sold 1t to a. steamship company for
100000 crowns. realizing profit OF
100000 crowns. This is indicative of
the phenomenal advance in the price
of ships, even old hulks. formerly con-
sidered worthless. being now highly
rated in value.
The Social Democrat of Horsen, q
| socialist paper, has been the victim
| of strike which has caused nation
wide interest and no little merriment
among antisocialists. Its entire force
| of printers walked out, because of
some disagreement with the manage
ment of the paper.
The Danish military hydroplane
Maagen took plunge into Ceresund
recently. and was completely
wrecked. The pilot and an officer
were rescued by boat which hap
pened to be near at hand.
Two Russian mines, which had
drifted ashore exploded at FAKE. Den
mark, with such force that more than
q hundred windows in the city were
broken by the concussion and several
houses were unroofed. Fortunately
nobody was killed, though lieutenant
and q marine soldier were seriously
injured. The mines exploded while Q
force OF men we're trying to pull them
up on the land.
| Hans Jensen, q farmer OF Lind
gard, has sold six-months-old
mare colt for $4,000 crowns to horse
breeders association. This Is a rec.
ord price, and is not due to the
war.
A large number of counterfeit one
crown coins have been discovered in
various places in Denmark. and It is
apparent that they come from the
same factory. They were made with
great skill.
Sweden.
The British authorities have been
displeased with the Sweccs for a
number of reasons since the outbreak
of TIE war, but an event recently took
place which must have made the Eng
lish feel that the Swedes are not so
bad, after all. The British steamer
Thelmas departure from Trelleborg,
Sweden. where it has been since the
beginning Of the war, was marked
by an exciting naval adventure in
which the vessel escaped capture by
German destroyer through assist
ance rendered by the Swedish torpedo
boat Pollux.
When the south of Landskron. Is
miles northeast of Copenhagen, the
Thelua was pursued by the German
destroyed W-132 into Swedish terrific
rial waters. While the Germans were
In the act of boarding the steamer the
Pollux forced them to return to their
boats, and running between the two
vessels, informed the Germans that
every means would be employed to
prevent the Thelma from being taken.
After an interval of silence. In which
both warships cleared for action. the
German destroyer steamed away.
Three firms of Goteborg have sub
scribed 100000 crowns to the latest
German loan which is being fioated in
Sweden. It is evident that the cap
italists of Sweden have no fear of a
bankrupt Germany as result of the
war.
It is noised about In Norrland
that a former resident of that
place, named Johansson, has recent
ly died. leaving a fortune Of 100000
crowns, which are supposed to be on
deposit in Holland banks. 1t is stated
that Johansson made mis- fortune in
Batavia as slave trader.
In 1918 7,5O0.O0O tons of iron ore
was mined in Sweden. The output for
1914 was only s.5sO.OoO tons. on &C
count OF the coming on OF the war,
The number OF new business corpo
rations registered during the third
quarter OF this year was 143. which
, were capitalized at S4.40O.000, Of
which s3.40O.000 had been paid up
During the same period 70 corpora
tions added about $7.000.000 to their
, capital stock. Seven corporations re
duced their capital stock by almost
100000.
~ A frightful murder was recently
committed in one OF the widest fores,
regions of Sweden, namely At Tor
} snLer In Grafrikland. A woman wal
found dead near her hOuna nadIv dln