The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-07-07


prompted by the danger Of coal fam
Inc In Sweden and will have ample
financial backing. " is estimated that
100000 crowns will be necessary to
finance the proposed undertaking.
A terrible crime was recently com
mitted in Kerta. Iagermanland. Swed-
en-. Bandits broke into the home of
peasant named Holmes and muir
dered In cold blood AL who were pres
Hfnt including the peasants wife. a
son about twenty years old servant
there The murderers took the peas
ants horse aud escaped.
A labor conflict has broken out at
che Dannarvet Iron works. which Is
the property OF the big Kopparherg
company. Twenty-four hundred men
are on strike because their demand for
higher wages has been refused. The
company Is reluctant TO take up with
the strikers the wage question. as the
negotiations last year were without re-.
suit.
Reference was recently made 10 the
publication In Germany OF play by
Friedrich Strindberg, who. II vas stat
ed. Is the ON OF the famous Swedish
author, August Strindberg. The attor-
ney for August Strindberg's heirs has
come forward with = denial that the
said Friedrich Strindberg Is son OF
the deceased Swedish author.
Swedish state officials are poor pen.
men--at least some Of them--so poor.
indeed. that one OF the riksdag mem.
bers has made motion in that body
that employees and officials In the
state service be required TO sign their
names more distinctly so that IL Is
possible TO read them.
Warner Ryden, member Of the riks-
dag and prominent lender of the social
democratic party. the other day made
speech mt Bakeberg In Southern
Sweden, prophesying a revolution In
Sweden unless franchise reforms are
granted. IF the conservatives refuse
10 grant the will OF the people, after
the autumn elections" ne said. at may
require force TO liberate the pro-
letariat. I am prepared for strong cleo
ton work among the peasants and the
workingmen. The present politicians
pIrations and nnxieties OF the masses
are not peculiar to Sweden. Even In
the countries where the throne has not
been opposed TO the people there is
strong republican feeling. We see II
even In Belgium. where the king Is
suffering with the people. Why should
Sweden, which has the next Oldest
parliament In the world and In which
the peasant class never has lived In
serfdom. be the last 10 take the road
TO unlimited suffrage? Why should
Il be that here several thousand per-
sons lost their votes through the pres
ent franchise laws? 1t Is a scandalous
fact that several thousand OF the work
ingmen lost their votes because, being
called into the military service. their
incomes were reduced below the fig
ures which the present laws make
necessary before they can vote or be-
cause they were unable to pay their
taxes"
While carpenters were putting down
new floor In the Hagrida church,
JonkOeping. they had to remove some
planks from a wall, and this led to
the discovery Of paintings on the orig
lnal wall. No one had thought OF such
find. II Is supposed that all the
walls had been decorated with paint
lngs I'm the sixteenth century. The
paintings were covered with planks In
the eighteenth century and forgotten.
Indignation has been aroused at
Gothenburg by statements made be-
fore n magistrates court by survivors
OF the Swedish steamer Harald, sunk
by a German submarine In the North
sea May O. The captain and four Of
the crew were drowned. The testimony
showed that the submarine shelled the
Harald without warning. One Of the
llfeboats was destroyed by shell.
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Foreign Minister Lindman made a
statement to the riksdag June IA with
reference to Sweden's attitude toward
the belligerent powers. He declared
that the governments policy, as In the
INST. will be one Of strict neutrality.
ssThe war will not end soon." he said
'and we must be prepared for greater
sufYerings than we have yet borne, all
the more as the Swedish harvest this
year will undoubtedly be a poor one"
The minister's reference to the harvest
IL significant. and bears out reports
sent out from time to tims ~ to crop
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