Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-03
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGS IN FAR OFF
NoRTHLAND.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Import&6. Events
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the seandinsvlans
In America
SWEDEN.


The autopsy on King Karl XII,
Sweden's warrior king, killed in bat
tie almost 200 years ago, to determine
whether the shot through the tenn
pies, which caused HIS death, came
from enemy lines or from an assas-
sin among his own men, has Just been
made In an effort to solve one of the
mysteries of history. If the bullet en-
tered the right temple II would indi-
cate that it came from Fredrikshald
fortress, Norway. before which the
kings forces lay intrenched. while a
shot from the opposite direction would
show that 1t was fired by a traitor in
his own ranks. The scientists who
are conducting the investigation, have
not yet announced their conclusions,
aud will not until they have made
an effort TO fit together the pieces of
bone taken from the wound, but the
indications are that the bullet en-
! tered the right temple and came, there
fore, from the enemy The kings
body was examined in the old Knights
church in Stockholm, where IL lay In
simple coffin 1t was covered with
a linen shroud with the arms at the
sides, the fingers meeting across the
waist. the hands incased in faded vel
low gloves. On the head was a laurel
wreath placed there In January, 1719.
when he was buried Those Wild
rld "a
his masterful countenance. still bear
Ing through all the years the look of
leader of men. The wound COW
cred by patches of linen. was found
to consist of a cleft in the skull be-
ginning at the left corner of the left
eye and extending at az angle Of about
40 degrees upward to the right for
about three inches. A triangular
piece Of bone. loosened by the bullet.
was still held in place by the skin.
1t was marked by deep depres-
| sion. The King entered the trenches
the evening of December IL. IT'S. and
went to point opposite where the
Danes had a battery. With him were
the engineer who had planned the
trenches and Siquier, the kings
French aide de camp. As Karl lay
on the parapet of the trench, his head
and shoulders exposed. an enemy can
non fired Load of grapeshot and the
| king fell dead No question that a
| grapeshot was the cause of his death
ever arose until year later, when
Siquier. while in a delirium Of fever
| said that he had murdered the king
When he recovered he was Mortified
at his own rawlings, and denied until
| his death that he had killed the king
! He died in poverty. Voltaire. who in.
vestigated the affair, reached the con
cluslon that the fatal shot could not
| have been fired by Siquier. The muir
der theory. however. once started, has
persisted down TO the present time.
Demand Of the Swedish people that
| their government take immediate
the Swedish people are strictly neu-
trail" was voiced In a monster mass
meeting at Stockholm. Not all the
thousands in sympathy with such n
public move were able TO press into
the auditorium where the meeting was
held. The Socialist Minister Brant-
ing addressed a great overflow meet
ing 10 field outside the city. A ban
ner bore the motto "Down With Sc
cret Diplomacy" other banners in
dicated the parade might be interpret
ed as a peace demonstration as well
as an election procession.
Scandinavian representatives az
Washington, particularly the Swedish,
pleaded that the new prohibition on
wheat export will bring their nations
to the brink Of starvation. The Swe-
dish representatives declared their na-
ton will be the first 10 feel the pinc.,
of famine. The Swedish population,
according TO Axel Robert Nordvall.
delegate 10 the United States, now
gets only seven ounces of rye or wheat
daily. the smallest ration In Europe.
"Sweden's grain crop this year" he
said. will be only two-thirds normal.
We will need 100000 bushels for
bread. and 1t is impossible to cut our
rations further"
Discovery that wire nails In con
Segment for Sweden were covered
with lead caps caused the custom au-
thorities at New York TO hold up a
shipment Of 800 cases Of the nails II
was said there was enough lead on
each nail for manufacture Of "A rife
bullet and that the application for
shipping license contained no mention
of lead.