Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-31
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
JOHN swAMBERG. THE RUNNER
Makes Remarkably Fast Time i'm IA
Fiye-Mile Race With John Dun
pa. can at Stockholm. ....F-.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

stock holm.
Mail advices from sweden record
some wonderful running by John
Swanberg. the Swedish champion.
who finished second in both the i've
mile run and Marathon race AT Athens
last year In match race at Stock
holm against John Duncan, the four-
mile champion of England, SwanGeFs
ran five miles in "a minutes u 30 sec
onds, beating Duncan by nearly aA
eighth of a mile. He led from the
start, passing the first mile in AT 30.
He reached the second mile post A INN
ties and 43 % seconds later orf9iGa
for the first two miles. This is nearly
three seconds faster than the Amer
can two-mile record, 9;2I 4-l. by, AleN
Grant Swanberg reeled off tue tht d
mile in 800 40, or 14:25 10 FOR the
three miles. At this point lie led Pun
can by 70 yards and the BRiton was
almost gi8ggy. Swanberg ranuhe
fourth mile i'm 5.l2 4-5,. Ilnalingifhis
total time to that point 1898 3-1. Ih
the last quarter mile the Swede made
a glorious sprint. leaving the EnSl sh,
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race, of, 1000, meters %, mileS, and about abe,
2Ol, YARDS. Again the Swede was Vic
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So, .hoo,t lisoaSe Tamm was n
yery nromirant man both in political
and business circles and was regarded
oc ono of swadan.s most nropres I've
thinkers He was twice married and
was tbe father Of thirteen children.
swada, nr,ducaa only, abont forty
ro,nas nc cold dur;no the MAST wear
while tho nroductIon was ,1O3 hounds
For tho previous wear The Falun con-
nor mine was tbe only one that BRO
ducad gold LAST wear This result in
dicates that the .gold fields in Nord
land must have existed largely in the
magination of sanguine prospectors.
A mupicipal congress attended by
not less than 700 delegates met in
S+ockhoIm q waa,x aoo last Saturday
The CONGRESS- was called 70 order Inv
the secretary of the department OF the
interior. A municipal league has been
organized for the purpose of consider.
ing laws an conditions in general reia-
tive to municipai affairs.
II COSTS money TO buy whisky in
Sweden and it costs more now than
1t has done for great many years.
Owing To the high price of whisky the
price of potatoes has been raised to
81 cents, which is considered an un
| usual price at this time of the year.
Captain STEPHEN Slocum has been
appointed military attache at the Am
ericar, legation In Stockholm. Major
Gibson. the present attache, has been
appointed to a minor military post at
Sandy Hook and will leave Stockholm
in the near future. ,.,a .,s,
The Swedish members of the inter-
national peace congress, which recent
ly convened in Copenhagen. intend to
present a proposition to the next Swed-
board Of arbitration in the foreign de.
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