The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
AIRMEN ARRESTED
Returning From Aerial Hunt
They Kill Pedestrian.
HydrOphObia Caught From Fox
Hound Causes Death.
FINDS OLD SKELETON.
Doctor Shows Where Shape of
Our Heads Change.
POrtuguesePIan Measure tOCurb
King Manuel.
FINDS OLD SKELETON.

Paris, Nov. 4.-The aviators. Legag-
neux and Martinez, went shooting on
board an aeroplane in the neighbor-
hood of Compiegne- Legagneux piloted
the biplane in dextrous circles and
ovals above the coverts while Martinez
did the shooting.
The machine cannot remain in the
air and fly at a less speed than part
ridge and, as Martinez is an expert
enced shot, he rarely missed birds
whose line of flight was that of the
aeroplane. He also killed two hares,
the apparatus wheeling down just
above them The difficult part of the
sport was finding the game after land
ing.
The public prosecutor at Rheims has
brought proceedings against aviators
for the first time in French criminal
law for homicide through negligence
the defendants Being Count d'Hespel,
who, in alighting, struck down and
killed q machinist, German Gardes,
and Aviator Provost. who ran into a
soldier, Eugene Potin. imprudently and
carelessly, the prosecuting attorney
afhrms.
Radium Kills Mice.
Professor Bouchard's experiments
with radium have brought him to the
conviction that when projected on
nervous centres radium produces pa
ralysis and rapid death. This has not
been tried on human beings, but upon
mice enclosed in healthy oxygenated
rsceptacles Mice under the radium
ray died in from six to eight hours
while so-called control specimens kept
under identical conditions, except that
the radium emanations were absent
remained well
Microscopic examination of the ami
NAL tissues after death showed no
change except a dininutfOn of white
globuies in the blood and congestion of
the blood In the lungs. The bodies had
acquired such extraordinary radio ac-
tivity that three days after death they
made an impression on a Photographic
plate through several sheets of black
paper.
Subject for Surprise.
Madame Curie says that eff the ma
ture of the radiations from radium are
little known the cause of spontaneous
radio-activity remains as mysterious,
and is always for US q subject of pro-
found establishment"
This radio-activity being communi-
Gated to almost everything adjacent to
the substance except lead, the radium
institute that the French government
or, more properly, the University of
Paris, is building for Madame Curie is
being lined completely with lead
Doctor Henri-Martfn, grandson of
the great historian, made an announce
ment at the weekly meeting of the
Academy of Sciences Of exceptional
Importance to the study of e-historic
man. At the foot of hill in the de-
partment of the Charente the doctor
dug up the skull of a man of the Quar-
ternary Epoch, showing marked diver
gences from the four or five similar
specimens already extant, notably a
very pronounced protuberance at the
base of the forehead
Seek Complete Skeleton.
The teeth, which are very strong,
are worn right down to the crown. and
lead to the belief that their owner was
herbivorous. Beside the skull were
found a few broken instruments and
some other bones, all of the same
period, and the digging IS being con-
tinued with the greatest care in the
hope of being able to unearth the COM
plete skeleton.
Pasteur Institute here. Some months ago
Captain Bower, the master of a pack of
foxhounds in the south of England. while
killing a fox which had been run down
by the pack, was bitten by the animal IN
but after three months had elapsed he
was seized with violent commissions and
died in twenty hours with all the syTnp-
toms of hydrophobia, and medical science
was unable to account otherwise for his
death.
Kisses Dying Brother.
Miss Sylvia Bower, his sister. who
kissed him as he was dying. and the doc
tor who attended him, were Immediately
sent over to the Paris Pasteur Institute,
where. although cases of hydrophobia so
long after the bite had healed. while al
possible, and 1t was decided to keep Miss
Bower and the doctor under observation
for fifteen days. That period has elapsed,
and the two patients have been dis
charged with a clean bill OF health.
The Portuguese government is prepaT-
ing an act designed TO humble the mon
archists and deprive them of the means
for financing another rising. All alb
se1ltee monarchist landowners or other
Portuguese residing abroad for political
reasons must return to the country with
IN a term to be named in the law or their
property viii be forfeited to the state.
The property of those conspiring viii be
conftscated Immediately.
Aimed at Manuel.
This decision to seize the property OF
those taking an active part in treason
against the present administration viii
include the deposed King Manuel, who
according to evidence in the hands of the
government, sent his uncle, the Duke 81
Oporto. to represent him in the recent
uprising. Political prisoners of the lower
classes probably VIII be exiled to Portu-
guese African colonies They will, it Is
considered likely. be advanced certain
sums to start them colonists. The
captured monarchdst leaders will be KEEP
IN prison for terms corresponding witt
the degree of their guilt.
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