Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-05
HUNTERS OUT IN AIRSHIP
French Aviators Prove Aeroplane is
Good Vehicle for Shooting.
FLYER JAILED FOR NEGLIGENCE
Portuguese Republic Taking steps 60
Tame the Exuberance Of Friends
OF the Monnrchy-Drsstie
Plan Outlined.

PARIS, Nov. 4-The aviators. I,eRas-
noux and Martinez, went shooting on
board an aeroplane in the neighborhood
OF Compiegne recently. L.egagneux
piloted the biplane in dextrous circle
and ovals above the Coverts, while Mar
tinet did the shooting.
The machine cannot remain in the air
and fly at less speed than a partridge.
and, as martinez is an experienced 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 % the sport was finding
the game after landing.
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, VINO
in allghhng, struck down and killed
machinist German Gardes. and Aviator
Provost, who ran into a soldier, Eugene
Potlin, imprudently and carelessly, the
prosecuting attorney affrms
RadIum is Dangerous.
Professor Bouchards experiments with
radlum have brought him 10 the convic-
ton that when projected on nervous CEN
tiers radium produces paralysis and rapid
death. This has not been tried on hu-
iasa beings, but upon mice enclosed in
healthy oxygenated receptacles. Mice
under the radium ray died in from six
10 eight hours, while so-called control
specimens. kept under Identical condi
tons, except that the radium emanations
were absent, remained well.
of hn Mt al
tissues after death showed no change
except a diminution Of white globules
in the blood and congestion Of the blood
in the lungs. The bodies had acquired
such extraordinary radio-activity that
three days after death they made an
impression on a Photographic plate
through several sheets of black paper.
Madame Curie says that 'if the nature
OF the radiations from radium are little
known the cause OF spontaneous radio
activity remains as mysterious and is
always for us a subject of profound as
constituent"
This radio-activity being communicated
TO almost everything adjacent to the sub
stance except lead, the radium institute
that lne French government or more
properly the University of Paris is
building for Madame Cur1e is being lined
completely with lead.
Doctor Henri-Martin, grandson Of the
great historian, made an announcement
at the weekly meeting of the Academy
of Sciences Of exceptional Importance to
the study of prehistoric man. At the
foot of a hill in the department of the
Charente the doctor dug up the skull
of a man of the Quarternary Epoch,
showing marked divergences from the
four or five similar specimens already
extant, notably very pronounced pro-
tuberance at the base of the forehead.
The teeth, which are very strong, are
worn right down to the crown and lead
TO the belief that their owner was herb
ivorous. Besides the skull were found
a few broken instruments and some
other bones, all of the same period, and
the digging is being continued with the
greatest care in the hope of being able
TO unearth the complete skeleton.
HydrOphobia from Fox DIte.
A case of hydrophobia from the bite
of fox has just had its sequel at the
Pasteur. institute here Some. months
ago Captain Bower, the master of a
pack of foxhounds in the south OF
England, while killing fox which had
been run down by the pack, was bitten
by the animal in its struggles. The
wound healed rapidly, but after three
months had elapsed he was seized with
violent commissions and died in twenty
hours with all the symptoms Of hydro
phobia, and medical science was unable
TO account otherwise for his death.
Miss Sylvia Bower, his sister, who
kissed him as he was dying, and the
doctor who attended him were imme-
dlately sent over to the Paris Pasteur
institute, where. although cases Of
hydrophobia so long after the bite had
healed, while almost unheard of, are
not considered impossible, and II was
decided to keep Miss Bower and the
doctor under observation for fifteen
days. That period has elapsed and the
two patients have been discharged with
a clean bill of health.
To Tame Portuguese RoyaIists.
The Portuguese government is pre-
pairing an act designed to humble the
monarchists and deprive them Of the
means for financing another rising. All
atsentee monarchist land owners or
other Portuguese residing abroad for
country within term to be named in
tho law or their property will be for
feited to the state. The property OF
those consprlng Will be confiscated i'm
mediately.
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 OF Oporto to represent him in
the recent uprising. Political prisoners
OF the lower classes probably viii be
oxiled to Portuguese African colonies.
They VIII. It is considered likely, be ad-
,Vanced certain sums to start them as
eolonists. The captured monarchlst
leaders will be kept in prison for terms
corresponding with the degree OF their
guilt