Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1914-07-03
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News Of Interest Gathered h
Germany and Austria.
AVIATION GROWING RAPIDLY
Germany t4ae Forty-ntne Factories
ENGAGED in Making Flying Ma
chimes and Accessories. :

Germany has now about $50 trained
aviators. There are forty-nine fac.
tories building aeroplanes and acces-
sories. There are forty-one flying
fields scattered all over Germany. OF
these Johannistal, near Berlin, is the
most important. At this, Germany's
greatest flying center, there are be-
tween 800 and 400 aeroplanes. During
1913 no less than 36,917 fights were
made from this one aviation field by
1863 different pilots, who together COW
cred an aggregate distance of approx
imately 100000 miles. In 1912 only
1861 fights we're made from Johan.
install Aside from this PIP pilots
made cross country flights starting
from Johannistal. An average of ITO
flights a day on 1886 out of 365 days
last year were made at this field.
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RoeeER BAND BROKEN UP.
In prosperous Silesia, so long
known as the home of the wealthy
Baron Hirsch, wondrous cave, remi-
niscent of arabian Nights stories,
has for years been the home Of a
gang of robbers, whose raids and
depredations have been the terror of
a quiet corner of the state. The cave
lies hidden in the village cemetery of
Opoczym. The stranger entering it
from without with its uppretentious
exterior would be astounded to be-
hold its chambers OF luxury Bril-
liantly lighted by electricity, rich car.
pets, priceless gems and plate, pic
lures by famed artists, meet his as
tonished gaze on every side. Every
thing in it has been stolen by the
braves-or brigands, which you like
of Daniel Scheffer, the daring: and
notorious chief Unseen by the priv
ileged visitor, who is net an enemy,
in a chamber apart are stacks upon
stacks of arms and ammunition ap-
preached only through secret pas
sage dug in the rock in some pre-
vious age and found useful for their
purpose by the brigands. The police,
however, have discovered all. BY a
long and we'll planned process Of
espionage and secret panel which
had been inserted in an ancient fam
lily vault the retreat of this notorious
gang was discovered. Scheffer and
his desperadoes were in the billiard
room enjoying bout of cards and
billiards when the police entered. A
desperate encounter ensued. The
gang was overcome after several of
the. invaders had been wounded and
two Of the brigands shot dead.
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VIENNA NEEDS BIG SUM-
The city council of Vienna is pro-
posing to float a loan of $75,000,0 900 at
once, to be expended mainly upon the
development of existing municipal
ownership undertakings. It is pro-
posed to spend $30,000,000 on subways
around the congested districts of the
inner city, where up to the present
there has been only an Indifferent
service of horse omnibuses. The bus
business, which the city purchased at
about so cents on the dollar from a
bankrupt private company, has been
run at a great loss each year. Wen
mas experiments in other fields of mu,
nicipal ownership, however, have been
more successful. The electric light
and power plant has paid clear profit
of 100000 during the past year, a
return of about IL per cent on the
city's investment, but it has been
done in the face of general complaints
that electricity is dearer in Vienna
than in almost any large city in Eu-
rope.
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