Mexico Missouri message., 1914-12-31

experiments conducted by Prof. Robert
Kennedy OF Glasgow. Scotland, In May
wheeled gyroscopic motor car Gre
ated considerable excitement In London.
II is the invention OF Paul Schilowsky.
An innovation known as twilight sleep
is announced 60 have worked such
change in obstetrical methods that child
birth has been robbed almost entirely OF
its terroTs. The new system developed at
the woman's hospital Of Freiburg. Ger
many, is described as n slight slumber
induced by an injection OF a combination
of two drugs, scopolamin and morphium
On January 2s the first wireless mes
sage without relaying, transmitted be-
tween Hanover, Germany. and Tuckerton,
on the lower New Jersey coast. came IN
one leap distance of 4,o62 miles. ON
February II the expedition led by Capt.
J. Campbell Besley returned to New YORK
after six months exploration In hither-
to unknown Andean region. The party
discovered a lost Inca city and brought
back a valuable collection. Later In the
Same month the antarctic expedition led
by DIR. Douglas Mewson arrived at Ade-
laide. Australia. after two years spent IN
scientific exploration. on April 10, Dr.
Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner ana
eminent for his contributions to exact sci
ence announced that he had operated
successfully on the heart OF an animal by
suspending the circulation OF blood sew
eral minutes. On May 10, ex-President
Roosevelt returned home after an explor-
ing trip OF eight months through the Bra
lillian wilderness He announced the dis-
covery of n river which was christened
Rio Roosevelt, and afterward rechristened
Rio Teodoro. On November 4. ut the Brit
ish embassy In Rome. Prof. Domenico
Argentieri, an italian priest of the Abruz-
ri, made good his claim to have devised
small portable wireless biography APP
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high-power stations at distance OF
1880 miles. On January 2, at Dayton,
Ohio, Orville Wright gave n public de-
monstratlon OF the automatic stabil,zer,
his new aeronautlcal invention. On Feb
| ruary z, the German aviator Ingold made
a record OF more than a thousand miles.
| remaining aloft sixteen and n half hours.
thus breaking all previous records. In
| April a new aeroplane height record was
made by Linnekogel, at Johannisthal He
| reached an altitude of 20. 564 feet, In May,
a Zeppelin drgible flew for thirty-siX
hours without stop over Germany. nj an
average of about ffty-two miles an hour
| On July H. German aviator at Berlin
assembled in monoplane TO a height OF
26. 900 feet, and thus broke the record. The
flight from Norway to Scotland was made
by Gran. July go in four hours and ter
minutes.
been greatly sensational. but 1t has beer
sufficient to modify warfare to an appre
ciable extent. Most of the aeroplanes o
the belligerent nations are not fighting
craft, but the dirigibles Of the Zeppelin
type belonging to the German war equip
ment are regarded as battleships of tn
air, and terrible results have been eX
pected when this formidable sky squadron
should get into action. Thus far, most o
these military adjuncts have been used 70
scouting purposes, and as such they hav
proved to be especially effective. TIL
rapid advance of the German forces int
France at the beginning OF hostlities wa
made possible by these air scouts, whic
served to point out the way with infall
BILE accuracy. In the attack on Louvai
and other Belgian cities German aircrai
rendered effective service by directing al
tillery fire by means of searchlights an
| burning material dropped among the Be
gian troops. That the Zeppelin airshir
: are capable of doing great damage wa
,, made evident at the siege of Antwerp
> Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second phenon
!, email storm of the season added largely
! the destruction of property along Il
ocean front of New Jersey and Long 1
land. On January IL. n Japanese vo
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly Il
to activity and destroyed three towns al
e killed more than thousand persons. Du
y Ing performance at n moving pictu
$ theater at Surabaya, Java, 20 women al
= children were burned to death. IT
IL steamer Monroe. from Norfolk TO Ne
: York city, was rammed by the Nantuck
u during night fog off Cape Charles. ia
uary 30, and Al persons were lost. {
o March IA more than n thousand perso
I, lost their lives during II storm whit
IS | nnndnn SpVnra1 towns in Southern RngSI
IS and about the same time many perso
It were killed by an earthquake at Akit
t. Japan.
l. On March 81 the sealing steam
Newfoundland stranded on an ice fl
e, in the Strait of Belle Isle and n
er her crew were frozen TO death. T
lie same day the steamer Southern Gro
,e and her crew disappeared On APP
al 2S an explosion in a mine shaft
rs Eccles. w. Va, caused the death of /
e. miners. Early in May Sicily was VI
s tied by a series of shocks which
IN great damage along the eastern Goa
,k The stea mship Empress of ireland W
ne struck by the Norwegian collier Ste
es stad in the st. Lawrence river. May
Dix and sank almost Immediately. me
than a thousand passengers losing tn
ar lives. May 30, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett
a. the Stefansson arctic expedition return
he to ST. Michael, Alaska, with the news q
IS the Karluk sank, January IL. after hav
n been crushed by ice, and that her CT
he was marooned on Wrangel Island.
VS. September Z, eight members of this CT
were found by a rescuing party
June 10 more than two hundred min
were lost by an explosion in a coal N
IN near Alberta, Canada A fire at Sal
ng Mass. June 25 destroyed half of the C
H. including several thousand homes
n many large Industrial establishments.
ri this month. also, American consuls In
On rious Chinese cities reported that food
nd southern China had destroyed the CT
1st and made 100000 persons homeless
ct September IS the Francis ii. Legs
raj collided with an unknown vessel
the Oregon coast and 70 Of her pass
.ep gers and crew were Lost, In Octo
I'm an earthquake in Turkey destro
AN more than 5000 persons in few II
do utes.
on Edisons great electrical plant
rus Orange, n. j.. was destroyed by fire
aid December 8.
Ing Notable Events.
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