The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-12-31

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| a1ed Considerable excitement in Lon4Oa-
IL b the inveatioa of Paul SchiSs0sky.
An ianovatioa knoun ~ -twiligAt slseo
b announced 70 have worked such .
| change In 0AsfetSical methods that child
birth has beeA robbed almost entirely Of
its tesrors- fhs new system developed At
the Womaa's hospital OF Freiburg. Ger
many. u described as 4 slight slumber
Induced BY an Injection Of = combanation
od two aruss. scOpolamia asd morphium
On January u the arst wireless mes
! sage without relaying. transmitted be-
tween Hanover. Germany. and Tuckerton.
on the lower New Jersey coast. came In
one leap . distance Of l.O62 miles. On
feeruary II the expedition led by Capt
j. Campbell Besley returned 10 New York
after six month"; exploration in q hither-
10 unknown Andean region. The party
discovered 4 lost Inca city and brought
hack . valuable collection. Later In the
saIne month the antarctic expedition led
BY DR.. Douglas Aewson arrived at Ade-
iaide. Australia, after two years spent In
scientific exploration. On April TO- DR.
Alexis Carrel. Nobel prise winner and
eminent for his contributions to exact sci
successfully on the heart Of an animal by
suspending the circulation OF blood sew
eraI minutes. On May -. eX-President
Roosevelt returned home after an explor-
ing trip Of eight months through the Bra
xiiian wilderness. He announced the dis
covefy OF . river. which was christened
RE Roosevelt. and afterward rechristened
Rio Teodoro. On November 4. at the Brit
ish embassy In Rome. Prof. Domenico
Argentieri. an italian priest OF the Abru1-
ID. made good his claim to have devised
small portable wireless teiegraphy ap-
paratus capable Of receiving messages
from hiEh-power stations at q distance of
l.2S0 miles. On January :, at Dayton.
Ohio. Orville Wright gave q public de-
monstration OF the automatic sstabiiixer.
his new aeronauticai invention. On Feb
ruary Z. the German aviator Ingod made
a record Of more than q thousand miles.
remaining aloft sixteen and a half hours.
thus breaking all previous records. In
April a new aeroplane height record was
made by Linnekosei. at Johannisthal. He
reached an altitude of 20 564 feet. In May,
Zeppelin dirigible few for thirty-sx
hours without stop over Germany. at an
average of about hfty-two miles an hour.
On July II, German aviator at Berlin
ascended in a monoplane to a height of
5000 feet and thus broke the record. The
flight from Norway to Scotland was made
minutes.
The use of aircraft In the war has not
been greatly sensational. but 1t has been
sufhcient to modify warfare to an appre-
ciable extent. Most Of the aeroplanes Of
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 the
air. and terrible results have been ex-
neCtPd Aa aLv
should get into action. Thus far, most of
these military adJuncts have been used for
scouting purposes. and as such they have
proved to be especially effective. The
rapid advance Of the German forces into
France at the beginning of hostilities was
made possible by these air scouts, which
served to point out the way with infalli-
BILE accuracy. In the attack on Louvain
and other Belgian cities German aircraft
rendered effective service by directing ar
tillery fire by means Of searchlights and
burning material dropped among the Bel
gian troops. That the Zeppelin airships
are capable Of doing great damage was
made evident at the siege of Antwerp.
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second pSenom.
enal storm of the season added largely to
the destruction Of property along tho
ocean front OF New Jersey and Long Is
land. On January II, 4 japanese vol
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly In
to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than thousand persons. Dur
ing a performance at a moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java. IS women and
children were burned to death. The
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to New
York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
during a night fog off Cape Charles. JAM
uary 30. and Al persons were lost. On
March IA more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during a storm which
flooded several towns in Southern Russia,
and about the same time many persons
were killed by an earthquake at Akita,
Japan.
On March 21 the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
in the Strait of Belle Isle and n of
her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the steamer Southern Cross
and her crew disappeared. On April
28 an explosion In a mine shaft at
Eccles. w. Va, caused the death Of $50
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
tied by a series OF shocks which did
great damage along the eastern coast.
The steamship Empress of Ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
stad in the st. Lawrence river. May 20,
and sank almost Immediately, more
than thousand passengers losing their
lives May 30. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett OF
the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
TO st. Michael. Alaska, with the news that
the karluk sank. January II, after having
been crushed by Ice, and that her crew
was marooned on Wrangel Island. On
September Z. eight members of this crew
were found by a rescuing party. On
June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion in a coal mine
near Alberta. Canada. A fire at Salem
Mass, June Is, destroyed half Of the city
including several thousand homes and
many large industrial establishments. In
this month. also. American consuls in va
rious Chinese cities reported that floods in
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 2,OO0.0o0 persons homeless. On
September IS the Francis H. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel Off
the Oregon coast and 72 of her passen-
gers and crew were lost. In October
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in a few min
utes.
Ed!son's great electrical plant at
Orange, N J.. was destroyed by fire on
December 9.