Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-31


aJed considerable excitement in London. +
Il is the invention Of Paul Schilowsky-
An innovation known as twilight sleep
is announced 10 have worked such
change in obstetrical methods that child /
birth has been robbed almost entirely of (
its terrors. The new system developed at
the Woman's hospital of Freiburg, Ger |
many Is described as 4 slight slumber I
induced by an injection Of a combination /
Of Two drugs. seopolamin ana nlorphium. /
On January IS the first wireless mes /
sage without relaying, transmitted be- |
tween Hanover, Germany, and Tuckerton. |
on the lower New Jersey coast, came in /
one leap q distance of 4,062 miles. On /
February II the expedition led by Capt. !
]. Campbell Besley returned to New York 1
after six months exploration in a hither |
TO unknown Andean region. The party I
discovered a lost Inca city and brought |
back valuable collection. Later in the T
same month the antarctic expedition led /
by DR.. Douglas Me0son arrived at Ade- |
iaide, Australia after two years spent in /
scientific exploration. On April 10, Dr.. /
Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner and /
eminent for his contributions to exact sci I
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 /
covery Of a river. which was chTistened /
Rio Roosevelt and afterward rechristened |
Rio Teodoro. On November T. at the Brit |
ish embassy in Rome. Prof. Domenico |
Argentferi, an Italian priest of the Abruz- |
ri, made good his claim to have devised /
a small portable wireless telegraphy ap- |
paratus capable of receiving messages |
from high-power stations at distance of |
1 $50 miles. On January z, at Dayton, |
Ohio, Orville Wright gave a public de- |
monstration of the automatic stabilizer, |
his new aeronautical invention. On Feb |
ruary z, the German aviator Ingold made |
a record OF more than a thousand miles, |
remaining aloft sixteen and a half hours, /
thus breaking all previous records. In
April new aeroplane height record was |
made by Linnekogel. at Johannisthal He |
reached an altitude of 20,564 feet. In May, |
a Zeppelin dirigible flew for thirty-six |
hours without stop over Germany. at an |
average of about f1fty-two miles an hour. t
On July Il. a German aviator at Berlin |
assembled in a monoplane to a height of |
5000 feet, and thus broke the record. The !
flight from Norway to Scotland was made |
by Gran, July so. in four hours and ten |
minutes.
The use of aircraft in the war has not |
been greatly sensational. hIl- a. has been |
sufficient to modify warfare to an appre- |
ctable 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- |
pected when this formidable sky squadron t
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 |
nv al TzrI-i oI
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 phenom-
email storm of the season added largely to |
the destruction of property along the |
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is |
land. On January II, a Japanese vol |
| cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in |
to activity and destroyed three towns and |
killed more than a thousand persons. Dur |
ing a performance at a moving picture |
theater at Surabaya, Java 70 women and |
children were burned to death. The |
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to New |
York city, was ranmed by the Nantucket |
during a night fog off Cape Charles, jan
uary 80, and Il 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 81 the sealing steamer |
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe |
in the Strait Of Belle Isle and II Of |
her crew were frozen to death. The |
same day the steamer Southern Cross |
and her crew disappeared. On April |
20 an explosion in mine shaft at |
Eccles, w. Va caused the death of 1870 |
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 g. |
and sank almost Immediately, more |
than a thousand passengers losing their |
lives. May 80, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett of |
| the Stefansson arctic expedite 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 ICSI Dy dn explosion IN a coal mine |
near Alberta, Canada. A fire at Salem, |
Mass, June %, destroyed half of the city |
including several thousand homes and |
many large industrial esta bishments In |
this month, also, American consuIs in va |
rious Chinese cities reported that floods in |
southern China had destroyed the crops |
and made 100000 persons homeless. On |
September IS the Francis H. Leggett |
collided with an unknown vessel off |
the Oregon coast and 70 of her passen- !
gers and crew were lost. In October |
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed !
more than 5000 persons in few min |
utes.
Edison's great electrical plant at
Orange, n. J., was destroyed by fire on !
December 8.
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm of J. P |
Morgan & Co. announced the with |
drawal of it's members from director |
ships in 27 large corporations, thus |
complying with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking di- |
rectorates. On January,9 Harvard uni |
versity and the Massachusetts Institute |
of Technology arranged to combine |
their engineering departments. On |
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gave |
| 81, 000,0 toward the propaganda car |
ried on by the Church Peace union On |
| April 13 the International Surgical |
| congress met at New York city. Water |
was let into the new canal across Cane
| Cod on April q. This canal shortens the |
| distance by water between Boston and |
| New York by seventy miles and cuts out /
the danger Of rounding the cape in stormy |
| The canal was form IIzy opapa5 |