The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-12-29

experiments conducted by Prof. Robert
Kennedy of Glasgow, Scotland. In May
two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car Gre
ated considerable excitement in London
1t is the invention of Paul Schilowsky.
| An innovation known as twilight sleep"
Is announced to have worked such a
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 a slight slumber
induced by an injection of combination
OF two drugs. scopolamin and morphium-
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 a distance of 4062 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 valuable collection. Later in the
same month the antarctic expedition led
by DR.. Douglas Mewson arrived al Ade-
iaide, Australia, after two years spent in
scientific explorati ton. On April TO- DR.
Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner and
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 a river, which was christened
Rio Roosevelt and afterward rechristened
Rio Teodoro. On November 4, at the Brit
fsh embassy in Rome, Prof. Domenico
Argentier, an italian priest of the Abruz-
ri, made good his claim to have devised
a small portable wireless telegraphy APP
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high-power stations at distance of
1,250 miles On January 2, at Dayton,
Ohio, Orville Wright gave public de-
monstration of the automatic stablizer,
his new aeronautical invention. On Feb
ruary Z, the German aviator Ingold made
a record of more than thousand miles,
remaining aloft sixteen and a half hours,
thus breaking ell 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
Zeppelin dirigible flew for .thirty-six
hours without stop over Germany, at an
average of about fifty-two miles an hour.
On July ID a German aviator at Berlin
ascended in a monoplane to a height of
26,oOO 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 it has been
sufficient to modify warfare to an appre-
cable extent. Most of the aeropanes 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
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 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 thousand persons Dur
ing 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, jan
uary 80, and Al persons were lost. On
Hoy
lost their lives during 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
28 an explosion in 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 80, 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. fire at Salem,
Mass, June %, 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 100000 persons homeless. On
September Is the Francis H. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel off
the Oregon coast and ~ of her passen-
gers and crew were lost. In October
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 1000 persons in a few min
utes.
Edison's great electrical plant at
Orange, II. j., was destroyed by fire on
December 9.
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm of J. p.
Morgan & Co. announced the with
drawal of it's members from director
ships in 81 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
100000 toward the propaganda car
ried on by the Church Peace union. On
April 10 the International Surgical
congress met at New York city. Water
was let into the new canal across Cape