Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-01

are not fighting craft but the dirig-
iDles % the Zeppelin type belonging %
the German Uar equipment are -
garded az battleahips Of the air. and
terrible results have been expected
when this formidable sky squadron
should get into action. Thus far.
most Of these military adjuncts have
been used for scouting purposes. and
a. such they have proved 30 be esIe-
eially effective. The rapid advance
Of the German forces into France at
I the beginning Of hOstiBties was made
possible by these air scouts, which
served to point out the way with in
falllble accuracy. In the attack on
/ Louvain and other Belgian cities Ger
man aircraft rendered effective SER
vice by directing artillery fire By
means Of searehiiehts and burning
material dropped among the Belgian
troops. That the Zeppelin airships
are capable Of doing great damage
was made evident at the siege Of Ant
werp.
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January The secona phe-
nOmenal storm Of the season added
largely 10 the destruction Of property
along the ocean front of New Jersey
f+AAA 4<NtAE Arth4A- ftM JANUARY IL q
japanese volcano on Sakura island
burst suddenly into activity and de-
strOyed three towns and Killed more
than thousand persons. During a
performance at a moving picture the
alter at Surabaya, Java, IS women and
children were burned 10 death. The
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk 10 New
York city, was rammed By the Nan
tucket during a night fog off Cape
Charles, January 30. and Al persons
were lost. On March "A more than
thousand persons lost their lives dur
ing storm which flooded several
towns in southern Russia, and about
the same time many persons were
killed by an earthquake at Akita, ia
pan.
on March II the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
in the Strait Of Belle Isle and Il nf
her crew were frozen TO death. The !
same day the steamer Southern Cross |
and her crew disappeared. On April |
2S an explosion in a mine shaft at |
Eccles. w. Va. caused the death OF 1
$50 miners. Early ia May. Sicily was |
visited by series Of shocks which /
did great damage along the eastern |
coast. The steamship Empress of 1
Ireland was struck by the Norwegian |
collier Storstad in the St. Lawrence |
river, May 2s. and sank almost i'm /
mediately. more than a thousand pas
sengers losing their lives. May 80,
Capt. Robert a. Bartlett OF the Ste
fansson Arctic expedition returned to /
81. Michael Alaska, with the news /
that the Karluk sank, January ] 1, af-
ter having been crushed by ice. and /
that her crew was marooned on Wran-
gel island. On September Z, eight I
members Of this crew were found by |
a rescuing party. On June 19 more
than two hundred miners were lost BIS
an explosion in a coal mine near Al
berta, Canada. 4 fire at Salem.
Mass, June 25, destroyed half OF the
city. including several thousand homes
and many large industrial establish
ments. In this month, also, American
cOnsuls in various Chinese cities re-
ported that floods in southern China
had destroyed the crops and made p
600 600 persons homeless. on Sep
iember Is. the Francis II. Leggett COL
ided with an unknown vessel off the
Oregon coast and ~ of her passen-
gers and crew were lost. In Octo-
Der an earthquake in Turkey destroy
ed more than 5000 persons in a few
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm Of J. z.
Morgan & Co. announced the with
1rawal Of its members from director
ships in large corporations thus
with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking
on January 9 Harvard
and the Massachusetts In
stltute OF Technology arranged to
combine their engineering depart
ments. on February 10 Andrew Sar-
negie gave $4,000. 900 toward the pro-
oaganda carried on by the Church
Peace union On April 10 the Infer
national Surgical congress met at New
York city Water was let into the
new canal across Cape Cod on April !
II. This canal shortens the distance
By water between Boston and New {
y ork by seventy miles and cuts out
he danger Of rounding the cape in
stormy weather. The canal was form
Ally opened July %.
On June 16, England captured the
polo championship at
NeadowbroOk, ~ Y. 1t was made (
public on June "a that Mrs Morris K. {
Iesup had bequeathed sS,500,000 to
Museum OF Natural History was
TO the extent Of $4,000. 600.
That, also, was the day on which the
reconstructed Kiel canal was opened :
~ the German kaiser. The Interna-
ional Eucharistic congress opened at
-ourdes France, July %. 5
on September 3, Cardinal GiacomO !
leila Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna, !
vas elected pope to succeed the late
'ius \. The new pontilf assumed .
he title of Benedict Ky. The govern J
nent crop report, made public Octo- {
ler =, announced a record wheat har-
'est OF. $4,000 900 and a normal corn
'rop of 2.676. 090. 600 The worlds
championship series was won Octo-
,er IS by the Boston National league
baseball team.
on October one of the most COM
financial schemes on rec y
'rd formulated by bankers al New
FORK city involved the raising by the
lanks Of fund of $3.50, 600 which
vas to be loaned upon warehouse re-
eipts for cotton. on the last day
4 October the Panama canal was =
'lesed fer traffic a second time on a
ccount Of an earth slide into Culebra a
ut v
On N"NelHpef tne tnlcaBO Stock b
ards were closed on account of an
pidemic OF foot-and-mouth disease v
which had already led the federal au- n
horities to establish quarantine in S
light states against the shipment of d
attic. Later this prohibition was ex-
ended to several other states. The Il
o-ealled house of governors" met /,
n its seventh annual session at Mad p
son, Wis, November 10.
After a period of suspension cover G
ng Is weeks. brought about by the r
var the cotton exchanges of New \