The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

experiments conducted by Prof. Robert
Kennedy of Glasgow. Scotland. In May
two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car ere
ated considerable excitement in London
1t is the invention OF Paul Schllowsky.
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
It's terrors. The new system developed at
the Woman's hospital OF Frelburg. Ger
many il described as slight slumber
induced by an injection OF a combination
OF two drugs. scopolamin and morphium.
On January rs the first wireless mes
sage without relaylng. transmitted be-
tween Hanover, Germany. and Tuckerton.
on the lower New Jersey coast, came in
one leap a distance of 4O62 miles. On
February II the expedition led by Capt.
j. Cam-hell Bessey returned TO New York
after six months' exploration In hlther-
to unknown Andean region. The party
discovered lost Inca city and brought
back valuable collection. Later in the
same month the antarctic expedition led
by Dr. Douglas Mewson arrived at Ade-
latde, 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
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-Presdent
Roosevelt returned home after an explor-
Ing trip OF eight months through the Bra
lillian wilderness. He announced the dis
covery of river, which was christened
Rio Roosevelt, and afterward rechristened
Rio Teodoro. On November 4. at the Brit.
ish embassy In Rome, Prof. Domenlcc
Argentieri, an italian priest OF the Abruz.
ri, made good his claim to have devised
small portable wireless telegraphy APP
paratus capable OF receiving messages
from high-power stations at distance oil
1850 miles. On January ., at Dayton
Ohio, Orville Wright gave n public de.
monstration Of the automatic stabil'zer
his new acronautical invention On Feb.
ruury 7, the German aviator IngOld made
record OF more than a thousand miles
remaining aloft sixteen and half hours
thus breaking all previous records. II
April new aeroplane height record was
made by Linnekogel, at Johannlsthal. He
reached an altitude OF 2O.56i feet. In NAV
n Zeppelin dlrigible flew for thrty-sN
hours without stop over Germany. nj NJ
average Of about iifty-two miles an hour
On July II, German aviator ut Berlr
assembled In n monoplane To a height o
| ~ 90 feet. and thus broke the record. TIL,
| flight from Norway to Scotland was mad,
| by Gran, July 30. In four hours and ten
minutes.
/ The use OF aircraft In the war has no
| been greatly sensational but II has beer
sufficient to modify warfare 20 an appre
ciablc extent. Most of the neroplanes o
the belligorcnt nations are not fghtinl
craft, but the dirlgibles OF the Zeppelin
| type belonging TO the German war equip
mcnt 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 adiuncts have been used 70
scouting purposes, and as such they haV
proved to I've especially effective. TIL
rapid advance of the German forces int
France at the beginning of hostiltics wa
made possible by these air scouts, whic
served to point out the way with infalll
bile accuracy In the attack on LOuVai
and other Belgian cities German aircrai
rendered effective service by directing M
tillery fire by means of searchlghts an
burning material dropped among the Be
gian troops That the Zeppelin airship
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 III
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Il
land. On January II, a Japanese vO
rano on Saltura Island burst suddenly II
to activity and destroyed three towns nm
killed more than thousand persons. DuI
| leo.
thcater at Surabaya. Java. 70 women an
children were burned to death. I'll
steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to Me-
York city was rnmmed by the Nantuck'
during night fog off Cape Charles, Jar
uary 70, and n persons We're lost. O
March II more than a thousand person
lost their lives during n storm whlc
flooded several towns in Southern Russia
! and about the same time many person
We're killed by an earthquake at Akita
Japan
On March 81 the sealing stcamc
! Newfoundland stranded on an ice flo
in the Strait OF Belle Isle and n q
her crew were frozen to death. Tn
| same day the steamer Southern Cros
and her crew disappeared. On Apri
: % an explosion in mine shaft a
/ Eccles w. Va, caused the death OF Is
! miners, IsaflN IN May sicily was Wis
| tied by series of shocks which di
| great damage along the eastern coast
= The stca mship Empress OF Ireland WI
| struck by the Norwegian collier Stor
| stnd in the st. Lawrence river. May 60
/ and sank almost Immediately, NOR
| than thousand passengers losing theI
/ lives May 30, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett o
| the Stefanssnn arctic expedition returne,
! TO st. Michael, Alaska, with the news tina
the Karluk sank. January II, after havin
been crushed by ice, and that her GREY
was marooned on Wrangcl Island. o.
September 7, eight members of this GREY
Were found by resculng party. o.
June ~ more than two hundred miner
were lost by an explosion In coal min
near Alberta. Canada. 4 fire at Salem
| Mass, June q, destroyed half Of the city
| including several thousand homes am
many large industrial establishments. ii
this month"; also, American consuls In va
rious Chinese cities reported that floods II
southern China had destroyed the crop
and made 2,OOO00O persons homeless. o.
September is the Francis H. Legget
collded with an unknown vessel OF
tho Oregon coast and ~ OF her passen
gers and crew were lost. In Octobe
an earthquake in Turkey destroye,
more than 5000 persons in few min
utes.
EdIson's great electrical plant n
Orange. " j.. was destroyed by fire oil
! December o.
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