Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-01-01

a two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car ere
sted considerable excitement in London.
1t is the invention of Paul Schilowsky.
An innovation known as twilight sleep
is announced to have worked such
| change in .obstetrcal 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 a 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 4,062 miles. On
February II the expedition led by Capt.
| ]. 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 a valuable collection. Later in the
I same month the antarctic expedition led
| by DR.. Douglas Mewson arrived at Ade-
| laide, 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-President
| Roosevelt returned home after an exp1or-
| 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
| ish embassy in Rome, Prof Domenico
| Argentieri, an italian priest of the Abruz
| I'll, made good his claim to have devised
a small portable wireless telegraphy sap
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high-poWer stations at a distance of
mil To,1 ut
Ohio, Orville Wright gave a public de-
monstration of the automatic stabihzer
his new aeronautieal invention. On Feb
| ruary T. the German aviator Ingold made
a record of more than a thousand miles,
remaining aloft sixteen and 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 fifty-two miles an hour.
On July IA, a German aviator at Berlin
ascended in monoplane to a height of
26 900 feet, and thus broke the record. The
fight from Norway to Scotland was made
by Gran. July go. in four hours and ten
minutes
The use of aircraft in the war has not
N been greatly sensational. but it has been
= sufficient to modify warfare to an appre-
]
he 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 adiuncts have been used for
scouting purposes, and 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-
bic accuracy, In the attack or 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 anG 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 a performance at a moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java, 70 women and
children were burned to death. Th.
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to f5eH
!. York city, was rammed by the NantLcket
during a night fog off Cape Charles, Jan
uary 30, and Al persons were lost. Or
} March IA more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during a storm which
J 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 n o1
: her crew were frozen to death. The
; same day the steamer Southern Cross
J and her crew disappeared. On Apri
% an explosion in a mine shaft al
) Eccles, w. Va, caused the death of 1S(
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
tied by series of shocks which die
| 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 29
and sank almost immediately more
than thousand passengers losing theil
lives. May go Capt. Robert A. Bartlett o.
the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
: to st. Michael. Alaska with the news tha
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 crev
were found by a rescuing party. Or
June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion in a coal min,
: near Alberta, Canada. A fire at Salem
? Mass, June 25 destroyed half of the city
: including several thousand homes anC
many large industrial establishments. Il
this month, also, American consuls in va
, rious Chinese cities reported that floods il
southern China had destroyed the crop
4 | n
: September IS the Francis H. Legget
collided with an unknown vessel of
the Oregon coast and 72 of her passen
, gers and crew were lost. In Octobe
, an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
! more than 5000 persons in a few min
, utes. a
, Edisdh's great electrical plant a
) Orange, N. j.. was destroyed by fire OF
! December 9.
Notable Events.
) Early in January the firm of J. F
e Morgan & Co. announced the with
I drawal of it's members from director
t ships in 27 large corporations, thu
4 | complying with the governments ney
regulation condemning interlocking di
rectorates.- On January Harvard uni
e versity and the Massachusetts, Institut
4 of Technology arranged to combin
h their engineering departments. Ol
: February 10 Andrew Carnegie CAV
100000 toward the propaganda car
0 ried on by the Church Peace union. o.
: April 13 the International Surgica
a congress met at New York city. Waite
e was let into the new canal across Cap
e Cod on April q. This canal shortens tn
f distance by water between Boston an
t New York by seventy miles and cuts ou
e the danger of rounding the cape in storm
il weather. The canal was formally opene
: July 20.
e President Wilson's youngest daugh
n ter, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, wa
i married May Z, at the White House t
d William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of tn
d Treasury. The Norwegians celebrate
9 the centennial of the separation @
l. Norway from Denmark on May Is. o
!. May 1S the Panama canal was opene
for barge traffic. The English Derb
8 was won by Durbar III, horse be
# longing to an American. Herman T
r Duryea, on May 81. The monumen
h erected by the Daughters of the Con