Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-02

experiments conducted by Prof Robert
Kennedy of Glasgow. Scotland, In May
a two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car Gre
ated considerable excitement in London
it is the invention of Paul Schilowsky.
An innovation known as twilight sleep"
is announced to 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 a slight slumber
induced by an injection of a combination
OF two drugs. scopolamin and morphium
On January % the first wireless mes
sage without reiaying, transmitted be-
tween Hanover, Germany. and TuckertoD
on the lower New Jersey coast. came I'm
one leap a distance of 4062 miles on
February II the expedition led by Capt
j. Campbell Besley returned 20 New York
after six months exploration If a nither-
TO unknown Andean region The party
discovered a lost Inca city and brought
back a valuable collection. Later in the
same month the antarctic expedition led
by DR. Douglas Mewson arrived at AIDE
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 49, eX-Presideut
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 chrstened
Rio Roosevelt. and afterward rechrstened
Rio Teodoro. Oh November T. at the Brit
ish embassy In Rome. Prof Domenico
| Argentieri, an Italian priest Of the Abruz-
ri, made good his claim TO have devised
a small portable wireless biography APP
nav IL
from high-power stations at distance Of
1850 miles, on January ?, 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 a new aeroplane height record was
made by I.innekoEel at Johanuisthal He
reached an altitude of 20.5A feet In MAY
a Zeppelin dirigble flew for thirty-siX
hours without stop over Germany. at an
average Of about f1fty-two miles an hour
On July IA. "a German aviator at Berlin
assembled in a monoplane to a height W
Zoo feet, and thus broke the record. The
fight from Norway ia Scotland was made
by Gran. July 80. in four hours and ten
minutes.
The use of aircraft in the war las not
sufficient 10 modify warfare TO am appre-
ciable extent Most OF the aeroplancs of
the belligcrcut nations are not fighting
craft, but the dirglbles OF the XcpneIin
type belonging 90 the German war equip
ment are regarded ass hattleships rf the
air ana terrible results have been eN-
pected when this formidable sky squadron
should get into action Thus far, most Of
these military adiunCts 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 az the beginning of hostliUes was
made possible by these air scauts which
served to point out the way with infalli-
Bile accuracy. In the attack ON Lcuvain
and other Belgian cities German aircraft
rendered effective service by directing ar
tNery fire by means OF searchNghts and
burning material dropped among the Bel
CLAN 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 phcnom-
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 IT, a Japanese vol
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly i'm
to activity and destroyed three towns aud
Killed more than "a thousand persons Dur
ing a performance an moving picture
theater at Surabaya. Java. 60 women and
children We're 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 3D. and Al persons We're lost on
March II 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
la H.