Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-01

a two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car cre-
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 slight slumher
induced by an injection Of combination
OF two drugs seopolamin and morphium.
On January rs the first wireless mes
sage without relaying, transmitted be-
1 tween Hanover, Germany, and Tuckerton.
on the lower New Jersey coast, came in
one leap distance of 1902 miles. On
FEBRUARY IL the expedition led by Capt.
j. Campbell Besley returned to New York
AFTER six months exploration In a 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 Or. 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 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 a. at the Brit
| tsh embassy in Rome, Prof. Domenico
/ Argentieri. an italian priest of the Abruz-
| Il, made good his claim to have devised
! small portable wireless biography APP
paratus capable of receiving messages
/ from high-power stations at distance of
1 r.,t1 n T.. y
/ Ohio, Orville Wright gave a public de-
| monstration of the automatic stabilizer,
i his new aeronautical invention On Feb
ruary z, the German aviator Ingold made
a record of more than thousand miles,
remaining aloft sixteen and half hours
thus breaking all previous records In
April new aeroplane height record was
made by Lfnnekogel, at JohannisthaI He
reached an altitude of 2o.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
| assembled in monoplane to a height of
$4,000 feet and thus broke the record. The
night from Norway to Scotland was made
| by Gran July 80, in four hours and ten
minutes.
The use of aircraft in the war has not
/ been greatly sensational. but it has been
! sufficient to modify warfare to an appre-
ciable extent. Most of the aeroplanes 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 alrships
are capable of doing great damage was
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 to
| the destruction of property along the
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is
land. On January IL, Japanese vol
cano on Salxura Island burst suddenly in
| to activity and destroyed three towns and
| killed more than thousand persons. Dur
| ing performance at a moving picture
children were burned to death The
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to New
| York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
| during night fog off Cape Charles, Jan
| uary 80, and Al persons were lost On
March IA 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
were killed by an earthquake at Akita,
| Japan.
| On March Fl 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
| 2S an explosion in a 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 Nav 90
| 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, ard that her crew
was marooned or Wrangei Island. On
! September z, eight members CT this crew
! were found by a rescuing party. On
| June IL more than two hundred miners
! were lost by an explosion in coal mine
near Alberta. Canada. A fire at Salem.
| Mass. June rs. 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 crons
and made 100000 persons homeless. On
September Is the Francis H Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel off
the Oregon coast and 70 of her passen-
| gers and crew were lost In October
| an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in a few min
utes
Edisons great electrical plant at
Orange. n J.. was destroyed by fire on
December g.