Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-01-01

experiments conducted oy frof Robert
Kennedy Of Glasgow, Scotland. In May
q 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 a
change in obstetrica: methods that child
birth has been robbed almost entirely of
its terrors. The new system developed at
the Wonlan's hospital Of T-eiburg Ger
many. is described as a slight slurnber
induced by az, Injection Of Il combination
or two drugs. scopolamin and morphiu!!1.
On January % the first wireless mes
sage without relayins. transmitted be-
tween Hanover Germany. and Tuckerton.
on the lower Now Jersey coast. came In
one leap a distance of 4.CG2 mites On
February II the expedition led by Capt.
j. 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
same month the antarctic expedition led
by DR.. Douglas MewscH 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 TIC HcalL VI aU dIliil.dl Wy
suspending the circulati ton of blood sew
eral minutes. On May 49, ex-President
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 christened
Rio Roosevelt, and aftcrward rechrstened
Rio Teodoro. On November T. at the Brit
ish embassy in Rome. Prof. Domenico
Argentieri, an italian priest of the Abruz-
hiS o1ri i'm, tn !,
small porta bic wireless tele:raphy ap-
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high-power stations at a distance OF
1850 miles. On January 2, at Dayton,
Ohio, Orville Wright gave II public de-
monstration of the automatic staDil'Zer,
his new aeronautical invention. On Feb
ruary Z, the German aviator 1ngoid 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 Linnekogel, at Johannisthal. lie
reached an altitude of o0554 feet. In Nav,
a Zeppelin dirigible flew for thirty-sx
hours without stop over Germany at an
average Of about fifty-two miles an hour.
On July II. q German aviator at Berlin
assembled in a monoplane to a height Of
IS coo feet, and thus broke the record. The
flight 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-
c1able 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 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 and Long Is
ldnu. On january IL, Japanese VOL
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in
killed more than a thousand persons. Dur
ing performance at moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java, Is women and
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 30, and Al persons were lost. On
Nov IL ~ %n~
| 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 81 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
20 an explosion in a mine shaft at
Eccles, w. Va, caused the death of $50
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
tied by = 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, May 20,
and sank almost Immediately, more
than thousand passengers losing their
lives. Nay 80, Capt Robert A. Bartlett OF
the StefanSson arctic expedition returned
to St. Michael, Alaska, with the news that
the karlu'z sank, January II, after having
been crushed by ice. and that her crew
was n2arooncd on Wransel Island. On
September Z, eight members of this crew
were found by rescuing party. On
June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lest by an explosion in coal mine
near Alberta, Canada. A fire at SALEM,
Mass, June Is, destroyed half of the city
including several thousand homes and
many large industrial establishments. In
this month, also. American consuIs in va
rious Chinese cities reported that floods in
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 100000 persons homeless. On
September Is the Francis H. LegGett
collided with an unknown vessel off
the Oregon coast and - 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.
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm Of J. p
Morgan & Co. announced the with