The Dolores star., 1915-01-01

experiments conducted b. Prof. Robert
Keanedy % Glasgow. Scotland. In Nay
. two-Wheslsd gyroscople motor car Gre.
atsd considsrabIs excitement IN Londoa.
Il 10 The invention Of Paul echilowsky. :.
An innovation known ~ twilight sieep''
10 announced TO have worked such .
change IN obststrical methods that child
birth has been robbed almost entirely OF
ita tsrrOrs. The new system developed ~
tho Woman's hospital OF FreiburR, Ger
many. Ia described ~ . slight slumber
induced by an injection Of combination
Of two drugs. scopolamin and morphium.
On January "a the first wireless mes
sage without reIaying. transmitted be-
tween Hanover, Germany, and Tuckerton.
on the lower New Jersey coast. came In
ons leap . distance of <062 miles. On
February n the expedition led by Capt.
J. Campbell Besiey returned 10 New York
after six months exploration In hither-
to unknown Andean region. The party
discovered n lost Inca city and brought
back n valuable collection. Later In the
same month the antarctic expedition led
by DIR. 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
suspendinR 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 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-
ri. made good his claim to have devised
a small portable wireless telegraphy ap-
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high power stations at a distance OF
1.250 miles. On January Q. at Dayton.
Ohio. OrviIle Wright gave public de-
monstration Of the automatic stRbilizer.
his new aeronautical Invention. On Feb
ruary Z, the German aviator Ingold made
a record OF more than a thousand miles.
thus breaking all previous records. In
April a new aeropiane height record was
made by Linnekogei. at Johannisthal. He
reached an altitude Of 20.5s4 feet. In NAV,
n Zeppelin dirigibIe few for thirty-six
hours without stop over Germany. at an
average Of about hfty-two miles an hour.
On July II, a German aviator at Berlin
assembled In q monoplane to height Of
n. 900 feet, and thus broke the record The
h'Sht iio" ANot Wdy w Seo'iaha was sha'S
by Gran. July 30. in four hours and ten
minutes.
The use OF aircraft In the war has not
been greatly sensational, but II 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
al~ - rrtl. hax,A
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 infalll-
BILE accuracy. In the attack on Louvain
and other Belgian cities German aircraft
rendered effective service by directing ar
tillery fire by means Of searchiights 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.
e.susl~is. An 4 anA .nd A>s
Early In January the second phenom-
email storm Of the season added largely to
ocean front Of New Jersey and Long Is
land. On January II, Japanese vol
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in
to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than a thousand persons. Dur
Ing a performance at a 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 a night fog on Cape Charles. jan
uary 30. and Il persons were lost. On
March II more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during n 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 rtra nded on an Ice foe
in the Strait Of Belle Isle and ~ OF
her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the stea mer Southern Cross
and her crew disappeared, On April
rs 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
stad in the 81. Lawrence river. May 20.