The Springdale news., 1915-01-08


 two-wheeled gyroscopic motor car cfr- ated considerable excitement in London It is the invention of Paul Schiowsky.
 An innovation kr 1wn as ''twiligh sleep" Is announced to have worked such change In obstetrical methods that child birth has been robbed almost entirely If it's terrnrs. The new system developed at the Nomans hospital of Freibure Ger many is described as a slight slumber induced l% an injection of T continuation of tRo drugs. seerolamin and mefpaiutn
 On January 2S the first wireless mes sage without reIaying transmitted be tween Hanover. Germany and Tu kerton en the lever New Jersey coast, came fa one leap q distance of 4,062 miles oa February T the expedition led bv Capt- j. Gaarl Fl Besley returned to New YGrE after r11atfIs exploration in hitlsrs to Unknown Andean region. The party discover ! lest Inca city and hrouSht back table collection. Later ir tie same m nth the antarctic expedition fed by llr. zasias Mewson arrived at Aa#- laide. Australia. after two years spent ta seitntif19 exploration. On April l5. Dr Alexis GaFfel. Nobel prize winner an4 l eminent for his contributions to eEart s=i- ence. announced that he had eperated successfully on the heart of an animal h. suspending the circulation Of blood SeV- eral minutes. On May 1a. ex-Presiaent Roosevelt returned home after an eXP@-r- ing trip of eight months through the Bra gillian wilderness. He announced the dis eovery of a river. which was christened Rio Roosevelt. and afterward rechr stened Rio Tsedefo.Z On November 1. at tie Brit ish embassy in Rome. Prof. Damenieo Argentieri. an Italian priest ef the AbYez- zf. made good his claim to have devised small portable wireless telegraphv ap- paratus capable of receiving naessa ess liEYA. 4F4F 1.25a miles. On January Q al Dayton Ohio. orville Wright gave a public de- monstration of the automatic stabilizer his new aerenautieal invention On Feb- rnarV :. the German aviator Ingof1 made q record of more than thousand miles remaining aieft sixteen and q half hours thus breaking all previous records. h April a new aereplane height record WIS made hy Linnekogel, al Johannsthal. He reached an altitude of 564 feet. In May Zeppelin d!rgihie flew for tkirty=six hours without stop over Germany. at an average of about ffty-twn miles aa hour On July H. a German aviator at Berlin aseended in a mono7ane to height nf 26.e@e feet. and thus broke the record. The fightf from Norway to Scotland was maas bH Gran July g. in four hours and len minutes
 Tie Use Of aircraft in the war las not been greatly sensational. but Il las been sufficient 10 modify warfare to an arnre- efahle extent. Most ef the aefeplaaes of the hellieerent nations are not fe.4tlEg craft. but the difisibles of the Zeppelin type belonging to the German var ea4fp= ment are regarded as baftiesHips af tfze air. and terrible results have ben exs pected when this formidable sky squadron should into action. ZThus far. nest af these military adjnnets have been aeea far scouting purposes. and as sHeh they Ba 2 proved te be especially effective. THe rapid advance af the German forces HHte France at the beginning ef hosUf5ties '. 5s made possible h1 these air scouts =#=h served te point eat tie way with iafazlz= bie accuracy. In the attack on LoHE am and other Belgian cities German =azreEzaft rendered effective service bx directing s tiilery fire by means df searchliehfs attfi burning material dropped among the Eel= g1an troops. That the Zeppelin slips are capable of doing great damaEe Was made evident at the siege ef Antwerp
 Casualties on Land and Sea.
 Early in Janaarv. the second nHenafn- en8l storm of the season added largely n the destruction cf property along the ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is- land. On January II. Japanese vel cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in- to activity and des royed three towns and kllleu more INdH q thousand persons. lpHF- ing a performance at moving picture theater at Surabava. Java = women and children Were burned to death The steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to New York city, was rammed by the Nantncket during night fog off Cape Charles. Jan uarY 3o. and Al persons were lost CT 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 Akifa. Japan.
 On March q the sealing steamer Newfoundland stranded on an ice Hoe in the strait of Belle Isle and - of her crew were frozen to death. The same day the steamer Southern Cross and her crew disappeared On April 2s explosion in a mine shaft at Eeeles. W, Va. caused the death of 1Sd miners Early in May Sicily was vis- ited by series of shocks which did great damage along the eastern coast The steamship Empress of Ireland WIS struck by the NnrWe gian collier Stor- stad in the St. Lawrence river, May 29 and sank almost immediately. more than q thousand passengers losing their lives. May 3o. Capt Robert x Barlett oi the Stefansson arctic expedition returned 10 St Michael, Alaska, with the news that the karuk sank. January II. after having been crushed by ice and that her crew was mareoHed on Wfangel Island. or September T. eight members of this crew Were found by rescuing party or June 1e more than two hundred miners were lost by an explosion in coal m nt near Alberta, Canada. fire at Salem Mass, June 9. destroyed half of the city including several thousand homes ant ] many large Industrial establishments. T. this month, also. American eonsuls in va rieus Chinese cities reported that floods il southern China had destroyed the crop' and made 2.00o,on0 persons homeless or ] September IS the Francis II. Legget eollided with an unknown vessel of the Oregon coast and 72 of her passen gers and crew were lost. In October an earthquake in Turkey destroyed more than 3o00 persons in few min utes.
 Edison,s great electrical plant q Orange, N. J. was destroyed by fire oi December g.
 Notable Events.
 Early In January the firm of J. P i Morgan X Co. announced the with drawal Of it's members from director t,t, iY, 1ar fry,c