| Show 1I1AI All Mill The rumor tile other day that en airship bad been filInl over Oldn where had been observed by number num-ber ot persooe la I somewhat lu line with similar stories from many other parts of the country Tim mysterious flyingmachine or whatever III lot was tint bearJ from In Kansas and then In Missouri ana now It seems suddenly to have become omnipresent People lu Chicago In Uvjustou lu Milwaukee Milwau-kee and Eau Clair and numerous other cities claim la hive Been It A LumorlBt from Kaisjj Men 10JeKuIb to 00 IXJbaogu that the alrsbl bad been mean at that place the IStb of April It had several abscond Rg I bank cfficlals on board and bad no time to stop The airship story from Wee Lake Wls Is so far this most remarkable one though According lu the oU gtlOnot an inventive writer 01 that place Ibo blP anchored one ivenlig 00 mill dam and the onptalu Sent lora lor-a tlyslclan Dr J 11 Vlby cam mud found the ciploln suflerln irjm the grit The doctor spent two hours In the skip The plain Insisted ou lereircsentallvo of be medical fraternity fra-ternity accompanying him through the air tug lha latter declined The com minder 01 tbeblpbowverpneured and a struggle followed Suddenly the strange machine elarleJ on Its upward career The doctor had lijump overboard over-board lie was already fifty feet from the earth but be lie wa fortunate enough to fall Into the water ha I escaped es-caped uninjured Other Blorlcs are not quite ns poetic as this one but they all give Ibo Ira Prussian that 0 new craze Is I bout to boom epidemic Bill perhaps II Is I not safe to form too hasty conclusions I ou the subject i U Is n General belle that the problem of Balling through the air Is about to ben solved by somebody lIme years 00 n detachment of the Russian army hed manellvon In retain not far from tilt a rinan Irontlor Itusslan olllcera sevcial times reported that they had seen balloons Uasuln searchlights over their camp and they concluded thatUernisiumllitary oUlbrllle isto tbu possessors of a secret In air navigation naviga-tion not to bo revealed until a war breaks out The question has been asked whether suninbody In this country lotsllly I has obtained that tufpoeed acerb and Is I noir trying to find out Its practical value |
