Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — An Air Ship for Use in War. [ARTICLE]

An Air Ship for Use in War.

The celebrated inventor of the Maxim gun, one of the most formidable of modern war weapons, is engaged 1 in trying to perfect an ao ial vessel tor use in warfa e. By means of this he hopes a besieging party may sail over an enemv’s defenses and from midair shower down dynamite bombs or other explosives, blowing fo-tilications itato atoms without the slightest risk. David Dudley field’s Handwriting. The handwriting of the late "l avid Dudley 1- ield is said to have been so illegible that few compositors could translate it. It is said that compared with it Horace Greeley’s sc.eeds were copper plate. P. A. Sage, a San Francisco grocer, committed suicide by hanging.