Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — Von Zeppelin's Career. [ARTICLE]

Von Zeppelin's Career.

Count ton Zeppelin,' inventor of the airship which bears his name, was not killed in the war, but died of pijeuinonla at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, on March 8, 1917. He was born in 1838 and was a lieutenant of cavalry at the age of twenty-five, w’hen. In April, 1863, he was sent to the United States as Prussian military attache of the Union army in the Civil war, being attached to the Army of the Mississippi, in which Gen. Carl Schurz commanded a brigade. It was at that time that Count von Zeppelin had his first experience as an aeronaut, going up in a captive balloon belonging to the corps to which he was attached.