The copper era., 1910-10-28
News Notes.

A huge evaugelistic crusade was started in Chicago on the 18th.
 An international Municipal Con- gress and Exposition is to held in Chicago, September IS to 30, 1911.
 Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the German socialist leader, is now in the United States, intending to make a speaking trip across the continent.
 William Vaughn Moody, poet, writer of plays, and assistant pro lessor of English at the University of Chicago, died at Colorado Springs on the 17th.
 William Barnes, Jr., leader of the told guard" in the fight against Theodore Roosevelt in the Republi- can ranks in New York state, re- signed from the Republican State committee.
 Thomas J. Riggs, Jr, govern ment engineer, reported on the 18th the discovery far north of the artic circle in Alaska of what he believes to be the highest mountain on the continent, exceeding Mount McKin- ley by 2,OOO feet.
 Violent storms are reported from the shores of Europe, and also from West Indian waters, where hurri cane was succeeded by a series of cyclones during three days. The damage in Cuba alone it is believed will aggregate millions of dollars. Larkin G. Mead, American sculptor died at Florence, Italy, on the 18th. Among his works are the National Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill.,, the Soldiers monument at St. Johns- bury, Vt., nd the statues of Ethan Allen iu the National Art gallery, Washington, and in the state capitol at Montpelier, Vt.
 'Few peoples in Europe, with the possible exceptions of the Spaniards and the Norwegians, are more truly democratic and more ready for re- publican institutions than are the Portuguese, says R. B. Cunning hame Graham in letter in the Lon- don Nation.
 The French dirigible balloon Gle ment-Bayard made an air voyage | from Compiegne, in France, to Lon- don In six hours, a journey requiring by the fastest trains and boats, seven hours. This is the first time a dirigi- ble balloon has crossed the English Channel.
 The fifth international balloon race was started from St. Louis. Ten balloons representing four countries ascended and floated away. Four of the balloons were entered from Germany, two from France, two from Switzerland and two from the United States.
 By an emergency decision of the supreme court of Illinois, the Con- stitutionality of the new primary law appears to have been sustained, but as the opinion of the court has not yet been written, the effect, ex-
 
 clear. The decision was made by a divided court-4 to B.
 Ramon Barros Luco was elected president of Chile on the 18th, to the place of President Montt, who died on August I6, and Acting Presi- dent Albano, who died oh September I6. MT. Luco was the candidate of the Liberal parties. These parties form a large majority in the country, and the elections were carried with out disorder.
 A proposal to change the title page of the Episcopal hymnal so as to de scribe it as the hymnal of "the Holy Catholic Church. g or "The Catholic Church of the United States" or ''The Episcopal Church of the United States," instead of "Protestant Episcopal" was defeated on the 18th in the House of Delegates at the general convention in Cincinnati, by a majority of one vote.
 Edmond Shelby Kinkead, a de- scendant of Governor Shelby and son of William B. Kinkead, the Ken tdcky statesman, died at Lexington on the 2d Mir. Kinkead was d demo crat in the original sense of the word, thinker and writer on civic subjects, aud a man whose unobtru- siye neighborliness distinguished him beyond the circle of his personal as- sociaLions- Of strong individuality and intense conviction he was fear less in the expression of his own con- victioEs.
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