The copper era., 1910-11-11
News Notes.


 Russian Douma opened on the 18th.
 A new corporation organized in Illinois on the 18th with capital of s36,0OO,0 ,0OO is reported as designed to be rival of the Standard Oil trust.
 Chicago's right to charge rental for the use of space under the public sidewalks was upheld on the 18th by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
 Senator and Mrs. Robert La Fol lette left Rochester on the 26th for their home. The Senator had com- pletely recovered from the effects of the surgical operation he underw ent.
 Planters established in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines are suffering from raids of the Manobos tribesmen. Several planters have been killed. buildings have been burned and stock killed.
 Ia little Wright machine of only 8 horsepower, Ralph Johnstone flew up 9,714 feet above the earth, at New York on the 3lst, thereby making a new record for altitude in a heavier than air machine.
 The balloon America II, last to come down in the international bal loon race which-started from St. Louis on the 17th landed far up in the Saguenay district in Canada, and it took the two navigators, A. R. Hawley and Augustus Post, a week to get into touch with civilization The distance covered by the balloon was ap- proximatelY ,35O miles, the greatest the ever made in balloon travel, and Messrs. Hawley and Post have been awarded the prize competed for.
 The Supreme Court of Illinois de- cided on the 18th that the State is entitled to an accounting on the re- ccipts of the Illinois Central Road since 1905 for the purpose of obtain ing whatever may be due under an agreement that the road shall pay per cent of it's gross receipts to the State Treasurer.
 The revolutionary movement in Uruguay, reported early this year is said to have become serious. A dis patch from Montevideo of the 2Sth says that there are now 10000 armed revolutionists who are gradually be- ing concentrated. The sympathies of the people outside of the capital are said to be with the revolutionists.
 The first of the ''jack pot" trials at Springfield resulted on the 29th in a disagreement of the jury-S for con viction, for acquittal. The persons on trial were Senator Pemberton and Representative Clark. Coincident with this outcome in Springfield there were reports in Chicago of the indict ment of one of the lawyers of Lee O'Neil Browne for bribery at Browne's trial.
 A general invitation has been issued for week of study at Chicago of the progress made on lines indicated by Theodore Parker, who lived from August 24, 18lO, to May 10, 1860. The gathering is designed as celebration of the centennial of his birth and a semi-centennial of his death, and is to extend from November 13 to 20. The invitation disregarGs sectariau lines. Information may be had of Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Lincoln Center Chicago.
 The Winnetka Ul) free public library, one of the finest institutions in the country, was presented for mally on the 29th by the sons of the late Henry Demarest Lloyd (author of "Wealth ys. Commonwealth') and Mrs. Jessie Bress Ltoyd. The in- scription on a copper plate inside the main entrance reads: "This library was begun by Jessie Bross Lloyd as a memorial to her husband, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and was completed and given to the village of Wannetka as memorial to both"
 Associated press dispatches from Columbia, s. C., of the 27th report that the 'iilly white" republican convention, negroes not admitted, which had been called by John G.. Capers, republican national commit teeman, met that day with delegates from all but nine counties and formed a party organization. The cOnven- tion decided not to put ticket this year, but to nominate candidates for congress in all South Carolina dis tricts in 1912. Captain Capers an- nounced that, while the meeting was not called at the suggestion of the president. yet it was not hostile to the administration. No federal office holders were present.