Foreign Language Press Service

p. 6.. The Executive Committee of the Amnesty Association of Illinois held its meeting yesterday, at 225 Dearborn Street, to make the necessary arrangements for its dissolution which has been scheduled for next Thursday, at the behest of the members. On this day also, steps will be taken to p

The anticipation of a serene and unexciting autumnal election seems to be unwarranted. Ten judges will be elected, as provided by the legislature... And now Cook County is overrun by a horde of shysters, especially of the Democratic variety. Any swineherd, provided that he has illegitimate in

P. 1 Governor Altgeld made the following nominations, today: T. E. Chapman of Jerseyville and Henry C. Zuttermeister, Patrick Connelly, Fritz Glogauer and Miss Sarah J. Conden of Chicago, as trustees of the Industrial School for the Blind, which is located in Chicago. Another nomination made

P. 4.. General Hermann Lieb... wrote to "The Open Court," a local periodical publication, in order to protect Governor Altgeld against the rantings of the Know-Nothing element. The Washington Post uses such vituperative terms as "Greenhorn" and "Henchman of Anarchists" in referring to this ma

It happens very seldom to a legislator, that be makes himself noticeable during his first term. The elder parliamentarians who understand the complicated routine of affairs, know the speaker personally and know how to use the different tricks, push the younger ones almost entirely into the ba

Mr. Walter Groves here, received this morning the following telegram from Springfield:- "My dear Groves:- The Governor has authorized me to inform the representatives of the Chicago Labor Unions that he will speak on Labor Day. But we expects, that the organized laborers k

The speech of Governor Altgeld was an oratorical master-piece and without doubt has made a lasting impression on the audience. Regarding the present depressed conditions, it took in fact a great cratorical skill to find the correct tone and the Governor proved that he possesses this skill. He

On Labor Day union members of all the trades marched through the city. About 30,00 people tock part in the parade. Governor Altgeld spoke at Kuhn's Park and was received with great enthusiasm. He said: "As Governor of this great State, I have come here to pay homage to labor which i

p. 2- Mr. H.H. Kohlsaat's plan: "An attempt should be made to perform most of the labors which have been authorized by the City Council, that is, make the improvements which have been covered by special taxes and assessments; above all, this should be done immediately. As far as I know, there

Our readers will be agreeably surprised to find in this paper a picture of our former Editor-in-chief, who died two years ago. In publishing it, we not only accede to the requests of many of his admirers, but we also perform an appropriate act of piety thereby. Hermann Raster was, u

With impressive celebrations the laying of the foundation stone for the Academy of Sciences took place yesterday afternoon. Governor Altgeld performed the festive honors for which, besides the members of the Lincoln Park Board, a great number of prominent citizens of the North Side were prese

(Pg. 8) The Governor endeavors to obtain a closed Democratic Phalanx for the ticket. (Phalanx, Greek: A closed battle formation, in the form of a square, with the leader in the center; the method whereby Alexander the Great conquered the then known world; an expression often used in Germany t

Several weeks ago when it was hourly expected that trouble would be caused by the unemployed workmen of this city, who were crying pitifully for bread, and when no one seemed to heed their pleadings, David Kallis came to their assistance and saved thousands of men, women and children from sta

St. Louis, November 13 - A special wire of the "Chronicle" from Springfield, Ill., contains an interview with Governor Altgeld concerning yesterday's anarchist celebration in Chicago, at the Waldheim cemetery where the pardoned anarchists Schwab, Field and Neebe delivered speeches. The govern

What the nomination of Washington Hesing as Postmaster of Chicago has to do with the coming mayoral election, is hard to understand by the layman in politics. It is improbable that President Cleveland tried by this nomination to influence the decisions of the Democratic City Convention, but t

Last Saturday evening, December 16, a meeting of all the members of the Polish courts of the Catholic Order of Foresters was held in the St. Stanislaus Kostka School Hall, at the call of the chief ranger of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Court, Mr. V. Bardonski. A few hundred persons assembled. Mr

Mr. Frank Kwasigroch, who was appointed superintendent of the Northwest Side Post-Office Station, Milwaukee Avenue and Elston Street, took charge of his office yesterday. The installation was observed with appropriate festivity. Mr. Kwasigroch's friends -- young Polish politicians from the 16

The retired alderman, Peter Mahr died last Thursday, 58 years old. His funeral will be to-morrow morning from his home at 907 N. Clark Street. He will be buried at the Graceland cemetery. Peter Mahr has been a popular and respected German-American, who was an alderman for many years

The constitution seems to become more or less a foot ball for our legislators, who recently passed a regulation, which allows only 3 assessors or tax collectors for every township of not less than 40,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants. Judge Brentano pointed to the fact lately, that th

One of the capable aldermen-candidates is Arnold Tripp, who is at present representing the 22nd ward. He has proved to be a respectable, honest man and should be reelected again. He is a dependable Democrat and after all a German. Regardless of party-lines, every German in the 22nd