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Mr. T. T. Verdier, the newly elected alderman of the 11th Ward is a long-time Chicagoan. He is a Swede, and has a bake-shop, perhaps the biggest in Chicago, in his house, 196 W. Lake Street. He is not what one usually calls a politician, but a man who genuinely cares about the interest of his

Nominated as candidate for the office of City Collector, Jens Olsen, needs no recommendation from us. It is far more necessary and important to urge his countrymen to work for his election. We are not now going to decry the regrettable fact that the Scandinanians as a whole take such a halfhe

Among the nine directors that Mayor Medill has named for the administration of the free library of Chicago, are two German citizens, Mr. Hermann Raster and Mr. Julius Rosenthal.

Of the twenty-one Chicago candidates for the Legislature nominated by the Republican Party (7 for the Senate, 14 for the House) all, except two, are dependable opponents of the Temperance Law. The two exceptions are Williamson and Derrickson. Derrickson has been nominated for a district where

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Jacob Rehm took possession of his new office as Chicago's new Chief of police, yesterday afternoon. Jacob Rehm is forty-five years of age and was born in Gerstheim, near Strassbourg, Alsace-Lorraine in 1828. In 1840, [gap] a boy of twelve years, he came to C

The people of Illinois elect one hundred and fifty representatives and fifty senators to do their legislative business..... The making of the laws, such a representative body reflecting the likeness of the people, is what has been called "government of the people by the people," in contradist

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The members of the Democratic State Central committee assembled yesterday in the club room of the Sherman house. Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick opened the meeting. The committee drew up an appeal to the Democrats, Liberals, and all the other adversaries of the Democratic Party. The appeal a

Yesterday we received the following telegram from Springfield: "Governor Beveridge has just dismissed Theodore Canisius, inspector of prisons, and has appointed Woodbury M. Taylor to the position." The significance of this simultaneous dismissal and appointment may well be

An action, as few are to be recorded in the political history of our times, has taken place in Chicago. Mr. Hesing, who at the convention of the opposition party on October 5th, had unanimously been nominated as representative of the third congressional district, declined to accept the nomina

On several occasions Sheriff Agnew has endeavored to mislead public opinion by asserting that "Hesing's paper," in uncovering his delinquencies, follies, and crimes, was merely venting a personal spite, since Hesing had been trying to "run the Sheriff's office" and had been foiled in that att

p. 4 - 4 A few days ago, the muscular and unclean ruffian who controls the Staats-Zeitung and the local politics of Cook County, devoted a column of his journal to a denunciation of some one at Springfield whom he repeatedly denominated a "state thief". The offense of this party was ostensibl

The Chicago Incorporation bill will soon come to a vote in the House of Representatives. Concerning the assertion that Hesing favors the bill, because he hopes to become mayor of Chicago, Mr. Hesing says that nobody has the right to connect his name with that office; that he is hunting no off

p. 4.. If there is a madder man than Boss Hesing over the defeat of the Hesingite bummers and political desperadoes in the recent charter election, that madder man is Philosopher Josef (Hesing). The Philosopher has given strict orders to all his "cub" philosophers not to write a word for the

In yesterday's edition, the Times indulges once more in attacks upon Mr. Hesing, based merely upon hearsay. The Times claims that Mr. Hesing received $10,000 from Walker upon his promise to help Mr. Walker in securing the contract for the building of the new City Hall. Mr. Hesing declares tha

Jacob Rehm resigned yesterday afternoon as police superintendent of the City of Chicago. After the customary farewells, Mr. Rehm went to the Grand Pacific Hotel to spend a pleasant hour as a private citizen, Mr. Hickey, assistant police superintendent, will take charge of Mr. Rehm's office fo

The press, which hates the foreigners, hopes that the opposition candidate of A. C. Hesing, for the office of county treasurer will be able to divide the Germans. The Tribune even asserts that all the decent Germans are adversaries of A. C. Hesing. How erroneous such a statement is, needs not

"To Mr. A. C. Hesing, Dear Sir: Since Mr. Huck has omitted to refute the accusation made against him by the Illinois Staats Zeitung, that he was a tax cheater, my friends and myself are forced to believe this accusation to be true. Consequently no other choice is left to u