Foreign Language Press Survey

The Freie Presse, an independent, free-minded daily will appear every day from Monday, February 5 on, at 3 P.M... It will start with a reprint of the novel"In The Bay Window", by Frank Gerstacker and a careful daily market report. Special attention will be paid to municipal affairs and city n

On February 4, a meeting took place in the restaurant of Mr. Friedrich Busse in order to found a society that will be able to secure cheap credit for owners of burnt-down homes in Chicago. Dr. Ullrich presided, Mr. Limberg functioned as secretary and explained the purpose of the meeting. Fina

Under the heading "Sumner's Revenge" writes the Democratic Cincinnatier Volksfreund: "In Sumner's motion for the appointment of a committee for the investigation of the arms traffic lies a truly satanic malice against the Grant administration. Just now while the administration is ac

Senator Summer's motion has given rise to a very sharp debate in which Mr. Schurz for the first time has made his voice heard on the issue. Mr. Schurz said that a year and more ago numerous demands had come to him from German-born citizens to make a complaint, but that he then did not want to

The German language is from now on to be again a subject of instruction in those schools where it was taught before the great fire. Nine women teachers are to start again their work. The debate that extended over several sessions of the City Council showed that no member was opposed to the te

Judge McAllister has issued a Writ of Error for Alderman Busse who has left the county prison after his father-in-law put up a $5,000.00 bond. The arguments of Attorney Emory A. Starrs for his demand of issue of a Writ of Error were as follows: 1. The proposal of an offici

The longer and bitter fight about the fire limits was decided the day before yesterday in the City Council - in favor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung and the Evening Mail and against the Tribune, Times, Evening Journal, Evening Post and Robert Collyer. On the fourth page our readers will find

It is certain that Senator Sumner has made his motion to appoint a committee for the investigation of the arms deal transacted by Remington not out of love for Germany; because he was during the war a zealous friend of France and went, though still chairman of the Senate Committee for Foreign

The motion to create an investigating committee to dig into the circumstances of the sale of American army weapons to France is like all the motions of Senator Sumner who suffers from ink-diarrhoea, an almost endless tape-worm. Peeled out of its onion-skins, the main statements on which he po

Heinrich Binder, veteran of the German American Press, and especially of the Chicago German Press, favored us yesterday by his visit. Herr Binder returns to Chicago after an extended absence in order to enter the editorial staff of the "Chicago Union". We can only congratulate the "

Do the Police Commissioners want to create at any cost the impression that only German Scrapegoats are to be made responsible for the worthlessness of the Fire Department? Nobody can read the testimony of witnesses before the Commission without arriving at the conviction that Williams is at l

Mr. Carl Schurz has lost his temper. He is calling names. He calls editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, a liar, before the open forum of the United States Senate. An evil word that in this country used to have evil consequences for the cheeks of those who use it, when they utter it at a dis

To the Editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung: I think it my duty to make a public statement about what occurred in the investigation that Fire Marshal Williams initiated against me. Every non-partisan will have to admit that my case was prejudged, and that everything was a

"Hehler und Stehler" - a headline alluding to a proverb which says that he who receives stolen goods is as guilty as he who stole them. Schurz Westliche Post has suspected the motives of Mr. Raster in his ferocious attacks on Schurz, at the moment when Schurz was uncovering the infamy of the

Schurz who becomes more and more a "virtuoso" and professional rhetorician (and who is on the stage of the Senate what Wachtel is on the opera stage), knows how to clothe the insults he uses to those present, in a manner that gives him the greatest security against retaliation, and heaps gros

The Chicago Tribune carried yesterday a most infamous article - a mixture of fear and malice. The Tribune uses the temperance question in order to heap simultaneously the most brutal abuse on the Germans of the North Side who defended themselves and their wooden houses. It states that the who

Mr. Schurz has good reason to be grateful to Senator Mat. Carpenter of Wisconsin - grateful for a piece of impudent boorishness, that has given him a chance to show that he is a good and true American. Since Schurz split with the Republican Party in Missouri in August, 1870, we have fought hi

Last night a mass meeting took place in the very large hall of Mr. Friedrich Koch, 584 S. Halsted Street. It was attended by Germans, Irishman, Bohemians and other inhabitants of that part of the 8th Ward which is threatened by the land robbers of the La Salle and Chicago Railroad Company. Al

We are informed of the Police Commissioner's plan to replace Capt. George Miller, who was forced to resign, by Sergeant Lull as Police Captain of West Side. Lull distinguished himself at the fire limit demonstration by the brutality, with which he kicked and beat the Germans on the stairs and

A petition is being circulated for a pardon for Ex-Alderman Hermann O. Glade, and we hope it will receive very many signatures. There is a conviction in wide circles that Glade, the Dutchman, has been used more or less as scape goat for others, especially native Americans. The best jurists ag