The Swedish-American Republican State League of Illinois held its seventh annual convention and banquet at the Coliseum, Peoria, Ill., on March 9. About six hundred delegates were present. Among the speakers noted were: Governor Charles S. Deneen; Speaker Edw. Shurtleff of the House of Representatives; Attorney G. Bernhard Anderson, of Chicago, and others. The following were elected officers for the coming year: president, Julius Johanson, Lynn Center; vice-president, Albert Edwards, Rock Island; secretary, Alfred E. Holmes, Chicago; treasurer, Edward Swanson, Rockford.... A fund was started for the erection at some future date of a suitable monument for John Ericksson, and the executive committee was given the task of selecting a suitable place for the erection of the statue.