Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — His Honor Judge Ward. [ARTICLE]

His Honor Judge Ward.

Gov. Porter, on Monday afternoon, put an epd to the fconstest over the vacant judgeship in the tliirthieth judicial circuit by appointing The Hon. Peter H. Ward of Kentland to the position. Mr. Ward is well known throughout the circuit as a good lawyer, and a man of the strictest integrity. His appointment will give as general satisfaction to the attorneys of the the circuit, and to the people generally as any that could have been made.