Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — ILLINOIS SUPREME BENCH. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS SUPREME BENCH.

Elections were held throughout Illinois, last week, for judge of the supreme court.” The“returns,”which ~ anTnearly all in, show that the Republican candi..dates, David J.. Baker, Jacbb W. Wilkin. Joseph M. Bailey and Benjamin __TV Magruder, were elected in the first, third, sixth and seventh districts, and JohifHthofield, ~a democrat,“the present incumbent, in the second district. This makes the supreme bench of Illinois, Republican for the first time in its hiatoiy.