A universally popular American, and one who has just been elected a member of; the Municipal Council for a second term of office, arrived in Shanghai on Saturday by the str. Hoosier State in the person of Mr. Sterling Hessenden, Since Mr. Fessenden's departure legal matters so far as the United States judiciary here is concerned have assumed a specially interesting appearance, and it is generally assumed that Mr. Fessenden has played a big part in Washington.
Major C. P. Holcomb, the U. 8S. District Attorney, who is Mr. Fessenden's partner in the legal firm of Fessenden & Holcomb, was amongst the friends who greeted him on the wharf.
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