St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-06
Various Events Of Note in
Half a Dozen Large Wis
c0nSin Cities.
The La Crosse Election Prov
ing an Interesting Sort
OF a Puzzle. =,
West Superior Booming Right
Along--Paving and Fire
Alarms. Il.
License at Chippewa Falls and
Lumbering at Eau Claire
I'm General.

Special to the Globe. -
La CROSSE, April 5.-The more peo-
pie figure on the significance of Tues
days charter election the further away
they seem to be from any reasonable
conclusion. The Labor party put up
candidate for mayor and Endorsed the
nominees of the other parties for the
balance of the ticket about equally.
The Labor nominee for mayor got about
500 votes. and if the candidates Endorsed
by this party had won there would have
been no difficulty in. figuring it out.
But this was not the case. Nearly the
whole list of Republicans was elected,
and some who had the Labor iHdorse
ment had smaller majorities than those
who did not. In the face Of this, the
Democrats elected eight of ten alder
men, and one of the two defeated lost
by one vote, while the other lost by
eighteen in a Republican ward. Mr..
Austin carried the Republican wards
and lost the Democratic wards. 1t re-
mains the great puzzle of the year.
Hon. o. B. Thomas is in the city to-
day, listening to the arguments of post
office candidates. Although many
private lightning rods are up, there are
but three active candidates.. l.. Pet
tingilI, r. A. Scott and E. B. Perkins.
The flrSt-named is the most active poll
tician, and naturally leads in the race.
The council, at recent meeting,
voted to purchase piece of ground for
a city hall site. 1t is a good location,
but not the best, and there is much dis
satisfaction at the refusal to delay final
action until the efforts of citizens to Sc
cure options on a more desirable location
could have been concluded. Ii Mayor
Austin should interp0Se his veto, it
would be a praisewOrthy act to retire
from Office on.
All the saw mills are in operation. ex-
cept Coleman's and Trow'S. The for
mer is delayed by failure of the new
gang to arrive. Nichols & Co. and p. S.
Davidson have already commenced
night work. There are plenty of logs,
but the river is so low that all driving
has ceased.
The two large Touring mills are shut
down this week.
Palmer Bros. have sold their fine lit
tie trotter, DeadwOod, to Winona par
ties.
Surveyors are setting the stakes for
the railroad track which the cold stor-
age company will lay to connect their
plant with the st. Paul and Northwest
ern roads. Bids on their buildings will
not be let until the 18th.
CnarIeS Seeiey, the brakeman tWnO
was killed at Hastings yesterday. has a
wife and child in Michigan whom he,
had not seen for three years. He had
been working very hard to get good
home for them, and they would have
come to this city next week. He; was
an industrious man and had many
friends.
Deputy Sheriff German, of Minneap-
oils, was married yesterday in this, city,
to Miss Chloe Belts. Rev. Dr.. Thomas.
OF the First Presbyterian church. per-
formed the ceremony.
The first log raft down for the year
was taken to Lyons by the steamer
Nina. The first lumber raft was from
| the La Crosse Lumber company for
Hannibal. Mo.
H. J. Anderson, who came here from
| Spring Valley about three years ago.
and has done large wholesale lumber
! business, has sold his yard to M. B. Hol-
way, from whom it was purchased, and
| purchased mill at MontrOSe, To-, where
he will shortly move with his family.