The Irish standard., 1894-04-07
AT J. I: THE POLLS.
Municipal Elections Are Held Il
Several States.
Result Of the BailotSng In Ohio. Michixan,
Illinois. wisconsin and Other States
The Republicans Are Gem
orally Successful.
IN OHIO.

IN OHIO.
J CINCINNATI. April 3.-The municipal
campaign which ended with the elec.
tion of yesterday was one Of the
hottest political fights known iu
the history of the Queen City.
The result is q victory for the repub-
licans. The returns show the election
of Hon. John A. Caldwell for mayor by
. plurality of 6,760. He will there
fore resign his seat in congress and q
special election will be in order In the
Second district. All the other names
on the republican ticket were renomi-
nations and consequently reflections,
and by pluralities ranging up to $4,000.
The republicans carried everything at
Lima, Hamilton, Wapakoneta and other
places for the first time. Wapakoneta
elects republican mayor and two re-
publican councilmen. The republicans
pakoneta-
Hamilton, which had q normal demo-
cratic majority of 1,400, elects Henry
Lots rep city commissioner by 1,10o
majority. .-..
Official returns from Cleveland show
that the republicans have won by
pluralities ranging from 5000 to 5000.
In the presidential election of 1892 the
city went democratic by 4,000 and last
mayor had nearly 1,500 plurality.
The republicans swept everything In
Colum bus, electing the police judge
and the entire ticket The city was
carried for the democratic mayor last
spring by 1000. The republicans also
elect seventeen of the twenty-five
councilmen and about the same major
ity on the school board.
In Michigan.
DETROIT, Mich, April 8.-The returns
from the municipal elections yesterday
are mostly in favor OF the republicans.
There seems to have been a general
change of political sentiment, especial
ly in cities and towns which have here
tofore been counted as safely demo-
cratic In the smaller towns and
townships the returns also show re-
publican gains
CHICAGO, April 4. 4.-Tuesday's alder
manic elections III this city resulted in
net gain of five members in the city
council for the repu ublicans. The ma
jorities range from 1900 to 10. The
new council will stand: Republicans,
4s; democrats, 25 The present council
stands: Republicans, 3S; democrats,
20.
CHICAGO, April 4.-Dispatches from
seventy-fve points IN Illinois show re-
publican victories in ffty-nine and
democratic victories in sixteen.
In Wisconsin.
MILWAUKEE, April 4.-John C. Koch,
the republican candidate, for mayor,
and the entire republican city ticket
are elected by pluralities which range
from 4,O00 to $1,000 The republicans
will also have majority in the COM
mon council. Only five of the eighteen
wards in the city were carried
by the democrats. The new
council will be composed of twenty-six
republicans and ten democrats. The
board of supervisors will be republican
in about the same proportion. Returns
from ffty-three points in Wisconsin in
dicate that the republicans were sue
cessful in forty and the democrats in
thirteen.
In Missouri.
ST.. Louis, April 4.--up to midnight
returns had been received from about
twenty cities in Missouri. In a major
ity of these the republican tickets were
successful, while the democrats carried
Ave cities, aud in the remainder mixed
results were noticea ole.
Women Capture All tho Offices.
SPRING HILL. Kan, April AT the'
election here women were elected to
fill all the municipal Offices. including
mayor, councilman and police judges
Two Men Killed.