The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-11
THE LICENSE ISSUE
Was Prominent in Village Elections
ThrOughOut the State.

License was the main Issue at most
of the village elections Tuesday, and
generally carried. The fights were in
many cases very hot and considerable
bad blood resulted The vote was gen.
orally small, except in places where
there were warm local contests. The
| working Of the recent constitutional
| amendment disfranchised thousands of
voters, and is largely responsible for
| the decreased vote in many localities.
The license fight at Alexandria was a
warm one. Last year no license car
| ried, but the business men soon COM
planned and prepared for a revolution
| this year. They were successful, for
license carried by 1O4 majority.
Following are results additional to
| those published Yesterday:
| Specials to the Globe.
| ROCHESTER, Mimi. March 10-rhe mu-
nicipal election held in this city yesterday
resulted in a complete victory for the Re-
publican ticket. J. H. Wagner was elected
mayor over w. Logan Breckenridge by 215
majority George c. Cook, assessor; Henry
| Kalb marshal; Norman G. Rowley, city
treasurer; H. H. Witherst!ne, school commits
sioner at large; aldermen, Ole Hanson, A.
Madison and D. A. Morrison; school commits
sioners. T. L. Fishback, ]. T. Collin and ].
! ]. Fulkerson.
LITCHFIELD-At the annual town cleo
were were elected town officers for G-iO this S
township: For supervisors, Bengt Hanson
chairman; Nels Larson. o. H. Halverson; for
town clerk, Charles NJ. Holm; for assessor
J. w. Wright; for treasurer, Andrew Nelson
| for justices, H. M. Hershey, ]. H. Bacon; for
constables; H; M. Angler, J.. M. Learn.
| CHASKA-The city election held yester-
day resulted as follows: Mayor, Frank
| Giemer Jr.; treasurer, George Denks; alder
men. First ward, F. E. Dutoit, Henry Simons
Andrew Jacobs; Second ward William Elke
]. F. Root and E. Besemann; Third ward
David Roy, Albert Leske and William
Behrns. hot fight was made for city treas
urer. George Denks defeated Joseph Burk-
! hart by two majority.
GRAND RAPIDS-The result of the cleo
lions here was as follows: Village president,
Il; D: Powers; trustees, J. J. Decker, J. F:
A: King; treasurer Henry Hughes constable
Charles Lyons; township chairman, John
Beckett Beckett; supervisors, V. H. Blood and Fred
McVicar; town clerk, Felix Malette; treas
urer, L. F. Knox; assessor, o. B. Seamans;
justice, Charles Kearney.
HERON IAKE-The annual election Of the
village was held here today. A light vote was
polled, on account of recent changes in the
election laws Total votes cast, 142. License
was defeated by II votes. Officers elected are
as follows President, David Brown; trus-
tees, D. F. Humiston, B. B. Sontag and G. A.
Fairfield; recorder, William J. Jones; treas
Grer; e, H. Cabot; justice of the peace, W. E.
Spaulding; constable, Elmer Spaulding.
DETROIT-The following village officers
were elected here. About half the regular
vote was cast: For president, w. ]. Bettin-
/ gen; for recorder, E. D. Holmes; for trustees
c. M Johnston. E. w. Davis, c. H. Whipple:
| for treasurer Joseph E. Furber; for assessor
G. A. Clement; for constable, Fred Rahm;
for justices of the peace, D. S. Griffin, w w
Rossman.
FAIRFAX-The following captured munich
pal honors yesterday: President, L. w Mich
! OILS; trustees, f. T. Sell, Charles Lammers ].
MahoWald; recorder, A. E. Carver; treasurer,
/ Z: A. Rieke; justice, A. V. Rieke: constable
Charles Derter. The proposition to issue GER
tifcates of Indebtedness was carried by
two-thirds majority
! JACkSON-At the village election todav
there was some hard work done by the license
and no license people. License carried by a
majority of %, against 116 last year. The
new council consists of J. L. Dunn presi-
dent; A. H. Strong, James Lowe and F. E.
Phillips, trustees; T. B. Faber, recorder and
John K. Brown, treasurer