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Show LOCAL OPTION ELECTION SET ASIDE BY COURT ROANOKE. Va., March 29. Judge Waller Wal-ler P. Staples, in the corporation court of Roanoke today, set aside tho local option election held here on December 30 last. In which the saloon was voted out by a majority of elghtv-slx votes. Tho saloons would have closed tomorrow had the election elec-tion been declared valid. Roanoke has fifty-two saloons, a large brewery and several distilleries and distributing depots. de-pots. The election is declared null and void on the ground that, the tax list as furnished by City Treasurer Davis was Illegal. |