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Show LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONS WON B! DBYFOHCES One Hundred Saloons Are Voted Out of Business by Illinois Prohibitionists. Prohi-bitionists. WETS LOSE SEVERAL WISCONSIN CITIES Liquor Interests Are Defeated Defeat-ed in Nineteen Out of Twenty-two Nebraska Nebras-ka Towns. CHICAGO, April 6. The dry forces voted 10U more saloon out of Illinois in the local owtiou elections to'la-y ami, by wiping out certain wet spots, uuMed three counties to fifty -two already completely com-pletely dry, a total of fifty-five counties out of 102 in the state. The wets retained tho largest cities where local option was an iesuo at the polls. Danville, Murphyboro an.$hlau kakeo remained wet by larger majorities majori-ties than at the previous elections. At no point in the state did dry territory go wet. There were, 3J0 saloons involved and, as 100 of these will have to go out of business, the dry forces hailed tho re suit as a victory. The three counties which became completely dry were Franklin county, in which the township town-ship of Barren 'wciH dry; Marion county, coun-ty, in which t'entralia and Sandoval were wet spots, and Jasper county, of which St. Marie township in the city of Newton were wet spots. |