River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-03-24
Items and. incidents of the Temperance
Crusade.

be allowed to vote for judicial officers
before whom questions of the violation
Of the liquor law may come.
ADA, Ohio, has now only one saloon
left, aud the women are besieging that
establishment vigorously.
The surrender of two saloons is re-
ported at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, one
being the most popular resort in the
town.
A LARGE mass temperance meeting
was held at Laporte, Ind, on March
10th.
AT Madison, Wis, the temperance
question has come to a standstill. The
churches generally advise praying in
secret, but not at the corners of streets
and in saloons.
ONE THOUSAND women are banded
together in the temperance movement
at Adrian, Mich.
The town of Blissfeld, Mich, has
ceased to dispense the ardent, and be-
tween that place and the Ohio line east,
the temperance sirocco has made clean
sweep.
PRAYER MEETINGS are to be held IN
Washington, for the furtherance of the
temperance cause.
AT the session of the Chicago Common
Council, on March 16, one hundred ladies
visited the chamber bearing memorial
signed by 5000 women, in favor of the
enforcement of the Sunday saloon-clos-
ing ordinance. The memorial was read
and placed on file, after which the Coun-
ell very ungraciously passed an ordi-
nance permitting saloons to be kept
open on Sunday, by a vote of % to IA.
Upon returning to the streets, the la
dies, all of whom were of the highest
responsibility, and numbering among
them the wives of some of the best cit
liens, were assailed with yells and
bowls from one of the vilest crowds that
could be raked from the cutters of the
city, who pressed so closely upon the
little band that, had they not been pro-
tected by few men among the crowd,
there is little doubt but that violence
would have been offered them. Indeed,
one brute did trip enc of the ladies, but
slank away before thd fist of one of the
gentlemen standing near. The mob fol-
lowed one of the ladies back to the
church, from which they started, yell
ing every moment like Comanches, and
presenting one of the most disgraceful
scenes ever witnessed.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL does not APP
prove of the women's crusade, and
favors a license for liquor dealing SO
high as TO inexorably close all the bar
rooms where liquor is sold to minors or
drunkards.
EIGHT saloons have succumbed to the
rusade at Findlay, Ohio.
GREAT excitement prevails at Tiffin,
Ohio. A fund of $4,000 is to be raised
with which to back up the movement
WHEN the women were congregated
in front of Hadlich's beer garden, Ill
Dubuque, and surrounded by a shout
ingand ieering rabble, they were con-
fronted with the spectacle of half a
dozen German women drinking beer
from bucket.
AT Jacksonville, Ind, the wife of
saloon-keeper attacked one of the cru
saders and threw her down. Several
buckets of water were afterward thrown
on the praying Danu.
Ar Sturgis, Michigan, the ladies'
temperance league now numbers about
200 members. They are still ON the
alert acknowledgements of the liquor laws.
Several saloons have closed permanent
ly. Two prosecutions have been made,
and fines imposed.
The women of Adrian are prescott
ing a crusade, thus far without success,
beyond closing the sample rooms of
two wholesale dealers i'll liquors.
In four weeks, by persistent efforts,
the women of Bluffton, Ind, closed all
saloons but two.
An immense temperance meeting has
been held at Ypsilanti, Mich, to ratify
municipal nominations.
A COUNCIL of the Wine and Spirits
Traders Society of the United States,
held AT New York, announced that they
favor the present temperance move
ment.
The women of Nevada, Ohio, prayed
five days without makinga single con-
quest.
The Long Island people are moving
actively, and mt meeting in Manhas-
sett it was agreed to appointed holt
day when all the liquor in the town was
to be thrown into the Sound.
The ladies of New York having wait
ed on Delmomco, the proprietor of the
most fashionable resort in New York.
and obtained his permission to hold a
prayer meeting in his establishment
have made arrangements to do so.
Tue saloonkeepers of Oshkosh, Wis,
received through the post office notice
that band of praying women would
visit these places and pray with and for
them, which caused much alarm, but
the ladies failed to appear, and the
whole affair is regarded as a hoax.
Ar Minneapolis, Mimi, the friends of
temperance have taken the matter i'm
hand and meetings have been held
for the purpose of forming temperance
crusadcs.