Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-10-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.


755 in 1896 to y3.
The order of Red Men has voted 1T to 8,
to admit saloonkeepers to membership.
E. e. Lobeck is making red-hot fight
for congress in the 7th district.
''The Christian Ministers Prohibition
Club of Iowa" has been organized.
B. B. Haugan put the first half of this
month into platform work in South Dakota.
The Montana United Workmen have de-
cided to expel all members who engage In
the retail liquor traffic.
Rev. Levi Bird, a friend and supporter
of DR.. Swallow, was egged at Scranton,
Pa, while addressing a Swallow meeting.
The Associated Press dispatch to the eff
feet that the Prohibitionists Of Colorado
had endorsed free silver was mistake.
The pastors of the First Ward st. Paul,
are talking Of holding union monthly
temperance meeting on Sunday evenings.
Miss Fannie M Pugh of Oakland, Cal,
is the Prohibition candidate for State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction.
Six hundred delegates attended the an
nual meeting of the Denmark Temperance
Society. In six years it's membership has
grown from $4,000 to $1,000.
Names vote for the Prohibition candi-
date for governor is 1924. This is an in
crease of more than forty per cent over the
vote for lowering in 1896.
c. G. Featherstone, the Prohibition can
didate for Governor Of South Carolina,
received 1921 votes, coming within 4,452
votes of being elected.
Every pastor, every editor Of a temper
ance column, every reading room, every
hotel and every barber shop should regu-
larly receive B a c k b one.
The New York state Republican platform
glories in the collection Of $4,000, 600 of
revenue from the saloon but expresses no
regret at the ruin of body and soul wrought
by it.
The temperance women of Anderson,
Ind, are credited with having completely
demolished saloon which was kept open
on Sundays and after hours in defiance of
the law.
Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, is reported
to have promised that he will place before
President Mckinley, at an early date, an
anti-canteen protest signed by 100000 peo-
pie.
The fourth district W. c. T. U. Of Illi-
nois will present the Chicago public library
with complete set Of Miss Willard s
books It is suggested that local unions
everywhere initiate their example.
Two prisoners confined for night on
the charge of drunkenness were burned to
death at Stafford Springs, Conn. The fire
originated in the cell of one of the prison
ers. They were somebody's boys.
Hon. VIM. H. Boles one of the heroes
Of the prohibition reform and at the head
Of the state ticket in Illinois this year, was
smeared with rotten eggs at Franklin in
that state the other night.
Secretary Calderwood and the editor OF
B a k b on e have been doing considera-
BILE field work. f. B. Webster and G.. L.
Bingham have been doing county work
on their wheels.
Private H. D. Stone, Of Co. F., 18th Re-
giment, MINI. Vols, and John J. White
Of the Sd Infantry hospital corps, had a
fight in Wabasha street. st. Paul, saloon.
The latter cut off the tip Of a finger of
the former.
DR.. w. M. Ormand of Rochester, was
murdered and his body left under a straw
stack in a suburb Of Minneapolis. In COM
pany with two men who professed that
they desired to make horse trade he Wis
tied several saloons and drank at each
The rest Is easy.