Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-10-01
BACKBONE

| Paul Queh1. Ramsey county Commits
sioner at meeting Of the body Of which
he is member slandered Rev. D. Nor
gan and Mrs. 8. v. Root. He got out OF
his predicament by public retraction and
$500 expenses. D. w. Doty, our candidate
for Attorney General. brought him to time
| AS the family OF Andrew H. Wilson OF
South Vineland. NJ j., was preparing to
| retire, man walked into the house, de-
| liberately aimed a revolver at Mr.. Wilson
and pulled the trigger. The weapon missed
fire. The assassin has been arrested. Mr.
Wilson has been prosecuting "speak-eas
les"
| At the Maine convention of the w. c.
T. u, Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, who is also
acting national president, was unanimously
Gre-elected president This makes the TWEEN
ty-second time she has been chosen by the
Maine white-ribboners as their leader, an6
in all those years only one vote has beer
cast against her.
! Chaplain Mcintyre Of the Oregon has
been tried and sentenced to dismissal from
the naval service for criticisms of his SUI
perior officers in lecture at Denver. His
defense was that he had taken brandy anG
morphine for medicine and was as sur.
prised as the public at the morning papers
report of his utterances
E. w. Chain, Prohibition candidate fol
Governor of Illinois, Is convincing his au.
diences that the Republican as well as the
Democratic party is committed to the pro.
lection Of the saloon. It's platform pirates
of liberty Of conscience and 'independ.
ence of individual thought, which is simp.
ly bid for the personal liberty vote.
Frank x. Koner, or Sleepy Eye aged
twenty-five, committed suicide by shooting
the top Of his head off with shotgun while
intoxicated. Koher first attempted the life
of his wife, but she escaped. Ee Their
locked himself in his house with his year.
old son and killed himself. The neigh bors
broke in the doors and found the child cry.
ing in it's dead parents arms.
! In about one-third Of the counties Of thu
state the assessments returned on saloon
property were less than those Of last year
and these were raised by the State Board
of Equalization to the former return. WI
mona county assessments were increased
500 per cent; Olmsted, 100 per cent; Rock
| 60 per cent; Pine. 60 per cent; Benton, 81
per cent, Ramsey, 40 per cent, and so on
The crowd which gathered at the Prohi
bftion meeting at Dalton, Otter Tail coun.
ty, on the 18th ult., was estimated as mum
bering 1000. Special trains were run by
the G. N. Railway. The great tent of the
Sangerforbund was used. The speakers
were Rev. Mr.. Ellingsen, E. e. Lobeck
candidate for Congress, Rev. Mr.. Thor.
waldson and John G.. Woolley The two
first named spoke in the Norwegian Ian.
guage.
John M. Smyth, one Of the most promi
nent Republicans in Chicago, has created
a sensation by exposing the tactics of the
Board of Education in leasing public schoo
land for saloon purposes. There are thir.
teen saloons on school fund property in the
heart of the city, and some of them are
most notorious dens. It is in direct viola
ton Of the law, and under the provisions
Of special clause inserted in the leases
the lessee is prohibited from allowing the
sale Of liquors on school property
Secretary Calderwood addressed the Yves
leyan Methodist conference at Wasioja
The resolutions declare that ut is the right
and duty Of every Christian citizen to imi
tate the sagacity of saloonkeepers an6
brewers everywhere and carry his senti
ments on the temperance question to The
only place where it will have practical ef
fect-the ballot box. We deplore the In
difference Of the Christian citizenship Of
the land in this matter and exhort oul
members not to be participants therein