Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-10-01
PROGRESSOF THE MOVEMENT.

Henry H. Faxon of Quincy, Mass, has
given the w. c. T. U. of that place $780,
The Chicago Theological Seminary, Con-
gregational, has opened it's doors to women.
Between 40 and SO counties of Pennsyl-
vania have Prohibition tickets in the field.
We will send copies Of any issue at s.
per hundred, to the same or different adj
dresses.
The Nebraska convention declared for
prohibition, equal suffrage and the initiative
and referendum.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union will
endeavor to introduce scientific temperance
instruction into Catholic schools.
The official reports show that there is a
member of a temperance society for each
twenty-one inhabitants of Sweden.
Mr.. Woolley's book, "Seed,'' has been
translated into the Bulgarian language for
use in reform work in that country.
A state conference of the Prohibition
party will be held at Sioux Falls, s. D.,
Oct. 25, &c Chairman Dickie will speak.
By his defense of the saloonkeepers of
that city for fragrant violation Of the laws,
the Mayor of Duluth is proving himself an
anarchist.
Every other meeting Of the Hamline Pro-
hibition Club is a public social gathering
with brief program Of speeches recita-
tons and music.
During the first nine months Of his term
of Office the mayor of Granite Falls has
been twice arrested and fined for selling
liquor without a license.
The saloons of Philadelphia are said to
have received more benefit than any other
branch of business from the crowds Of the
Grand Army encampment.
The jubilee of Good Templary is to be
celebrated by worldwide gathering, in
Utica, N. Y, in 1901, the order having orig
mated in that city in 1851.
The Pennsylvania State Committee is
making a vigorous and commendable effort
to get 10000 subscribers for The People,
the Prohibition state paper.
The Wisconsin Agitator has been changed
to monthly. The editor has been keep
ing up his end well. We suspect he was
long on praise and short on cash.
The annual convention Of the State Equal
Suffrage Association took place at Albert
Lea. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait spoke
Mrs. Martha ]. Thompson presided.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and sew.
enty-fve adult men and women voted this
year in favor Of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic in Christiana, Norway.
The English government has announced
that Belgium has invited the powers to a
conference at Brussels upon the African
liquor trade. The date is not yet set.
Secretary w. G. Calderwood was chair
man of the committee on resolutions at the
national convention of the Young Peoples
Christian Temperance Union at Chicago.
Oct. 10, the birthday of Father Mathew
was quite widely observed by the Catholic
total abstinence societies. Father Keane Of
Minneapolis made notable address at St
Paul.
The Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union has begun the publication of thu
New Liberator. 1t is published monthly al
lilo The Temple, Chicago, at 25 cents
year.
The National Temperance Society pro
poses to test the validity of the action Of
the Secretary of War in reopening the can
teens after they had been ordered closed
by Act of Congress.
At Prohibition state conference held il
Topeka recently. addresses were delivered
by ex-Gov. st. John and M. V. Bennett
1t looked like a reunion of the old Prohi
bition Party in Kansas
Mayor J. A. Johnson, of Fargo, N. D.
read paper before the American League O.
Municipalities on How to Run a Prosper
GUS Town Without a Dollar Of Revenu,
from the Liquor Traffic
The saloons of Chicago are to be attacked
In systematic manner by the Anti-Salool
League, assisted by the pastors of tn,
Methodist Episcopal churches and mem
bers of their congregations
OF the ffty-two ministers present at tn,