Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.

Minneapolis and St. Paul have curfew or
dinances.
The mayor Of Brainerd has closed the
saloons on sundays.
The annual output Of the Milwaukee
breweries is 2,34S79S barrels.
The Chicago Prohibition ticket received
between 900 and 1000 votes.
Oliver w. Stewart and Louis Albert
Banks are stirring up California.
There are three sons in John G. Woolley's
family, all stalwart prohibitionists.
The Editor of Backbone recently ad-
dressed public meeting Of the Socialist
Labor party at st. Paul on Prohibition.
The recent election reduced the number
of saloonkeepers in the Chicago council
from Is to II.
Saloonkeepers in Cuba are forbidden to
sell liquor to priyates or non-commissioned
officers.
In hospitals and among army men in
Europe total abstinence is greatly on the
increase.
vineland, N. j., a no license town of long
standing, again voted against the saloon,
6SS to 112.
There are 100000 children of school
age in the United States under temperance
education laws.
Van Bennett, of Kansas, who left us
at the time Of the Pittsburg split, is back
again. Welcome!
The National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton will meet in Grand Rapids, Mich,
April q to May 4.
The Illinois state committee sent out
half million pages of literature during the
first three months of this year.
H. II. Faxon has given $4,000 and 20
years of effort to put and keep Quincy,
Mass, in the no license column.
The Grand Duke Vladimir has issued an
order prohibiting the sale Of brandy in the
regiments of the Russian army.
The st. Paul City Prohibition Headquar-
tiers and Backbones new Office now adjoin
each other at 81 East Fourth Street
On election day Luverne school children
paraded the streets, each wearing a badge
which read: "For my sake, vote Mo-"
The Prohibitionists of Chicago secured
10000 signatures in one week to the pc
tition to secure place on the official bal
lot
Gov. Roosevelt has given up his cigar on
account of a throat trouble and Cornelius
Vanderbilt now drinks only water at his
meals
Iowa Prohibitionists nominate their state
lob OF or 81 ~
Woolley and Rev. 3. L. Eaton are the
speakers.
Among the criminals recently pardoned
by President Mckinley, was Samuel ].
Scharf, of Idaho, convicted of selling liquor
to Indians.
Rooms 25 to 80 cents and meals at mod
crate prices at the Bethel Boat, Rev. D.
Morgan, Superintendent. Near Union De-
pot, st. Paul.
The Garvin Prohibition Concert Com
pany, consisting of Miss Jessie M. Garvin
and her brother Paul, the 'boy orator."
are at work in Indiana.
Secretary Calderwood went to Indianap-
oils to arrange for the entertainment Of the
Minnesota delegation at the International
Epworth League convention.
The license vote Of Fergus Falls was re-
duced nearly 20 votes, result largely due
to the Young Peoples Christian Temper
ance Union recently organized.
So much dissatisfaction has been felt
over the enforcement of the liquor laws in
Hampton, N. H., that Rev. John Bradford
is to be appointed chief Of police at that
place.
The Chicago Total Abstinence Union now
includes twenty-five societies, with mem
bership OF nearly two thousand. The Ma
tional Convention will be held in that CITY