Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-07-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT,

$500.
The Provincial prohibitory law hangs
fire at Ottawa.
A. W. c. T. u building will be erected
at the State Fair.
A whisky trust, capitalized at s125,OO0,-
900, has been organized.
Kentucky will hold her state Prohibi-
ton convention Aug. 1.
Massachusetts Prohibitionists hold their
state convention at Worcester on Sept
ID.
Moorhead saloons were closed on Sun
day, the 9th inst, for the first time in a
year.
Chairman Clayton, of Wisconsin, and
Elicit, of Iowa, call for district organ
izers on the Indiana plan.
The Supreme Lodge A. o. U. W. re-
fused membership to an Ohio butcher
whose wife keeps a saloon.
DR.. F. Mcclure, of st. Cloud, is an as
sociate editor of the Searchlight, pub
lished at Litchfield, III.
The large number of young men pres
ent was one of the noticeable features of
the Iowa convention.
Miss Marie G. Brehm has just COM
pleted successful tour Of this state I'M
der the auspices of the w. c. T. U.
Licenses for thirty-five saloons and
seven breweries have already been grant
ed in Alaska under the new high license
law.
The Prohibition Union of Christian Men
is extending, as it deserves to. 1t is the
best thing in the field outside the Prohi-
bition party.
> The New Republic, Of Lincoln, Neb.,
says: eft is known here that Mr.. Bryan
is not a Prohibitionist and does not be-
neve in prohibition"
Adjutant General Corbin has announced
that no further consideration will be CIV
en- to protests against the canteen sent
to the war department.
Successful conventions of the (Scandi-
navian) Total Abstinence Association
were held at Sacred Heart, Mimi, and
Yellowstone, Wis.
j. W. Leedy is working the Third Dis
trict on the Indiana plan under the di-
rection of Secretary Calderwood. He is
successful and happy.
A New York syndicate is arranging to
start brewery in Cuba for the purpose
of making money by debauching the peo-
pie Of the island. 4 ~sa i.-,n.
There was a riot in Santiago the other
day instigated by the conduct Of drunken
United States officers. Saloons have fol-
lowed the flag in that city.
Mrs. NJ B. Carse is again in Chicago
after an absence of several months in
California. She has regained her Gus
tomary health and strength.
There was a gold medal contest at the
convention of the Young Peoples Chris
tan Union Of the United Brethren
church, held at Pleasant Prairie.
State Secretary A. E. Wilson and the
Meneley Trio have just completed long
and successful tour of Southern Illinois.
They will return in October.
Wesleyan University, Conn.,, has decid-
ed that students who receive help in
their college course must pledge them
selves to total abstinence.
In the plebiscite on the semlach, or 10
cal option, in the Norwegian capital,
Kristiania, women cast two-thirds of the
votes against the sale of drink.
Gen. Hutton, commander of the Cana
dian army, has ordered that no liquor be
sold in canteens at the Canadian camps
where militia are being drilled this year.
William C. Whitney, Secretary of the
Navy under Cleveland, and high-class
millionaire member of New York's social
and political aristocracy, is at the head
of the distillery trust.
Every visitor to Cuba, Porto Rico and
Manila says that drunkenness has in
creased among each Of those peoples at
an alarming rate since the United States
assumed control.
Pressed by the Prohibition Union of