Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-05-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.


are reported unusually successful.
The next industrial temperance con-
gress is to be held in Vienna in 1901
Chicago has butcher for every 2oo
and saloonkeeper for every thirty-hve
families
Francis Murphy held ten-day meeting
in Duluth this month. He secured SOo
signatures to the pledge.
In their monthly reports, postmasters
must hereafter state whether the letter
carriers are temperate.
The knights of Columbus, Roman
Catholic society, refuse to admit liquor
dealers to membership.
The king of Italy is a total abstainer
In Sweden there are between 100000 and
SOOO 900 total abstainers.
There are fully 100000 children of
school age in this country already under
temperance education laws.
Rev. D. Morgan, of the St. Paul Bethel,
is delivering a stereopticon lecture, en-
titled 1.-The Evolution of Drunkard.
Switzerland in the Blue Cross, has the
greatest temperance organization on the
continent of Europe, numbering 25,ooo.
Chairman Dickie reports additional
pledges to the national prohibition party
fund of s3O26.O4, making total OF S6,S24.94.
- Teetotal sentiment is fast increasing in
Austria. Four young Viennese doctors
have begun an active propaganda IN IT'S
favor
DR.. N. D. Hills declares that the waste
through intemperance IN Chicago In ten
wears EQUALS the destruction of two Chi
cago fires.
After a sharp contest, Mayor Harrison
has refused to grant licenses to saloons
in the vicinity of the north end of South
Park, Chicago.
The Beverages are to spend two
months in giving temperance and pro-
hibition concerts under the auspices of
the Epworth league.
Ex-senator Henry w. Blair, of New
hampshire, defeated by the liquor men,
has decided to again be candidate for
the United States senate.
A 4-year-old girl in Milan, Mich, has
brought suit for $4,000 against a saloon
keeper and his bondsmen for the ruin
and death of her father.
Charles .. Lean, a nOIeQ prOnIDltlOn
speaker, was greeted with shower of
eggs on his way to his hotel after speak
ing at Braddyville, Iowa.
The managers Of Prohibition Park, on
Staten Island, are arranging for a con-
ference of party workers to occur on July
3 and at the park auditorium.
Crime has more than doubled in Iowa
a nf ha of
the saloon to the state through the mulct
law enacted by the republican party.
In Sweden the grand lodge of Good
Templars numbers over 100000 members,
and in Germany the grand lodge has dou-
bled in a years time, being now 5000.
Lord Curzon, governor general of In
dia, was, before he left England a mem
Der of the executive committee of the
Church of England Temperance society.
The Massachusetts legislature has re-
fused to pass an act to establish dispen-
saries for the sale Of alcohol and intoxi-
eating liquors in no-hcense cities and towns.
In last months Dlebiscite on the sem
ZACH, or local option, in the Norwegian
capital, Kristiania, women cast two
thirds of the votes against the sale of
drink.
California, through the Stewart meet
1ngs, has raised over 81, 400 in cash and
pledges, for state prohibition work, and
will put state organizer in the field to
prepare for 1900.
At the request of a delegation of Great
Northern engineers, living in the vicinity
the renewal of the license Of the saloon
at Park avenue and Sycamore street, St.
Paul, was refused.
There are thirty-three municipalities in
Norway, and in eighteen Of them the peo-
pie have already exercised to the fullest
extent the option Of IL ohibition which
the law allows them