El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20


hibit the sale of liquor within six miles
of the agricultural school at Albert
vile.
Three saloonkeepers OF Sullivan, ILL.,,
had damage suits aggregating $4,000
filed against them in one day lately.
In Nebraska the bill to allow grow
ers of grapes to sell wine of their own
manufacture in small quantities with
out license, failed to pass.
Rev. Charles d. Moore, pastor of the
Congregational church at Moline, Ill,
has inaugurated crusade against OBJ
jectionable posters on bill boards.
Quincy Mass, recently celebrated
the seventeenth anniversary of no
license rule, many of the original mem
bers Of the no-license committee be-
ing present.
The mayor of Holyoke, Mass, has
filed charges against License Commits
sioner Kelton, that he is interested in
the liquor business and misuses his
official position.
Arkansas legislature passed an anti
cigaret bill by vote of II to II. The
bill makes it unlawful to sell cigarets
500 fine for each offense.
The governor of the state of Wash
ington has refused to pardon Albert
Hoeppner of Colfax, now under SEN
tence of three months in Jail and $500
fine and 5000 costs for selling liquor
without license.
In Brattleboro, VT, Thomas Man
ming, who made of himself a perambu-
lating liquor dispensary by carrying
around several TASKS from which he
sold liquor, has been sentenced to SIS
days Imprisonment.
A bill making it a states prison Of
Tense for a person to teach the doc
trines of polygamy IN Michigan was
passed, as was one making it a mis-
demeanOr for a person not member
Of the G. A. r. to wear the button of
that order.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals, on
March 2, ruled that in counties having
a special local option law which does
not contain the exception in favor of
druggists, they can not sell liquor on
the prescription of a physician unless
it is compounded with some drug.
Norman Baker, a young attorney of
Kenosha, Wis, has begun a crusade
against the saloon men who infringe
the Sunday closing ordinance. Mr..
Baker is acting voluntarily, not as the
representative of any organization, but
as citizen, insisting on the strict OBJ
servance of the city ordinances.
At midnight recently band of farm
ers met at Fall Leaf, seven miles east
of Lawrence, Kas., in Leavenworth
county, and went to the saloon known
as Sandy Hook" and applied the
torch. The building was entirely de-
stroyed. For months Sandy Hook"
has been running against the will OF
the people of Eudora and Fall Leaf.
Delegation after delegation has waited
upon the proprietor. He would prom
Use faithfully to quit but never kept
the promise. After repeated warning,
the people organized and burned the
Criterion Qiquor organ.)
Canadian prohibitionists are con-
sidering the introduction into the
house of a resolution recording the re-
suit of the national plebiscite in favor
If prohibition and calling on the gov
to execute a mandate by in
a prohibition bill. While !
t is not expected that such a resolu- |
ion would pass. the issue would be |
brought squarely before the country, !
md all the members of parliament who /;
ne supporters of the government and !
'ote against prohibition who were |
Elected by temperance votes on pro-
libition pledges would be obliged to !
lace themselves on record.
Reform legislation recently enacted |
" the Illinois legislature was the
municipal pawnshop bill, which au-
horizes the formation of a corporation
o make loans at l per cent, and is de-
iened to protect the poor from the ex-
rbitant rates of interest now charged:
lso the juvenile court bill, which pro-
ideS for special court for the hearing
f all cases affecting the treatment and
ontrol of dependent, neglected, home
esS and delinquent children of all !
inds under sixteen years of age The
ill will do away with the present
boys department" of the county Jail
nd will also relieve police magistrates
f a troublesome dilemma in regard
D certain juvenile offenders, now sent
or lack of better place to the bride
TeH, theirs to take lessons In cri1ns
rom older criminals by association.
The International Convention of th,,
Dung Mems Christian Association
ill be held at Grand Rapids, Mich.
lay 1928 inclusive. 1t is expected
nat at least thousand delegates, in
luding quite a number from abroad.
ill be present. Aside from the col
'ge men and railroad men, who will
i've accounts of the work doing in
lese departments, special efforts are
taking to secure the attendance of
business men from all