Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-05-01
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In Saybrook, ILL.,. the Prohibition candi-
date defeated the Republican candidate.
The Youths Companion has entered upon
its seventy fifth year. 1t is clean and
able paper.
1t Is estimated that 200 drunken men have
attempted to butcher their families In Can
ada during the past year.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
the Winona Diocese will meet at Austin
June IS and 10. Bishop Cotter will give the
closing address.
No boy who smokes cigarettes or who is
known to have once been addicted to the
habit will be hereafter employed in the Chi
cago postofice
The superintendent of the Wellington,
England, Reformatory, says that OF l,ooO
boys of the thief class more than 800 would
not have been there but for drink.
Georgia has 1877 counties, and 113 are
covered by prohibition through local OPP
ton. One-half of the tremendous popu-
lated area of Texas is covered by prohibit
ton.
In 1900 Minnesota had 80 wholesale and
500 retail liquor dealers; 5O7 wholesale
and 663 retail malt liquor dealers; no dis
tillers. "a brewers and "a rectihers, d TOTAL
of 6,4s9.
Austin licenses sixteen saloons at LOCO
each. Three young men were sent to the
Reformatory at the last term of court,
whose downfall was directly due to the
saloons.
Mrs. Lucia Faxon Addition, of Portland,
Ore, who represents the National w. Z.
II. u, in the department of temperance
and labor, has been speaking In various
places upon sweatshops.
The Kansas City Mid Continent, Pro-
hibition paper, has been compelled to sus-
pend. Probably hundreds of it's subscribers
intended to renew their SUBSCRIPTIONS
right away"-but didn't.
The Northwestern Life Insurance Com
pany of Milwaukee, Wis.,, situated in the
greatest beer producing city in the WORLD
refuses to insure anyone who is In any
way connected with the beer business.
David D. Thompson, of Chicago, has been
made editor of the Northwestern Christian
Advocate an organ of the NJ. E. church.
He votes the Prohibition ticket and gives
the liquor question prominence in his paper.
Recruiting in the army is going along
with a rush, Notwithstanding the recent
fearful threats of War Department Off
Gals that "men would not enlist unless
a military saloon was maintained at every
post.
A jury in a Chicago justice court has &C.
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selling liquor on Sunday on the ground
that the law forbidding such sales had been
so long disregarded as to become dead
letter.
Japan has seventy-four w. c. Il. Unions
and Y. w. C. T. Unions, with a member
ship of 2,15O. In India there are thirty To-
cal European unions, with GIG members and
twenty native local unions with $50 mem
bers Twenty-Five departments Of work
are carried on.
Clergywomen are now ordained by the
Universaists, Unitarians, Congregational
lists and some orders of Methodists and
Baptists. They were always accepted by
the Quakers. The last census puts the
number Of clergywomen in this country at
1926, and it is constantly increasing.
The Missouri Supreme Court holds the
state has a right to enforce police regula
tions regarding the sale of Intoxicating
liquors, and prevent the sale altogether, il
it so desires. So the supreme courts Of
several states and the United States Su
preme Court have decided several times.
In prohibitionMaine, where it is said Pro
hibition lis no good" there were last year
behind the prison bars 841 persons, q total
OF thirteen for every 10000 people; while
In Massachusetts,, the best enforced license
law state, there were 7,451 prisoners, OF
thirty-three for every 10000 of popula