The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-13
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
HAS PASSED A LAZY
Famous Leader OF Women
Rights Movements succumbs
at Advanced Age.

Rochester, N. Y, March u: The flu.
neral of Susan B. Anthony will be held
on Thursday at 9 o'clock Rev. Dr.
Gannett of the First Unitarian church,
Of which Miss Anthony was a member,
will offciate. MA message of con-
dolence from Mrs. May Wright Sewall
Of Indianapolis, honorary president of
the International Council of Women,
Mrs. Sewell requested that she-be In
formed of the hour the funeral is to
be held, in order that a memorlal ser ''s
same time.
Rochester. N Y. March & S.--The
long and ,eventfuf life OF Susan b, An
thonny closed at 412:40 o'clock this morn
ing. The end came peacefully. Miss
Anthony had been unc2nseious practlc-
ally for twenty four hours, and her
death had been momentarily expected
since Sunday night. Only her wonder
full constitution kept her alive. 81. Z.
Dr. M. H. Kicker, her attending ply
sician, said Miss Anthony died of heart
failure, induced by double pneumonia.
She. hadfhad serious vaivlllar, heart trou-
BILE for the last six orsseyen years. Her
lungs were practically clear, and the
pneumonia had yielded to. treatment,
but the weakness of her heart prevent
: Miss Anthony was taken. i'll while, On
her way home from the national sui.
frage convention in Baltimore. She
stopped in New York, where a banquet
was to be given Feb. 90 in honor of
her eighty-sixth birthday but had an
attack Of neuralgia on the 18th, and
after her. arrival here. and on March S,
hoth Inn haca m sffne
Change In Attitude.
Miss Anthony lived to see decided
change in sentiment from the time, in
the winter of 1861, when she was Missed
and hooted when she ATTEMPTED to give
a lecture on abolition in Corint HAN hall.
Thatlecture tour, which started In Buf-
falo, was a series. Of riots, but Miss An
thony never finched. The insults
heaped upon her eliminated in SYRIA
cuse: where SHE was. egged and burned
in effigy. us
Her life for the past few wears had
been IN strong contra stSto those stormy
times. She lived with her sister. Miss
Mary Anthony, whose devotion to sSSu-
san B., as she invariably called her
was touching. Their cosy home was
the Mecca of all suffragists.
Left All to THE Cause
Feeling that her life could not lone
continue, Miss anthony evidently. was
disturbed by a desire to express some
wish in regard to her viii, and On
Wednesday last she said TO her sister:
Write to Anna Shaw immediately
and tell her / desire cent
leave when I pass o1iY Sc Sc this life shall
be given TO the fund which Miss
Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising
for the cause. 7 have given my life
and allsI am to it, and now L want. my
last act to be to give it all T have-the
last cent. Tell Anna Shaw TO seeS thai
this is done. -
/ In compliance with Miss Anthony
request, Miss Mary Anthony wrote i'm
| mediate&Y and within an hour aftel
the letter was sent Miss Shaw, unex
1:pectedlyz arrived at Miss Anthony !.
| home. On the following day, when, sh,
was permitted to see Miss Anthony fo1
"a few moments, Miss Anthony repeat
ed her request, and with evident. EN-
! ton told Of her great love and long
ing for the success of ]" the great caus,
that underGes all reforms, the creates
! boon Of all-freedom. 81 |.
| She urged Miss Shaw and her siste