The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-03-16
DEATH COMES TO
susan B. ANTHONY
ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA ENDS
LONG CAREER OF THE NOTED
SUFFRAGIST.
Passes Away at Rochester, N. Y.-Ac-
complished Much for Cause of
Woman's Rights During Her Ca
reer of Many Years.

SuSdu d. Ahtbohy uClo. IN toAS
and eventful life of the noted suffra-
gist closed at 1910 o'clock this morn
ing. The end was peaceful. She had
been unconscious practically for "a
hours and her death had been momen-
tarily expected since Sunday. night.
Only her wonderful vitality kept her
alive.
DR.. NJ. S. Kicker, her attending ply
stefan, said Miss Anthony died of
heart failure induced by double pneu-
monia. She has had serious valyular
heart trouble for the last six or seven
years. Her lungs were practically
clear and the pneumonia had yielded
to treatment, but the weakness Of her
heart prevented her recovery.
Miss Anthony was taken i'll while
on her way home from the national
suffrage convention in Baltimore,
which was her last appearance in pub
lie. She stopped in New York, where
a banquet was to be given February
20 in honor of her eighty-sixth birth
day, but had an attack Of neuralgia
on the the 18th and fastened home.
Pneumonia developed after her arrival
here and on March both lungs be-
came affected.
Faced Many Insults.
Miss Anthony. was greatly beloved
In this city, which had been her home
since 1S45 She lived to see a decade
change In sentiment from the time, in
the winter of 1861, when she was
Kissed and hooted when she attempted
to give lecture on abolition in Cor
inthian hall. That lecture tour, which
started in Buffalo, was series of
riots, but Miss Anthony never finch
ed. The insults heaped upon her cul-
minated in Syracuse, where she was
egged and burned in effigy
First Suffrage Campaign. -
In 1867 Miss Anthony made her first
notable woman suffrage crusade in
the west George Francis Train was
rich man then, eccentric, but shrewd.
He proposed to pay all expenses and
to start a suffrage paper in the east
If Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony
would take speech making trip
through the west. The tour began at
Omaha and finally extended to St
Louis, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati
and other cities, ending with a big
meeting in Steinway hall, New York.
In 1896 Miss Anthony was elected
president of the National Woman's
Suffrage association, position which
she held continuously until she re-
tired on her eightieth birthday in
1900. In that capacity she conducted
campaigns for the adoption of a
woman's suffrage amendment in sew
eral states, notably in Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and New York.
Wins Every Reform But One.
With the exception of Julia Ward
Howe, she was the sole survivor of the
early suffrage advocates who took part
In the movement inaugurated at the
famous convention held in Seneca
Falls in 1S4S, which was the first wom-
ans rights convention. The laws for
the equal property rights of women
were first advocated there Miss An
thony has said almost every reform
which she advocated had been ac-
complished with the exception of the
rights of suffrage. She was one of the
first advocates of coeducation and
dress reform. She carried her inter-
est in the advancement of woman into
the practical affairs of every day life.
She always assisted the women in
business when she could. Her photo
graphs, sent all over the country,
were taken by woman photographer.
She was attended throughout her ILL
ness by woman physician