The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-12
SUSAN B. DYING.
The Noted Woman Suffragist May Die
At Any Moment.

At Any Moment.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Rochester, NJ Y, March 12.-There
has been no marked change in the
condition of Susan B. Anthony since
yesterday. She is still in a comotose
condition. The heart action is, weak
and death may come at any moment.
Miss Anthony has been rapidly sink
ing since 10 o'clock. Her breathing is
irregular and at times barely discern
able. Her physician said:
There is absolutely no hope, and
she probably will not live the day
out"
Susan Brownell Anthony, probably
the best known advocate of woman
suffrage in America, was born at
Adams, Mass, Feb. Is, 1920. When
Miss Anthony was still in her teens
her parents removed to New York
state Aand in 1916 settled at Roches-
ter, which city the eminent reformer
continued to call her home during the
remainder of her life. Miss Anthony
received liberal education and spent
the early part of her career as a
school teacher, which profession her
father had followed before her.
Miss Anthony first spoke in public
In 1S47, and from that time took part
in the temperance movement, organ
izing societies and lecturing. In 1851
she called temperance convention
in Albany, after being refused ad-
mission to a previous convention on
account of her sex. In 1852 the Wo-
mans New York State Temperance
Society was organized. Through her
exertions, and those of Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, women came to be adj
mitted to educational and other con-
ventions with the right to speak, vote,
and serve on committees.
About 1857 she became prominent
among the asitators for the abolition
of slavery. In 1858 she made report,
in a teachers convention in Troy, in
favor of the co-education of the sexes
But it was, to secure equal civil rights
for whom that the energies of her life
were chiefly directed In 1886 she
held conventions in each county of
New York in the cause of female suff-
dressed annual appeals and petitions
to the legislature. She was active in
securing the passage of the act of the
New York legislature of 1860, giving
to married women the possession of
their earnings, the guardianship of
their children, etc. During the civil
war she devoted herself to the wo-
mems loyal league, which petitioned
congress in favor of the 18th amend
ment.
In 1860 she started petition in fav-
or of leaving out the word male" in
the 14th amendment, and worked with
the national woman suffrage associa-
ton to induce congress to secure to
her sex the right of voting. In 1867
she went to Kansas with Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, and
there obtained 5000 votes in favor of
woman suffrage. In 1868, with the CO.
operation of Mrs. Stanton and Parker
Pillsbury, and with the assistance of
George Francis Train, Miss Anthony
began, in New York, the publication
of weekly paper called "The Revo-
lutionist," devoted to the emancipa-
ton of women. In 1872 Miss Anthony
cast ballots at the state and congress
sional election in Rochester in order
to test the application of the 14th and
18th amendments of the United States
constitution. She was indicted for
illegal voting, and was fined by JUS
tice Hunt, but, in accordance with her
defiant declaration, never paid the
pnealty. Between 1870 and 1880 she
lectured in all the northern and sew
eral of the southern states more than
one hundred times a year. She ap-
peared before every congress since
1859 and presented a petition for
constitutional amendment enfranchis-
ing women. During her long and
busy life she travelled and lectured
extensively both in America and
Europe.