Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-06-16
CARRIE NATION
CROSSES DIVIDE
FAMOUS SALOON sMAsHER, VIC
TIM OF PARESls, EXPIRES IN
A SANlTARlUM.
NOTORIOUS FOE OF LIQUOR WAS S.
Woman, Whose First Husband Died Of
Deiirium Tremens, Became Known
Through WELDING of Hatch
ct on Grog Shops.

Leavenworth, Kan.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation of hatchet fame because
of her fanatical fight to down
the sale of liquor in her own state
and the entire country died in the
Evergreen sanitarium here of paresis.
A nervous breakdown reported to
have resulted from anxiety over a
lawsuit to recover money due her
for lecture which she delivered in the
east under a syndicate and which the
syndicate failed to pay was the cause
of her coming to the sanitarium here.
In the four months she passed in the
sanitarium here, a great change came
over Mrs. Nation. Her spirit seemed
to leave her with the breaking down
of her nerves. Gradually she grew
melancholy and seemed to take no in
terest in anything about her.
First Husband Drunkard.
Carrie Moore Nation was born near
Versailles, KY, nearly 65 years ago.
In 1876 she was married to Doctor
Lloyd and lived for one year at Hol-
den, Mo. Her husband died of deli
rum tremens. After ten years of
widowhood, she married David Nation
and for time lived in Warrensburg
Mo-, where she was the editor of a
paper. They later moved to Rich
mond, Tex, where Nation conducted
such strenuous reform campaign
that they kept the Lone Star State in
a constant turmoil. In the national
campaign of 1884 the Nations incurred
the enmity of certain class and one
night 20 men gave Nation severe
beating. They then moved to Medi-
cine Lodge, Kan. Mrs. Nation has long
fostered the anti-liquor sentiment and
in 1901 she began her sensational cru
sades of physical violence against sa-
looms. Following minor episodes in
Kiowa and Wichita, Kan, she went to
Topeka and in March, 1901, threw a
hatchet across the polished mahogany
bar of the Senate saloon near the
state capital, breaking the mirror into
thousands of pieces, mutilated costly
paintings and smashed the glassware.
The crusade was then on in earnest.
Kansas had statewide prohibition
law, but in those days it was fragrant
ly violated. Hrs. Nation visited many
cities in Kansas preaching the doctrine
of down with rum" both in words
and deeds. In August, 1901, her hus-
band obtained divorce and is now
said TO be living a retired life in
iberia, o.
Many Memorable Trips.
Then followed many memorable
trips by the crusader in many states
of the union, lecturing on the evils OF
drink, and in many cases following
her speeches up with practical dem
onstration in Joint smashing" She
was arrested several times for de
stroying property but always escaped
very easily. BY the sale of SOU
venirs," by lectures and other profita
BILE exhibitions of herself Mrs. Nation
is said to have accumulated fortune
of nearly $150,000. Many melodra
matte and farcical incidents occurred
during her tours, but the one that first
broke the warlike spirit of the turbu
lent crusader occurred in one of the
lowest dives in Chicago about mid
night. She had been making the
rounds Of the saloons exhorting the
occupants to lead better lives, when 6
young man serving drinks to the hu
man wrecks said to her: Hello
Grandma Nation" She did not recog
nize him, but as she was general.
addressed as Grandma" she though
nothing of it. She asked the boy 1
he didn't have mother, and II h
wasn't ashamed of the life he wa!
leading The boy looked at her II
amazement and said:
"Why, don't you remember me? In
Riley White, your little grandson"
The woman collapsed, sank to th'
sawdust covered floor sobbing hys
terically and paying us attention t.
the painted-faced girls who bent owe
her. Her spirit was broken and since
then she had never been the aggres
sive, disturbing Carrie Nation of old
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