Show CARRIE NATI NATION ON IS 18 DEAD last five months of saloon life spent in sanitarium leavenworth xan kan carries nation the saloon died hero here at p m friday paresis was the cause of death mrs nation had bad been in poor health tor for months and on january 0 27 hoping to recover from a nervous breakdown she entered the local sanitarium in which she died mrs carrie nation was born in kentucky in 1846 her maiden name was carrie moore and as a girl it Is said she was absolutely fearless in her early life she married a man addicted to tho the use of intoxicants which created in her an intense aversion to the saloon whon when he died she determined to devote her life to the suppression of the liquor traffic later she moved to kansas and married davids nation who sympathized with her temperance principles he divorced her ten years ago mrs nations first saloon s smashing mashing was done in tho the bar barroom rodni odthe of the carey hotel at wichita december 17 1900 mrs mra nation after her activities in kansas became a lecturer and aitor of a paper called the s mall mail |