Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — FEMALE SALOON WRECKER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FEMALE SALOON WRECKER.

Mr*. Nation, Who la Keepins UpJHet State’s Reputation. The women of Kansas have a unique way of keeping their State’s name before the public. A few years ago it w,us Mrs. Lease who, by her nerve and persistency, gave Kansas a unique distinction in politics. Now Mrs, Carrie Nation invites the world’s attention to the State. Mrs. Nation is the-woman who is spending a short season in jail for destroying $5,000 worth of property in the swellest saloon in Wichita. She says now th kt as soon as she is released she will immediately go to work and smash up a few more saloons. Mrs. Nation is a good-looking woman, 50 years of age. She is a prominent member of the Kansas W. C. T. U. She has been twice married. Her first hus-

band died pf alcoholism, but her present husband is a prosperous attorney, who takes very little interest in alcoholism morally or physically. He even refuses to attend his wife in her present troubles, and she herself says she does not want to see him abound. Ten years ago Mrs. Nation was living at Medicine Lodge, the home of Jerry Simpson. Saloons were running there at full blast. Mrs. Nation put a number of them out of business by smashing the fixtures, and put a number of the proprietors into the penitentiary,' which was possible, because there is a law prohibiting saloons. Since that time the liquor traffic there has languished. She next went to Kiowa, and all visible signs of saloons evaporated a short time after her arrival. Next she went to Wichita, and when she wrecked the bar of a leading ' hotel she was promptly arrested.

EX-GOV. MOUNT DEAD. Passes Away Suddenly in His Hotel in Indianapolis. Ex-Gov. James A. Mount, whose term as chief executive of Indiana expired Monday, died suddenly at 6:30 o’clock Wednesday night at the Denison Hotel in Indianapolis, of heart failure. He was apparently well , in the afternoon, and attended the farewell reception given by Mrs. Mount preparatory to the return of the ex-Governor and his family to their home in Crawfordsville. The ex-Gov-emor’s death came as a great shock to his relatives and friends throughout Indiana. James A. Mount was known as “the farmer Governor.” He was born in Sheb by County, Ohio, and was 57 years old. He grew up a poor boy on a farm. He enlisted and served three years in the Civil War as a member of Wilder's brig-

ade, in which he was a mounted infantryman. He incurred disability, from which he never fully recovered. The only office he ever held except the governorship was State Senator. Three children and Mrs. Mount are the surviving members of the family. The oldest child is Mrs. Charles Butler, who lives on a farm in Montgomery County adjoining that of her father. Mrs. John W. Nicely, who is now at Beirut, Syria, and the Rev. Harry M. Mount, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Connersville, are the other children.

MRS. CARRIE NATION.

JAMES A. MOUNT.