F. W. SEWARD
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE
Real Estate
Office, Second Floor Union Bltx
WALTER E. DODGE
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ERNEST 0. MORSE
Attorney at Law
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REFUSE TO WORK!
WHILE IN PRISON'
| SUFFRAGISTS AT OCCQQUAN SAY
| THEY ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS
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And at Such Should Not bq Required
to Work—Board Say* They Mu«t
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Obey Rule*
Citizens of Putnam and vicinity nat
urally will be interested In the follow
ing despatch from Washington con
cerning the Suffragist pickets in prison
at Occoquan, one of them being Mrs.
W. J. Bartlett of this city.
Wat yington, Oct. 19.—Eleven Suf
fragist pickets In prison at Occoquan
have notified the Commissioners of the
district of Columbia that, as "poiltical
prisoners," they "refuse to work while
in prison.” The Commissioners have
threatened solitary confinement in thp
District Jail "if they do not at once re
turn to work and obey the rules." This
treatment was recommended by the
Board of Charity.
This insubordination by the women
imprisoned for picketing the White
House was made known in a letter of
October Jt>. It is signed by Mary Wln
Bor, Lucy Branham, Ernestine liara,
Hilda Blumberg, Maude Malone, Paul
ine Fortall Adams, Eleanor A. Column,
Edith Anige, Anna M. Arnlell, Dorothy
Jones Bartlett and Margaret M. Koth
cri'igham.
