Bellefonte, Pa., July 27, 1906. P, GRAY MEEK, - - . Teas or Susscmrrios.—Unti! further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance........cccensern.. $1.00 Paid before expiration of year......... 1.50 2.00 Paid after expiration of year........... Democratic State Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR, LEWIS EMERY Jr. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, JEREMIAH 8. BLACK. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, WILLIAM T. CREASY. FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, JOHN J. GREEN. Democratic Connty Ticket. FOR ASSEMBLY, JOHN NOLL of Bellefonte. FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, ADAM HAZEL, of Spring Township. Spring Mills. Rev. James Runkle and family, of Phila- delphis, arrived here on Wednesday last on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Runkle. The corn crop in this valley never looked better than it does at present, and potatoes give promise of a heavy yield. The wet weather of late has interfered very material. ly with housing the grain. Rev. Snyder, of the Evangelical church, met with quite a mishap last week. His horse stepped on his foot, doing no very se. rious damage, however, but causing consid- erable pain and lameness for several days. The engineers of the P. R. R. were here last week and located the abutments for the new bridge over the tracks at Allison's grain house. This has always been a very danger. ous crossing, but the road will be now ele- vated, and the crossing at grade avoided. We had several very severe showers dur- ing the week. One or two were almost equal toa cloud burst. They were accompanied by heavy peals of thunder and vivid light- ning. No particular damage, however, is reported save washing the roads with mud a foot deep. The nomination of Emery seems to give universal satisfaction here in this Democrat- ic Gibraltar. Fusion, according to the gener- al opinion from most every section of the State, indicates a tidal wave for reform and a death blow to machine polities and all its infamies. Last week David Sowers, milk route agent for the Spring Mills creamery, had one of his limbs broken by the kick of his horse. It is quite a serious fracture. Until he is able to resume work his son Jobn will at- tend to the milk route. On Friday one of his horses had a sun stroke, but recoveied. On Tuesday evening last Cleveland Gentz. el and Miss Jessie Fredericks were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage. On their return home they were serenaded by the boys, who made the night, for the time be- ing, perfectly hideous with their racket and noise. Samuel Sowers and bride arrived here on the following Wednesday on a visit to his parents. In the evening they, too, were saluted by a similar racket of confusion worse confounded. There is a great deal of folly in this kind of amusement. The latest decision of the rural delivery system is, that any one can make bis own letter box, provided it is made according to the instructions of the department, so many inches long, so many wide, so many deep, have his name printed on it; also in rainy weather to have an umbrella over the box, and before it can be used must be approved by the department, and possibly a tin tag will be attached to it, giving the date of the approval. What supreme bosh, when one can buy a box already approved for infinite. ly less than he could make it himself, and all trouble saved. But there is nothing like decisions. Howard Items, Will Smith, of State College, has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Mokel. Mrs. 8. 8. Pletcher and daughter Dorothy, of Washicgton, D. C., are visiting at the res. idence of A. A, Pletcher. Mrs. Bertha Huffman, formerly Miss Ber- tha Holmes, has been spending several weeks with her parents here, D. A. McKibben, of Salona, employed by Mr. Essenwine as an expert, spent a few days in Howard setting up McCormick har. vesters. Teachers elected for the Howard schools are: Joseph Weirick, High school; Miss Al. meda Holter, grammar; Miss Sue Pletcher, intermediate; Miss Alma Pletcher, primary. Started On Foot From Baltimore and is Located at Golden Ring, Md. Baltimore, July 24. —George Rossett, the Syrian leper, who, while endeavor ing to make his way to the leper col ony on North Brothers Island, New York. was stopped by the Philadelphia authorities and by their order sent back to this city, where he arrived Monday, escaped and started afoot along the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohfo railroad in another endeavor, ap parently, to reach New York. Late re ports are that he has been located at Golden Ring, Md. where he was found asleep in a box car. Diet of Pickies and Vinegar Fatal. St. Louis, July 24.—A long contin ued diet of principally pickles and vinegar in the hope of reducing weight caused the sudden death of Mise An- nie Gross, 25 years old. A post moe tem examination revealed that the in ner walls of her stomach were almost completely eaten away. The gir! dropped dead while taking a drink of water. GEORGE W. ATHERTON, LL.D. The death of Dr. GEo. W. ATHERTON, president of The Pennsylvania State College, removes from this community a man of more varied and more brilliant attainments than any other who has ever claimed it as home. As scholar, diplomat, literateur, organizer, manager, politician, promoter and gentleman we doubt if his superior survives, and immutable proof of this extraordinary combination of accomplishments will stand for ages in the in- stitution which he raised from a veritable reform school te a college of first rank and has left as a legacy to Pennsylvania. The story of The Pennsylvania State College isso much the story of Dr, ATHERTON'S life that they are almost synonomous. The fullest fruitions of his hopes have been realized in its rise as one of the three great technical insti- tutions of the country and when he came to the crossing there must have been sweet consolation in the thought that the golden harvest of his life's work will go on, ever increasing, as long as men and women seek knowl- edge and higher planes of existence. He was in advance of his time—little wonder—and such leaderships often meet with adverse criticism. However just any of it may have been, the unceasing thoughtand toil, the unflagging energy and determination, the nearly superhuman character that it required to make The Pennsylvania State College, in twenty-four years what others have not become in a century were his; all his. Tis true he had advisers, coilabora tors and workers, but without the spirit of an ATHERTON to mould and use them in the days of strug. gle and adversity that his college saw they would have been but memories on the waste of futility. Today his body will be consigned to the tomb. But his memory will liveon. Yes, more than his memory, his spirit will live in every nook of the beautiful campus and the stately buildings of The Pennsylvania Stite College will spell the name of ATHERTON as long as they stand. His life is ended, but the harvest of its fruits is scarce begun. Dr. George W. Atherton. president of the Pennsylvania State College, died at his home at that place as three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. His death was not un- expected. He bad been ill with a bron- ohial complaint for the past year. Last winter his condition was sach that by the advice of his physician he spent several months in Lower California in the hope that a change to the salubrious climate of that State might resclt :n a cure, but be experienced only temporary relief. He re- turned io the spring mouths but was never able to take np his work at the college. In May he grew eo bad that his life was de- spaired of for a couple weeks bat he rallied and during college commencement he was able to vo to the auditorium and confer the degrees upon the members of the graduat- ing class. This was his last work in con- nection with the college, and it so taxed his strength that be was compelled to take his bed and from that time on he gradual- ly grew weaker and weaker until the end came on Tuesday, calmly and peacefully. Dr. Atherton was 69 years old last Fii- day. He was born in Boxford, Essex county, Mass. He came of good old New England stock, his ancestors holding posi- tions of prominence in the old Massachu- setts colony. His father died when be was but twelve years of age and he was thus lefs to earn his own living as well as help support his mother and two sisters. Such adverse circumstances thus early developed the indomitable will and tenacity of pur- pose which proved his leading characteris. tics through lite. By work in a cotton mill, on a farm and teachiog, he made his way through Philips Exeter Academy, aud in the fall of 1860 be entered the Sophomore olass of Yale college, from which he was graduated in 1863. That the blood of his patriotic ancestors flowed in his veins was shown by bis promptoess to enlist when the war of the Rebellion broke vast. On the recommebdation of President Woolsey, of Yale college, he was made a first lieu- tenant in the Tenth Connection? volunteers and went with the Barnside expedition against North Carolia. His war record from the time of his enlistment until his discharge on account of sickness was one of undaunted courage and bravery which won for him the promotion to a captaincy. After his discharge and several months spent in recuperating hie bealth he was — rns appointed to a professorship in the Albany Boys’ Academy. He taught there for three years when he accepted a professorship in St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., where he also acted as principal almost the entire year. The following year he left Annapo- lis and became a member of the first facul- ty of the Illinois State University, which was opened for students in 1868. There bis work and relations were of she most congenial kind but before the close of his first year he left to accept a very flastering offer of the newly established chair of hie- tory, political economy and constitutional law in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. He occupied this chair nearly four- teen years, and his first and difficult prob- lem was, without encroaching too much upon ground already occapied by existing departments, to secure recognized standing for a new department in an old and con- servative bnt vigorous institution, whose traditions and methods were then some- what fixed in a single four years’ carrion. lam. Daring the fourteen years passed at Rutgers he not only vigorously maintained the professional work of the class room, but was active in all matters pertaining so the general work and interests of the insti- tution, as well as in a great variety of oth- er and more public duties, such as lectures, addresses, newspaper work, etc. Social and political questions were of absorbing interest to him, and every measure for pro- moting the advancement of the community in which he lived, or the larger public be- yond, found in him an ardent advocate. In 1873 he was a member of the board of visitors to the U. 8. Naval Academy. In 1875 he was appointed by President Grant a member of the commission to, investigate chaiges of mismanagement and fraud in connection with the Red Cloud Indian agency. In 1876, greatly against his wish- es, he was nominated for Congress, but the district was so largely Democratic shat his defeat followed as a natural sequence, though he ran ahead of the presidential ticket. In 1878 he was chairman of a com- mission cemposed of five citizens appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to prepare and propose to the Legislatare a digest and revision of the State system of taxation. Daring this period be took up the study of law, wae later admitted to the New Jersey bar and became a consulting attorney, but without relinquishing his college profes. sorship. To him, possibly more than any other man, is due the credit for influencing the passage of the United States Land Grant Act of 1862. The passage of this Act was followed by the organization of an as- sociation known as The American Associa- tion of Agricultural Colleges and Experi- ment Stations, of which Dr. Atherton was made its first president. In the summer of 1882 Dr. Atherton re- ceived, and finally accepted the call to the presidency of the Pennsylvania State Col. lege, and is was through his almost twen- ty-four years of labor at the head of thas institution that he became best known, not oaly to the people of Centre county but to the world at large. Coming to the College when that institution bad less than one hundred students, a meagre equipment, with a public aentiment either hostile or indifferent, and this, notwithstanding the fact that the faculty and board of trustees bad never been without the influence of strong and able men. The task of build- iog it up and makiog it worthy of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania seemed almost a hopeless one, but to this task Dr. Atherton devoted himsel! witha courage and enthusiasm which astonished even his friends, and the spirit of which was in itself an in<piration to others. of the college bad dared to anticipate. A stitution in liberal appropriations for new she amount of nearly four hundred thou. sand dollazs. energy. that time. more of the credis due than to Dr. Ather- ton. could be built by mortal hands. world through ages and ages. ing into the public sohool system, and the sues. sylvania. death. as amusing for all who will attend. mm AA —— On Watch For Escaped Leper. Horrisbure. Pa, July 24.—Agents of the state health department have been instructed by Commiesioner Dixen tc be on the watch for George Rossett Philadelphia and Baltimore. Gets Five Years For Forgery. a young man with an international police record, charged with forgery. him were nolle prossed. Enterprise Bank Dividend. Washington, July 24—Mr. Ridgley, the comptroller of the currency. has announced a dividend of 20 per cent. to the depositors and other creditors of the failed Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny, Pa. on — Rassell Sage Dies Suddenly. New York, July 23.—Russell Sage died suddenly at his country home, “Cedarcroft,” at Lawrence, L. L ? At the end of ten years the results were far greater than the moss sanguine friends change in pablic sentiment had been made and the State had come to recognize the in- buildings and equipment, at that time to Bat at that period the college had but just hegun to reap the rewards of his un- tiring zeal, bard work, and indomitable Daring the last fourteen years the growth of the institution has been most remarkable, even beyond the greatest ex- pectations of the warmest supporters at Magnificent buildings bave been erected through the generous appro- priations of the State and the generosity of those who recognized the great work the college was doing, and from an attendance of less than three hundred students four- teen years ago the eorollment last year numbered close to nine hundred students ; aud these came from sixty-five out of the sixty-seven counties of the State as well as from other States. And to no one man is In his work at State College he rear- ed for bimeell a greater monument than One that will stand in the aistory of the edncational But, though his greatest energies and talents and most all of his time wae devot- ed to the interests and upbuildiog of State College during this twenty-four years as its president, he $et found time to take an active interest in all affairs, local, state or national, which he believed to be for the good of the public and the country at large. In 1883 the degree of LL. D., was confer- red upon him by Franklin and Marshall College. In 1887 he was appointed by Governor Beaver chairman of a commis. sion created by the Legislature of Pennsyl- vania to make inquiry and report upon she practicability of introducing maoual train. brated his 90th birthday on August 4 Mr. Sage had been in exceptionally good health since his arrival at his summer home about six months ago. At noon Sunday he was seized with 8 sinking spell and collapsed, falling into unconsciousness about two hours be fore his death, which occurred at 4.30 o'clock. There wer? present at the end Mrs. Sage, her brother, Colonel J. J. Slo cum, Rev. Dr. Robert Leetoh, Dr. Theo dore 8. Janeway, of New York; Dr. J. Carl Schmuck, a local physician, and Dr. John P. Munn, for many years Mr. Sage's family physician, who was summoned from New York when the first alarming symptoms wese mani fest. The funeral services will be held on Wednesday at the West Presbyterian church in West 42d street, of which Mr. Sage had been a member for many years. The interment will take place in Troy on Thursday. Mrs. Sage and her brother, Colonel Slocum, are named as the executors of Mr. Sage’s will. Sketch of His Life. Russell Sage, multimillionaire and Nestor of American financiers, was born on August 4, 1816, in Verona, Oneida county, N. Y., where his par ents, Elisha and Pendence Sage, mem: bers of a little company of pioneers from Connecticut, had halted while on their westward march in quest of a homestead. At the age of 12 years Russell began his career as an errand boy in the grocery store of his brother, Henry Sage, in Troy. At the age of 22 he established a wholesale grocery of his own in that place. In 1857 the young merchant had ac quired a fortune estimated at almost $500,000, a vast amount for those days, and determined to retire from active business life. He had, however, al ready become interested in railroads, his first transaction of this character being a loan to the La Crosse Railroad company, which led to further trans- report of the commission has been widely recoguized in this country and Europe as the moet comprehensive and complete sin- gle presentation of the subject published. In politics he was a Republican and at all times took a great interest in all civio is- Dr. Atherton’s work will take a high place in the educational records of the United States, but more especially of Peon- sylvavia. In the development of technical education and the training of the young men for direct usefulness in the practical affairs of life, he was undoubtedly the pio- neer aod strongest influence of his genera- tion. His death is a crushing blow to the Pennsylvania State College and a serious injury to the educational system of Penn- Surviving the deceased are his wile, two sons and two daughters, namely : Frank P., Charles, Miss Helen and Mrs. Albert Buck- hout, of Springfield, Mass. In addition to bis family a legion of friends mourn his The funeral will be held thie afternoon. The services will be in the new auditoriom at 5 o'clock and burial will be made on the campus, at a spot just north of the Aundito- rinm and in front of the botanical gardens. ——You don’t want to forges ‘‘The Mid- way'’ which the ladies of the Bellefonte hospital will hold in the armory August 20th to 25th. They promise to make it both interesting and entertaining, as well the Syrian leper. who is reperted to have escaped from a box car on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Washington, July 21.—A sentence of five years in Moundville, Va.. peniten- tiary was imposed on Joseph A. Hull, Two indictments for false pretense and one for embezzlement against actions, resulting in his acquiring large interests in the roads now form- ing the Chicago & Milwaukee & St Paul system, of which he became vice president. This determined Mr. Sage to devote his future energies to oper- ating in Wall Street, and in 1863 he opened his first office in New York. About this time he formed an asso ciation with Jay Gould, which contin- ued for many years. About 1872 Mr. Sage originated the system of trading in “puts,” “calls” and “straddles,” in which he continued to deal thereafter on a colossal scale. While he pur chared a seat on the New York stock exchange in 1874, it is believed that he never appeared on the floor of the exchange. Only once, it is said, did Mr. Sage experience a tremendous reverse, which would have crushed most men, but from which he emerged with courage and confidence unshaken. This was on the memorable day in 1884, when the great failure of Grant & Ward was announced, resulting in the loss to Mr. Sage of about $6,000,000 on a long line of “pu! ”" His operations necessitated the pos- session of a vast amount of ready capi- tal, and Mr. Sage always kept his re sources so well in hand that in any emergency he was able to command al- moet unlimited funds. At the time of his death Mr. Sage was an officer and director in 25 grea! railway and telegraph corporations. An incident which startled the whoie country occurred in Mr. Sage's office, in the old Arcade building, 71 Broad- way, December 4, 1891. On that day he was visited by Henry P. Norcross, of Boston, a man of unbalanced mind, who demanded an immediate gift of When the demand was re- clerks and wrecked the whole Mr. Sage was only slightly in- coun- try place at Lawrence, where he died. Mr. Sage was married i. Xa in 1841, to Miss Maria Winne, ter of Moses I. Winne, of Troy. His died in New York city in 1867, years later he married Margaret Olivia, daughter of Joseph Slocum, of Syra- cuse, N. Y. Russell Sage was a total abstaimer most of his Ife, and always of extreme- ly temperate habits. He never smoked but once. In religion he was a Pres- dyterian. He was fond of outdoor ex- trcise, and until the explosion of 1861 used to drive and walk about New headed pursuit of the making absorbed so much of his ergy as almost to justify a that characterized him as equally without virtue and vice.” It is impossible to correctly timate his wealth at this time. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Wednesday, July 18. Christopher Spindleman, who shot and killed his wife, hanged himself in jail at Windsor, Ont. The warehouse of the Franklin Pea- nut company, at Franklin, Va., was de- stroyed by fire, causing a loss af $150,- 000. George B. Ulrich, one of the leading members of the Lebanon county (Pa.) bar, and a prominent secret society man, died at his home, aged 53 years. Fire destroyed the tipple and other buildings of the Crab Tree mine at Greensburg, Pa., entailing a loss of $75, #00 and throwing 250 men out of work. President Roosevelt has appointed General Felix Agnus, editor and pro- prietor of the Baltimore American, as president of the commission to survey the elaware & Chesapeake canal. Thussday, July 18. Benjamin T. Redman, said to be the oldest directory publisher in the United States, died at Cincinnati, aged 85 years, During a quarrel with his 19-year-old son, Conrad Schermer, of New York, was fatally stabbed with a piece of broken glass, Martin Flynn, president of the Peo- ple’s Savings Bank, of Des Moines, Ia, committed suicide while despondent from {11 health. Judge Thomas S. Baer, of the su- preme court of Baltimore, and profe sor of law in the University of Mary. land, died at his home, aged 63 years. Friday, July 20. Mrs. L. Waller, an aunt of President McKinley, died at Bucyrus, O. The Missouri merchants will ask the legislature to tax trading stamp con- cerns $5000 a year. Miss Annie Wimbish, aged 16, and Robert Wimbish, aged 6, were burned to death in their home at Fort Valley Ga. | Walter Ormond, a lawyer, of At.ar'’ Ga., fell overboard and was drowned from the steamer Kansas City while en route to New York. Walter 8. Logan, formerly president of the New York Bar Association, dropped dead from the heat while transacting business in New York. Saturday, July 21. The mills of the Montana Zinc com- pany at Butte, Mont, were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $195,3GC. The state of Pennsylvania has col ‘ected $35,000 in automobile license fees since the act went into effect last December. George W. Bryson, a millionaire Chi. sago railroad president, died from lock: jaw due to an injury from fireworks on July 4. Charged with falsifying the assess ment book and collecting taxes fille gally, E.G. J. Cuff, of Shenandcah, Pa. was held in $1200 bail for court. Monday, July 23. By driving two 10-penny nails inte yer head, Mrs. Azalia Thompkins kill- od herself in Lorado, Ark. T. M. Woodey, a business man ol Petersburg, Va., dropped dead from heart disease in an Asbury Park, N. J. hotel. ren From heart disease, Reid Gantt, » {awyer, and author of the Arkansas Jim Crow law, was found dead in bed at Hot Springs. Mrs. F. S. Burd, of New Berlin, Pa. while frying meat, was painfully burn. ed, and her building was fired, but the neighbors saved it Andrew Wiko, trying to separate two combatants on a street in Shamo- kin, Pa., was fatally stabbed by an un. known man, who escaped. Tuesday, July 24. President Roosevelt has extended the eight-hour law to the navy depart ment. Fire destroyed the Crystal Ridge breaker of Pardee & Co. at Hazleton Pa., entailing a loss of $60,000. The Western Pacific railroad is en. deavoring to secure 7000 laborers w rush comstruction work in the west While bathing in a creek at Ash bourne, near Philadelphia, James Mec: Closkey, 15 years old, stepped into @ deep hole and was drowned. Irwin Miller, son of the late Asso ciate Justice S. H. Miller, of the Uni. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; winter Pennsylva Jia roll 3 sity mills tear $3.0003.5 SH SE en. De Darrel $1.501 75,
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