Bellefonte, Pa., July 27, 1906.
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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
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en.
De Darrel $1.501 75,