© AE I SP Bellefonte, Pa., January 4, 1907. Impressive Services Held Over Body of P. R. R. President, DIED FROM HEART DISEASE Philadelphia, Jan. 1.—With services brief but impressive, and attended by less than 200 persons, the funeral of Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, was | held from his city residence, 202 West Rittenhouse Square. Services were conducted by Rev. Dr. William C. Richardson, rector of St. James’ Pro- testant Episcopal church. At the head of the casket sat W, A. Patton, assistant to Mr. Cassatt, and the latter's two sons, Robert Kelso Cassatt and Captain Edward Cassatt, U. 8. A. For many of the older em- A. J. CABBATT. ployes Mr. Patton had a word or two, or a nod. After the employes had gone Mrs. Cassatt and her daughter, with the other relatives and friends, came into the room and the services were begun. About the casket were | grouped many of the foremost rail! road men and financiers of the United | States. The body of Mr. Cassatt rested in a! plain mahogany casket covered with | black cloth. Severely plain silver han- | dles were at the sides. On the lid was | a =!ain silver plate, bearing Mr. Cas satt's name, the date of his birth, De | cember 8, 1839, and the date of his death, December 28, 1906. About the | casket and here and there in the hand: | some room were flowers and candles in huge candelabra. | interment was made in the Cassatt family lot. This is in the burying ground of the Church of the Re deemer, Bryn Mawr, of which Mr. Cas: | saft was long a communicant. The journey from Rittenhouse Square to Bryn Mawr was made in carriages de spite the muddy roads and inclement weather. It was Mrs. Cassatt's desire that this be dene, although the Penn: sylvania railroad officials would have liked to put a special train at her disposal. Mr. Cassatt, who was a little more Mr. Cassatt, who was a little more than 67 years of age, was stricken with heart disease, and died before assist ance could be given him. He was a victim of an acute heart attack known professionally as “the Stokes-Adams Syndrome.” Though Mr. Cassatt's death was en- | tirely unexpected, he had been in ill | health for nearly a vear. His condition | was aggravated by an attack of whoop- | ing cough. which he contracted from his grandchildren while at Bar Har- bor in September. He never entirely | recovered from the effects of the at tack. and when he returned to Phila. delphia he remained for several weeks at his country home in Haverford be. fore he resumed his arduous duties in | connection with the management of the railroad and its allied interests. Died In a Chair. Mr. Cassatt spent much of his time driving, and he was out as late as last Monday. Subsequently he was known to have been confined to bed at his residence at 202 West Rittenhouse Square, but even then his condition was not regarded as alarming. While not feeling entirely well, Mr. Cassatt arose from his bed, but remained in his room. He seemed to be in good spirits, and his family was not alarmed | about his condition and had no thought of his death. While sitting in a chair in his sgartments, he suffered an acute heart attack and became uncon- scious. His wife and his daughter, Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, were with him. and his private physician, Dr. J. H. Musser, was summoned, but he was dead when the physician arrived. Dr. Musser said that death had been al- most instantaneous. A. J. Cassatt’s Career. Alexander Johnston Cassatt was born in Pittsburg, December 8, 1839. His father, Robert S. Cassatt, was for a number of years closely identified with the financial and industrial in- terests of Western Pennsylvania, and was the first mayor of Allegheny City. The elder Cassatt removed to Europe and young Gassatt took up a course of study in the University of Darmstadt. Upon his return to America he en- tered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Col- lege, at Troy, N. Y., from which insti- tution he was graduated in 1859 as a civil engineer. From this time on his rige in the railway world was rapid. In 1861 he was appointed a rodman on the Pennsylvania railroad. The ability shown in this post attracted the notice of his superiors, and when, in 1864, the Pennsylvania Railroad company assumed control of the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, Mr. Cassatt was trans | $2,700,000 are provided. The remainder | she lived during the reigns of five ' States, has opened a bureau in the | the middle division. He held important | positions with the Philadelphia & i until 1871. when he was made general ! manager of all the Pennsylvania rail- road lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, { an office of which he was the first | incumbent. | s¥lvania Railroad company, a reor- | ganization of the higher officials be- | came necessary, and Mr. Cassatt was, { on July 1, 1874, advanced to the posi- | tion of third vice president, which of- | fice he filled until June 1, 1880, when, ! upon the retirement of Colonel Thomas | | A. Scott, then president of the com- dency of George B. Roberts, he be- | came first vice president. On Septem- | ber 30, 1£%2, he voluntarily resigned | his office and retired to private life. | On September 12, 1883, he was elect- ed a director of the Pennsylvania Rail- road company, and was elected presi. dent of the same company on June 9, 1899. Shortly thereafter he was elect- ed president of the Philadelphia, Wil- mington & Baltimore Railroad com- pany, the Northern Central Railway company, the Pennsylvania company and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago | & St. Louis Railway company. LOCOMOTIVE BLOWN UP Boiler Explodes and Injures Three Men Near Pitman Grove, N. J. Camden, N. J., Jan. 1.—With a re- port that was heard for 10 miles or more, an ergine of the heavy freight type blew up while nearing Pitman, N. J., on the West Jersey & Seashore railroad. The engineer, fireman and brakeman of the train were all in the engine cab when the explosion occurred, and are so seriously injured that their deaths | may result. The bursting boiler wreck- ed the attached freight train, threw | the engine and cars across the track and completely tied up traffic. Win- dow panes in Sewell houses smashed simultaneously with and the gaping appearance of the win- dows bears mute evidence to its force. The three injured men were found lving beside the track by the startled townspeople when they rushed to the | smoking wreck. The men are: Daniel | C. Hand, engineer, living with his wife and family at Cape May; John H. Lake, fireman. of Pleasantville, sin gle; Albert Johnston, brakeman, mar ried, Cape May. Johnston is the most seriously hurt, | He is scalded from head to foot and | has several bones broken, besides pos. sible internal injuries. His death may ! occur at any moment, the physicians say. Hand and Lake are badly scald ed, cut, bruised and burned. A $3,000,000 NEW YEAR'S GIFT John D. Rockefeller Gives That Sum to Chicago University. Chicago, Jan. 1.—A New Year's gift of nearly $3,000,000 from John D. Rock: efeller to the University of Chicago was announced. This is the largest cingle contribu- tion from Mr. Rockefeller to the In- stitution, and brings his total bene factions to the university up to $19. 416,922. Announcement of the latest donation was contained in a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to Act- ing President Harry Pratt Judson. The major portion of the New Year's gift is to go to the permanent endow- ment fund of the university, and for this purpose securities to the value of of the gifht, $217,000, is to make up the year's deficit, to provide for an in crease in the salaries of instructors and to allow appropriations for vari- ous purposes. The $2.700,000 addition to the en- dowment brings this fund to $10. 442,616. BARONESS COUTTS DEAD Famous British Philanthropist Lived During Reigns of Five Sovereigns. London, Dec. 31.—Baroness Burdett. Coutts, who has been ill at her resi dence here since Christmas eve, is dead. The death of Baroness Burdett- Coutts, occurring at the age of 92 vears, besides depriving the country of one of its greatest and most famous philanthropists, removes from London a unique personality and an interest- ing social figure. As a link with the al- most forgotten past, her life beginning during the reign of Emperor Napoleon, British sovereigns. Inheriting an im- mense fortune, she so used it as to die beloved by the whole nation. Opened Bureau to Prevent Suicide. london, Jan. 1.— General William Booth, commander-in-chief of the Sal- vation Army, who starts in February on a trip to Japan via the United headquarters of the army in London with the avowed object of checking the spread of suicide. General Booth explains that suicides generally might be dissuaded by a little sensible and sympathetic advice, and this the bu- reau will offer without any inquiry concerning the applicant's antecedents or circumstances, and at the same time their confidences will be rigidly re- spected and their secrets inviolably preserved. “guicide” Turns Out a Murder. Somerset, Pa., Dec. 31.—John Flick- inger was committed to jail here for the murder of Wesley Emerick, aged 23, at Boynton, on October 14. It was believed that this was suicide until Emerick’s wife made a statement that Flickinger had killed her husband ! with a shot gun. It is stated that Flickinger and Emerick’'s wife had been criminally intimate for some time | with the duties of resident engineer of | A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Erie and the Pennsylvania railroad | After the death of J. Ed- | | gar Thomson, president of the Penn- pany, and the accession to the presi- | | Gustav Hahn, a prominent lawyer, | veteran of the Civil War and United the explosion, , | sentenced to four years imprisonment ! company has advanced its puddlers Wednesday, December 26. A life pension of $1200 a year from the Carnegie fund has been settled on ! Dr. A. W. Cowles at Elmira, N. Y. Rev. T. K. Crowley while putting on ! his vestments to celebrate high mass in a church at Denison, Tex., dropped dead. Upsetting a tank of boiling water, a little daughter of Henry Warfel, of Colemanville, Lancaster county, Pa. was fatally scalded. The wife and child of Samuel Poy- ner and wife and the child of William Grimsted were cremated in a fire that destroyed their home at Morris Neck, Va. When his affectionate advances were spurned. Thomas Ciares, a Cubar cigarmaker, killed his boarding mis- tress, Mrs. Clara Wells, and then hurled himself to death from a third- story window at New York. Thursday, December 27. Dr. J. L. Ziegler, aged 84 years, the oldest practicing physician in Lanecas- ter county, Pa., died at Mount Joy. Three persons were killed and 11 hurt in a collision between a passenger train and work train at Tacoma, Wash. Fire originating from a defective gas lighting system destroyed three business blocks at Perry, Ia., causing a loss of $100,000, States commissioner, died at Wilkes- Barre, Pa., aged 76 years. Friday, December 28. Charles B. Fink, editor of the La- trobe (Pa.) Advance, dropped dead at | his home in that city of apoplexy. Three children of Stanley Singleton were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home near Weston, W. Va. Edward H. Thomson, Sr., president of the Maryland National bank, died suddenly at his home in Baltimore of acute indigestion. While roasting a turkey in a gas stove in her home at Atlantic City, N. J.. Mrs. Kate Walton was overcome by gas and was dead when found. William C. Anderson, former assis tant paying teller of the First Na tional hank of Kansas City, Mo., was for embezzling $6000. | Saturday, December 29. Lawrence Leberg was lynched by masked men at Las Animas, Colo., for the murder of Henry Lavenmeyer. Rev. D. L. Holder, a Presbyterian minister, was assassinated by un known parties at Union City, Tenn. The director of the mint has pur chased 100,000 ounces of silver for de livery at Philadelphia at 70.158 cents an ounce, James Kelly, a wealthy oil well con tractor, was electrocuted in the cella: of his home .at Findlay, O., by coming | in contact with a light wire. David O. Luckenbach, aged 73 years a wealthy flour merchant and bank director, of Bethlchem, Pa., died from exhaustion following a delicate surgi cal operation. Monday, December 31. Charged with slaying his father, Lee Molder, 18 years old, has been ar rested at Union City, Tenn. Two persons were killed and several seriously injured in a wreck on the Southern railway near Danville, Va. The Slatington (Pa.) Rolling Mill from $4 to $4.50 per ton and other la bor in proportion. Because his sister-in-law, Margaret Taylor, had just wedded Henry Morris against his wishes, at Hopkinsville, Ky., Lewis Wilson killed both of them The mystery in the death of Mrs. Sarah Ayres at St. Helen, Ore., was cleared by the confession of Bert Hol man, 13 years old, that he had killed the woman. Tuesday, January 1. General Hiram Scoeld died at Seat tle, Wash., aged 77 years. Andrew Carnegie has given Bates College, at Lewiston, Me., $50,000. John H. Rankin, of Reading, Pa. has been appointed superintendent of material and supplies of the Reading railway system. A broken rail threw a car from the tracks on the Pennsylvania railroad near Upper Marlboro, Md., and three trainmen were injured. Governor Pennypacker has appoint ed Russell C. Stewart, of Easton, Pa., judge of Northampton county, to suc ceed H. W. Schuyler, deceased. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. 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