Punxsutawney Spirit, 1904-08-17

              VOL XXXII. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., AUGUST 17, 1904. NO. 12. ARE HERE ADVANCE Fall Goods Weber's One- Half off Sale Ami More Coming E\er> 0,i\. Nov Suits lor Men New Hiits in This Week Fdll Underwear .ind I urnishing Goods. The remainder of odds and ends of men's suits, will be sold at half former price. All sizes are here in this lot from 33 to 42. This is the greatest money saving opportunity of the season. The very low price will move these suits quick. Mrs. Kate Carey. KILLKD IN PITTSIU KG. With an enlarged store, better lighted and equipped, we arc better prepared to fill the wants of the trade. Our stock this fall is larger, more varied, and nicer styles than we have ever shown. $18.00 Suits now $9.00 15.00 Suits now 7.50 12.00 Suits now 6.00 10.00 Suits now 5.00 8.00 Suits now 4.00 5.00 Suits now 2.50 Boys' Suit Sale All (goods marked in plain figures Men's and Boys' Furnisher FARMERS' NAT'N'L BANK B'D'G CARLOAD OF "MELONS $G.OO Suits now $5.00 5.00 Suits now 4.00 4.00 Suits now 3.00 3.50 Suits now 2.50 3.00 Suits now 2.25 2.50 Suits now 2.00 2.00 Suits now 1.50 All Oxford Shoes reduced. i off on all straw hats. All our boy's Short Pants Suits aro reduced, nothing reserved, your choice from our entire boys' stock. J. A.. WEBER The Beneficial Effects The One Price Clothier PUNXSUTAW/NEY, PA W. B. Corsets Sony ftrcj. 50c, 75c M of a SUMMER VACATION South Carolina. next Saturday fresh from Also a mixed car of . cabage, potatoes, and bananas, just received.Everything fresh and in the best condition. IwiNt Friday. Mrs. Kate Carey, formerly of this Place, Violent Dcatli ONLY ONE PRICE H. J. LOEB McCall Patterns 10 and 15c Sacrifices on all summer goods are notv in order. Values in .Muslin Underwear will Ins found here beyond your expectation. Dainty 50c corset covers are now selling for 25c. Pretty styles in night gowns 59c, 75c, 89c and $1.25* loo and 25c Lawns 10c yd. Crush Leather Belts 25c and 50c. 25c Vents I9c. are seldom more apparent than within a few weeks of its close. There is, therefore, no better time for pleasing and successful photographs:—the only kind we make. A pleasing photograph, like a good investment increases in value as the years go by. An examination of my recent work will "be of interest. Wrist Rags 10c, 25, and 50c. I'lnbrellas 50c, 89c, SI.00 and $1.50. $1.00 and $1.25 Slippers 75c and 8*)c. Ribbon Specials, No. 10 - 10c yd. No. <10—15c yd. N •. SO—25c yd. $1.00 and $1.15 Children's Shoes 89c. CHINA DEPARTMENT Toilet Sets This is the season you should look up your wants for Toilrt Sets. Granite Ware The color and grade of enamelware we have thin year is line. Dark Green and White outside and all white inside. •I <|t. Preserving Kettle 29c. ti t|t. Preserving Kettle 10e. 8 <(t. Preserving Kettle -15c. ti <it. Cooking Pot ~>V. S »|t. Cooking Pot 70e. .'5 nt. Coffee Pot 48c. $14.00 Dinner Sets for $10.89. This is a winner, the best bargains we have ever offered. Just received, a cask of 10 pieee Toilet Sets any of which are worth $6.00. They all go at the low price $3.50. LONG BROS. in en t that pleased Mrs. Carey. As soon as she had completed her breaklast she went to her room and after making her bed and arranging tlte furniture in her apartments prepared to go back to Pittsburg. Before leaving she secured a small bottle which she told the landlady she wished to get filled with a preparation for cleaning clothes, and after placing the material for the new waist on a stand, took the advertisement which she had cut from the paper and departed in the very best of spirits. In less than twenty minutes from the time she left her apartments at 319 Lncoclv street, a messenger arrived at that place and asked if Mrs. Carey oomed there, stating that she had been struck by a street car and killed. Mrs. Carey was picked up by a policeman and an ambulance was sent ; for at onctt but before arriving at the I'ospital yfne unfortunate woman had expired*- Persons who witnessed the 1 accidtfht say that. Mrs. Carey was | knoflted against a telegraph pole. That she did not throw herself in ' f/ont of the car in an attempt to commit suicide as stated by the Pittsburg papers is borne out by the evidence, as there was not a mark of violence about her body except one severe bruise on her her head, where she At ruck the telegraph pole. Two o\ber reasons for he suicide theory were found on Mrs. Carey after her death, and both were found to have I been absolutely misleading. One | was in the shape of a small empty t bottle, and the other a note which j read as follows: "Paul—Forgive mo when you road this, for I will be dead. I can't help doing this as I was so awfully unhappy. You have been very good to me and I guess would he yet, only I can't be second. Take me to Kane to bury me, and then forget me, as I was only a crank." It was due to the ilnding of these articles that Coroner McGeary accepted the theory of suicide and ordered the body to be taken to the morgue. On Friday night the Carey brothers were located at Baltimore and in •inswer to a telegram they came to Pittsburg at once. When shown the note that was found on Mrs. Carey her three sons stated positively that it was not in their mother's hand writing, and it required but a glance at some of the dead woman's letters to convince the Coroner that they spoke the truth. Inquiry at her recent home soon developed the fact that the bottle which was found on Mrs. Carey had been procured from the landlady at No. 319 Lacock street for the purpose of procuring alcohol and was empty when she received it. Mrs. Carey's body was then prepared for burial and in company with her sons arrived here Saturday night on the 8:40 train over the it. K. & P. railroad, when they were taken to the home of Mrs. P. O. Freas, a niece of the deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carey had arrived here on the 3:35 liver from Kane. Mrs. Cary was shown the note which had been found on her husband's mother and the mystery of that document was at once cleared up, when upon reading it. recognized the fact that she herself had written the strange words more than five months ago. The facts concerning the writing of the note, as told by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carey, are as follows: One night In April when Mrs. Carey had iinished reading a roman tic story she laid aside (he book, and taking up a pencil which was laying In the writing desk beside her husband, paraphrased the last verse In the book, substituting only the words Paul and Kane. Mr. Carey read the note which had been written on the leaf of a small tablet and shuddering at the thought of such a tragedy tore away the leaf am' placed It in a small pockle in his coat. There the note remained until Monday, August. 8, when upon getting ready to leave for Kane Mr. Carey threw the note, with other soiled papers in his coat pocket, on the floor. Evidently his mother, who occupied an adjoining room, and who was always careful never to destroy papers of value to anyone, picked up the note when sweeping the room and being unable to understand its import concluded to consult. her other sons about It. Since the sad event, those who were at the farewell party on South 8ide Thursday night remember of having seen Mrs. Carey handling her pocketbook in an unusual manner. It is now While crossing the street car track at Eighth Street and Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, last Friday morning at about 10 o'clock, Mrs. Kate Carey, until six years ago a resident of this place, was accidentally struck by a Blooinflehl street car and almost instantly killed. The circumstances surrounding her sad fat»- were such that the Pittsburg authorities and the press of that city were led to believe that Mrs. Carey had chosen self-destruction, but in this they were positively mistaken. The facts in the case, however, are most dramatic as well as pathetic in the extreme. On Monday, August 8, Mrs. Carey and her four sons, Ralph, Charles. Homer and Paul, and the wives of the three last named, were all residing in Allegheny, Mrs." Cary having lived with her son Paul, at :UJ<East Lacock street, since May 18. On that day Paul, who had recently re-, covered from an attack of typhoVl fever, left with his wife to resUik with her parents at Kane while' he was recuperating and where ho'had secured a position as soon as he got able to work. The other three sons had secured a situation ju. Columbus. South Carolina, In the new glass works, and on morning Charles and Homer, witlf their wives, left Pittsburg inteuding to visit friends in Baltimore and Washington before going south. Ralph having preceded them to Baltimore on Tuesday.Before leaving Pittsburg the sons had arranged for their mother to come to Punxsutawnoy to live until they should get settled in Columbia, when it was arranged that she should follow them. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cqrey were to come also just as soon as his brothers could get him a position.These were the plans arranged by Mrs. Gary's sons before separating at Pittsburg, and in order to leave their mother in a cheerful mood a farewell party had been arranged for Thursday night. The gathering was held at 117 Twenty-fourth street. South Side, at the home of Mrs. Mary Hodges, mother of Mrs. Homer Carey and Mrs. Charles Carey. The evening passed away pleasantly for all and mother and sons agreed to meet at the station in the morning at 8 o'clock for the final good-byes. The hour of parting was so late, however, that the young men prevailed upon their mother to rest in the morning. This she agreed to do, and at 1 o'clock a. m. Friday morning, with the assurance of soon being again reunited with her sons, Mrs. Carey went to her apartments at 319 Lacock street, Allegheny. Contrary to the arrangement of the night before, however, Mrs. Carey went to the station Friday morning but the passengers had already been let through and the gates were locked. The train was just pulling out and the Misses Anna Scott and Anna Hodges, who had accompanied the Careys to the sat ion, were returning when they met Mrs. Carey at the gate. To them she stated that she had forgotten some matters which she had wished to mention to her sons and felt sorry that she had not arrived in time to see them. Without divulging what was on her mind, however, Mrs.Carey changed the subject and as the three ladles left the depot Mrs. Carey told them of a new waist which she intended to have made and engaged one of them, who is a dressmaker, to assist her Friday afternoon. The trio separated at Nineth street, Mrs. Carey reurnir.g to "19 I-acock street, Allegheny, for her breakfast. While at the table Mrs. Carey engaged the landlady in conversation, telling her of her future plans. She repeated what she had often told her sons, saying that she was feeling so weSl and strong that she would like to secure some agreeable employment. She told h,ow her sons had always provided her with all the money and comforts she desired, and that she was assured of a home with any of them wherever they might be, still she would like to assist them while she felt so abundantly able to do for herself. The landlady thereupon suggesed that she look in the wanted column of the papers, and it was but a moment until they found an advertise- Punxsutawney, Pa. [Contlnued on eighth page] 'MM _ IHk II 1H t ■&%;* *'.' / ■&***. 0 n|S^^ & HK^.ij$y^ •$I0H IF '•••' r- %' i ~ '■>. > 'Tr /P ' s". j < i fhtnx0OT<ttime|| Spirit m i n 1 a .■ »