The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-10-15

Congressman Vandiver is at home.
He returned home wearing a straw hat.
A large number OF movers have
been passing through the city this
week on their way to Southern Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. The professions
were all about alike. covered wagons
drawn in most instances by skinny
animals, women and children and the
usual gnota of dogs, without which
no movers outfit is complete. People
who pass through Cape G!rardeau
county leave a much better country
behind them than they are apt to find
in many weeks trsYel.
Are you lacking in strength and
energy. Are you nervous, Respondent,
irritable, bilious, constipated and
generally run down in health. If so,
your liver is torpid, and, and a few
doses of Herbine will cure you.
Herbine has no equal as a health re-
storer. l. Ben Miller.
Rudolph HUM has quite a curiosity
in the shape of an old iron sword
said to- have been the property Of the
once famous guerrilla Sam Hide
brand. The weapon is made OF iron
and was evidently manufactured by a
blacksmith. 1t has no edge and looks
as if it never had any and was doubt
less used to ward OF blows. 1t will
be remembered that Hildebrand was
from Fredericktown, Mo-, and shortly
after the war was killed by the city
marshal of Pinckneyville, III.
Two of the candidates on the Dem
ocratic county ticket in Alexander
county Illinois, have declined to be
sacrificed and their names have been
take off the ticket at their request.
KIDNEY DISEASES are the mos
fatal of ali diseases. Foley's Kidney
Cure is Il guaranteed remedy or money
refunded.
The ferry has brought very few peo-
pie to the Fair this week from the 9TH
err side of the river. Most of the peO-
pie over the stream appear to have
their faces set in the direction of
Cairo.
Jesse James .Ir. is under arrest at
Kansas City, being suspected of COM
pliciting in Il recent train robbery.
The friends of the young ma give
him an excellent reputation and they
think a great injustice has been done
him.
Postmaster Gillisple of Gran, Mo-,
was in the city to-day attending the
Republican convention.
AIva Green and his bride passed
through the city to-day on their way
home to Lutesville where they will re-
side.
A gentleman got mixed up with a
crowd on Main street last evening that
was listening Il the music of the band.
and suddenly he felt Il jerk At his
~watchchain. He clapped his hand on
his watch instantly and or looking
down discovered that his chain had
been broken from the ring of the watch.
The ring was loose and about to come
out any way and this probably saved
his watch. He could not locate the in.
dividual who desired to appropriate
his property
Stav;hat barking by using Ballard
Horeh"und Syrup. 1t arrest the
cough. allays irritation of the throat
and r.ti-ves CONGESTION of the lung:
in Il IL. 1t l. safe and pleasant tt
l take. AMI never disapOints. p ant
! 80 cents. l.. Ben. Miller.
One OF the curious things recorded
in the dispatches of yesterday was tina
of the suicide Of Cora Smith. Tn
! woman was serving a sentence in tn
Des Moincs ~penitentiary for the mur
, der az her father. By some means Sh
=, got hold of some spiders and commit
ted suicide by eating them. This i
probably the most unique ease of sui
eide on record.
Lieut.. Governor Bolte distinguishes
himself in St. Louis the other day b
saving the life Of Il child. The chill
n was playing on the street car trac
dnear Broadway and Morgan. whe
If the hero of the incident who wa
| walking along the street with son
is friends, saw a car come around
N corner and bear down on the lit
n girl. The motorman could not sto
4, the car and Missouri's Lient-governC
" rushed to the track and removed II
IS child from danger just a. the 81
II passed.
le Yesterdays ST. Louis papers co
al tanned long and detailed account
Is the death and burial of W. L. Cass
+ dy's pug dog. The beast was quite
pct of its owner who is a bachel'
dude. and was chewed mp by a vicio'