The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-04-28
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Found THAT, IL OF lntsrs.,.
MONDAY.

anu D. NcCann, OF Grand
Tower. purchased from Mrs. Viz
ginia Taylor on April 10th, all
the timber on DEVILS Island, In the
Mississippi river, consisting OF sew
eral thousand feet of gum, cotton
wood and elm timber.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois is %stilI'a
very sick a a surgical operation
will be performed on the governor
just as soon as he is able to stand it.
Mr.. Ponder, general superintendent
of the kennett & Charlottesville rail
road, has been in the city two or three
days.
Stay that barking by useing Ballard
Horehound Syrup. 1t arrest the
cough, allays irritation of the throat,
and relieves CONGESTION OF the lungs
in a day. 1t is safe and pleasant to
take, and v disapoints.
so cents. |. Ben. Miller. 25nd
The only salvation OF the jackson
saloon keepers is for them to buy beer
from the Cape Brewery.
There has been no street fair talk
in the Cairo papers this spring. But
Cairo should have another fair by all
means. Cairo pays the bills" and
if you don't believe it just ask Reed
Green next time you go down. Some
of the Cape citizens have some very
pleasing recellections OF the fair last
fall.
The New Madrid Milling Company
has sold its plant to VIM. Mcintosh,
of Springfield, Mo.
Small precautions often prevent
great mischiefs. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are very small pills in size, but
are most effective in preventing the
most serious forms of liver and stom-
ach troubles. They cure constipation
and headache and regulate the bow
els. VIM. II. Coerver.
Jno. McArdle, an old veteran of the
Civil war, aud an inmate of the Sold
iers Home at Danville, H., is here
for the purpose of visiting his daugh-
ter.
The prospect for the Worlds fair
at St. Louis seems to have taken on
quite a boom.
Our ice dealers have advanced the
price of ice. They have to pay more
for ice this year than they paid last
year and to make a living they have
Il charge more for it.
If you are bilious, try DR.. sawyer
Little Wide Awake Pills, you will find
them just what you want. Ire
sample. They do not grippe Sold a
NJ. Maple Wilson's drug store.
Only one. saloon is in operation at
Jackson now. The proprietors OF
two could not succeed in obtaining
license and they closed up. Another
man in the business has shut up his
place in order to make some repairs
and will not open until about May /.
In the mean while one man has the
pleasant task of administering to the
wants of the thirsty residents of Jack
son.
Mrs. John ]. Sawyer. wife OF Judge
Sawyer, died yesterday afternoon at
her home near Pocahontas in this
county. The many friends of the
Judge will sympathize with him sin
cerely in his bereavement.
H. Z. Ellis steps down and out of
the St. Charles hotel today. Mr..
Ellis is one of the best of all the hotel
men we ever had in this city. He
has made the st. Charles the metro
politan hotel of Southeast Missouri
and the home of the travelling
Under his management the st.
Charles has peer a success both
financially and otherwise and we
know that Mr.. Ellis has made "A host
of friends both for himself and for
the hotel. We all regret that he is
going to leave us but we will wish
him well wherever he may go.
H. rogan, who killed Louis De
Montcourt in Pemiscot county SEINE
time since, and who was placed in the
iail at jackson. Is said to be in bad
health. His attorneys have 5een en-
deavoring TO have Judge Riley admit
him TO bail. but as Prosecuting Attor-
new Brewer of Charlottesville viii not
consent TO this arrangement, the
Judge has declined to grant the re
quest.
Daniel Freeman, Il politician oil
some prominence in Gage county, Ne
braska, and who claims the distinc-
ton Of being the first homesteader In
the United States, some months ago
baran suit TO restrain the teacher oil
the public school In his district from
using the bible, Offering prayer or
singing gospel hymns as part OF the
school exercises. The district court
dismissed the suit for Injunction and
Freeman has appealed the ease to the
supreme court.