Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-07
A Dallas negro swallowed

a Mexican dollar and gave the
doctors some, trouble in getting
it out Of his throat where it had
lodged.
The examination of the
books of suspended Savings
bank at Dallas will develop
some astonishing facts; regular
summers.
The Appellate court has af-
hrmed the verdict in the case of
John Wesley Hardin and he
! goes to the penitentiary for
twenty-five years.
= Potts is his name, he is an
Ethiopian gamin and one of
the wickedest in Waco. The
recorder fined him SI2 for shy
ing stone at gentleman.
juno Peak has been pro-
NOTED by the governor from
lieutenant to captain in the
frontier battalion. This for gal
lantry in not catching Bass.
"A very small pet terrier.
went mad and was killed at
Denison. In consequences of
this, the Herald has a half
column loke on hydrophobia.
= A tramp has been arrested
at Dallas on a charge ofattempt-
ing to rape a girl only three
and half years old. There was
strong threats of lynching the
fend,
-The'wages oft'le masons and
laborers on the Christian church
at Fort Worth were reduced
from S. to $3.50 per day masons
andlaborers from SI.5oto sI.25,
Work has been suspended.
= A negro burglar entered
half adozen dwellings, in Hous-
ton in one night on profession
al business. The only reward
he had for his troubles was
narrow escape from getting
shot.
The Houston telegram
complains that Oscar Holmes,
who has been seen, in Willis,
Montgomery county, has not
/ been arrested, although capt.
as was sent to the sheriff of that
county.
/ Mr.. Alex Farmer, a resi-
dent of -Bastrop' county for
twenty-five years, was assassina-
ted near Paige on Saturday
morning in broad daylight.
Farmer was'shot with "a double
barreled shot gun.
James FULLY. and John
Vancil, both married. quarreled
about going to church with their
wives. The result was a shoot
ing match. Vancil was killed
and Tully mortally wounded.
This occurred near Gonzales.
Major jones has returned
to Austin from San Saba, bring
ing a petition signed by many
citizens asking that a squad of
rangers be kept there. Ken
dali, who killed Brown, is en-
route to Austin in charge of
rangers.
: The Waco Examine, says
deputy Inspector, Wade Smith,
detained on the cattle trail last
week, some 1900 head of cattle,
the drivers ofwhich we're unable
to show proper certificates.
Seven men were arrested and
jailed.
Several suspicious looking
characters passed through Halle
Dell, Comanche county. Satur-
day last, driving twenty head Of
horses. Several citizens fol-
lowed them, when the thieves
broke and run, leaving the
horses.
The Dallas Herald says,
Throckmorton has always been,
is now and will be when cleo
ted governor, in favor of main
tanning. the frontier. troops as
well as having as large a force
of national troops on the from
tier as can be had"
THE Comanche Chief says:
can honest confession is good
for the soul. Col. Hinkle with
his little Star got away with us.
but we have just hated to ac-
knowledge it. He's a, fraud of
the first water, and should be
run out of the State"
= A San Saba couple after
living together for thirty years
have entered into a written
agreement to separate. The
contract was duly signed wit
messed and recorded and ref
cree. appointed to settle any
difference'in the disposal of. the
community property.
Mrs. kilker. her son. a very
small boy, and an old rusty pis-
toll furnished an item for the
Denison papers. They, the
woman and the boy, didn't
know the pistol was loaded.
Mrs. X. received bullet in the
back of the, head. She will be
more careful with rusty pistols
in the future.
Last year a gentleman
leased a large farm on the CT
boio and planted it in oats
The season was wet, and much
grain was lost in the harvest. |
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