Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-10-17
STATE NEWS.

- San Antonio is soon to
have polo club.
- Navasota has a dozen or
| more business men who do rot
advertise.
--Bonham has privilege CT ar
actors and the non-privileged
complain.
y wagon load of prairie
dogs was one Of the couriosities
in Mckinney last week.
- In Denison it is 81 and
costs; that's what it costs fer
hearing the bell punch ring too
much.
- Fine rains have fallen in
the vicinity of San Antonio
and fall gardens are an assured
success.
- Frank Hargraves the
young man who killed Boul-
ware at Fields store has been
taken to Hampstead.
- The young men of Column
bus-some of them-improve
their time on Sunday by put
ting in the day hunting.
- Mrs. Elizebeth Scott, Of
Lamar county, celebrated her
Soth birth day in the cotton
field. picking the tieecy staple.
j. c. DeGress is candi-
date for reelection as mayor of
Austin and Ben. Thompson s
out as a candidate for marshal.
= Five negro boys on their
way to Bonham from a cotton
field on Tuesday night were at
tacked by black wolf at
butcher pen.
- A young man named Nc
Culloch, living near Sulphur
springs. has been arrested.
charged with numbering town
marshal Norris.
= A lot of 1917 head of beef
cattle averaging over 100
pounds each were recently ship
ped by steamer from Indianola
to New Orleans.
- Cotton pickers are in de-
mand in the Honey Grove
neighborhoou, Fannin county.
There is cotton enough to last
until January Ist.
- Bill Davis, the negro who
killed Dolly Hudspeth. at Lock-
hart. is to hang in November.
He says he had a fair trial and
deserves his fate.
H K. Kriebel, OF Coma.
les, has made an improvement
in steam engines by which the
eccentric is done away with.
He applies for patent.
The Fairfield Recorder
learns that the surveyors of the
proposed railroad from Pales-
tine to Waco, were within in
SIX miles of Fairfield.
= The Giddings Lone Star is
vigorously putting the advan-
tages of its town and the mer-
chants there are extending it a
liberal advertising patronage.
- The Bonham News gives
the details of the horrible MUIR
durs at Orangeville, and adds
that it is a crime which would
disgrace the savages of the
plains.
Keno is not correct at
Cleburnc. Thirty ..kenoists con-
tributed $500 to the county.
The bank would have got it
all if they had played long
enough.
A few negroes in the vi
cinity of Anderson, Grimes
county. are selling out property
and going to Kansas. The
wicked Sentinel wants all of 'em
to do likewise.
About a dozen negroes
have already gone to Kansas
from the neighborhood of Nav
asota; others are getting ready
to go, but there is no excite
ment on the subject.
= The San Antonio Express
says 267 English immigrants
are now on the way to Texas,
seeking permanent homes
they are wcll-to-do farmers
bringing plenty of capital.
= The Victoria Advocate
says this years experience in
sugar cane culture in Victoria |
county proves conclusively that
it can be successfully raised. |
A sugar house and refinery is |
next in order.
- At Fort Stockton on the |
9TH inst, William Lett. a pri- |
vate. was shot and killed by |
sergeant Turner. Immediately |
after the shooting Turner sur
rendered to the officer of the |
day and was turned over to the |
civil authorities.
- stranger named Reed |
was shot and killed about 3 |
o'clock on Thursday morning |
on Main street in Houston. |
Four men had been drinking
and the shooting seems to have |
grown out of a drunken row. |
The police arrested three men, !
all drunk.
A special to the Telegram
from Hampstead, Oct. y. re-
ports the killing at Fields store