Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21
STATE NEWS.
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rdySlle county, grand
jury has found fourteen indict-
ments. .....f 20 49,
- Waco's nine-year old thief
has been rearrested for stealing
a gun.
y Corn is tasseling in Vic
toria county, and mosquitoes
are quite plentiful.
- The work of track laying
on the Lagrange tap railroad
will begin next week.
Currie, the murderer Of
the actor, Porter, at Marshall,
is to be tried on the 10th Of
June.
= Mr.. Walters, residing on
Woodland street. Denison, has
a red bird which is over twenty
years old.
: The grand jury Of Red
River county was specially
charged on the Sunday and bell
punch laws.
: A party of hunters, the
other day, killed two cata-
mounts within a mile and a half
of Columbus.
"A brakeman named Led
with, on the c. and NJ, road fell
from a box car at Plantersville
and broke his leg.
= Four new lawyers have
been admitted to the bar at
Lagrange, among the number
Temple Houston. 5
IS. Mayors millinery es-
tabliehment at San Antonio was
burned on the 18th. Loss $751;
600, insurance $4,000.
= A lone cotton bloom was
exhibited at the Galveston cot
ton exchange on Wednesday;
it came from near Liberty.
= Fifteen English migrants
arrived at Galveston on the
steamship Whitney, on We'd
nesday, They go to Luling.
= William Shillinglaw, a
young Scotchman was drowned
while bathing in the Bosque
near Meridian, few days ago.
The college building in
Columbus is being repaired,
and when finished will be one
OF the handsomest in the state.
- The bycicle fever is in
creasing in Sherman. Quite
number Of the people are be-
coming prohcients in the exer-
else. 1
= AT Columbus great prep
arations are being made for the
volksfest on the osth and 10th.
Stands on the ground sold for
500.
No clue has yet been dis
covered as to the identity of the
negro who committed the out
rage on Mrs Scott, near Milf
can.
Tom Tmith, a farmer liv-
ing three miles from Dsnison,
has been arrested on the charge
of raping his step-daughter
aged IS.
Farmers in Cooke and
Montague counties say that the
wheat bas been badly whipped
by the wind and much of it de-
stroyed. r. 7s 4
= Mexia is the best point in
Texas for a sausage factory. 1t
has more dogs in proportion
to population than any town in
the state.
The Lagrange Record
notes the departure of L. r.
Bryan, for his home in Brennan.
Mr.. Bryan is suffering from
roeumatism.
Spring fights and protract-
ed religious meetings have en-
gagged the attention of the peo-
pie of Weatherford for the past
few weeks.
= Maj. Penn has made sew
enty conversions at Bryan,
among them several hard cases.
Emotional conversions are not
very lasting. l'a
= The Sherman Chronicle |
reports a shooting scrape at
Van Alstyne in which a man |
named Sanders was killed by a
man named Lewis.
q The location of the depot |
on the /. & G. N. railroad at
Tyler, has been settled, and one
of the finest depots on the line
will be, erected at once.
- Dunnan and Jones, a pair
Of horse thieves, broke out of
the Georgetown jail on Tuesday
night and now are in the full |
enjoyment of liberty.
= The people of Bryan are
beef hungry and demand the
establishment of a beef market,
the one now there is unable to !.
supply the demand.
= Greasy row on Railroad
street, Navasota, is numbered
among the things of the past.
It's place viii be supplied with
substantial stone buildings.
Near Fort Concho Jake
Napur shot and killed Bob Viii
is. They quarreled about a
glass of buttermilk and not
about whiskey as is usually the
;ase.
= Sherman has a junkman
Who buys scrap iron; the gam
rs go to the railroad yard and !
lick up all the loose coupling
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