Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-21
STATE NEWS.

cord.
Penn is converting doctors,
lawyers and business men at
Dallas.
The Shermanites are going |
to give Hubbard a testimonial |
banquet.
With late fall top crop |
of cotton will be made in San
Saba county.
Several cases of black
jaundice are reported in the vi
cinity Of Gonzales.
The calaboose at Plano was
fred by prisoner; building
saved, prisoner swinged.
= Sherman has bad little
"Injun" who was caught tap
ping a till. He was jailed.
- One hundred and twenty ]
bales of cotton were burned on
the cars at Hearnc on Monday.
&C. c. Lockett, candidate
for county attorney in Burleson
county, has withdrawn from the
race.
= The Red River county re-
, publicans held convention.last
Saturday, only negroes partici-
pating.
ID. R. Daniels, who lived
near Crockett died last week
from injuries received from his
cotton gin.
Two wooden buildings
were burned at Live-oak wagon
yard in Waco last week. Loss
about $500.
"A negro is reported to
have been shot and killed near
Cedar Lake, Brazoria county.
No particulars given.
| The cotton seed oil mill at
Weimar is turning out '1ots of
OIL says the correspondent of
the Columbus Citizen.
! Dallas is being worked by
a gang of experienced burglars,
and in addition two highway
robberies have occurred lately.
I &c. P. Miller now has sole
control of the Corsicanna OBJ
server-Index and is going to
re-enlargc it to a nine column
paper.
Barnum's trained oxen,
Moody and Sankey was the
name bestowed upon them by
their keeper, died at Austin of
Spanish fever,
= The Ball and the Index OF
Marlin are always quarreling
with each other. 1t would seem
that Marlin is not big enough to
support two papers.
On Sunday morning the
residence of Z. w. Britain, at
Houston, was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss about $4,000;
cause defective flue.
| George Washington Trip
is in trouble again. He lives in
Huntsville and stole half bush
Ell of corn, for which he was
fined $50 and hired out.
Dallas is getting better
fast. Maj. Penn has converted
twenty sinners and twenty Dali
Dallas sinners are as wicked as
forty sinners in any other town.
John Wilkinson a pick
| pocket following Barnum's cir
Gus, was nabbed at Houston.
He had stolen a pocketbook
containing SIS from a negro
woman.
Three gin accidents were re
ported on Tuesday. At Gle
burne, w. H. Harris lost an
arm and a negro boywas killed.
| AT Bryan, Glenn Bee, a son of
Gen. Bee, lost an arm.
The Bolton Journal crows
over Waco and says that Bolton
is getting considerable cotton
much to the changrin of the lit
tie village of Waco. Bolton,
We suppose is big city.
| = The two negro women
charged with beating an old
negro man to death in Smith
county. have been tried at Ty-
Ter and given two years each in
the penitentiary.
Saturday afternoon a fiat
car of cotton caught fire in the
yard of the Sunset line at Hous-
ton. 1t was extinguished with
small damage. The colored
laborers worked nobly.
John and Jim Odell, prac-
teal horse thieves, are in the
Beaumont Jail awaiting trans
portation to Hardin county,
where they will be tried for fol-
lowinging their occupation,
Barnum's giraffe died
while on exhibition at this city;
its mortal remains were taken
to Austin and given to gentle
man who will have its skin stuff
ed for exhibition at the fair.
The Mexia Ledger advises
farmersto each put up andfatten
few beeves. as there is more
corn than can be fed to hogs.
1t reminds its readers that STALL
fed beeves are always in de-
mand.
Maj. VIM. Barber an aged
and respected citizen of San
Marcos died on the 18th inst.
He was a North Caroliniau and
was federal juror in 1924, in