Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-10
STATE NEWS.
: The town of Morgan has
just had a city election.

- ne NaVaSOta tablet ad-
vises early and deep blowing;
well prepared ground insurrs
good crops.
Last week Nathan & Bros.
store at Luling was broken OPP
en- and robbed Of about $500
worth Of goods.
= San Antonio is growing so
fast-either in wickedness or
population-that four new po-
licemen have been put on duty.
"A Sherman newspaper man
came near coming to a prema-
ture death for sending an anna
tory letter to two young ladies.
- There is a post office in
McLennan county which the
boys call "Needmore," because
1t needs more houses to make
it town.
A tenant named Terry,
fired at and shot E. A. Miller, of
Navasvta, with load of buck
Schot, wounding him in the face
cause, cussedness.
d. w. Wear, of Bald prai-
rie, Robertson county, was as
sassinated last Wednesday. J.
J. Hickman has been arrested as
the probable murderer.
"A Mr.. MCGEE, his wife
and young chile, all died within a
short time of each other at Bel
ton last week, and all three were
buried in the same grave.
: At the Little River bridge,
on the Santa Fe road, the drift
accumulated for 100 yards
above the bridge, throwing the
track a foot or more out of line.
The other day at Rich
mond a whiskey drummer full
of his own medicine and devil
ment shot a negro in the Shout
der and was then shot into jail
himself.
DR.. D. S. H. Smith, of
Palestine, will soon receive
from the United States fish
commissioner a large lot of Ger
man carp for distribution in his
portion of state.
San Antonio has a soap
factory with a capacity to pro-
duce 1850 boxes, Of 90 pounds
each weekly. The present de-
mand does not justify manu-
featuring to such an extent.
= The Navasota Tablet
thinks the county court of
Grimes county could be abol-
lshed with good results as the
business that now goes before
it could be done by the district
court.
= A drunken prisoner in the |
Columbus calaboose set fire to
the building to warm up. As |
soon as the blaze got well under
way he yelled fire" Citizens
assembled and extinguished the
flames.
= A man named Deckstad-
der attempted suicide at Dallas.
He was sick, unable to work
md felt generally discouraged.
The doctors pumped him out,
'ut the chances are against
lin.
= The Calvert Democrat re-
,orts the death of James Al
,honza Cartmell. He was born
It Washington, Texas, August
I, 1912. At the time Of his
leath he was keeping hotel in
Calvert.
= The preliminary survey of
he Missouri Pacific railway be-
ween Hillsboro and Waco has
'een completed. According to
he Waco papers that city is
estined to be the future
reat" of Texas.
: Owen Brown, a Grimes
ounty farmer, was drowned
lst Saturday in a swollen
tream which he was trying to s
ross. A negro, while crossing 4
small stream in Mayasota, fell |
and was drowned. |
= The San Antonio Express $
ives Texas Jack" IT. McGin- i
:, quite handsome send of. I
lck has been working in the
flee for some time and has left S
r the purpose oftaking a walk P
Boston. He is a profession t
tramp printer. L
= The San Augustine Saxon >,
Us that Cap MCGEE the man y
no was shot by a II year old :
~ at Trinity, was a we'll known .
i'd notorious desperate whose :,
Id of operations was in Polk = :,
d Trinity counties. His death =
IL not be deplored. y
Columbus was struck by a o.
clone, last Saturday, fences
IRE considerably damaged and
uses were blown off their
ocks. A heavy rain fell and g
E Colorado river and all the 4,
eeks are up. Sevaral treaties Il
re washed away on the La m
snge tap road. RI
: Bolton Journal: Mr.. P. Xxi
Rucker lett here Monday for OF
enham, for the purpose of tn
pouring right of way through fe
tain lands in Bell county, for tn
. Missouri Pacific railway,
ned by parties living in
ashington county. a
: Gambling is an established it
/ recognized branch of bust re
IS in San Antonio, and the wi