Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-20
STATE NEWS.
- BeiivIlle has six hotels and
boarding houses.


- BeiivIIIe has six hotels and
boarding houses.
= Bellville is another town
without vacant dwelling.
Seven divorces were grant
ed in the district court at Bell
vile, last week.
The complaint of bad roads
in the country is almost univer-
sal throughout the state.
= Stephen Barzak is under
indictment in Austin county for
offering to bride a juror"
- The town of Morgan has
voted in favor Of Incorporation
and will hereafter be a city.
Over one hundred and for
ty students are in attendance at
the Huntsville normal school.
"A Chinaman declined start
ing Il laundry in Denison be-
cause the landlords wanted too
muchee rentce."
It is feared that 4 good
many cattle will die in Austin
county from the effects of the
late cold weather.
= Henry Beverly, one ofthc
highway robbers that did such
a lively business at Dallas last
fall, has been sent up for ten
years
= Last week a negro woman
SO years of age, living by her
self, died in her cabin at Waco.
When found she was on her
knees in front Of rhe fireplace.
= Six frame buildings, oc-
cupied for business purposes, in
| Dallas were burned on Friday
! night. The total loss on build
ings and goods is about 5000.
"A caravan of wagons pass
ed through Dallas on Saturday
going west. They were from
Arkansas and the men said that
a colony of 1900 was coming
out.
= A shooting scrape occur
red on passenger train on the
International near Crockett, be-
tween a man named Roberts
and another passenger; both
were wounded.
= Mr.. R. Cowser has obtain
ed judgment against the Cen
trail railroad. in the district court
of Robertson county, for $4,000
for killing his adult son at
Hearne last july.
- At Dallas Mrs. McDon-
aid, crazed with jealousy, at
tempted to drown herself and
child in the Trinity. She was
restrained by friends before
reaching the water.
= One hundred and nine
men voted in the town of Hen
rietta on the question of incop-
Grafton; ffty-two wanted to live
in city and fifty seven didn't.
Henrietta is still a town.
= The county court at Hous-
ton has made an order author
izing the county attorney to COL
lect all rents due the Koop es-
tate and to pay all claims against
it. The will has not yet been
probated.
= -Four prisoners escaped
from the Bryan jail on Saturday
night, among them Andrew j.. |
Walker and King charged with |
murder. w. ]. Gallagher, |
charged with murder declined
to escape.
: A party of colored people
in Houston had dead loads" of
fun charivaring one of their own
color. They all got arrested
and then the justice of the peace
had his share of the fun in try
ing them.
Several Austin county
farmers during the bad weather
gathered their cotton crop in
the boil, and when they couldn't
work in the field they amused
themselves at home by picking
out the trash.
= According to the Dallas
Times, the flames got on an i'm
mense spree the other day. 1t
says "Feirce Flames hold high
Carnival on Elm street," allud-
ing to the burning of number
of frame houses.
: The grand jury of San
Antonio basing their action on
the report OF the doctors failed
to indict Ben Studer for the
murder of his son and he is now
out on $1,000 bail on charge
of assault with intent to kill.
The grand jury of Austin
county find that crime is not on
the increase and that few crimes
of a serious nature have been
committed; they find that the :
officers of the county are eff
cient men, and the financial sta /
tus of the county satisfactory. /
= The skeleton of an infant
was found in a gully in the !
of the old Epis-
copal graveyard in Houston last
Saturday. Nothing was learn 4
ed as how it came there or as b
% whether the child was white
Or black. n
"A Galveston man was be- o
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