Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-04-03
STATE NEWS.

Mckinney is TO have an oil
, mill. s 49,.
San Antonio has four lines OF
street railway.
Henderson is to have n new
Baptist church.
Wichita Falls is to have a real
estate association.
There are ninety prisoners in
; San Antonio jail.
Cotton planting is now gener-
al in Grimes county.
The Baptist convention met
at Bolton on Tuesday.
Guadalupe county has insured
her courthouse for $4,000.
-Forty-five now postoffices have
been established in Texas this
year.
The prospects for a large fruit
crop in Bexar county are very fiat
tering.
The grand jury of Tarrant
county have returned fifty indict-
ments.
i. %. n. HOllingsworth is said to
be a candidate for superintendent
of public education.
Wichita Falls shipped last
year zoe, 900 pounds of wool, which
was sold for s3,7OS,0 900.
Crop prospects were never
better at this season of the year
near San Antonio than now.
Fort Worth will run race
with Dallas in the matter of build
ing a railway to Brentwood.
Asa Carey shot Melvin Har-
wick, his brother-in-law, at Meri-
dian on Saturday and escaped.
!. Houston had s25, 900 fire on
Tuesday morning. 1t broke out
in a frame building in the Fifth
ward.
Material for the telephone has
arrived at Temple and soon the
people will be calling, another
"hello." ..
Bill Northcut, who was shot a
few days ago while resisting ar
rest, died in the Bolton Jail Mon
day night.
The funeral ola negro preach
er at Longview the other day was
attended by a procession about
two miles long.
AT Clifton, in Bosque county,
no rain has has fallen in six weeks
and crops are beginning to suffer
IN consequence.
The colored people of San An
tonic have organized a woman's
Christian temperance union with
a large membership.
Sherman had the most disas-
trous fire, Tuesday, that has occur
red there for many years. The
loss is about $4,000.
The sharpers who attempted
to swindle the Dallas banks last
Saturday were captured at Par
sons, Kansas, on Tuesday.
Three blood-hounds recently
purchased by Cook county at
cost of $500, were received at
Gainesville the other day. j
AT Terrell the negroes consol-
idatcd under shrewd leaders and
succeeded-ln carrying their ticket
Much dissatisfaction exists.
The county commissioners of
Bell county held q meeting Mon
day and decided not TO move the
courthouse from the public square.
Sam Bayliss, of Johnson coun-
ty, one of the Seventh-Day Adven-
fists, is-a raving maniac and has
been confined in the Cleh4rn Jail. |
wv. O. Thoms was arrested at
Fort Worth on Saturday by Frank
HOSTEL, chief of police Of Daven-
port, Iowa, on charge of embez-
element.
Processes were issued at San
Antonio, Saturday, on over sixty
four indictments for violations OF
the Sunday law, principally against
saloon keepers.
-Brazoria supports a gambling
house; the other night there was a
row over four bits and one man
oqt another ten times, wounding
him very severely.
At Dawson, a local option
town, the blind tiger is in full
blast. Liquor can be had of the
tiger, but the seller of it is out of
sight of the purchaser.
IT. j. Barnes, of Del Rio, has
invented an automatic axle luhri-
Gator, which enables one to grease
an axle without removing the
wheel from the vehicle.
District court at Fort Davis
is putting criminals through there
has been seven convictions tor
terms ranging from five to nine
years in the penitentiary.
Col. ]. P. Smith was elected
mayor of Fort Worth by vote of
more than two to one over his OPP
ponent. The total vote was 2I82,
which is said to be very light.
The public artesian well at
McGregor has in the past few days
become strongly impregnated with
sulphur; the water is supposed to
possess valuable medicinal proper
ties,
Judge Wilkins, of Sherman
and Representative Foster, of Den
ison, had a dispute in tho district
courtroom at Sherman, and when
they left the room they INDUCED in
free fight. D
"A bold and bad San Antonio
thief stole cowboys horse, sad
die, bride and Winchester rifle in
broad daylight and succeeded IN
getting out of town without being
arrested.
Tho first and second Baptist