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

Stone cutters at work on the
new courthouse at Breckenridge
run in. debt TO the merchants and
then jumped the town. One ofthem
Ieft after getting credit TO the
amount of three or four hundred
dollars.
H. G. Taylor, a physician of
Waco, writes 10 the Examiner that
he has by request made an analy-
sis of the well water used there
and finds it all to be unhealthy,
being contaminated with surface
drainage.
Several prisoners in the Bell
vile Jail sing so loud and so long
as to disturb the neighborhood.
They were introduced to the JUS
tice who fined them SIS each and
ordered them put to work to pay
their fines.
Morris Frank and August
Schmidt, burglars, were captured
by the Galveston police on Sunday
night, while endeavoring to burg
larize the liquor house of Frie-
berg, Klein & Co., and locked up
in the county Jail.
The case of George Eckles for
the murder of Williams at Bolton,
last fall, has been set for trial on
the 14th inst. A man named
Gatman, indicted for perjury in
the habeas corpus trial of Eckles,
is now in Jail at Bolton.
e. NJ. Simmons was shot and
killed at Henrietta on Tuesday,
by G. w. Wofford, a bsrkeeper.
The killing was deliberate, there
having been difficulty between
the men some days ago. Simmons
was regarded as dangerous man.
Prank DeBard, son of DR.. E.
J. DeBard, of Palestine, who left
his fathers house thirty-fve years
ago, lad of sixteen, and went to
California, returned to his parent
al roof last week bronze-bearded
man of so, to receive a fathers
welcome.
Tho now courthouse lately
completed at Montague was burn
ed by an incendiary last Sunday
night. When discovered the flames
had made considerable Roadway,
but those who arrived first found |
the woodwork saturated with coal
oil. The building cost 500, 900.
The Dallas Herald publishes
the full testimony taken by the
coroner in the Adams-Burns case.
1t seems that Adams wilfully and
deliberately murdered Burns, hav-
ing for long time heaped insults
upon him and his family. What
his line of defense will be romans
to be seen,
Dallas Is projecting now lines
of railway to Grapevine, Green
vile and Brentwood. A citizens
meeting was held and a resolution |
was adopted urging all property
owners to subscribe two per cent
of the assessed valuation of their
property as a cash donation to-
ward their enterprise.
1t is thought the courthouse at
Bellville is in a dangerous condi-
ton. The walls were laid many |
years ago ON foundation of cot
ton wood logs and largo cracks
in the wall indicate that they are
giving away. 1t is likely that
Austin county will need a new
courthouse in the near future.
The killing of Burns by
Willie Adams, at Dallas, is
pronounced to be a cold-blood-
ed deliberate murder. Every
precautian was taken by the
sheriff at Dallas to prevent any
attempt to take Adams out of
Jail. The house of Madame Par
ker was not mobbed, but it may be
soon.
Mike Reed, who has been on
trial for week, at Bryan, on the
charge of committing rape on a
little girl eleven years of age, was
convicted and given a ninety-nine
years sentence. The defendent L
was represented by able counsel.
Great interest was manifested in
the case and the verdict is salts
factory.
AT Dallas on Sunday last,
Willis Adams shot and killed
Michael Burns, for no other cause
han that Burns had made oom-
plants against a lewd woman,
Madam Parker, who occupied a
house next to Burns residence,
or keeping a dlsorderly house.
Adams has been on intimate terms
With her for upwards of two years, t
ind has taken the life of Burns IN
'old-blood for daring to protect his
amily from insult and wicked a
less. ..