Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-04-24
STATE NEWS.


The new cityscouncilof LAM
passs is about TO banlsh the hogs.
The Laredo Times is full of
the delinquent tax list OF Webb
county. rFsT
Milan sends S negroes and 90
white men TO the Republican state
convention.
-Bastrop will soon have town
clock in the courthouse eupolo Il
the clock and bell cost $1,000.
j. r. Heron, farmer living
IL miles from Waco: was struck
and killed by lightning on Satur-
day.
"A negro woman living near
Marlin monkcyed with a pistol.
She is shot through the face and
Ijaw.
AT Temple the business men
are waking up to the necessity of
having more and better wagon
roads.
Mr.. J.W. Jones is the only
Texas veteran that attends the re-
union this year from McLennan
county.
The jury in the Eckles MUIR
der case. at Bolton, after being out
"a hours failed to agree and were
discharged.
The prairie dog must 20, says
the Colorado Clipper; he is CON-
munist and is feeding on the "chil-
drens grass"
- Frank Jones, brother of Hon.
G. W. Jones, and a very influential
citizen of Bastrop county, died on
Monday evening.
A Lampasas wool men thinks
that between four and five million
pounds of wool will be handled
there this season.
There was a light snow in
Webb county Sunday morning, fol- |
lowed bya norther. Laredo is the
county scat of Webb.
Winsboro is a city of. such |
vast importance that the proceed /.
ings of the mayors court are wired |
to the Galveston News.
A sal storage warehouse with
capacity of twenty-five car loads
of freight Is being erected in the
Firth ward in Houston.
= Frank Peaker, of Flora, ILL
nois suieided at Dallas on Sunday
last and on Tuesday he was buried |
by the Knights of Pythias.
- Major Penn has just closed .
two weeks meeting at Rockville;
and succeeded in temporarily con-
verting about fifty sinners. (
Two large hotels, six large
stone stores, and forty or fifty 9TH
er new buildings are now in course
of construction at Lampasas.
Two much rain in the vicinity
of Cleburne has caused the rust
to appear in the wheat, which I'M
til recently WAS very promising.
LULA Wilson, colored, aged II,
died Saturday at Dallas from in
juries received by the blowing
down of the colored school house.
III
About 800 members of the
State Medical association were in
Bolton on Tuesday. The usual
routine BUSINESSES being disposed.
Estimates have been made for
the bridge across the BraEos at
Richmond and final action will
soon be taken by the commission
ers.
Three hundred dollars reward
Is offered for the apprehension and
conviction of the party or parties
who pied the Dispatch Office at
Austin last week.
The Houston firemen and their
invited guests had fine time on
Monday. Firemen we're present
from Galveston, Victoria, Orange,
Bryan and Brennan.
At Austin, San Jacinto day,
the boys celebrated by filling up
and at midnight there was six
teen arrests for drunkenness re.
corded at the police station.
"A row of four frame buildings
in Cleburne were destroyed by
fire on Saturday morning. The
Cleburne Light Guards lost all
their arms-thirty-eight stands.
Dallas came near having sui
eide on Saturday night; one Kirk.
ham, hostler, took 90 grains of
morphine, but . doctor pumped it
out of him IN time to save his life,
Mr.. l.. s. Banks, civil engineer,
in the employ of the Santa Ee rail.
way died at Dallas on Saturday !;
last. Mr.. Banks was well known
in BRENNAN and had many friends
here. /
In Dallas the other day Ben i
Hirschberg was cowhided by the t
wife of Rabbi Schulz. She accused :
Hirschherg of being the instigator :
Of the prosecution against her hus- c
baud.
Work on the new capitol has $
been suspended for eight or ten i,
days owing to the non-arrival of !,
cement. Eight car loads arrived
on Saturday and on Monday work t
was resumed.
--fhe Houston journal says
there is some talk among the bar
bers of raising prices about 40 per 6
cent. during the encampment. The
principal boss BARRIERS are opposed a
Ia extartionate charges. t.
AT Big Springs on Sunday t,
morning there was considerable
fall of snow which soon melted. b
At Dallas Sunday the day was wet, l
cold and very disagreeAble. fears
are entertained that vegetation is 8
injured: i,
The Austin Capitol tells the d
fence cutters of Runneils county to
that Col. odom and a party of gem :
tleman are en- route to Runnells to d
catch them. By the time the colo