Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-26
STATE NEWS.

Col. b. IlmmOnS, an hOnorcd
member of the LAGRANGE bar, died
last week.
Tho Houston gun club will
send a team to the Fort Worth
tournament.
Tho Fairfield Recorder wants
a poor farm established in Free
stone county.
Owing to dull times rents of
dwelling houses at Temple are
lower than usual.
Clean up! is the cry of a great
many Texas papers, but the city
authorities pay no heed.
Thirty colored people were
baptized in the Guadalupe river at
Gonzales last Sunday week.
At Fort Worth Joseph Kan,
n fourteen year old boy monkoyed
with pistol. He has very lame
leg.
Dallas in making preparation
to entertain 10000 persons at the
Confederate reunion on the 9th of
August.
Tho Whitney Messenger says
not less than twenty rcapers and
mowers are running in the immcdi-
ate vicity of Whiting.
Miss Sedalia Lock, aged II,
has disappeared from her fathers
house in Austin; no cause for her
strange conduct is given.
Alderman O'Flynn, of Hous-
ton, has introduced resolution in
the city council with view to the
suppression ofgambling.
Tho Navasota Blues won the
first game of base ball with the
Sunsets at San Antonio on Satur-
day-the score was 10 to I.
Caldwell is about to build a
two story school house 36X60 feet
in size. 1t will will be ready for
occupancy by September l.
One white elephant has been
wiped out of existence. The sa-
loon of that name at Sherman was
burned last Saturday morning.
Tho Dallas grand jury has re-
turned eight indictments each
against Baum and Lohnstien for
completely in the cotton swindlcs.
New Ulm, Austin county, is a
German settlement and large guam
titles of small grain are raised.
The oat crop in that vicinity was
splendid.
Mrs, Jones, who lives near
Pilot Point, gave her little child a
dose of laudanum by mistake for
fever medicine. Its recovery is
-Denlson is to have a White
saloon. The managers
have invited the ladies to be pres
ent on the opening night, but they
will hardly go.
Fort Worth is soon to have
the free delivery system establish
cd. As soon as a suitable post
office accommodations can be had
it will be put in effect.
-Waco's city council has passed
a resolution to surrender the spe-
cial charter and will continue the
city government under the charter
passed by the legislature.
Waco needs sewerage, drain
age and improved streets, says the
Day and it wants a new charter
adopted so that the needed i'm
provements may be made.
Martin Bubella, a Bohemian,
was found dead under a tree, two
miles from Tunis, Burleson coun-
". He had hanged himself with
/ couple of handkerchiefs.
"A car load of Cinnamon from
Louisiana passed through Marshall
IN Saturday en- route to Big
Springs where they will work on
he Texas and Pacific railway.
1t is reported at Calvert that |
he boil worm has attacked the
cotton squares on several farms
near that place. The boil worm
has evidently arrived trife too
soon. :
The man Mickelboro who muir
Tered his wife near Millican the
,ther day was crazy. He suiclded
by tying sledge hammer to his
neck and jumping into the Nava-
sofa river.
- Millio Oarnier died in San
Antonio the other day aged ITO
Years. She was born in liza in
Fairfox county, Virginia. She was
physical and mental wreck for
.he past ten years,
Brooks Blocker, a young cat
,leman, while in camp near San An
,elo Saturday, accidentally dro p
bed his faithful six-shooteP. 1t |
ell on an axe and was discharged,
he ball passing through his stom-
lch and heart.
james marlborough, who liv-
IS at Navasota ferry, Brazos coun-
y, Friday morning murdered his
wife by hitting her on the head
With an iron bolt about IA inches
ong. He made his escape bare
headed and barefoot.
About lao deer driven out of
he Brazos bottom by the recent
Use, were killed by inconsiderate
hunters in the neighborhood of
'ealy. No true sportsman would
ill game out of season, or use
eine to catch the fish out of the
mailer streams.
The Austin Statesman reports
he death of Major D. W. Jones,
Who came to Brennan and engag-
d in business at the close of the
var. In 1873 he went to Austin
nd up to the time of his death
vas one of the leading business
men of that city.
"A married woman living in
caldwell, a couple of weeks ago
Hoped with another fellow and
rent to Austin. He soon tired of
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