Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-27
STATE NEWS.


drouth is now being made by tn,
press.
-Rockdale has 4 hog law, anc
vagrant hogs are arrested and I'm
pounded.
"A Bolton sporting man wa.
fined S25 and ten days Jail for ex
hibitlng a gaming table.
Col. Thompson, BastroI
county planter, finished laying hi
corn crop by on the Sd inst.
Fort Worth purchased tn,
water works of that city, and nov
it is alleged that job was put up
The Dallas News says NOR,
houses are needed in its city anC
that Dallas is now experiencing
boom.
-Commencement exercises Il
A. and NJ. College, College station
takes place May 80 and 81 anC
June l.
The first peaches ofthe season
were received in Houston on Satur
day-they were from Jacksonville
Texas.
"A few men at the Houston
Rolling mill are out on a strike
because one of their number was
discharged.
The ladies of Navasota arc
making extensive preparations fol-
the Hoods Brigade reunion at that
place, June 90.
-McGrogor had a triflrng scnsa
ton in the way of fainting fit by
young man who was arrested tol
mule stealing.
AT RockdaIe fishing parties arc
all the go, but the Messenger says
not word about any one going
fishing on Sunday.
The town OF Mexia has s
scholastic census of 393-whitt
262, colored 131. This is an in
crease of IS over last year.
Work on the excavation fol
the foundation of the main build
ing of the Baylor-Waco university
was commenced on Monday.
-Navasota has suburb called
Camptown and inhabited by color.
ed people. A negro woman drop,
ped dead there the other day.
About $50 men are now work
ing in the railroad shops at Pales-
tine; this is 100 men less than the
usual number. Dull times is the
cause.
The Market Gardeners asso-
citation, of Houston, lately held a
meeting and adopted a uniform
scale of prices potatoes are put at
s1.00 per bushel.
Temple has good system OF
water works and an excellent hose
company, but hook ard ladder
company is also needed to CON-
plete the fire equipment.
The Knights of Labor have
about adjusted the strike at Matth-
ew's q lumber establishment near
Texarkana, by bridging matters
over till the LIST of June.
Geo. Robinson, of the Hunts
VILE Item is an old Texan, having
came here from New York in 1S45,
and Chas. Ogshury, of Ouero, came
from the same state in 1886.
AT Ell Paso, Sunday afternoon,
Louis Trip, a sporting man, shot
his wife who was living in a bangio.
Ho then shot himself through the
head. She may possibly recover.
Five prisoners escaped from
Seymour Jail the other night, by
working their way out of the iron
cage. Too many iron cages ore
sold for steel, and the prisoners
steal out.
-Twenty-sIx cars of the Aran-
sas Pass and San Antonio railroad.
loaded with cattle arrived at Wich-
tia Falls on the 23d inst. This is
the first train Ct through cars from
the pew road that has arrived at
WICHITA.
-Wm. Brown, q negro horse
thief got Ave years at Palestine
the other day, in the district court.
There Is not much trouble in con-
vlctlng horse thieves, but men who
Kill other me- are moro likely to
escape.
"A committee from Aellon had
conference with the Santa Fe
officials at Galveston and have
completed arrangements to have
the Santa Fe run their track in
and establish depot near the CEN
ter of town.
"A gang of convIcts was en-
gagged in laying steel rails on the
Central road, near Elgin. Last
week some OF them attempted to
escape when tho guards fired on
hem. A convict from Jack county
was shot and killed he was in for
fifteen years and had served thir-
cen.
Fort Worth had another sepsa-
ion on Wednesday night. Mrs.
Hearne, 8 young widow, and
locomotive engineer,
vent to an asslgnation house and |
secured a room. "A pistol fell out
If Sanderson's pocket and was dis
Mrs. Hearne was, it is |
,hought, fatally wounded. She
md Sanderson both state the shot
vas accidental.
Near Cotulla on Sunday last
J. W. Crenshaw met his friend |
Alex Irving, they both pulled their
pistols and commenced swapping
1t each other as was their custom.
pistol went off and
killed Irving. Crenshaw said he
iidn't know it was loaded, and no |
ioubt he tells the truth. The I'M
oaded pistol is fully as dangerous
Is the loaded one.
The japanese wedding so ex-
ensively advertised in the Houton
papers took place last week. 1t
urned out to be a juvenile rendi-
ion of the Mikado, the children
,eing attired in Japanese costumes,