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

A GRAND interstate drill will bC
held at Galveston just preceding
the Democratic state convention
the requisite money is assured
and the management of tho drill is
now the only thing to be looked
after.
D. W. BUsH-HBAD, chief of The
Cherokee Nation, and other dele
gates from the Indian Territory
are IN Washington protesting
against the granting of way to rail
roads through certain portions o
the territory.
SIX hundred butchers, represent
ing fifteen states, assembled at St
Louis on Tuesday and organized &
national butchers association. The
object is mutual protection in the
transaction of business. Thomas
Armour, of Chicago, was elected
president.
THE Fort Worth Gazette has q
libel suit on hand; it claims that
the publication was not malicious,
and that the Houston Age remarks
that the Gazette is corporation
that corporations have no souls
and therefore are incapable Of
bearing malice.
GEN. MINES tolegraphs to the
war department from CaIabass,
Ari., May %, saying two small
bands from GeronimO's camp went
north and killed three men and
murdered one boy. As usual the
federal troops are camping on the
trail of the marauders.
WHEN the primary meetings are
called to elect delegates to the
county convention, to elect dele
gates to the state convention, let
every man make it his duty TO at
tend the primary and send repre-
sentative men as delagetes to the
county convention.
BRADsTREET's, a paper that has
given more attention to the labor
movement than any other publica-
ton in tho United States, says:
"Tho short hour movement has
been far less successful than was
anticipated by its more ardent
friends one week ago.
STEPS have been taken, presume
bly, under the direction of Mr..
Swain to ferret out the author of
the telegram of February last, con-
Meeting his name with the Phillips
scandal at Austin. The Travis
county grand jury is conducting
the investigation.
The mon IN Featherstone's foun-
dry, Chicago, struck recently for
eight hours and their demands
were granted. They have since
become dissatisfied with the sys-
TEN and demanded ten hours. This
was refused and q fresh strike en-
supd.
FHg Fort Worth Gazette finds 1t
necessary to say that 1t does not
print communications advocating
any mans claims to any office
without pay. If it did 1t would
have no room for news. 1t is
very difficult matter to teach vol
untary correspondents what is
news and what is not.
THE address OF Hon. l.. l.. Fos-
ter before the press association at
San Antonio was one of the abIest
and soundest documents we have
listened to in many years. Mr..
Foster is a man Of brains and in
tellect, and, in the near future, will
take rank among the leading pub
llc men of this state,
AUSTIN is now fairly bristling
with campaign papers. There is
the TIdlngs, Nat Q.'s Record and
the Optic, How mn"h influence
the average campaign paper wicIds
is q question that tho candidates in
whose interest they are published
must determine for themselves.
The labor troubles IN various
sections of the country seem to be
about adjusted and with the excep-
ion of an occasional strike all |
kinds of work is going on as usual. |
in Chicago Oh Monday nearly al! |
,he sash, door and blind factories
'esumed work on tho ten-hour
plan.
THE Travis county Republicans
ire gong to organize and put
'ull county ticket In the field, says
he Austin Dispatch. The San An
Light, also Republican pa
Der says: "UnIess Republicans
ire very much stronger numeri-
ally, in Austin than in other sec
ions of the state the move is not
o be commended Tor It's wisdom"
Col. SWAIN, the comptroller, had
'wo of his sons employed in the
'omptrollers Office tor about month,
It a time when extra help was
much needed, and for this he is
charged with nepotism. This is
IN attempt to make a mountain
tut of a mole hill and 1t will prob
IDLY recoil on the politicians who
re SO industriously trying to make
capital out of 1t.
THE oleOmargerIne manufaetur-
RS OF Chicago are sending out cir
m a nc doSoriDti,a offbo nroaoru oTl