Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-11

The Dallas State fair, after ;
two weeks successful run, CLOSED
last Saturday.
Paris has secured threo anC
possibly four new railroads. Wa
ter works are now wanted.
In Grimes county three Dem
ocrats were elected commission
ers, the other one is negro.
The Navasota Tablet was SO
busy with election tickets and cleo,
ton that last weeks issue was de-
Iaycd several days.
Wharton precinct, Wharton
county gave Cochran 1876 votes and
Ross 80. The negroes seem to vote
the Republican ticket blind.
Dallas county has a new coun.
ty attorney who is after the gamb-
lers and who forces the Dallas sa-
looms to close up on Sundays.
Harriet Weller, q 17-year-old
girl, attempted suicide, at Fort
Worth, by taking morphine. She
SAID her lover had deceived her.
Capt. E. W. Taylor, who died
in Houston lately was a prominent
citizen of Independence, Washing
ton county, early in the forties.
james Phillips, captain of an
oyster sloop was murdered off
Pilican island last Sunday. His
body was found in the cabin of the
sloop.
After two weeks of frolic the
people of Dallas are buoyant and IN
good spirits. The News advises
them to build couple more new
railroads.
Five of the negroes who tried
to steal the ballot box at Scots
vile, Harrison county, were tried
at Marshall and fined $500 each. 1t
was very cheap.
Frank Reich, q Sherman
grocer, suicided on the Sth inst by
shooting himself in the head with
a revolver. he had some trouble
with his relatives.
Tho new Methodist church
at Pilot Point was dedicated last
Sunday by Bishop Galloway. The
services were imposing and the
sermon was grand.
James Boyer, q Sherman sales
man, was set upon by two men on
Tuesday evening as he was return
ing from supper and was brutality
beaten. No cause assigned.
On Saturday night four depu-
ty sherlffs made raid on the
building No. SOL Main street, Dali
las, and captured four men who
were charged with gambling.
Over two-thirds of the Harris
county Democratic ticket was elect
ed. Laborer Vasmer was defeated
and the Post says Major Dan Nc
Gary was the happiest man in
Houston.
Last Monday a negro man shot
and instantly killed a negro woman
near Pittsville, Fort Bend county.
They were from Colorado county
and had been picking cotton. The
man was arrested.
On Monday William Peyton
was shot and killed by the Cash
boys from whom he had rented
farm eight miles west of Hubbard
City. Peyton was known as bad
man and the Cash boys are not as
as Sunday school girls.
The Denison Gazetteer con-
graduates itself on having got
i'd of Mr.. Burhans, its former city
EDITOR. The Gazetteer is a magni-
icent weekly paper. the best pure
y weekly in North Texas.
In Orange county not over
lalf q full vote was polled. Men
who do not go TO the polls and
tote have no right to complain at
he management of the public af-
airs.
Tho city council at San An
onio is about to cut down expen-
es by reducing the police force
md the number of men employed
m street work. The city's expen- {
cs are in excess OF its revenues. {
Petree, the Sherman lightning
cd man, who killed Moore a sa-
DON keeper, at Paris, last summer
las been tried and sentenced to
TX years in the penitentiary. An
appeal will be taken. This was a
somewhat complicated case and
grew out of Petroe being inveIgled
nto game of jackpot poker and
hen fieeced.
-DenIson Journal: The color
ID men all voted. A colored man
would walk 400 miles and four laps
o vote. 1t might have added, and
nc generally votes against the men
who give HIM employment, make
advances for him and go on his
bond when he gets into jail. His
Republican friends never do any
If these things.
"A Del Rio special says that
Hewlett Griner, prominent stock
nan of Uvalde county. was killed
On the Mexican side of the river at
he little town of Las Vagas by a
Mexican and that B. F. P. Mac
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