Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-08
T1E Austin Statesman has

1hE AuStlu SbdleNmdn mas re-
ceived one reproof for its course
= toward the knights of Labor by a
notice TO stop the paper. 1t says
: per contra it has made may friends
= and subscribers.
THE FREQ coinage bill has been
I made the special order in the
House for Tuesday, Wednesday
r and Thursday, and on the last
mentioned day it is thought vote
' will be reached.
t IT is claimed that the Knights of
t Labor is a non-political organiza-
ton. but at the city of Ishpeming,
t Mich, on the 9Th inst. they elected
4 a full city ticket, their candidate
) for mayor having seventy-nine ma
jority.
THE strike has at last struck
l Holland; the cotton splnners and
! weavers ut Enschede are on q
| strike. No trouble has occurred,
, though the socialists are urging
tho strikers to resort to forcible
measures.
, MRS. MARIA P. EVANS, who fgur-
ed in the New Orleans courts as
the legatee OF the lato Myra Clark
Gaines. has been arrested on the
charge of entering q forged will,
and committed to jail in default of
$4,000 bail.
IT is reported that box of dyna-
mite cartridges, with about one
third OF its contents missing, was
found in an clubhouse q quarter of
a mile from the depot at Fort
Worth. One of the dynamiters
gave the Job away.
THE Houston Post of Tuesday
morning claims Bakers election
as mayor by majority of SIX, hut
thinks it will require the official
count to decide the contest. The
election passed off without any
personal violence.
The Galveston Tribune at
tributes the late outbreak at Fort
Worth to spirit of communism.
1t says every man who was con-
cerned In the killing of the officers
at Fort Worth on Saturday must
be hunted down, and tried for muir
der.
THE Houston Age says there is
one snipe going round, assuming
to act for tho Knights of Labor,
and ordering business men TO take
their advertisements out of the
Age. That paper says the snipe is
a dirty dog, and very likely acting
without authority from any assem-
bly,.
THE strikers at Fort Worth
seem bent on getting into trouble
for two or three days they have
been obstructing the movement of
freight trains on the Missouri Pa
cific road. Public sentiment con-
dennis the strikers, but still they
are numerous enough to be very
troublesome.
In Milwaukee the other night, at .
private house where he was a
guest, a boy, aged IS, shot and
killed a beautiful girl aged Is
while she WAS sleeping beside her
little sister, he afterward shot and
killed himself. The tragedy is in
volved In mystery.
JoBBERs and manufacturers in
Philadelphia, New York and inte-
rior manufacturing towns are look
ing forward TO a good trade
throughout the country. There
has been general advance in
wages and corresponding increase
in the prices ofgoods.
THE city election in Houston
came off on Monday. The total
was 453T, of which Baker received
1854 and Smith 224s. Burroughs
received 35 votes. The canvass
was very hot one and the election
was one of the most closely con-
tested for many years.
THE Terrell Star is on the side
of the strikers. 1t says: "Jay
Gould has put In his jaw about the
strike. So tar as the Star is con-
cerned, a statement of the trouble
from the humblest member of the
strikers earries mere weight with
it than that of the Wall street rob-
ber."
The Abilene subscription COM
mittee for the Abilene, Wichita
Falls and Kansas City railroad
were out on Saturday and in a few
hours succeeded In getting $4,000
subscribed. How many hours
would it take to get $4,000 SUBJ
scrlbed to a railroad enterprise in
Brennan? I
Mr.. PowDERLY, Grand Master {
Workman of the Knights of Labor,
is said to be critically sick at his I
home in Scranton, Pa. 1t is I'M t
known at distance whether he Is t
actually sick, or only sick to avoid +
any responsibility for the present '
unfortunate condition of affairs in {
Kansas and Texas.
A DEADwooD special to st. 1
Paul paper says the richest silver
ore in The largest bodies ever dis e
covered in the United States has I
been struck in the Iron Hill mine.
Much of il ASSAYS Sl5 600 ounces t