Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-01
STATE NEWS.
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There are thirty-two prisoners
in the Travis county Jail.
johnson county has only two
paupcrs on her poor farm.
Hampstead has 544 children
within the scholastic age.
"A paid fire department is be-
ing agltated at San Antonio.
r.. T. Wann sulcided at San
Antonio by drowning himself IN
the river.
Dallas Is raiding her houses
of IlI-fame. Brennan should do
likewise.
Efforts are being mado for the
establishment of Il German-Amcri-
can college at Bolton.
Over 500 colored men have
been admitted to membership IN
the Knights of Labor at Waco.
Headquarters of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been re-
moved from Dallas to Sherman.
According to the Temple Times
1t costs only SIS to shoot INTO q
crowd of hackdrivers at the depot.
Fine stands of corn are up and
a good deal OF cotton has been
planted in Fort Bend county.
Calvert is about to have sys-
tenn of water works. The contrac-
tors are about to begin works.
The German Lutheran Synod
of Texas have selected Austin as
the place to locate their orphans
home.
The Houston and Texas Mar
row Guage railway is surveying a
route from LaGrange to Lock
hart.
- The present norther struck
San Antonio at three o'clock Sun
day afternoon. 1t got to Brennan
about FIVE.
At Rockdale the temperance
council, Knights and Ladies' of
Honor will have a grand May-day
celebration.
AT Wills Point, on Monday
evening, Nat Bratcher, the county
attorney, was fatally shot by Geo.
W. Winfrey.
The coal mine on the Brazos
near Calvert is again being worked.
A car load was shipped to Dallas
and thoroughly tested.
"A freeze at San Saba on Mon
day night killed vegetables and In
jured the fruit and corn crop. Ice
formed over a quarter of an inch
thick.
AT Wills Point tramps set fire
to box car, destroying the car
and eight bales of cotton. Two of
the tramps were arrested--the
other escaped.
Sam Huffman, a dangerous
nd desperate negro, was found
dead in the woods, near Rockdale
last week, with several bullet holes
through his body.
"A train OF ten cars bound
south, on the Missouri Pacific from
Fort Worth, was taken possession
of by the strikers at Alvarado and
the engine killed.
Geo. Young, the negro who
his wife at Waxahachie,
has been tried, found guilty and
sentenced to be hung on the Sth
day of May, next.
Tho Comanche Chief says the
acreage of fall wheat that survived
the drouth and cold of the past fall
and winter, is the smallest ever
seen in that county.
Phil. Leaderick and Charley
Buckle, of benson, have been ar
rested under an indictment charg-
ing them with being aecomplices in
the burning of their own store at
Denison.
Alfred Harmon, a negro charg-
cd with the theft OF four bales of
cotton in Matagorda county, was
shot and killed by a shcriff's posse
near Victoria, last week, while
resisting arrest.
An attempt was made by two
men, the other night, to rob q
street car driver of the change he
is allowed to carry. Another car
in sight, the rQbbipg
scheme was broken up:
- Alex A. MHelF, of Corpus
Christi shot Alex II non,.,o,
throuph a. DouSlass
o. .ho head, killing HIM in
stantlg, at Laredo, on Monday
morning The difficulty occurred
over game of pool. Muely was
&C. W. Boyett has been senten-
ced to the penltentiary tor life by
the district court at Abilene for
killing Ben Warren, q fence-cutter,
q year ago, while acting as a spe-
oial fence.cutting detective under
Governor Ireland.
Five men secured the keys
rom the iallor at Comanche on
Sunday while he was returning
from church, and liberated three
risoners-Williams, Hill and An
three charged with
hett of horses and cattle.
On Friday night o dastardly |
Ittempt was made TO assassinate
Mr.. G. W. Higglnbotham, of Cal
yert as he was going home. A man
stepped from behind a fence and |
ired at him with a pistol. No
'ause is assigned for the cowardly
lttack.
"A special to the Galveston
News from Laredo, says a good
leal of stock which has been held
or some time for shipment, has
'een started overland for its des-
ination, owing 10 the stoppage of
abroad trains by the strike.
"A stage line is to be establish
ID from the terminus of the track
aging on the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass railroad TO Corpus
}hrists. Parties leaving San An
onio in the morning will be able
o take supper in Corpus.
Houston Post: H. Gerdes, of
lew Orleans, and l. NJ. Lewis and
oseph Spencer, of Birmingham,
Ia, capitalists were in the city
esterday canvassing IN the inter-
st of a national bank. They pro-
ose to establish bank with a