Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
STATE NEWS.
The are forty-fvo prisoners il
the Sherman Jail.


farmers are busy planting corn.
There is seventy-fve pris-
oners in the Dallas county Jail.
! At Abilene the Pioneer mills
have shut down for want OF fuel.
Prohibition was defeated in
! Robertson county by q majority
of upwards of 1900.
A safe was burgIarizod at
Gavett, Morris county 5000 in
cash was stolen.
The grain trade of Sherman is
completely paralyzcd by the
strike, which prevents any ship
ments.
"A number of fine business
houses will be constructed at Aus
tin this summer, says tho States
man.
The dcciples of Walton at
Austin mcander to the river and
catch cold and a few sickly-looklng
fish.
Bell county has seventeen
Farmers Alliances and it is said
there are seventeen hundred of
them in Texas.
in the county court at Waco
two Knights of Labor were fined
tor trcsspas or malicious mischief.
They gave notice Of appeal.
United States Marshal Cabell
has arrested four or five strikers
at Bonham and Sherman for con-
tempt of court.
Justice Schulz, q high officer
of the knights of Labor at Dallas,
thinks the trouble with the Mall
DRY line is at an end.
Tho commissioners court Of
Bosque county is about to build
new courthouse; the people don't
want it and are holding mass meet
lngs.
Tho Register says Sherman
will have 4 large paper mil in OPP
Grafton IN less than twelve months.
We hope the prediction will como
true.
Judge C. G. Blnkley, one of
the most prominent and wealthy
citizens of Sherman, died Monday
afternoon, after a prolonged ILL
ness.
j. A. Montgomery was shot
and instantly killed at Farmers
vile, Sunday night by W. II. Hor-
ton. Horton was drunk when he
did the killing.
"A meeting of the business men
of Sherman was held Tuesday
evening to draft resolutions of re-
greet at the death of Judge C. G.
Binkley.
Two negro men were arrested
in Dallas the other night for steal
ing chickens. They had only been
out of the ponitentlary about
month.
Col. J. G. Tracy has with
drawn from the race for mayor of
Houston; he declines to have any
thing to do with a political contest
IN city affairs.
Waco needs a system of sew
ers that will cost not less than
$4,000, and she also needs her
principal streets paved this will
cost from $4,000 10 100000.
Tom Polk, an alleged horse
thief, was taken from his house,
near Coperas Cave, on Sunday
night, by masked mob and
hanged. He was supposed to be
a horse thief.
The Bonham News is now
running q full column ofannounce-
ments for county and district Off
GERS. Candidates in that section
do not hide their lights under a
! bushel measure.
Ono hundred and thirty-two
indictments were found against
the violators of tho local option
law in PaIo Pinto county. They
must have had a local option
grand jury up there.
Confederate homo mito boxes
have been put up in different places
IN Austin. 1t is doubtful if money
enough is collected in them to pay
the expense of making and putting
them up.
"A train with four cars was
sent out of Taylor Monday morn
ing, which the strikers tried to
stop but failed as the train had got
under way before they could get
at the breaks.
The model for the proposed
federal building at Tyler has been
received and gives general dis
satisfaction for the reasons that 1t
is too small and will not cost half
the money appropriated.
The Houston Herald says
now that Tracy has withdrawn the
race for mayor is between Smith,
Democrat and Baker, Independ-
ent Republican. Prior TO this race
Baker has been regarded as q
sound Democrat.
Some young men of Waco or
ganized a minstrel company and
took the road; the company did
not prove g financial success, but
the members managed to get home
with large stock of experience
in the show business.
Young Alexander, boy, son
OF q citizen OF I'll Paso, read dime
novels and became an adventurer.
He hired tramp to accompany
him and getting horses from a
livery stable they roade forty miles
into the country before they were
caught.
"A couple got married at Waco
last week after IN acquaintance of
about an hour; they had never
met or heard of each other before.
The bride was handsome widow
about % years old. Marry in
haste and repent at leisure is an
old adage.
"A Knights of Labor assembly
has been organized at San Marcos
by J. W. r. Loc, whose special
business is that of an organizer.
Some years ago was a very promi-