Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-04
STATE NEWS.

Tho city of Rockdalc mas s.
Frohsinn society.
Burglars did a good business
in Dallas last SATURDAY. night.
The firm of Levy & Levin. of
Navasota, have been closed by at
tachment.
"A San Antonio woman has
eloped with another "fellcr" and
$1,000 of her husbands money.
The Rockdale Messenger SAYS
the prospects for fine fruit crop
are better than for many years.
Ono of the sites offered for
the consolidated universities at
Waco is accompanied by u cash
bonus of $1,000.
On Monday evening ward
meeting were held in Houston, all
of them nominated candidates for
aldermen and elected delegates to
the city convention.
The citizens of Waco raised
S57 900 bonus for the consolidation
of Waco and Baylor universities.
Miss Prince, a young lady re-
siding near Waxahachie, was burn
ed to death last week by the upset
ting of can of coal oil ;. while pre-
pairing dinner.
Parsons Texas brigade will
hold its next reunion at Waco in
August next, and the committee Of
arrangements for the same have
Already begun work.
james Frazier, aged Is years,
who lived with his parents near
Athens, suicldcd by putting the
muzzIe Of gun IN his mouth and
firing it with the ramrod. No
cause is assigned.
A VEN of coal of superior
quality is said to have been DIS
covered half . mile from the Santa
Fe railway and six miles north of
Lampasas. This Is valuable find
if there is anything in it.
Three masked men entered
the house Of f. G. Butler, seven
teen miles from San Antonio,
knocked HIM down, gagged and tied
him and stole $500 in cash. Butler
is IS years of age.
Huntsville has street lamps,
but like the lamps in other towns
they are not lighted at the proper
time. This is failing that is
common to street lamps in Texas
towns.
The AIleyton correspondent
OF the Colum bus Citizen is in favor
of seeing Iahorers paid liberal
wages, but he cannot SEQ the Justice
OF u few men inaugurating q strike
at The EXPENSE and inconvenience
OF the general public.
Two 13-ycar old girls of Tom
pie made up their minds to run
away; they went round town and
borrowing few dollars look pas
sage for Waco; they were intercept
ed at McGregor and brought back
home.
Postmaster A. Zadeck, of Cor
sicana. has been arrested and taken
to Dallas for unlawfully delivering
and retaining the mail. 1t is chsrg-
ed that he made promiscuous dis
trlbutIon of the speech Of Congress
man Mills on the silver question.
-Sardine and whIskey Darbe-
cues having been introduced by
candidates in Brennan; the Hemp
stead Ledger recommends their
introduction in the rural districts
OF Waller county. 1t thinks they
would take with the colored SOW
ereigns.
The fashion at dances on the
Rio Grande remains unchanged.
At hop at Edinburgh the other
evening Marcellus Dougherty and
Poncho CARA had misunder-
standing. When they understood
each other CARA had three bullet
holes In his person and Daugherty
was severely wounded by q knife
cut.
"A young man named Fred A.
Hines, who has been prominent in
social and military circles in Gal
weston and who recently married |
a young woman of Rusk, has dis
leaving his wife and
creditors TO mourn his
sudden departure. 1t is supposed |
that a young lady of Waco has
eloped with him.
Tho Temple Times of last Sat
urday reports a safe robbery in
Temple. The modus operandi was
precisely the same as practlccd on
Meyers Il Sonenberg's safe in this
city on Monday night. The safe
workers now have the business
down to a fine point. 1t Is about
as easy to open an ordinary fire
proof safe as Il cigar box.
"A Matagorda county couple
named Wofford, COUSINS, eloped
and went 10 Columbia, where the
lrate father of the female cousin
WIS stood off by the male cousin
with q winchester, During truce
a marriage llcense and preacher
we're brought into requisition and
there was q wedding in q tent.
The old man then lett warning the
young man never again to put his
foot on Matagorda county soil I'M
der penalty ofinstant death. i