Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-04
STATE NEWS.
The total amount collected by
the Hal. Gosling JOINT memorial
committee was $1,000.

The total amount collected by
. the Hal. Gosling JOINT memorial
committee was $4,000.
Immigrants from Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee are set.
Ting in Shackleford county.
The Navasota Guards have
diShandcd and that town is now
without military company.
Scarlet fever has made It's ap-
pearancc at Austin, causing almost
total suspension of the schools.
The distinguished revivalists.
Moody and Sankey, will visit Gal
weston on the 2lst of February.
/ A very handsome national
bank building is about completed
IN the thriving town of Coleman.
/ VIM. Taylor has been Jailed at
Henrietta on 4 charge of attempt
ing 10 murder his wife and daugh-
ter.
Bolton merchants report bet
ter trade during the month OF Jan
uary than during the same month
last year.
AT Denton the grand jury has
found 2lS indictments, most Of
them being tor violations OF the
local-option law.
-Brownwood was visited by
very disastrous fire at l o'clock
Monday morning. The entire block
on the west side OF the square was
consumed.
Prof c. c. Georgeson. OF DEM
son, left yesterday for Toxic,
Japan, where he has accepted
college protessorship under the
japanese government.
The CroSs-TimberS says the
coal interests of Bowie are looming
up, and new mines are being open
ed, and everything indicates an in
ezhaustIble supply.
1t is understood in Galveston
that the earnings of the Gulf, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe railway increas-
ed 100000 in January, rs compar-
ed with January last year.
"A salvage corps has been or
ganized at Corsicana for the pur-
pose of saving property in the
event Of fires. A wagon, buckets,
ladders and tarpaulins are to be
procured.
MIR. Samuel Williams, on last
Wednesday met Miss Della Tucker,
of Pierce City, Mo-, in Denison, !
and on Friday following they were |
married. A clear case Of love at !
first sight.
A slick swindler is travelling |
over the state issuing certificates
and collecting So on each for men,
bership in an alleged collecting
association. He vIctlmlzed some |
parties at Trinity. !
Farmers IN Navarro county
are said TO be in better condition
than for some years. Corn and
pork are abundant. Oats are SELL
ing at % cents bushel and corn
ut 30 to 40 cents,
Nancy Holman, negress, was
burned nearly TO death in Houston
Sunday morning. She was setting
by a heating stove rubbing her
legs with coal oil when ali of a
sudden it ignited.
Mrs. King, of Caldwell, aged
30 years, has cut her third sci OF
teeth; she is yet in good health [
and Is enabled TO read fine print {
without the aid of spectacles. Her I
third set OF teeth are perfectly
sound,
"A Mexican living in Laredo
gave his wife frst-class lambast-
ng; she played for even by gong
o Deighbor and telling him that ,,
her lord and master had stolen his
chickens. The neighbor sued out
warrant and the wife-Whipper
vas jailed
"A shooting scrape occurred at +,
Richmond last Saturday in which 9
IeSsle Crooms was shot and in
family killed by J. Il. P. Davis. '
Jrooms was advancing on Davis @
With pistol in his hand when he
vas killed. Davis was arrested
nd put under a $500 bond. I
Galveston claims the champ l.
on cater of Texas. He is young ?
who is six feet tall and c
Weighs 240 pounds. He can eat at t
me meal four pounds fpork steak f
nd every so many potatoes, or he
an get away with three dozen e
ard boiled eggs and bread, butter h
nd coffee in proportion. a
The family of Morris Johnson, h
olored, were poisoned hv eating il
toIen porE winch was dosed with h
tryehmne, near Howth station, a
n Waller county, on Saturday. II
ill Harris and Henry Clay,
nest of Morris Johnson, and John F
on's step-daughter have died and "
everal of the family are still IN a [
cry critical condition. 81
Last Thursday night Detec- .,
We Jack Duncan, of Dallas, and /,
'eputy Sheriff SeeIy, of Freestone
ounty, visited the house of
egro named Jesse Bonner, shoot h;
g and killing him; shooting his tc
year old daughter in the fore Of
cad and shooting a 15-year old b.
OY in the knee, near Dallas. W
About o'clock Saturday at. nj
'rnoon q shooting ARRAY occurred w
the residence of John Delaney,
Houston, between Jack Crowley, -.
Houston and Jack HaElon of r.
alveston. Crowley was killed o..
Id Hanlon very badly wounded. Il
9th men, ii seems, had been pay ~
e their respects to Miss Emma nj
elauney, sister of Mr.. John De- bl
uney. N
Hanlon, the man shot by Crow
y whom be killed in the fight in ha
custom, was on Sunday afternoon nc
i'll living, but the doctors could tn
IT saw what the result would he. hi