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

SAS SAAA-
} ployed by Pittsburgh firm arc
l out on = strike.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in New
York to secure q Saturday half,
holiday for all workers in the city.
IT appears that there is talk OF
, nominating Mr.. PowderIy for gov,
ernor of Pennsylvania, on the
Democratic ticket.
REVISED returns of the Houston
election show that Smith was
elected. 1t is stated that the Baker
men give up.
THE Sherman Register has been
boycotted and it boasts of twenty.
two new subscribers in one day.
On with the boycott, it cries.
THE Typographical union at
Fort Worth passed resolutions
sympathising with the striking
Knights OF Labor.
JAY GOULD says the Knights of
Labor organization is not as
strong as he thought 1t was. Gould
claims that the strike is practically
over.
THERE is not a respectable paper
IN Texas that does not condemn in
the severest terms the riot and
murder at Fort Worth on Satur-
day last.
IT showed all day at Teledo, O.,
on the 9th inst, and at night it
was over foot deep and drifting
badly; trains on the railroads
were delayed.
A SMALL steamboat, the Noun
tam Boy, was capsized by n gale at
Owensboro, KY, on Tuesday. Three
of the crew were drowned the
passengers all escaped.
The Houston Age says 1t voted
for Smith for mayor, but did not
hurrah for him. 1t would seem in
the late election that the Age was
not hurrah paper.
The labor arbitration bill was
rushed through the House under
high pressure. 1t is not likely to
pass the senate as it is in many re-
spects impractIcabIe.
ACCORDING to the Fort Worth
Gazette the boycott was the pre-
cursor of the present troubles. 1t
taught passive resistance to law,
and led 10 active violation of law.
A HOUSTON special to the San
Antonio Express says the Knights
of Labor supported the Smith
ticket for mayor. And yet is CLAIM
ed that there is no politics in the
knights organization.
THE st. Louis Republican says
the country expects congress to
take proper steps on the interstate
railroad phase of the labor ques-
ton; but it's a step and not
stumble that is wanted.
A FIRE broke out IN John Paul's
lumber mill at La Crosse, Wis, |
on Tuesday and spread rapidly to
other mills and lumber yards.
About one million dollars worth |
of property was consumed.
Mr.. MILLER, of Texas, has re-
ported to the House his bill pro-
viding for the issue of $4,000 in
one-dollar silver certificates and |
s5O,OOO,O 900 in two-dollar certif-
icates. 1t also provides for an IN
limited number of tho denomina-
ton of FIVE dollars.
DIR. DENTON, superintendent of
the Austin insane asylum says that !!
the foreign population of Texas
furnishes 100 per cent. moro lnsan.
ity than the native born in proper
ton. Out of $50 patients of the
asylum last year, los were foreign
ers.
A STRANGE and fatal malady,
which battles the skill of the
doctors, has made its appearance
at Johnstown, Fulton county, Now
York. There has been $50 cases
and thirty deaths. The disease is
of a highly contagious oh .roctor I
and the symptoms are those of
dIptheria, but those attacked die
soon or show evidences of copva-
lespeHee,
THE net earnings of the Bell
Telephone company last year were
Sl,SO9, 1876 and the company paid
out in dividends TO stockholders
81, 562, 1856. The capital stock of
the company is nominally S1O,-
900, 900, but there are reasons for
believing that the entire outlay for
plant is now over 100000. The
St. Republican, which paper gives
the figures above, estimates that
the stock of the company is paying
about 60 per cent. per annum.
THE signal service has made ar
engagements for signal stations !
throughout the cotton belt. On
the 10th INST, reports will be made
from the following points: Gal !
weston, Houston, Palestine, Cuero, !
Columbus, Weimer, Lultng, San J
Antonio, Austin, Brennan, Bolton, ,,
Hearne, Waco, CorsIcana and Dal- \
las. Other stations will also be !
established so as to cover the en- I
ire cotton region In Texas. I
A STORMY meeting was held at !
he MAYORS Office Fort Worth nn /