Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.
RIoTING has been resumed in
Belfast, ireland.

)r country.
VI The Navasota Tablet says tn,
VI Grimes county convention will IN
e dorse John ireland. He protects
D. the people.
THE San Antonio and Aransa:
Pass railroad is now within cigh
. teen miles of Corpus Christi,
THE strike fever has struck Cubs
and six thousand cigar makers arc
r out on a strike for higher wages in
Havana.
Il Mr.. HoGG, the nominee for attor-
G ney-general is said TO weigh nigh
J. on to 300 pounds. He is fine
). sized Hogg.
s THE Laredo Times is looking a
:, long way ahead. 1t now predicts
! that Major Breckenridge will sue
+ coed Ross as governor.
The anti-saloon Republicans are
: about TO hold monster convon-
ton IN Chicago. Kansas alone
will send thirty-six delegates.
WELLBoRN and Gibbs addressed
, an audience OF 1900 people in DaI-
las Saturday night. The cheering
was equal for both gentlemen.
THE Fort Worth Gazette says
that the Prohibihonists In its city
are satisfied with the local option
plank in the Democratic platform.
THE Fort Worth Mail informs
Doctor CranfiIl that he ought by
this time to know that the Demo-
cratic party is not the Prohibition
party.
Mrs. ROBINSON, tho Massachu-
sets poisoner, now under arrest at
Somorville, is supposed TO have
poisoned nearly one hundred poo
pie. The object was to obtain life
insurance.
CINCINNATI has several negro
policemen, one of whom has lately
been dismissed for attempting to
extort money from woman of bad
character.
THERE is to be reunion of the
Fletcher family at Lowell, Mass,
August 25th and Goth. Fletchors
from every state in the union are
expected to be present.
JOHN SHORTS who formily lived
In Searcy county, Arkansas, where
he poisoned his wife, was caught
and hanged by a mob in Ozark
county, Missouri, last week.
BECAUSE two delegates to the
state convention got drunk and had
a fight, the Bonham News thinks
that a Prohibition plank should
have been inserted In the platform. .
THE Fort Worth Gazette SAYS
that an editorial excursion for the
Texas press has been planned to
the City of Mexico, next year. A
war with Mexico would KNOCK the {
excursion sky-high:
THE lawyers for the defense in !
the cases of the anarchists have
been addressing the jury for the
past two or three days. If these s
lawyers are to be believed the de. S
PENDANTS never intended doing any y
harm. :
THE st. Louis Republican of l
last publishes an interview I
With editor Clifford, of the San n
Antonio Light. Mr.. Clifford says 4
Cutting is guilty us charged by The b
Mexican authorities and that no D
trouble Will ens4e with Mexico. q :,
The Republican state conVeptlpn Ii
will be held at Waco on the Gath a
iHst. 4 very large majority of 81
the delegates RIll be colored, but (,
4 considerable number of those ap- G,
pointed Will be unable to attend CT
'or lack OF money TO pay their !,
ARE. II
GEN. c. e. AUGuR, a retired
lrmy officer residing IN Washing
on city, was shot four times by a r.
negs9 ho9dElgm who was making a,
disturbance on the sidewalk in hi
ront of the generals house and at
ghom no tried to chastlse with a %
mall cane. 81
The Galveston platform wholly &C
allied to indorse the present ad- ne ne
ninistration or even to make any y,
mention of 1t. The machine must n
ave been opt OF order or It WqRld he
ave done something to help the m m
resent executive up the sennato- II Il
iaI steps. W.
THE pei Rlo pot, edited by Miss nc
!ottle Lyons, is again fairly on its ", w''
sot. Miss Lyons is getting out an co
xcellent local paper and SHOULD he
c literally patropized, net slmp- lie!
on account of her sex, but be- IHl
ause she publishes paper that in
ne citizens of her town and coun- la,
= should be proud of. tt;
THREE jockeys were fined 5000 se'
ach in ajustice's court in Chicago o.
Il tke charge of disorderly con-
uct. They would nave keen pros CO n,
cuted for mlsdemeanor, bad the i I'M
wler of the animal had time to cal
.op. They !'dozedI 4izzip Dryer, de
race mare. One of the parties Pa
as "Texas Tom" Raymond. no
THE President with his wife and thu
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