Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-07
STATE NEWS.

Work will soon begin at Shcr-
man and Mount Pleasant railway.
Cotton worms have appeared
in force in the ncighborhood of
Gonzales. Poison is being freely
used.
Congressman Cram will begin
his canvass of the Shocstring dis
trict at Victoria to-day, the 9TH
inst.
An Atlanta dispatch of the
5th inst, says: There has been a
light frost for the past three morn
ings.
sherman has receiver bids
from several electric light and gas
companies in regard to lighting
the streets.
AT Bryan last Saturday a white
man named Thomas Gloss was Sc
verely cut by a freedman named
Jack Bailey.
Peter McClolland's will has
has been filed for probate in Waco.
HIS widow and son arc gwen
small monthly allowances.
The Orange Tribune says much
of tho land in Orange county
would produce bale OF cotton TO
the acre if properly cultivated.
Officer ]. W. Cokor. of the
Fort Worth police force accident
ally shot himself with his pistol
while on his beat. He is MORALLY
wounded.
-Guss A. Schocffcr, young
man, was shot and instantly killed
at target shooting of the Austin
Rifle club Sunday afternoon. Tho
shooting was purely accidental.
Antelope hunting is an oxcit-
ing sport that Is lnduIged IN by
citizens of Wichita Falls. The
other day party returned from a
hunt bringing in five antelopcs.
The Bonham Nows attributes
the killing of Dave Moore, in
Paris by Petrl, to the evil effects
of whiskey. The killing grew out
of Il game of jackpot poker.
AN artesian well has been bor-
ed in the courthouse yard Pccos
City. 1t is 25S feet deep and has .
three inch casing; tho flow of wa
ter is about 5000 gallons an hour.
About three hundred German
immigrants arrived ut Galveston
on Sunday last. They were dis
trlbuted over the state, Brennan
getting about twenty-five as Der
share.
The Young Mems Christian as
socIation of Houston held a Ran
CARGO court the other evening.
Everything was conducted in due
legal form; chestnut or dude gongs
were strictly prohibited.
-Ballingor is not yet six months
old and already a stock company
has been formed with capital OF
$50, 900 for the purpose OF building
water works. Next thing they
will have electric light.
d. H. Melton, the man arrest
ed on suspicion of having murder
ed detective Hcnnessey at Houston,
was discharged on Tuesday. The
mystery is no nearer solution than
1t was before Motions arrest.
AT Waco on Monday Ernst
Capel boy aged Is, was monkey
ing with a revolver, when it was
accidentally discharged shooting
his companion Will Gambrol, aged
II, in the head. He is not dan
gerously wounded.
ALI the grading on the Santa
Fe road through Cooke county is
complete with the exception of a
short distance from the depot
grounds in Gainesville southwark.
The grading from Red River to
the Canadian is to be let in o day
or two.
"A difficulty occurred a Wins
boro on tho 9Th inst, between Alex
Landlord and Willis Gordon, Cor
don drew a pistol and Landlord
got hold of it lin the tusslc the gun
was discharged and Gordon was
MORALLY wounded. Landlord was
unarmcd.
Gov, ireland, Comptroller
Swain, Secretary Bans and Mr..
VIM. Pitts spent last Saturday duck
hunting on plantation near San
Marcos. Tho public will no doubt
be interested in knowing that the
same party will repeat the hunt in
q few days.
Il. Il. Beach, editor OF the La
Dor Echo, of Houston, is out as the
peoples candidate for the legisla-
ture from Harris county. Beach
was once q greenbacker. He is
placing his reliance IN the knights
of Labor and the farmers for a
heavy and solid vote.
Board and Lodging, including
lights and fuel, may now be procur-
ed in Austin, by University stu
dents, at $500 per month IN pri-
vate families. In the mess clubs
$3.50 per month will cover all OK
penses tor board, lodging, lights,
fuel and washing.
Tom Farrar, negro, was just
ly ynchcd in Throckmorton county
few days ago Hp crlmlnaIly as
saultcd and then murdered young
girl, and as no was running away
he met the girls father and muir
dered him. Farrar was taken from
Jail and hanged to a convenient
tree.
Pat O'Keefc, Dallas saloon
keeper, has been sentenced TO pay
a fine of $3.50 and to six months
hard labor for whipping a woman.
Pat is served right and after serv-
ing his time be will perhaps 90
slow about whipping women. The
man who would whip a woman
should be gwen an heroic dose of
his own medicine.
Tho negroes in San Antonio
have been holding u mass meeting
and passing resolutions. nj They re-
solved to Support onlv sucb condi-