Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-25
STATE NEWS.

Hunt county is soon 10 have
local option election.
A new Methodist church is
soon to be built IN Waco.
Capt. f. D. Wilkes, of Lam
pasas, died in that town on the 22d
inst.
The city authorities at Austin
are trying to break up the opium
dens.
John NJ. Easley, of Navasota.
formerly of this county, died on
Sunday last.
1t is now generally conceded
that Burk, the missing Galveston
county treasurer, is a defaultcr.
Investigation shows beyond
any doubt that eX-trcasurer Burk,
OF Galveston county, is short in his
accounts.
The people of CorsIcana talk
about building railroad from
that city to Weathertord, Parker
county.
Dallas has Just undergone Il
a coal famine As soon as the cold
weather abated q train of nine car
loads arrived.
Judge Gustave Cooke, who for
the past twelve years has been
Judge of the criminal district court
of Houston and Galveston, has re-
signed.
The north wall of the old
courthouse at Marlin was built
without any foundation whatever,
it was simply set on top OF the
ground.
-Greenville is now receiving be-
tween 800 and 400 bales of cotton
daily. Tho total receipts are l5.-
500. The top crop is turning out
finely.
"A carpenter named Gilbert,
who went from Abilene to FL Paso
about month ago, attempted sui
eide by taking large dose of NOR
phine.
1t IS expected that regular
trains will be run over the extern
tion of the Missouri Pacific road
from Dallas to Greenville within n
month.
"A Touring mill is 10 be built
at Whitewright, with the latest
improved machinery. 1t will have
q capacity of seventy-ive barrels
per day.
"A rumor is prevalent in Aus
tin of an impending scandal in off,
cial life, but it is thought the scan
dal will be hushed up by the par
ties interested.
Luther W. Clark, the former
editor and proprietor of the Bryan
blot, will soon leave Bryan for
HI Paso, to make that town his
future home.
The town clock at Sherman
tells different tales about the time
on each OF its four faces. The Reg
lister says it ought to tell the same
time all round.
San Antonio is talking about
getting up a West Texas fair. Indi-
cations are that 1t will not be very
long before the fair business is
completely overdone in Texas.
In the district court at San
Antonio last Saturday William
Nledenbuck was sentenced to the
penitentiary for nipe years for
burglarlzing ChInaman's shop.
The other night the Missouri
Pacific passenger train was fired
into, near Troy, Bell county. The
train was passing through the
woods and it was very dark.
AT Hampstead last Friday J..
Kaiser made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors. and j. A.
PEBBLES, general store. was attach
ed by Leon and H. Blum.
Honey Grove presents the
name of her representative, Hon.
A. J. Nicholson, as candidate for
speaker OF the House IN the
Twentieth legislature.
Judge W. P. Beall, recently
elected county judge of Lampasas
county for the fifth term
died on Sunday night, aged IS
years. He had been a resident of
Texas for forty Yeas,
Albert Keck, aged SO, residing
near Cotulla went out to tho brush
a short distance from his house and
sulcided by shooting himsolfin the
head with revolver. He had been
drinking OF late.
james Taylor: the newly cleo
ted county attorney OF Dallas
county has qualified. 1t is said
that he has put on Chnt't boots
and will pursue his policy in re-
gard to gambling and the Sunday
law.
Matt Lindolf. of Galveston,
complains to the News that mount
ed police officers, after partaking
of his hospitality poisoned a dog
on his own premises. The officers
are "dogoned" mean, to say the
least.
w. L.. Ballard, carpenter
from Austin, who, it is reported,
formerly worked in Brennan, was
robbed in San Antonio by stran-
ger with whom he got acquainted
on the train going to San Antonio.
They had q blizzard down at
Brownsville. The thermometer de-
cendod to so or 55 degrees. 1t
would seem that il doesn't take
very cold weather to make q biz
zard in the latitude of Brownsville,
which is below the first line.
"A rsslroad meeting was held
at Greenville on Monday and it
was delIded to raise the money
necessary to secure tho st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas railway to