Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-23
STATE NEWS.



the system is to be $4,000.
Tho town of Mckinney has
received Il, zoe bales of cotton this |
season. Merchants in that section I
have made good collections.
Navasota has shipped this sea-
son 1880 bales of cotton, which is
said by the Tablet to be consider
able increase over last year.
Fred StaIlbauer, aged 65 years
and for % years resident of Hous-
ton, suicided on Sunday night by
drowning himself in a tank on his
premises.
The Dallas city council has
forbid the erection of any more
iron clad buildings within the fire
limits. Nothing but brick or stone
will do hereafter.
A Sealy correspondent of the
Houston Post states that work is
now in progress on the narrow
gauge railway toward Cat Springs
in Austin county.
The dead body of an unknown
man was found in the timber near
Edna on Sunday last. Nothing
was found to throw any light upon
the identity of the man.
Dan Williams a Fort Worth
carpenter sought TO settle his faml-
Iy troubles by taking five grains
of morphine. A timely discovery
of his condition and doctor saved
his life.
Mrs. Sallie Hensley, wife of
the late Johnson Hensley, died
near Pattison, Waller county, on
the 18th inst. aged 10 years. She
came to Texas with her husband
in 1928.
Mrs. Isabella NJ. Breckenridge,
mother of e. W. Breckenridge of
San Antonio and J. F. and R. J.
Breckenridge, of Austin, died at
the residence of the former on the
18th inst.
"A man named Staten, who was
arrested and Jailed at Crockett on
Saturday, took poison with suici-
dial intent. He wrote out a state
mentiR.which he claimed to have
kilIe aawa
There is \
900, insured f6r1
The men VIZ
on the Fort Won
railroad are said toN
large in the timber ski1
Red River. 1t is believed to-
robbers will yet be captured. ~
The th1rteen-year old daugh-
ter OF L. L. Joplin, who lives near
Fort Worth, ran away with Reuben
Bowers, a young man, and married
him. Joplin is mad and wants to
get his daughter back home, but
she and her husband are hiding
out.
AN effort is being made by the
citizens OF Victoria to induce the
Huntington syndicate to extend
the New York, Texas and Mexican
railway southwestward to an in
tersection with the Arkansas Pass
and Mexican National with very
favorable signs of success.
Tho town of Terrell had q
very disastrous fire on Thursday,
1850 bales of cotton, two frame
dwelling houses and other proper
ty was destroyed. The fire origI-
dated from sparks from a locomo-
tive. The loss was about SAC, 900,
mostly covered by insurance.
In. Houston a jealous negro
woman, accompanied by female
friend, succeeded in freeing her
faithless husband. The two women
went to work on him, one with o
knife and the other with razor,
when they were through with him
he was sent to the hospital for re-
pairs.
The building trades OF Calves
ton have had conference of con-
tractors and employees and agreed
after January LIST to adopt the nine
hours day work on the basis of
the ten hour system. Thus the
man now getting So per ten hours
work will receive but $40 tor a
nine-hour day.
"A correspondent OF the Rock
dale Messenger writing from
Cause last week says about 300
negroes passed through his town
exodusting from Falls county. He
says they are bound to the land
that flows with milk and honey
(Brazorla county.) He think they
will find a land filled with mosque
toes and black gnats.
The Houston Post of Friday
morning gives an account of q case
of barbarity at Texarkana that
would put shame to anything in
the way ofatroclties ever practiced
by the Indians. A man nan-ed
Howard married a girl IA years
old, accused her of infdelity and
tortured her in a manner that
makes ones blood run cold. He
held her head between his knees
and gave her a whipping, then he
hung her by the feet, naked, to the
wall and whipped per again. He
then, when she VIZ nude, branded |
her on the stoseach and thigh with
a red hot branding iron. She told |
of the torture she had been subj
ed TO and the brute was arrested.
AT night the man was taken out Of
Jail by the infurlated people and
hanged to a railroad bridge and
next morning his dead carcass was
found. Hanging was too good for
such monster.
THE report of the officers of the
state penItentlaries has been issued.
In the two years ending October |
1894 there were received 21q1 con-