Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-29
STATE NEWS.

Citations.
More fonco cutting in San
Saba county.
Officers continue to arrest
strikers at Palestine.
There are 5S7 inmates in the
Austin lunatic asylum.
-Nacogdoches is to have a
Baptist church.
San Antonio is to have a $780,
900 sanitarlum.
-Seguin is to have waterworks
at cost OF $4,000.
The Bollville Turnverein will
hold no fest this year.
Abilene will adopt the cleo
trio fire alarm system.
Work is beng pushed IN the
Llano silver mines.
Ruby has been elected the
county scat of Fisher county.
The district court of Lee coun-
ty convened on Monday last.
Flatonio was visited by a dcs-
tructIve hail storm on Tuesday.
"A heavy rain and hail storm
visited Deulson on the 25th inst.
Coal has been discovered near
Santa Anna, Tom Green county.
Major FIJI. Fry, county clerk
of Lee county, died on the Goth
inst.
Paris has organized n new
military company - the Maxey
rifles.
Efforts arc being made TO es-
tablish a telephone exchange at
Bryan.
Col. J. II. B. Miller has retired
from the oditorshrp of the Austin
SidbSSlidus
The Odd Fellows are soon to
erect Widows and Orphans home
at Corsicana.
"A convention of the undertake
ers of the state is in session at
Fort Worth.
In Camp county now discov-
cries of mineral coal are reported
every week.
Isaac A. Goldstein, indicted
for forgery at Waco, has been hon
orably acquitted.
Midland has voted tax OF 20
cents on the hundred dollars for
school purposes.
1t is reported that the boycott
against the Mallory steamship line
has been raised.
Col. Charles Stewart, of Har-
ris county, is announced for re-
election to congress.
The German societies of Dali
las will cold Il fest on the 18th and
18th of May next.
Tho Labor Siftings, Fort
Worth paper, has suspendod-gone
dead, so TO speak.
Tho bonded debt of Galveston
81, 1885,, 800 while the floating debt
of the city is S93,205.
Col. Crawford, of Dallas, will
likely enter the race for congress
against Olin Wellborn.
About $4,000 of unpaid school
warrants have been registered by
the State treasurer.
The Denison Sunday Gazetteer
is the handsomest weekly paper
printed in Texas.
w. II. Roe has been commit
ted to Jail at Huntsville, charged
with poisoning his wife.
"A white man named McCune,
was run over and killed by a train
on Saturday near Denison.
We regret to learn of the
death of the wife of Mr.. F. P. Crav-
ems, of the Waco Examiner.
"A sample of silver ore taken
from the Patton mines IN Llano
assayod S4S0,74 silver per
ton.
Ed. higgins, colored, was ac-
cldentally killed while fooliDg with
an empty gun at Bremond on Sun
day,
DR.. ]. II. Hendricks, an evan
gelIst of the Presbyterian church,
is conducting revival at Rock
dale.
Right of way through Waxa-
hachie has been obtained for the
Fort Worth and New Orleans rail-
way.
The 9th anniversary of Odd
Fellows, April 26th, was duly cele-
bratod by the order in many towns
in the state.
Passenger trains are running
on the Arkansas Pass railway to
kennedy station, sixty miles from
San Antonio.
-Wcatherford has organized a
land has been purchased |
md q large fish tank is TO be con-
;tructed at once.
Tho Bolton Journal reports
.he Baylor College building fund
short some $500, and calls upon
subscribers to pay up.
Farmers in MeLennan county
predict a wet season and the larg-
EST grain and cotton crops ever
raised in central Texas.
The daad body OF Russell
Washington, cOlored, was fished
out of the Brazos river at Wash
ngton q few days ago.
-Prlckley pear is being shipped
rom Cotula, LaSaIle county, to
Tyler, whore it is to be converted
INTO rope and paper.
The farmers Alliance in John
son county will meet on the 18th
If May for the nomination of repre-
and county offices.
The Reagan Guards, q new
company recently organ
zed at Mineola. have been sworn
nto the service OF the state,