Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25
STATE NEWS.
-NavRsotR has contracted for
water works.

-Navasota has contracted for
water works.
-Bellvillc has shipped, this sea-
son, $500 bales of cotton.
M. c. Wellborn, Houston
merchant, has suspended.
Several convicts escaped from
the jail at Longview last Saturday.
The smallpox scare at San
Antonio has completely subsidized.
"A meeting In the interest of
Sabine Pass was lately hold in
Denison.
Moody l. Sankey will do San
Antonio; the newspaper men there
need converting.
Judge James P. Cole, a citi-
zen of Galveston since 1885, died
on the 18th inst, aged ~ years.
Tho citizens OF Brentwood
have organized . drug manufactur-
ing company and will apply for
charter.
Miss Nellie Waters, r chsrm-
ing young lady OF Houston, lately
made her debut in that city with
the Streeper company.
Tho Giddings Advocate re-
ports the death, last week, of An
drew Baird, an old Texan. He
WAS "a years of age.
Mrs. Harriet Alsbury, mother
Of &. P. Alsbury, of Hampstead,
died on the 17lh inst. aged SS
years. She first came to Texas
in 1924.
up to Saturday last the little
station of Ellinger, on the Colum-
bus and LAGRANGE tap, had shipped
$500 bales of cotton.
Nelson, the man who killed
John Forman in Bolton on Mon
day, has been admitted to bail in
the sum OF $1,000, which was gwen
Immediately.
"A deep water meeting was
held at Whitesboro, Grayson coun,
ty, last week. Public sentiment is
divided, but Galveston has tho
most friends.
The female smuggling match
which was stopped by the sheriff
of Galveston county, was 10 have
come off at some point near Gal
weston on Sunday.
Tim Garrett, q negro gambler
who formerly lived at Chappoll
Hill, was shot in the arm at Nava-
sofa the other night by another
negro named Westbrook.
"A belle of the town of Gid
dlngs was heard to remark:
Somebody is going to combustur-
ate soon." The local paper offers
no explanation of her meaning.
James Z. Marshall is in
trouble at FL Paso. He was ar
rested and put under bond for Civ
ing u check on a bank for $50
when he had no funds there.
Thomas Goodman was found
dead at the back door of a saloon
in Midland. The jury OF inquest
said he came TO his death from too
much wbiskey and exposure.
The hall OF the Young Mems
Christian association at Galveston
was rcnted by tho relief committee
for the FIRE sufferers as headquar-
ters. The Y. N. e. A. charged $3.50
for house rent.
A negro woman was discovered |
10 the act Of setting FIRE TO the
poor farm bnilding at Corsicana
" ednesday night. She was locked
lP in the Jail AT tho poor farm, OF
which she is an inmate.
"A murder occurred last week
1t Bright's school house, near Wills
Point. Will Long and Frank Nc
Grill, school boys had a quarrel,
in Long s,abhing McGrilI
% death. The boys were only
shout seventeen years of age.
Last Saturday afternoon a,
Stcagall was taken from the Jail at
and but for the Interior
lncc of tho sheriff who found him
hanging 10 the fence and cut him
Town he would have been n dead
nan. Steagall is tho wretch who
s charged with incest.
Judge Gustav Cook on Thurs
lay afternoon announced his docis-
on in the Kyle Terry heheas COR
BUS case, which was that no did !
rot think the defendant entitled TO
bail. Mr.. Terry wss romanded TO
all; his attorney gave notice of
appeal.
"A lively shooting ARRAY &C.
,urred in tho street at Waco last
week. G. u. Sleeper, J. L. and J. R.
Robinson were engaged in it. Sew
.ral shots were fired but no one
gas hurt. qha parties were all ar
:ested and put Under bond in the
'4m OF $500 each:
wv, n. Lee, q St. Louis drum
ner, had u fight with q grocery
at Dcnison and during
he melee fred at him with o pis-
ol. Lee was acquitted of the
'harge of carryinga pistol because
ne is a TRAVELLING man, but he was
held on q charge pf assault with
intend Ia murder:
Tho trial of Kyle TORY, on
labcas corpusfor bail, before Judge
Gustav Cook, took place on We'd
losday. Evidence was introduced
10 show that Williamson, tho po-
iceman killed by Terry, was out
On the Sunday previous looking
Tor Terry and armed with q six,
'hooteE AND that he had threatened
% kill Terry on sight.
Near Old WaverIy, Walker