Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-15
STATE NEWS.
Burglars are now busy work
ing in Sherman.

Next season Sherman is to
have twcnty-tOn Ice factory.
DIR. W. J. Burt, prominent
physician of Austin, died on Satur-
day last.
George White, an old citizen
of Collin county committed suicide
last week.
Rabbi Voorsangcr, of Hous-
ton, has resigned his charge and
will go elsewhere.
Two thousand strangers, OK
curriers' from various places, spent
last Sunday in Galveston.
The summer normal schools
throughout the state were opened
on Monday, the 18th inst.
Major Boone made a speech
at Lufkin on Saturday IN which he
advocated deep water at Calves
ton.
Work on the compress at Tenn
pie is now progressing it will be
ready Tor the coming crop of cot
ton.
- Rabbi Voorsanger, of Hous-
ton, goes to San Francisco, having
accepted a call to a prominent posi-
| ton in that city.
The Fort Worth Gazette sug-
gcsts the formation of charitable
association for the relief of dcsti-
tntc people and families.
The capitol contractors at
Austin are paying out SI4S5 per
day for labor and material. They
have paid out 100000 up to date.
Temple is to have a new brass
band. Towns that have passed
through the brass band ordeal
sympathisc with the Temple peo,
pie.
Mrs. D. S. Williams. an Infrm
woman who has been Il charge IN
the city of Dallas for nearly two
years, suicidcd with morphine last
Sunday.
On Sunday the Houston and
Texas Central railway gave an ox'
cursion TO Galveston 10 all its
Houston employees, about 1000 in
number.
"A young StOckman was held
up on the Bandera road u miles
north of San Antonio, on Monday
by two masked highwaymon and
robbed of $3.50
during the rain at Farmers.
vile on Monday evening seven,
year old boy was struck by light.
ming and killed and man was
badly injured.
"A barbecue was given at Ross
station on Saturday last. About
5000 people were present. Ross
and Terrell aired themselves in
lengthy speeches.
- The Fort Worth and New Or.
leans railroad from Waxahachic to
Fort Worth has been leased by the
Houston and Texas Central rail
way for term of two years.
-Konnett Anderson, San An
tonic letter carrier, and the SOD OF
a prominent attorney, is IN Jail for
forging the name of a Mexican
woman to money order for 50.
In Fort Worth the public al
lowed dead body to lie on a pub
lie street for two days much to the
annoyance of good citizens who
were compelled to pass that way.
AT Palestine juries will not
convict the strikers who were In
dicted for unlawful assembly and
riot. The cases were nolle prose
quicd, after the failure to secure
any convictions.
-Lum R. Reese, secretary and
treasurer of the local and district
assembly of the knights of Labor
at Fort Worth, has been arrested
on u charge of embczzling 5000 of
the funds of the order.
John Jordan, a switchman in
the Santa Fe Yard at Temple, was
KILLED last Wednesday morning be-
tore day, while working IN the
yard. The coroncr's jury render
cd verdict of accidental death.
R. W. Morrow, sheriff end col
lcctor of Howard and attached
counties. has absconded leaving
his bondsmen 10 pay a shortage of
about $500. He left note saying
whiskey and gambling swamped
him.
John Tardy who is charged
with numbering a man in Montl-
cello, Ark, January l, 1881, has at
last been arrested near San Mar
cos, where he had been leading a
quiet life as farmer for several
years.
AT Marshall the other day two
negro men quarrclcd ut an ice
cream festival ; one shot the other
tho ball aatteRing on tho skull. If
the shooter had hid the other fell
low on the skin he would have
killed him, sure.
Justice Schulz, of Dallas, who
was arrested on n charge OF en-
bezzlcmcnt, says no got the money
and that ii was stolen out of his
safe. He proposes TO make the
loss good. His statement is con-
tradictcd by the witnesses at the
preliminary examination.
John Jackson, boy, was
lodged in the county Jail at Waco
Sunday morning, charged with
burglarizing his fathers premises
and stealing money, jewelry and
clothing. a portion Of the sWagI
was recovered! Another boy was
arrested charged with being his
pal. Jackson's father is 4 highly
respected citizen,
Sidney Davis, the negro who
outraged a lady at Clifton last
week, was taken from the court
room at Meridian while his pre-
lIminary examination was il pro-
gross Il mob OF aup men appeared
and bound the sheriff, they carried
off the negro and hung him to a
limb. The hanging is generally
Endorsed.