Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-01
STATE NEWS.
Burglars are getting IN their
work at Fort Worth.


is in session ut Austin.
The Baptist General convcn-
> ton is in session ut Waco.
Tho Chief estimates the cot
ton crop this year in Comanchc
county at ten thousand bales.
Comancho and Dublin will
soon be connected by telephone.
-Ircdell defeated prohibition
lastwcek by over 100 majority.
The Knights of Labor will
, have barbecue at Scaly on July 2.
Mrs. Fannie D. Porter has been
nominated for postmlstrcss at Ell
Paso.
Prohibition was defeated IN
Nacgodoches county by some 500
majority.
Tho little town of Tlmpson is
ambitious; She wants u cotton
compress and wholesale house.
"A drouth prevails IN the vicinity
OF Cotulla; about quarter crop OF
corn will be made; cotton is doing
well.
Hays county sends an unin-
structed delegation to the state
convention understood TO be for
Swain.
Tho assessable property of
Dallas foots up nearly SS,0O0,O 900,
an increase s5OO.OOO over last
year.
M. Spence, prominent shoe
merchant of Laredo, attempted
suicide by the strychnlne route
Thursday. The doctors saved
him.
"A violent wind, rain and hail
storm visited San Antonio on Sat
urday night at 9 o'clock. Trees
were blown down and houses wero
unroofed.
According to the directory
census for this year Houston has a
population of $4,000 and has ten
railways.
Ben Horton, age Is years, was
killed by being thrown from his
pony-the saddle girt breaking
while racing on the prairie near
Mosquito last week.
-TrevIno Coy, n mexican, shot
and killed J. II. Jackson, n negro,
at FloresvilIe, on Monday and then
made his escape.
AN eight year old boy residing
in Fort Worth took n notion to
travel. He got up IN the night and
took the train for Texarkana,
where he was overhaulcd by wire.
Last Sunday was q lively ono
at Ballingerj the dram shops and |
stores were all wide open and many
men were drunk. There was three
sermons preached during the day |
to good sized audiences. |
The GIddings Advocate says
farmers report that the corn crop
in that vicinity will not average
five bushels to the acre; oats how
ever were good and they may have
iced enough to winter their stock:
The court OF appeals has at.
trmed the decision in tho Cliff
Cook case. He was convicted oil
tho murder of a young MN named /
Russell q: O. Tic TIC mousse of Lilly Glib
son IN San Antonio, some months
since.
j. n, Haywood, OF Beaumont,
snieided Saturday afternoon by
blowing his head off with a shot
gun. He leaves a wife and four
children. He was making a good
living and no cause for the act is
known.
The Times regrets the inability
of BellvIlle TO build an opera
house. A good crop and pros
porous times will have a wonder
full influence in tho way of public
improvements in BellviIle, as well
as elsewhere.
"A boy of II and girl of Is
clopcd from near Alvarado and on
Sunday last passed through Dem
ison on their way 10 the Indian Ter
ritory, where all the runaway
couples from North Texas go to
get married.
"A horrible murder was COM
mitted near Kcmpner las Saturday.
One Donald-on is accused of mHr-
dering his steR-daughterls child,
he being the father of the babe.
The citizens of the vicinity are
bunting for him.
The blast furnace at tho Rusk
penitcntiary was stared up on ,
Monday. The waier pine foapdry ,
is being built near the furnace and !
a new process will be introduced by -,
which watcr-pipo can BIO made
cheaper than elsewhere:
The Express says the Alamo I
mill property in San Antonio has !
been purchased by a syndicate of '
rich men. 1t is one of tho &nest
water powers in that SECTION of the 7
ltate aid there is probability that s
it will soon be utilized. Il
The Galveston Tribune says I
the licensed pawnbrokers of its =
city complain that there are a :,
number of privatecr "a amateur h
nawnbTokers who do business n
WITHOUT any license to tho injury n
Of those who are in tho business v
IegitimatelY, q
two remarkable suits are set t
for trial in the United States court a
1t Dallas on the 25th INST. Two f
young girls are SUNG two wealthy
,attie mon for breach Of promise.
Each girl has twins, one has twin c
bsYs and the other has twin girls. c
One of the girls wants S150,OOO. P
Tho, Fort Worth Gazette says C
ishermon are catching a new kind h
# ish in the Clear Fork. They "
ire variously called shad, river Il
rout and carp. Some time ago W
he fish commissioner stocked the d
TRINITY with young shads and it is d
likely they are new returning in o
ull force.