Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-02
STATE NEWS.

IN Dan Antonio last week.
-Cleburne is making efforts to
secure another railroad.
Cotton from Brown county is
being compressed at Bolton.
Rev. J. K. Street, late OF Waco.
has established O. ;gnlversalist
church at Dallas, ~
Sixteen Hundred pupils are
reported as attending the Fort
Worth city schools.
The artssian we'll at HiIlsboro
Is 500 feet deep and water stands
within IS feet of the top.
Henry kaufman, an aga crti-
zen OF Houston, dropped deadR
saloon on Tuesday morning. d
Waco talks OF organizing q.
merchants exchange and erecting
a building at cost Of $4,000.
Hon. L. L. Foster has dispos-
ed of his interestin the Dallas Her.
aid TO his partner, Mr.. c. E. Gil
bert.
-Higbwaymen have been get
ting in their work at Dallas.
Three OF them have been arrested
and jailed.
The governor, secretary of
State and other state officers have
gone to LaSalle county on q big
camp hunt.
Judge Gustave Cook has re-
considered and withdrawn his re-
signation as Judge of the criminal
district court.
R. M. Sylvester, of BeevilIe,
station agent at that point, COM
mitted suicide by taking morphine,
last Friday.
Abe Matthews was killed at
Bolton by the falling of a scaffold,
in the opera house, upon which hc
was working.
Judge Hugo Lehman, OF Hous-
ton, is soon to engage in Journalism
at Fort Worth. The Judge is an
old journalist.
Two negro children were
burned to death in a cabin near
Jefferson. while their parents were
out in the field picking cotton.
Tho case against Jim Court
right, charging him with murder
in New Mexico, has been dismiss
ed and he has returned to Fort
! Worth.
The old courthouse at Nacog-
doches has been condemned by the
commissioner court and q new
one TO cost about $4,000 will be
built.
w. i. Fitzpatrick, of Navaso-
to, has been appointed deputy
grand protector Of the knights and
Ladies of Honor, with his Office at
Hampstead.
Il Fort Worth not to be outdone
by Dallas has organized South
western Interstate Fair and Expo
sitlon company. A charter has
heen obtained.
80 opo hoI1 -
"A suit involving -
terest in 10000 acres of land, TO-
600 cattle, and 10000 sheep has
been filed in the district court Of
Taylor county.
Cutting lectured in Dallas on
Friday evening to an audience of
twenty-five persons, including
three newspaper reporters and
four small boys.
The Temple Bee says it is re-
ported that Temple will have an
other daily paper. The more the
merrier says the Bee. If Temple
can support one daily paper it will
do well.
Greenville Is taking stops TO
secure another railroad, the ST.
Louis Arkansas and Texas. About
$50 900 is required TO obtain the
road, of which $4,000 has been
subscribed.
-Laborer Vasmer, of Houston,
has been licensed to practice law;
will he withdraw from the knights
of Labor, who do not admit law
yeas to membership IN their or
ganIzntlonl
j. A. Graham, the drummer
who IN February last shot and kill
ed Lamb, another drummer, at the
Mcclellan house in Waco, was tried
and acquitted in the district court
at Waco last Saturday.
1t is now stated as fact that
gold in paying quantities has. been
discovered in Llano county. The
gold is found in black dirt on the
farm of a Mr.. Tate, some twenty
miles distant from Burnet.
Hog and hominy is scarce IN
the Providence church neighbor-
hood, Burleson county. There is
nothing to fatten hogs on but wind
and not much of that since the
election.
AT Decatur, on Monday even
ing, Mrs. Lancaster, Iandlady OF
the Lancaster house, shot r. Fergu-
son with shotgun, peppering him
nicely, by way of resentlng an in
suit offered her by Ferguson.
Served him right.
"A whole page of the Rockdale
Messenger last week, was devoted
to letters on the prohibition ques-
ton. Milan county is soon to have
fresh local option election. II
accounts be true prohibition has
proved failure ID that county; it
has been IN force two years.
-Stockmen in Mitchell county
complain that the Texas and Pacific
railway does not furnish sufficient
transportation for the shipment OF
stock from Colorado city, and that
they are the sufferers therefrom.
In self defense they are now driv-
ing to Balllnger and shipping over
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
route.
The county attorney at Crock
| cit got DRINK yuhen he got Snhnr