Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-18
STATE NEWS.

fund amounts to $50, 100000.
Quite n number of German
farmers are locating in Caldwell
county.
Temple Is going TO have a new
opera house and city market COM
bined.
"A national bank backed by
Galveston capitalists is soon to be
opened at Texarkana.
Charles II. Nash, prominent
commission merchant of San An
tonic, died in that city on the 10th
inst.
The state holds the school
bonds of SO counties for 81, OOO,O75,
with interest at from 6 to s per
cent.
Geo. X. Newton, cashier of
the City National Bank of Fort
Worth, died of typhoid fever on
the 18th inst.
Tho public schools of Bolton
have an enrolment OF $50 pupils,
and Baylor Female College has
l60 students.
Fence cutters are still at work
in San Saba county. Last Satur-
day night several miles of the Elam
ranch fence was cut.
Pat O'Keefe a Dallas saloon
keeper was found guilty of camb-
ling-crap shootlng-on fifteen
counts; his fines amount to $500.
The Houston Herald does not
like to give up its man Laborer
Vasmer; it says he was counted
out by corrupt returning board.
Mr.. V. C. Hart, a travelling
salesman of Galveston, was tried
at Corsicana for cruelty to snimals;
the jury fined him S. and trim
mlngs.
In the United States court at
Galveston on Monday seven whole
sale merchants were fined 500
each for violating the internal rev.
enue laws.
Specials to the Galveston
News from Austin and San Antonio
report that Burke, the missing
treasurer, was seen IN both places
last Sunday week.
Capt. Wilkes, of Lampasas,
had a shooting affray with deputy
sheriff and got shot in the knee.
He had his leg amputated above
the knee on Monday.
j. 81. Evans, formerly con-
ductor on the Missouri-Pacific was
sentenced at Sherman on Tuesday,
to two years IN the penitentIary for
assault with intent to murder.
Rev. A. e. Worley, the step
father of Fotheringham, the alIeg-
ed express robber, lives at Clarks-
vile, Texas, and, says that
nothing can shake his confidence
In Fotheringham's integrity.
Marion Williama living noar
Taylor, on Monday last shot and
killed a negro named Jim Lewis.
The negro was going for Williams
with knife when shot. An in
quest was held and Williams was
justified.
j. It. Morrow, aged 80, form
erly clerk in the Southern Pacific
railway offices suicided at San An
tonic last week by taking chloro-
form. He was enamored of q verIe=
ty actress who, having a prior en-
gagement, did not reciprocate his
love.
w. J. Burk, county treasurer
of Galveston county has myster-
ously disappeared; he has been
missing SINCE the 9Th inst. and up
to Sunday night no tidings of him
could be had. Mr.. Burk was a can
dldate for reelection but was de-
ieated.
Mr.. Burk, the missing treas
urer of Galveston county has not
been heard from. 1t is intimated
that he is short in his accounts
several thousand dollars. 1t will
be some days before the actual
condition of his accounts can be
definitely ascertained. Experts
are busy checking them up.
The citizens of LaGrange are
enthusiastic over the prospect of
securing an extension of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road from Taylor TO
Bastrop. A citizens meeting was
held and committees were appoint
ed TO secure right of way through
the county and depot grounds at
LaGrange.
The sheriff of Dallas county is
determined that the poor darkeys
shall not have any fun. He sent a
squad of deputies out 10 negro
quarter in the city of Dallas where
twenty or thirty negroes were hay
ing picnic shooting craps. Four
unfortunate cOons were arrested
and jailed.
The San Angelo Enterprise
reminds Its readers that Thanks
giving day comes on the Gath inst.
and that the editor will ohcerfully
celebrate the day if some one will
furnish the turkey. Its diet lately
has been principally crow. Evil
dently it longs for a change.
About noon on Tuesday an ex-
plosion occurred in the gun store
of W. J. Hughes, in Galveston. A
young man named Cortinas was en-
gagged IN loading cartridges, when
about 800 of them exploded at
once. The young man was severe.
ly injured and the stock of goods
was damaged few hundred dol.
lars.
Talk about and theorize over it
as much as we may 1t is simply an
impossibility TO dispense with what
is known in the commercial world
as the "middle-man," which Of
course includes the country mer-
chant. To do so would be like
taking link from the middle Of q
chain. And besides, the interest
of the merchant and farmer are
ldentical-the one could not exist
without the other What an erro-
neous idea, too, prevail among
some of the farmers that the mer-
chants have combined to cheat and