Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-13
STATE NEWS.

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"A committee has been appoint
cd at San Antonio to take charge
of and entertain tho press associa-
ton.
Tom Patterson, young stock
man, was killed by rangers in the
discharge OF their official duty last
week.
On tho llth inst, the commas
sioncrs court of Austin county will
open bids for building new court
house at BolIvIIlc.
- Bids for the postolIicc and Gus
tomhousc Waco were opened in
Washington tho other day. The
bids r-ngod from s52,830 20
see, 900.
"A seven ycar-old white girl
attacked by savage dog in Waco
and severely hurt. The owner OF
the dog is protecting it, instead of
having it killed.
Tho examining trial of Jim
Cloud for tho murder of J. IL. Farr,
at tho Hampstead May Feast last
week, was concluded on Monday.
Cloud was remanded 10 Jail with
out bail.
-Navasota is endeavoring to
organize a base ball club. The
great trouble in keeping up base
ball clubs is there is no money IN
'em. Every town in the state has
plenty of ball players.
Tho Dallas carpenters want
the eight hour system adopted as
soon as the builders complete cx-
isting contracts. The carpenters
clam that wages will regulate
themselves.
The plasterers on the new
Drlskell hotel at Austin struck on
account of their wages being re-
duccd. They were reinstated ut
forty cents an hour, eight hours to
constitute days work.
-Georro Young, a wife MUIR
dercr, was hanged at Waxahachio
on Saturday. The hanging was
public and about 5000 persons
were present. Tho hanging drew
Il larger crowd than q circus.
The body of a male infant five
days old WAS discovered on Syca-
moro creek, near Fort Worth, last
Sunday by two bad boys who were
out fishing. The body was wrap
ped IN fine silk and bore evidence
of violence.
Decatur is determined TO have
a railway eastward, either 10 Den
ton or Dallas, the prevailing idea
being to tap the AtChison, Topeka
and Santa Fe road somewhere.
Ono man is put down as being
willing to give $4,000.
AN item is published IN the
Galveston News to the effect that
the strikers at Palestine now dis
pair of getting any employment
from tho railway company and will
go elsewhere. Sympathy is very
cheap, but 1t will not give those
men employment.
-Lubbock City is in the center
of Lubbock county. Its entire
population consists offivo persons.
Geo. W. Singer wIfo and three
children. A few days ago o Next
can appeared in the town and set
fire to tho store. He was caught
in the act by Singer, and commit.
ted suicide IN the building rather
than be burned alive.
"A bridge meeting was held at
Bryan the other day to consider
tho matter of levyIng a special tax
to build two IRON bridges, one
across the Brazos river and the
other across the Navasota river.
The people Of Bryan wanted tho
bridges and the country people
were opposed to building them
saying that If Bryan wanted
bridges she can build thom herself.
The Bryan merchants want to draw
trade.
Tho commissioners court of
Austin county awarded the con-
tract for building the new court
house at Bellvillc 10 contractor
from Gonzales county for the sum
of S37 400. The contract for remov-
ing the old building was given TO
a citizen of BclIvIlIe. 1t is stated
that IN addition to tho courthouse
building d fine hotel and opera
hoqse-no theatres in Texas-will
be built next fall.
George Waugh a slick young
man from Canada, made his APP
pearanco in San Antonio about n
year ago ] he was nice talker and
well calculated to deceive, He
organized a building association
and took in several thousand dol
lars. He has now been taken in
himself, and sent to the penlten-
tiary for five years. If there is
any moral to this story it is, look
out for slick young mon from the
north, in Texas. They are well
calculated to deceive and frequent
ly do so.
"A terrible tragedy occurred
at Jefferson on Tuesday. J. j..
Haywood tho tax collector of Ma
ron county shot and killed Capt.
J. II. Roots in the county commits
si9ners court, at the town OF Jeaer.
son, The trouble was y personal
one. Roots claimed that Haywood
had Incorporated funds, and
when the shooting took place Hay
wood pointed his pistol over the
shoulder OF Ward Taylor, sheriff of
the county, and got in his work.
To dlsinterested parties it would
seem worse than a deliberate mUr-l
der, and assumes the appearance
of an assassination. Being off of
the ground tho Banner knows
nothing OF the merits Of the case
and is therefore not in q position
to judge of it. One thing is, how
ever, apparont-there are too
many so-called killings in the state.
A number OF journeymen print
ers in Austria have discovered
an ingenious method of solving
ono phase of the labor problem. A
strike having occurred in the town
and the man refusing 10 agree to
any compromise the employers