Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-04
STATE NEWS.
Galveston contributed $4,000
TO the Sabine sufferers.

Tho straight Democratic tick
ct was elected in Travis county.
! The Paris News says its towr
claims the belt as q cotton market
! In Red River county the whole
Democratic county ticket Is elect
cd.
In McGregor tho prohibition
lists scratched Mills, the vote was
Mills 40, Rankin 100.
AT Alvin, in Brazoria county
tho white mans ticket for county
offices had q wsIkover.
"A Hopkins county farmer
raised two hundred bushels Of
goobors on two acres of land.
In Wise county the top croT
of cotton exceeds the first gather
cd. Wheat prospects are now very
fine.
1t is thought the straight
Democratic ticket is elected in
Bell county by q respectable ma
iority.
Tho criminal docket of the
district court OF Dallas county was
taken up on Monday; it contains
376 case.
d. W. Hancock, one of the
first settlers of Colorado county,
died at his residence near Wcimar
last Sunday.
-NavasOta claims to be metro,
'poIitan in the matter of popula-
ton, having ten natIonalties, not
including the negroes.
"A Navarro county farmer says
the frost last Wednesday morning
destroyed half the cotton crop in
the bottom of his settlement.
Rudy Anderson. aged II
years, son of Joel f. Anderson. of
Waco, was thrown from his pony,
and instantly killed last Saturday.
The residence of Mrs. John
Moran in the northern part of
Gainesville, was destroyed by fire
on Sunday last ; loss $500, lnsu-
rance 500.
Tho German AUTHORIZATIONS
lists of of Waco held q meeting and
organized a club for the further
ance OF their views. They claim
to control 500 votes.
AT Burnet some thieves bored
a hole in the bottom Of car load
ed with pecans and secured several
bushels of them before the trick
was discovered.
-Ulrich FIfan, q Swiss, was
found dead on the beach at Calves
ton. He was a tailor from Austin
looking for work. He took the
morphine route.
August Seabaugh has been ar
rested at San Antonio on the charge
of setting fire to and burning his
own house. 1t was insured for
more than it was worth.
AT Fort Worth they do things
in hurry; the subscription for the
Brentwood and Fort Worth rail
road having been completed the
work of construction will begin
this week.
The public schools of Green
vile are crowded and additional
room will have to be provided for
tho accommodation of pupils.
Verify, the educational interests of
Texas is on a grand boom.
The young men charged with
train robbery at Page had a pre-
iminary trial at Austin on Monday
and were discharged. 1t appeared |
rom the evidence that they were
On a spree and had no idea of com |
CRIME.
Tho negro boy Isreal Glenn
mons who was shot in Austin last
Friday by Tom Smith, Jr., died
Sunday evening. The coroners
ury SAID he was killed by Smith,
md they were unable to discover
my cause for it. Smith was jailed.
w. P. Hawkins, a United
States official stationed at San An
onio, was neatly robbed of S545
" PAIR of Fort Worth artists
Who crowded against him as he was
'nterlng a passenger coach at Fort
Worth. They picked his pocket.
Tho Fort Worth Gazette prints
/ long story of a confding girl, q
,erfdious man and heartbroken
mother. 1t is the same old story
the girl has gone to the bad and
ofuses to return home. She has
:hosen the downward path and is
ost.
The canvass at Fort Worth
wound up Monday night with the
argest Democratic parade ever
cen IN the city. 1t is estimated
hat fully 5000 men were in line.
The darklantern party had a pa
ade, too, but 1t was very tame
fair.
The Democratic campaign can
on of Smith county, while ten
niles in the country was spiked by
Unknown parties; il was brought to
own and put in order to fire
Democratic salute when it was
gain spiked, but this time the
pike was easily removed. h
Charlie E. Watson, a well
nown druggist, Of Galveston, SUI
ided at the Capitol hotel in Hous- !
On on Saturday night by taking
lorphine. 1t was evident from
is actions that he had como to
with the intention of sui
idIng, though the act was not sus-
ected. 6
AT Gainesville not long ago !
vo of the wholesale grocers con- :
and now two large hard a
are houses have pooled their is !
les. Another consolidation is :
1oken OF. By consolidation the =
rms are enabled to carry larger 4
ocks of goods and do an increas- p
l business. /
Tho two story building in En-
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