Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09
STATE NEWS.


field and Mexia is now up and il
good working order.
Recent heavy rains have flood
ed the lowlands in Cameron count,
and rendered the roads impossible
"A joint stock company is to b,
/. organized at Seymour, Baylor coun
ty, for the purpose of building fou1
mills.
-Weimer now has two good fire
| companies and better service thar
any town of its size in the state cal
boast of.
The secretary of the state i'm
migration society still continues te
make favorable and encouraging re,
ports of the work accomplished
The farmers throughout the
state are preparing to begin farming
operations earlier than usual, pro
vided bad weather does not prevent.
The mayor of Houston has in
terdicted- the placing of wooden
rails in the grooves intended for the
Esteel bars by the street car compa-
ny.
The annual election of the stock
holders and board of directors of
the New York, Texas and Mexican
road was held at Victoria on We'd
nesday.
"A movement is on foot at Gle
.burne to establish an iron foundry
and machine shops. Nearly half of
the stock has been already sub
scribed.
DIR. j. J. Davis, of Atlanta, Cass
county, while out hunting on Sun
day evening accidentally shot himself
through the head. Death was al
most instantaneous.
John Lakeland, an employe of
the Missouri Pacific road, was caught
between two freight trains between
Caney and Caddo on Wednesday and
his body was ground to a pulp.
ON Tuesday train on the Tex
as & Pacific road ran off the track |
near Longyiew, and dozens of bro
ken limbs, scalds and bruises were
the result. Nobody killed outright.
Tyre Collinsworth, little boy
of Glidden, on the Southern Pacific
road, started to Columbus to a show
and ran into fat-car, crushing his
leg, and died from the injuries re-
ceiyed.
Capt. N. Reed, a hero of San
Jacinto, died at the residence of his
SON W. G. Reed, on the Brazos, in
Austin county, January %. He was
also a member of Hoods brigade in
the civil war.
The executive committee of the
grand council of the Friends of Tenn
perance met at Dallas and passed
against committing the ,
to the third party pro
movement. Il
j. J. Freddie, OF Montgomery,
fred several Intellectual shots at
John marlborough, a negro at
who cursed him because
he (the negro) was asked to step
lside and let him pass. I
Bill Jones, half-breed Indian
md holy terror, whose father is l
for governor of the Choc-
aw nation, was killed day or two {
lgo by Tucker Bench, who acted i,
strictly in self-defense.
"A large flow of gas was dis a
covered at Corsicana the other day /
n boring well on the grounds of
he ice factory. A match was ap- 6
,lied to the pipe and a steady, bril-
liant flame burned for hours.
E J. Reynolds, of Chiffon coua-
y, Ala, who has young wife just .
.7-year- old, has been arrested at 8
Jorsicana on the charge of being an 1
ccomplice to the theft of pair of
orceps from physicians Office. ''
"A white woman who has been
wing with a mulatto barber at San g
suicided because the bar
'er's colored wife raised trouble q
nth her on account of her husband
'resenting the white woman with IL
iano. c
Five masked men at Dufau Falls
roke in the door and chopped lie
way the gable end of Miles Peter k,
on's house on Sunday night and at
empted to outrage his wife, whose g
ries awoke the neighbors and the f.
len ran to the woods.
Gus Wilkie, sub-contractor on
ne new capitol, has received a black Vi
FALLING letter from a party signing
is name as n. C. Miller, and de to
landing that he be paid $500. !.
otherwise he threatens to show up :
aud in Mr.. Wilkes work. g
'-Chas. Mcpherson was shot and !.
killed at Te1arkana on the =
rst of February by Napoleon Nc LEI
aniel. 1t seems Mcdaniel some
me ago pawned his watch to pay ~
fine in the police court for his vic gu
IN, who promised to repay him III
few days, but failed to meet his lea