Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-26
STATE NEWS.

chartered.
"A negro named Watson frozt
to death five miles west of Corsicani
on Saturday night.
The Brazos and Colorado rivers
were frozen over at Waco and Aus
tin during the freeze.
The people of jefferson enjoyed
the novelty of sleigh riding and
coasting early in the week.
The F. F. Collins windmill and
pump manufacturing company of San
Antonio has been chartered.
Mrs. Patten, wife of DR.. G. w.
Patten, a prominent physician at
Huntsville, died on the 18th.
Since the killing of Bobo and
the hanging of Page peace again
reigns supreme at jacksonville.
During the cold spell the cattle
around Ballinger drifted badly and
large number of them were lost.
The governor has appointed
Walter ellis district attorney of the
forty-frst district, vice A. D. B.
Old resigned.
e. H. Lewis, boot and shoe
merchant of Dallas, has turned over
his stock of goods to satisfy the
claims of creditors.
The famous Houston Light
Guard, which the Post calls ''the
worlds champions" have decided
to enter the Austin drill.
Freight rates on the Southern
Pacific road between Eagle Pass and
San Antonio have been reduced from
SO cents per 100 to 40 cents.
Jim Lindley, colored, was found
frozen stiff and unconscious near
Me1ia Tuesday morning. It is
thought that he cannot recover.
A. D. B. Old, district attorney
of the forty-frst district, composed
of, Western Texas counties, has ten
dered his resignation to thu COVER
nor.
-Bluford Caldwell, of Bolton, has
been convicted of stealing S44O0
from his mother-in-law, and will 60
to the penitentiary for a term of
eight years.
The stockmen's convention,
which was to have been held at
Cuero on the 18th, has been post
poned on account of bad weather
until February s.
Judge Harvey Brigham. the
American consul at Paso del Norte,
who fgrredt in the Cutting case,
has been promoted to be consul at
Jamaica.
Wesley Williams, indicted in
the district court CT Falls county |
last March for numbering his wife, |
has been found guilty and the death
penalty was assessed.
Charley Nelson, colored, acct
dentally shot himself at Hitchcock
while cleaning out Winchester rifle.
The ball passed through his body,
inficting fatal wound.
"A great many people at Wichita
Falls busted themselves during the
cold spell gathering ice foot thick
On Crescent lake near town and stor-
ing it away for summer.
Mrs. E. s. Barrett, proprietress
Of the Missouri Pacific hotel at
Waco, was attacked bya savage bull
log, which fastened its teeth in her
mike, and his Jaws had to be forced
open with a hatehet.
Ellen, the 5-year-old daughter
ii Mr.. and Mrs W. D. Richardson,
Who live near Mineral Wells, was
atally burned few days ago. Her
caught fire from the. stove,
While her parents were away.
The snow and sleet of last week
covered the ground at Woodville to
he depth of two inches, and business
men and all classes of people forsook
heir occupations to enjoy the novel
y of sleigh-riding and skating.
The loan ordinance to submit to
he citizens of Austin a proposition |
authorizing the council to issue
100000 improvement bonds was
defeated, which is considered black
we for the new administration.
"A dispatch from Victoria says
hat reports from various points of
he county show that number of
attic died during the ,ol l spell,
nut the losses cannot be es iimated.
Reports from Calhoun county say
hat cattle are dying by the hun
reds.
The westbound cannon ball
reight train on the Texas and Pa
ifc road was wrecked near Bonham
N Tuesday night by the track
preading, but fortunately nobody
Tas killed. A peculiar circumstance
5 that the regular engineer of the
rain had dreamed there would be
wreck and refused to takeit out.
Read the Death Roll
Which the bills of mortality of any large CITY
lay be fitly designated, and you will find that
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