Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-23
STATE NEWS.

-Nueces county has, a cash surplus
of $4,000 in the county treasury.
Rufus Fades was struck by a
railway locomotive near Marthaville
on the 18th and was instantly killed.
The farmers of Hunt county
will have a fine stock show, COM
mencing the first Monday in March.
Miss Cassie Macaulay, of Bruce,
McLennan county, and two farmers
named Hall and Robinson were torn
and bitten by mad dog in the last
stage of hydrophobia on the 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justes, an aged
couple living near Iredell, Bosque
county, were set upon by an infur-
lated COW with a young calf, and
both were badly gored. The hus-
band died from his wounds.
w. J. Shotwell, a prominent
ranchero on the Rio Grande twenty
miles above Ell Paso, was waylaid
and assassinated by three Mexicans
a few nights ago while on his way
across the river from Piedras Negras.
The citizens of Lampasas have
organized a company to prospect
for natural gas, also publishing
company, and company to bottle
and ship water from the Hanna
springs. A shirt factory is also
talked of.
"A suit has been instituted in
the Greer county district court at
Mangum by the State VS.. A. J.
O'Connor and G. P. Pomeroy, to set
aside survey made by virtue of GER
tain railroad certificates. The de-
PENDANTS live in New York.
B. Baumgartner, saloon-keeper
at Waxahachie, was set upon in his
room a few nights ago by robbers,
and was fearfully hacked and cut,
losing q gallon of blood. When dis
covered by his friends he was unable
to give any account of the affair.
"A tramp entered the CONNER
cial hotel at Overton few nights
ago and stole $40, a gold watch and
an overcoat from K. Brandon, to-
bacco drummer. He first entered
the Levi house and was frightened
away by the screams of female occu-
pants.
The continued rainy weather at
Palestine excites apprehension in re-
gard to this years crops, horses and
cattle in the bottom lands of the
Trinity. Reports from the river
state that the water is all over the
bottom-higher than it has been for
five years-and still raining.
Nelson T. Davis and W. A.
Cone, charged with misappropria-
ting public funds while officers of
Harris county several years ago, and
who were tor long time fugitiyes
from justice, have been acquitted.
The death of Judge Arson Jones
destroyed the evidence against
them.
"A great moral wave has struck
San Antonio. All of the large
gambling houses, eight in number
VIGOROUSLY and publicly run, have
been closed up, and over thirty gen
tlemen of the cloth have been sent
to the county poorfarm to work out
terms of imprisonment besides pay
ing fines.
Ramon Sandoval, Julian Diaz,
Pancho Navarro and Encarnacion
Ximenes, incarcerated in jail at
Brownsville, poured coal oil on the
clothes of Baltazar Montoya, harm
less crazy fellow while he was
asleep and set fire to them. The
poor fellow was burned nearly to
death before the jailor could come
to his relief.
I'm the trial of a case in the dis
trict court at Dallas on the 18th inst,
while C. E. McWhorter was being
examined by Col. W. L. Craw-
ford, the latter became angry at an
answer given by the witness, and
rushing at him knocked him down
and beat him. The Judge imposed
a fine of only S25.
Jim MCGOWAN, a human brute,
attempted to kill his wife at Sherman
a.few nights ago, and her sister and
mother IN trying to rescue her were
badly cut. Two citizens passing by
heard cries for help and rushed in
and saved the wife Just as MCGOWAN
had a knife uplifted and was in the
act of cutting her throat.
Robert Sealey, a saloon-keeper
at Big Springs, was arrested on the
14th, and taken to Huntsville. 1t
seems that he was convicted of a
felony several years ago in Coryell
county under the name of Carbury,
and after serving part of his time es-
capped. He has been living at Big
Springs ever since 1881.