Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-12
STATE NEWS.

The interstate drill at Austin has
been fixed from the 18th to the 1871
of next May.
The district court has adjourn
ed at Laredo. There were twenty
felony convictions.
The new paper to be started at
Pecos City will appear for the first
time on the 18th inst.
The state comptroller has in
vested $4,000 permanent schoolfunds
in Live Oak county bonds.
The members of the different
banking firms at Fort Worth met and
organized clearing house.
In the prize fight between Mich
OILS and st. Claire at Ell Paso on Mon
day night the latter won after eigh-
teen rounds.
The new courthouse of Falls
county is rapidly approaching com
pletion, and will be ready for occu-
pancy in a few weeks.
There is now good prospect
that the Santa Fe railway will be
extended from it's present terminus
to San Angelo in a very short
while.
The Brazos Pilot and the Tex
as Blade, both published at Bryan,
have been consolidated and will
henceforth be conducted by joint
stock company.
Hampstead has a dramatic
club, which gave a very successful
and satisfactory entertainment a
few nights ago for the benefit of the
Johnston Guards.
The Rock Island surveying corps
have crossed Red River where the
line of Wichita and Winfield strikes
it, and are making their way to the
town of Wichita Falls.
Charles Jacobs, who for four
teen years did a prosperous bust
ness at Palestine, has been closed
up by the sheriff on attachments
sued out by local creditors.
The state treasurer has trans
felred from the general revenue
some $4,000 to the available school
fund to pay the January interest on
state bonds held by the fund.
The farmers alliance held a
at Sherman in the early part
of the week with closed doors, and af-
ter their business had been transacted
they We're banquetted by the citi-
zens.
valentine Conrad, an aged farm
er living on the Garcitas, near Vic
toria, committed suicide late last
night by taking poison,
while suffering temporarily under
mental alteration.
Mrs. Mary L. Williams, consort
Of the late Robert Williams, of Mat
agorda county, one of the oldest
settlers of Texas, who was at the
battle of Anahuac before the Texas
revolution, is dead
"A farmer of Dallas county named
Morse reports that during a party at
lis house threefull sized rattlesnakes
from a hollow log in the
ire place and crawled out on the
1oor where the dancers were.
j. NJ. Massey, whose relatives
i've in Preston Bend, Grayson coun-
y, committed suicide by taking NOR
ohine at the Lindsay hotel, in Gaines
lille on Tuesday. A letter in his
pocket indicated that he had been
ilted.
In response to an application
% Gov. Ross through Secretary
Bayard, made by the Mexican gov
the governor authorizes
detachment of the Mexican army to
pass through Ell Paso ON its way to
one of the Mexican Pacific states.
There are grave apprehensions
If serious trouble at jacksonville, |
growing out of the two murders
here last November. Two sides
nave developed and armed for con-
iict. One mans house was invaded |
~ an armed crowd and several shots
we're fired.
The Masonic Mutual Benevo-
ent association of Texas, an alleged
concern which did bust
less for years at Fort Worth insur-
ng only Masons, their wives and
has been attached by the
sheriff at the mitigation of Mrs.
Martha H. Austin, who holds two
policies.
The Marble Falls Cooperative
Manufacturing alliance was charter
ID on Tuesday. The capital stock
S 100000 at S. share each, and
100000 has been subscribed. The
.harter authorizes the manufacture
rom all textiles, also leather, paper,
glassware, woodenware, pottery,
arm implements, machinery and
urniture.
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