Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-16
STATE NEWS.

The treasury receipts at Austin
on Wednesday were $4,000.
The Northwest Texas Livestock
Association will meet at Gainesville
on March s.
The Cotton Patch Bitters com
pany of Terrell, Kaufman county,
has been chartered.
-Texerkana has organizeda board
of trade, and its first move will be to
abolish uniform rates of freight.
The grand encampment of Odd
fellows of Texas met at Corsicana
on the It'll with an attendance OF
400.
A movement is on foot at San
Antonio to organize a wool ware.
house and cotton compress com
pany.
"A saloon, billiard hall and meat
market near the Santa Fe depot at
Cleburne were destroyed by fire on
Thursday.
There are several cases of scar
let fever at Waco, and two children
of DR.. o. 1. Halbert have died of
the malady.
Jack Stewart, a fugitive from
justice, was shot at Canton, Van
Zandt county, on Monday by officers
while resisting arrest.
Gen. D. H. Hill of Virginia has
accepted an invitation from the
state university faculty to deliver
the commencement address.
Stock in jackson county are
dying in large numbers and the dry
up is said to be increasing rather
than diminishing the number.
George Martin, chief clerk in the
Texas Pacific and Missouri Pacific
freight Office at Dallas, has been ar
rested on charge of ENLIGHTENMENT.
The grading of the Burnet and
Marble Falls railroad is completed,
with the exception of a number of
gaps amounting to about five miles.
1t is reported that Col. Abner
Taylor, of Chicago, who is mem
Der of the state capitol syndicate, is
to be married soon to an Austin
lady.
The State Farmers Alliance con-
template the establishment of a
branch exchange at Houston for the
purpose of handling all of the cotton
in the district and furnishing sup
plies.
w. B. Traylor, large cattle
owner in Victoria and Calhoun coun-
ties, reports that his losses for the
entire winter will not exceed fifty
head.
Hen. ]. h. McLeary, who was
appointed some time ago by the
president as associate justice of the
supreme court of Montana, has re-
turned to Texas.
The city of Austin has contract
ed for fire alarm telegraph sys-
TEN, which is to cost $1,000 a year,
and the city has the option to pur-
chase it for $4,000.
Ed. H. Lemley was arrested at
Henrietta and jailed at Sherman on
the Sth on the charge of committing
a murder in Grayson county two
years ago near Basin Springs.
The acreage of oats sown in
Bell county will be much larger this
year than last, and number of farm
ers are sowing spring wheat, some
thing they haven't done before for
several years.
Three young men giving the
names of Edmondson, Drew and
Light, have been arrested at Austin
charged with burglarizing the safe
of Mr.. Pete Lawless, ticket agent of
the Missouri Pacific road.
County Treasurer Gibson of
Parker county, has gone to Chihua-
hua, Mexico, to try to save his son,
who is one of the Texas boys captur-
ed for train robbery. The laws of
that county condemn robbers to be
shot.
j. W. Wray, prominent lawyer
of Fort Worth, has been cited to APP
pear in the district court and show
cause why his license as an attorney
should not be revoked. He is charg-
ed with the alteration of the records
of the court.
Deputy Sheriff Albert Little of
Gonzales county was shot on Tues
day night near Luling by Charley
Jackson, alias Hicks, a negro whom
he was trying to arrest, and the next
day Jackson was shot fatally by
Constable J. G. Nugent.
"A proposition has been received
by the business men of Luling from
J. R. Taylor, of Alabama, to con-
struct railroad from that town to
Lockhart. 1t is meeting with favor,
and the probabilities are chat a road
will be built from Austin via Lu-
ling direct to the coast.