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

near Eddy, have been bitten by a
mad dog and great excitement pre-
walls.
"A large democratic club has
been organized at Wills Point to off
set the local organization of the I'm
ion labor party.
The McDade Cooperative ALI
ance and the Gillespie county Farm
ers Alliance Cooperative association
have been chartered.
The governor has appointed E.
D. McLennan, of Bonham, district
Judge of the Sixth district, vice
Judge Scott, resigned.
Edward Bean, of Knoxville,
Tennessee, has arrived to contest
the heirship to the estate of Thos.
Bean, deceased, of Bonham.
Measles is raging at Browns
vile, and there have been ten or
twelve deaths. There are several
cases also out on the ranches.
-Woodville McLaren, of Mar
shall, became demented from the
excessive use of tobacco, and has
been placed in the Terrell asylum
John Owens, lumberman at
Orange, was drowned on the 9th by
the upsetting of his yawl while at,
tempting to loosen the line of a lum-
Der schooner.
"A meeting is to be held at Vic
tor;a on the 22nd to endeavor to Sc
cure an extension of the Missouri
Pacific railroad from LAGRANGE to
Arkansas Pass.
Geo. Blankenship, who waylaid
and assassinated Bert Andrews in
McLennan county, has been captured
by Waco officers, who trailed him
with bloodhounds.
j. L. Jarratt was held up a few
nights ago at Denison by robbers,
and while one presented a cooked
revolver in his face the other leisure
y went through him.
"A little daughter of j. E. Par
ker, a wealthy citizen of Waco, is
missing, and it is thought that she
mas been kidnapped, The widest
excitement exists over the affair.
The northbound st. Louis, Ar
KANSAS and Texas train struck An
lrew Thomas, a section hand, near
Waco, on Friday afternoon, crushing
lis skull and fatally injuring him.
"A freight blockade exits at Ell
oaso, AMI in consequence the Texas
Pacific road has served notice on
connecting lines not to receive any
arload lots for that destination.
Bill Hall, charged with being
me of the robbers of the Mexican
National train near chihuahua, was
aptured day or two ago by Sheriff
Baylor, of Uvalde county, at Maria.
Rufus W. Ledbetter, who has
een on trial for several days at Mar
IN for the murder of A. Bell, a Falls
ounty constable, in 1886, has been
iven a life term in the penitentiary.
Frank Finks, Santa Fe rail
BAD conductor who is brother of i,
!. S. Commissioner Finks, of Waco,
as killed at Ballinger the other t
ay by a telegraph operator named a
ALLEY. :
Superintendent Cooper has fur '
ished the New York Post his rea-
ons for opposing the Blair bill. He
oesn't believe the schools would be S
eneftted by the money, but On the
'ntrary injured.
Rev. g. W. Briggs, of Dallas, b
lille chasing a burglar out of his s.
pom a few nights ago ran off the C
sranda and fell to the ground, b
reaking his arm and receiving 9th
severe injuries. q
John Creswell, who has been
1der arrest for some time charged e
it'll being implicated in the Texas t
ain robberies, has been released by n
-e federal grand jury upon investi- d
ltion of his case.
I. n. Butler, the leading mer
lant at Caado postofice, stephens ia
unity, was murdered in cold blood ia
the 9th, by man named Beasley. til
he murderer has been lodged in jail II
Breckenridge.
Haley was run over by a
ain in the Texas Pacific yards at fl
herman while attending a switch on a;
e Sth, and was horribly mangled. n
ne leg was torn off at the knee-cap az
d he died in a few hours. tc
Constable W. A. Terrell of Bos- re
lie county has been put under bond 81
r delaying the U. S. mails. He CT
ned an execution on water tank
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe .,
adj and delayed the train. u
H. S. Mc8Iicken, merchant of =, >,
lmilla, San Jacinto county, was ~
in his store byunknown ca
rites On Thursday. He was struck b..
ice in the back of the head and
) skull was crushed. No clew to
e murder liz