Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09
STATE NEWS.

will soon begin to erect handsome
buildings at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth with its usual enter
prise has raised $4,000 for paper
mill. Five banks have taken stock init
Geo. Robinson, founder ant
editor of the Huntsville Item fol-
80 years, died on Tuesday of paraly
sis. .
The enterprising citizens of E.
Paso are arranging for smuggling
match between Sullivan and Xii
rain.
Matt Chalk was arrested last
week at Clarendon on charge of for
gerry and was lodged in jail at Mar.
garet.
The work of cutting off abrupt
bends in the Buffalo Bayou under
government supervision has been
completed.
Col. J. F. Elliott, secretary of
the state immigration society, who
recently rendered his resignation,
has reconsidered ea~
--Llano county offers right-of-
way, depot grounds and $4,000
bonus to the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific road.
"A. F, Sharp, of Lometa, Lam
pasas county, offers reward of $50
for the recovery OF Norman bay
stallion stolen from his place.
The Waco Examiner has again
changed hands, Capt. ] E. Elgin, who
held a mortgage on the entire estab-
lishment, having taken charge
A genuine sea horse fish was
captured in Galveston bay the other
day by little child of Chas, K. Ba-
men, at Shoal point, while fishing.
There are at present 256 lstu-
dents in the state university, Of
whom nine are passed for gradua-
ton in the academic department.
The Fort Worth and Denver
road is rapidly nearing completion
to Wichita Falls. Three miles of
track were laid ina single dayilast
week. s.rs. -.-
The oil mills at Cleburne, and
the stockmen have consumed about
all Of the cotton seed in johnson
county and there is none.lleft for
'1rm .si..ueT tzer arr
George d. and, John Hunter,
who killed Col. I. j., Williams, a.
prominent lawyer of Palestine last.
morning, have been put IN
der bond of $1,000 EACH % 'i'ii .
Joseph Sutton, young man en-
ployed at work on the dome OF the
new capitol, fell distance of 35 feet
on lot Of plank and had his limbs
in several plhees,s but is Still
alive.isaU! eldrtiYe 3 ~ fru Sm
john Webster, acolore i, has been
arrested at Jefferson for wholesale
of a colored family, one of
whom he had a grudge against, by
doctoring some turnipswith trough
r.,
The Waco & Brazos Railway
with a capital stock of
81, 100000, has been chartered. The
proposed line will run through Nc
Lehman, Falls and Milan counties
to Cameron. l.94 .,gt
in a bloody fight which occur
red few days ago between R. B.
Turner and W. A. Hambrick, of
Greenville, the latter was beat over
5he head with a green hickory stick
and died from fractures of the skull
4
District Judge Scott of Bon
ham has resigned and the lawyers
are3unable to agree upon success
sor to recommend Their choice
les between McClellen and Thur
nond,i of Bonham, and H w. |
Lightfoot, of Paris. u7a
The Galveston Jetty railroad !
has obtained q charter.
Object, to build and operate a rail
way from the city on the eastern
shore down to the jetty and ON the
same, and back to the city on the
vest The length Of, the track will
De fifteen miles.
%. Darwin, lessee of the McLen-
ian county convict camp,.is charged
With employing negro guards who are
n the habit of claiming whites andne
,roes together. ,Thelesseeis charged
With allowing his negro guards also
o inaict cruel punishment on whites
nd blacks alike. r.. 10, ...,,.-
Three United States soldierssta-
ipned at Brownsville crossed o5eri
o Matamoras into a iewery store,
nd while the proprietor wasiengag-
lot Of goods. The theft was
discovered before they, got back
cross the ri33er, and the goIds werel
after which they we're
uined loose. ia.u OH i I4.a .t-it |
= .2HITN Peace on Earth M ''F;'
waits that countless aFmytof martyrs, whose
$40 rror, he