Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-06
STATE NEWS.
A national bank is to be opened
at Rusk in few DAYS.

on the 1st of April.
The Irish citizens of San An
tonic are making elaborate prepare
tons to celebrate st. Patrick's day.
"A large number Of strangers are
visiting Floresville looking at the
town and county with a view of To-
eating.
j. ". Fender. who WAS run
over by Texas and Pacific coal car
at Fort Worth, died from his lniu-
ries.
| More improvements have been
made in Columbus tue past six
months than for several years previ-
Gus.
The residence of DIR. W. c. Per-
tie was destroyed by fire at Hender-
son on the oath of February. Loss,
$500.
The district court of Brown
county has adjourned, the grandiury
having found forty six bills of in
dictment.
Street grading and working is
going on rapidly at Brentwood, and
the town will soon have an excellent
system of drainage.
"A heavy rain almost in the ma
ture of cloudburst fell at Waco on
the 26th, dong several thousand
dollars damage to stocks in stores.
There is talk of building a road
from Lacoste, on the Southern Pa
cifc, OF from San Antonio to Pleas
anton, in Atascosa county.
The charter of the Sierra Blanco
Mining and Ore Reduction company
of Preside county with a capital of
100000 has been filed.
The produce and commission
house of J. T. Brown & Co at San
Antonio was entered by burglars,
the safe was blown open and S75
was taken.
All Giles, colored, charged with
the murler OF another negro named
Raine in Harris county, has been
convicted and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life.
The secretary of the treasury
has awarded the contract for the in
terror finish of the customhouse at
Galveston to B. E. Appleby, of
Wichita, KS, for S44,3S5.
"A catfish weighing sixty pounds
and five feet long was taken into
Brentwood the other day alive at
ter having been out of the water
twenty-four hours.
Gov. Ross and Gen. Stanley, of
San Antonio, and a party of their
friends left the other day for the
turkey roosts in Frio bottom on
hunting expedition.
David R. Gurley has instituted |
several suits for damages against the
Arkansas Pass road at Waco for lay
ing its track across his lands without |
obtaining right-of-way.
Several ladies of Austin have
within the past few days raised
$500 in 81 subscriptions for the ben
eft of the confederate home. They
expect to raise $1,000.
Corn is coming up rapidly in
Montgomery county and good stand
has been secured. Great trouble has
been experienced in getting sound
seed corn, owing to the weeyils.
The commissioners court of
Tom Green county has made the
following tax levy: District school,
20 cents: ad valorem rs cents; court
house and jail, rs cents: road and
bridge, 10 cents; state, 325 cents.
"A mar giving his name as Rob
ert W. Corwin surrendered to the
police at Tyler, stating that he was
a deserter from the United States
army at Fort Mcintosh, near Laredo.
The death sentence has been
passed on Tom Miles, Henry Holden
and Fletch Holden, the three negro
murderers of James McGregor at
Atlanta, Cass county. They will be
hanged on the 10Th of June.
An enthusiastic meeting of citi
zens at Dallas was held to protest
against the proposed appropriation
of 100000 for charging the feder-
al building there. A resolution was
passed and telegraphed to Congress
man Abbott to contend for at least
81, 100000.
j. W. Fender a we'll known bus
mess man of Fort Worth, was struck
by an empty coal car while standing
in the yards of the Texas and Pa
cifc, and was knocked down and
dragged some distance under the
brake-beam. He received number
of injuries.
The Wells Fargo Express com
pany has instituted civil suit against
Walter Jones for the recovery of
$1,000 Jones was agent of the com
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