Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-23
STATE NEWS.

Soclatlon met at waco tuesday.
Henry Douglass, 16-year-olc
boy, broke jail at Mt. Vernon Tues
day.
VIM. Griffin killed John Ransom
III Houston Tuesday night; both col
ored.
"A child of Colonel W. P. Gaines
of Austin was kidnapped in Hous
ton Tuesday.
The West End Street Car com.
pany of San Antonio has increased
its stock 100000.
The State is going to employ
able legal counsel to prosecute the
Eagle Lake murderers.
"A New Orleans man wants to
bore deep well in Galveston to i'm
prove her water supply.
The State Tuesday last pur-
chased $4,000 worth of Colorado
county and $4,000 Zavalla bonds.
The Dick Duncan case has been
placed in the hands of General Gar
land, who will act as attorney for
Texas.
Officers are notified to look out
for VIM Campbell, wanted for as
sault with intend to murder at
Georgetown.
Jennie Foster, colored servant
girl at Jefferson fell in the fire Tues
day while having a fit, and died
from burns received.
Harry Tackett was shot and
killed by Walter Hargrove in Fort
Worth Tuesday. Both were in love
with the same woman.
The assassination of Adolph
Wright at Llano, some days since, is
still a mystery. He was not known
to have had an enemy.
twenty-five bales of cotton
were damaged by fire at Mexia in
car Tuesday. They were ignited by
a truck running over match.
There has been Planters and
Merchants National bank organized |
at Houston with a capital of $780,
900. w. o. Ellis president. Jas. A.
Patton cashier.
Chambers have made their APP
pearance among the horses in
Dewitt county, and every horse
found with CHAMBERS is being killed
by the citizens.
The Presbyterians convened in
a presbytery at Giddings Tuesday,
Rev. ". S. Red, of Navasota, was
made moderator, Rev. B. B. Hodge
of Columbia, clerk.
Work has recently been com
menced at Tyler on her big ice fac
tory that is to supply all East Texas
next season. This is to be one of
the largest plants in the South.
Rev. ". R. Richardson, dean at
st. Marks cathedral, at San Antonio
was thrown from his buggy Tues
day and his thigh broken. His
horse took fright at the electric cars.
Six prominent men of Mangum !
have been arrested on charge of !
larceny. They crossed the river into
the Indian Territory and brought
back some cattle in order to levy on
them.
AN attempt was made Tuesday
night to burglarize the safe of Lee
Preston at Paris. He pays out
thirty or forty thousand dollars a
day but never keeps money in the
safe at night. 6
The cry for more cotton pickers
comes in from every section. One t
hundred more cotton pickers could +
now find profitable employment in
Rockwell county. Good pickers =
make from $3.50 to 50 day. .
The store of Vaughn & Ester,
at Jonesville twas burglarized Tues I,
day night and over $1,000 worth of = =
notes and valuable papers, besides =
several hundred dollars in cash were
stolen. The safe was blown open. F
The people of Llano have
signed the contract with the repre-
sentative of the syndicate who pro b
pose to build road from Waco to it
Llano. Arrangements will be made
70 commence grading the road at an N
'arly day. a,
The kidnapping of the little
,hild of Colonel Gaines at Houston G,
IN Tuesday is still mystery. The a,
hid nor its abductors have not
yet been captured. A detective in
he case says a prominent Galveston sc
nan is mixed up in the affair. 81
&C. Angel, q saddler at Weather
ord, told his wife last Sunday that ~
.e would die Monday night, and 10