Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-31
STATE NEWS.

Hitchcock is to have hotel in
tho near future.
Eagle Pass has abolished its
smallpox quarantine against Mexico,
There have been several bad
cases of typhoid fever around Sa-
lado.
-Flatonio marketed its first bale
of cotton on the oath. 1t was raised
by Louis Hargrove.
May Mcdonald, fallen woman,
committed suicide at Texarkana by
taking morphine.
The little son of Secretary of
State Moore had his foot crushed in
an accident at Austin.
"A new postofice has been estab-
ished at Sewell, Nolan county, with
J. Sewell postmaster.
The D. K. Wingate Lumber
company of Houston and Orange
with capital of $4,000 has been
chartered.
Constable Greed Porter, charged
with the killing of j. H. Cummins
in Grayson county, was released on
$500 bond.
Vouchers on file in the state
comptrollers office show that the
feed of the State Volunteers at the
San Antonio encampment cost only
S1560.
Rev. J. W. Gibbons, while walk
ing on q railroad track at San
Diego, fell through a bridge and
broke one of his legs and was ser
iously injured internally.
Pete White, a well known rock
mason of Dublin, Erath county, was
shot and seriously wounded by his
father-in-law Petty, who lives two
miles in the country.
An election for Mayor of Fort
Worth to fl the unexpired term of
Mayor Pendleton has been ordered
for August 4. Alderman W. J. Bal
ley has resigned to make the race
for mayor.
Capt. John W. Davidson, an ex-
confederate soldier who was mem
Der of Flournoy's regiment, died at
Austin from injuries received two
months ago in falling from door
way.
The dead body of Mathes
Wayte was found near the Arkansas
Pass railroad mile from Giddings.
There were no bruises or marks of
violence about him and it is thought
he died from sunstroke.
The census of the eighth Texas
district shows the population of
towns as follows: Weatherford 1000,
Henrietta 2100, Wichita Falls 1900,
Vernon 200, Bowie 1900, Decatur
100, Quanah 800, Graham 700.
VIM. Lindsey, charged with en-
bezzling funds estimated at from
$4,000 TO $4,000 from the United
States government while assistant
postmaster at Helena, Ark, was ar
rested at San Antonio on Thursday.
On the night of the oath at
Houston Charles Cook committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head with shotgun. He had
been suffering from consumption a
long time and had gradually been
growing worse.
Miss Marian Lawson, a young
sister-in-law of County Collector
Otis VI. David of Waco, and James
Dismukes, of Georgia, who was
visiting relatives at Waco, eloped the
other day and were married. Both
are of tender years.
Gen. W. L. Cabbell, president
of the ex-confederate association of
Texas; announces that the eonfeder-
ate reunion at Dallas has been post
poned from August and 7 to Octo-
Der "a, when the old soldiers will
have chance to visit the fair.
Russell Harrison, son of the
president, and a New York syndi-
cate have invested S250,0O0 in real
estate at Corpus Christi. The pur-
chase embraces 1000 acres of land
and seven building blocks south of
the town on the Port Arkansas cliffs.
1t is rumored that f. HI. Hollo-
way and others will take charge of
the Austin q Northwestern railroad
on September l and that the road in
the near future will be extended to
Llano from Falkland, station be-
tween Burnet and Marble Falls.
VIM. Saunders, resident of
Travis countyIfor thirty years, died at
Austin on the 22nd. He was a
widower without children and left
an estat valued at about $4,000.
Among his requests was one of
$1,000 to the Cumberland Presby-