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

| -1AS GA-SOLIGOSLdtC oO4CsASAS VI
Athens and vicinity held reunion
and barbecue on the 22nd instant.
E. Williams had his collar-bone
broken at Waco from a blow from q
club in the hands of George Moore
About 200 citizens of Bryan
took day off and visited Wootan
Wells. Special excursion rates were
given.
j. ". Henderson, formerly edi-
tor and proprietor of the Florosville
Chronicle, died in Kent county last
week.
r. C. Cleveland, a farmer resid-
ing near Hillsboro, has been arrested
on the charge of attempting to pois.
on his wife.
The San Marcos chautauqua
closed on the. 23rd with farmers day
and large crowd from the country
was in attendance.
"A passenger train near Emory
ran afoul of wood train, demolish-
ing the windows and slightly bruis-
ing ex-Gov Hubbard, of Tyler.
"A iointstock company has been
organized at San Marcos and the
necessary amount raised to erect the
buildings for commercial college.
Burglars effected an entrance
into the store OF Sol Wocher at Nav
asota by boring through the door
panel and took away lot of goods.
-Pasqual- Martinez, employed at
Berg's wool securing mills near San
Antonio, had his arm caught in some
of the machinery and torn from the
socket.
Joe Gray, negro employed at
Matthews mill in Texarkana, fatally
beat his sister because she did not
bring his breakfast soon enough to
suit thim.
Capt. F. NJ. McLaig, one of
Hoods brigade, died at the confed-
crate home at Austin the other day.
The body was shipped to Waco for
interment.
An enthusiastic meeting of citi-
zens of Bastrop was held on the 22nd
for the purpose of forming stock
company to build an efficient system
of waterworks.
"A fourteen-company military
post is to be established at Ell Paso
and General Stanley has selected
tract of 1000 acres lying three miles
from town as site.
"A fight between two negroes at
Cleburne led to difficulty between
VIM. Nigel and Louis Hensley in
which the former shot the latter in
the left side with a IS caliber revol-
ver
Judge James Cummins. far
mer and lawyer of Pottsboro, was
fatally stabbed by Constable Porter
in a dispute over some fees that were
coming to Cummins' son as a wit
ness in a suit.
The contract for building Dial
las county's new courthouse has been
awarded to R. L. James. tbs to be
four stories high and will cost $685.
967. 1t will be of Pecos red sand
stone and Honey Grove stone.
Della Simmons, a colored girl
II years old, went to a butcher shop
at Dallas late in the evening to get
some scraps of meat for dog and
was dragged behind the screens,
brutally outraged and left helpless.
George ". Burnett has been az
rested in Cooke county and taken to
Dallas on the charge of taking from
the postoffice and opening letters of
Miss Olive J. McCutcheon with the
intention of prying into her secrets.
While some little boys at Sey-
mour were down on the river in
pursuit of prairie dogs they found
the dead body of man on the sand
bar, which proved to be that of Mat
Pruss, cook The cause of death
is unknown.
The commissioners court of
Bee county has let the contract to
build an iron bridge across the Medic
on the Refugio road. There were
thirteen bridge companies represent.
ed in the bidding. The bridge VIII
be 200 feet long.
-Enos Hurst, young man living
nine miles from Gainesville, was
killed by a horse which he was RI
ding falling over a COW and falling
on him, breaking his spine, crushing
the ribs and MASKING his lungs.
Death resulted in a few hours.
The ". C. Belcher Land Mort
gage company of Fort Worth by
charter amendment is authorized to
increase its capital stock to $780,