Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-04-10
STATE NEWS.
"A new military company has
been organized at Laredo.

The Pickwick club, Of Ell Paso
organized for social purposes, has
been chartered.
-Chas. Smith, indicted for muir.
der, was acquitted III the district
court at Huntsville.
Fine rains have fallen in Coma
les county and crop prospects are
very encouraging.
Mrs. Piety L. Hadley, of Hous-
ton, celebrated her S3rd natal ami
versary the other day.
The United States census -taker
has divided Waco into nine districts
and the county into fifteen.
-Abodt $4,000 stock has been
subscribed in proposed paper mill
at San Antonio.
Two little daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoffman,, of Houston, were
badly bitten the other day by mad
dog.
The contract has been let for
the building of a Cumberland Pres
byterian female seminary at Wealth
erford.
"A grain elevator with capacity
of 100000 bushels and roller mill
with capacity of 200 barrels are to
be erected at Vernon.
The per cent of attendance in
enrolment of the public schools at
Cedar Bayou for the present term
has been about 80.
-Stockmen at Bracket are COM
planning of the drouth and claim
that cattle are beginning to die in
the pastures near town.
During the season about closed
Marquee has shipped 3205 bales of
cotton, and business is reported bet
ter than for several years.
-Yolney Gibson, charged with
the killing of Kyle Terry in the
courthouse at Galveston, has been
released on $4,000 bond.
The Bonham bar has signed a
petition asking for the appointment
of D. E. Bryant, of Sherman, as sue
cessor to the late Judge Sabin-
&C. c. Dunbar, conductor on
the Texas and Pacific railroad, fell
from his train at Mesquite on March
25, receiving injuries from which he
died on April 2.
AT 6 o'clock last Wednesday |
the dome OF the Baptist
church at Georgetown was struck
by lightning and was partially dam
aged. Covered by insurance.
Superintendent Gather OF the
state orphan asylum at Corsicana re-
ports forty children on hand. They |
have been afflicted with The measles
and whooplng cough.
On the 1st of April George Far
ley, who lad been employed Oh the
Frisco road, went to Paris from
Antlers and committed suicide by
taking an ounce of laudanum.
"A difficulty occurred at Hills
ooro on Tuesday night between
John Long and Alex Tucker, in
which one pistol shot was fred and
Tucker received a severe cut in the
cheek.
The Union bricklayers at San
Antonio went on q strike the other
lay, demanding $3.50 for 8 hours
work, instead Of 81 for 10 hours.
Some of the contractors conceded
he demand.
AT u o'clock on the night of
March 31st Waiter Hargra7es, a
lorse-trader, shot Bill Williams, the
.olored cook at the Mansion hotel
n Fort Worth. The difficulty &C.
;uIIGu IL u SdlOOu.
The house committee on appro-
,riations has authorized the chair
nan to make favorable report on
Congressman Grains bill appropriat-
ne $4,000 for the purchase of land
It Eagle Pass for military post.
In the district court at Austin
he SIX cases against W. F. Weeks,
ormerly book-keeper at the lunatic :
sylum, were dismissed on Tuesday.
Weeks was the party arrested in
City and brought back
o the state.
In freight wreck on the Trim
ty & Sabine Pass road Lewis Nolte,
he fireman, was buried beneath the
ngine and seven carloads of lum-
Ter. 1t took day or two to find
he body. The engineer, G. W. JEFF
ries, had his ankle broken. l.
VIM. Short while holding
lerd of $500 head of cattle thirty
niles north. of San Angelo a few
lights ago which were being driven
o the Indian Territory, was run
yer by the cattle in stampede and
instantly killed.
w. E. Farmer, the labor agita r