Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-11
STATE NEWS.


was shot dead at Waco Wednesday.
The Wachita Valley railroad has
authorized the issuance of $4,000
first mortgage bonds.
j. D. ANDREWS was fined $500 in
the county court for operating a
variety theatre, at Fort Worth re-
Gently.
Work on railrord from Abb
lene to San Angelo is expected to be
in progress within the next few
months.
"A wedding party without a
groom, who had skipped at the last
moment, was the sensation at Waco
on Wednesday night last.
New corn is selling at 40 cents
a bushel delivered in Burnet. This
is nearly double what it was last
year. The crop is somewhat re-
duced.
The executive committee and
the state nominees met in Austin
yesterday and were to have been
banquetted by the government en-
ployes last night.
The governor is advised that
case of smallpox has turned up at
McGregor. There are some appre-
tensions that cases of it may spread
from San Antonio.
The strike of railroad hands on
the Cotton Belt at Corsicana is said
to have extended at last to Tyler.
More deputies to prevent trouble
have been sent for.
Ellen Robinson, colored wo-
man living at Houston, was shot by
an unknown party just before day
. the other morning and was sup
posed to be fatally injured.
William Kelly, of Brownsville
was the successful competition for
the West Point cadetship from the
shoe-string District, recently con-
Guided at Corpus Christi.
Three negroes engaged in quar-
rel at Temple which resulted in Sam
Smith and Charley Fowler making
an assault on Will Williams, biting
him over the head with bottle.
Arrangements have been made
with all roads for veterans who want
to attend the reunion at Marshal on
the 9th and 10th to travel for 4
cents per mile for the round trip.
A disastrous railroad wreck oc-
Cured at Choctaw division of the
AIissori, Kansas and Texas Thurs
day. Seventeen cars were derailed
and burned, the engineer caught IN
der the engine and two men badly
hurt.
Some of the female persuasion
must have "sat down hard" on the
editor of the Yoakum Sun, for he
says true love- is obsolete, conse-
quently the old saw about course of
true love never running smooth, is
full of incongruities.
Mr. Emil Haag, of Houston, re-
ceived injuries from which he died
Friday last,stopping arunawaY horse
thereby, saving some ladies from
probable death who were in the We
hicle. He rushed before the horses
with a chair and the pole of the
buggy entered his breast to the
depth of seven inches.
j. n. Taylor, of Quannah, is
lowering between life and death
from an ugly wound across the face
made with hand ak. His wife and
her son, by her first husband, are
under arrest charged with the crime,
and two other parties have been ar
rested charged with completely in
the murderous assault. The au-
thorities are industuously investiga-
ting the case, which has created
considerable of a sensation, and
more sensational developments are
confidently expected.
United States District Attorney
Wilson, who has had under consid-
Grafton the application of Cyrus
Frease, one of the convicted muir
derers of Sheriff John NJ. Cross of
Stevens county, Kansas, in No
Mans Land, July 25, 1888, has also
obtained Judge Bryant's opinion
and forwarded both to Washington
Saturday. Frease is sentenced to
be hanged December 10, 1890, with
G. E. Cook, o. j. Cook, J. B. Cham
blain, Jack Lawrence and John
jackson. Strong influences are be-
ing brought to bear all over the
county in behalf of these men.
Charlie Kirby, a ten-year-old
boy was found Tuesday last wander
ing about the streets of Birmingham,
Ala, looking for his father, who he
said had. while on the Oueen and