Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04
STATE NEWS.
The new cottonseed oil mill at
Cuero is nearly completed.

The ladies of San Marcos have
organized cemetery association.
The roller mills and steam gil
at Mason, owned By Colonel JAS. E
Rank, were destroyed by fire las
week.
Burglars entered the residence
of G. W. Crawford at Franklin 6
few nights ago and stole fine colo
watch.
r. ". Madden, an old Texas
war veteran, died six miles north Of
Commerce few days ago. aged Is
years.
The fouth annual meeting Of
the assessors and collectors asso
citation of Texas will be held at Sar
Antonio on September 80.
Tom Jackson, living near Ranger
was badly wounded by his horse
becoming unmanageable and run,
ming through barb-wire fence.
-Tiburcio Lolo, Mexican, acct,
dentally killed himself near Knicker-
booker, Tom Green county, while
lying in bed and playing with PTS
tol.
John Ables, a young man who
was overcome by smoke from the
blast in well near Sherman, died
without ever regaining conscious
ness.
John West, a jeweler at Corpus
Christi, died at that place on Thurs
day of a broken heart, on account OF
the death of his wife in England o
few weeks ago.
On last Wednesday night at
Kyle the fine two story barn of DR..
O. G. Parks, containing twenty tons
of hay, was struck by lightning and
was set on fire.
VIM Buer, young man living
two miles from Mllano, accidentally
shot himself in the leg with revol-
yer while trying to kill dog that
was after yearling.
While R. A. Mckenzie and his
son were working in gravel pit
near Lancaster, Dallas county, the
gravel caved in on them and both
were seriously injured.
Bill Ewers, the party who killed
another farmer named Cox in Bexar
county the other day, went off in the
woods and killed himself through
dread of being arrested.
AT a meeting of the Fort
Worth city council Mayor Smith
vetoed a resolution granting a party
permission to open variety theatre.
The veto was sustained by vote of
S to 5.
-Gerardo Gonzales, a Mexican
boy, was killed by thunderbolt at
Laredo Thursday afternoon. His
hair was singed, but there were no
other signs of the deadly work of
the electric current.
While John Hubbard, young
negro, was standing at the depot at
Richmond a few nights ago a negro
woman walled up to him and with
out any parleying slashed him in
the side with a sharp instrument.
"A rock mason named Sullivan
undertook to ride on freight train
from Ballinger to San Angelo and
perched himself on the tender of the
locomotive. He fell of, was run
over and his arm was crushed into
ajelly.
While workmen were engaged
at work on the fair and exposition
building at San Antonio the scafold-
ing fell and several of the men were
precipitated below. Don A. Jane
son had a leg broken and was badly
lacerated by a spike. T. G. Love
had his shoulder dislocated and his
arm and chest lacerated. Hugh Nc
Kenzie had leg broken and his head
and face bruised
Robert Moody was crossing the
railroad track at Waxahach1e when
his team took fright and ran away.
They ran off a bridge leaving the
wagon on the pier. Mr.. Moody was
thrown from the wagon and one of
the horses fell on MIN and danger
ously hurt him. Tie fall was about
% feet
Alta recent meeting of the board
of directors of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college Prof. Puryear,
the present professor of civil engin-
eering and physics, was elected to
the chair of mathematics, and Prof.
S. A. Beach, of Iowa, was given the
chair of horticulture.
james O'Horre, a boarder at
the Central house in Laredo. stab
bed Willie Workman, lad 10 years
old, which caused the boy to scream.
His mother ran to the scene of the
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