Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-24
STATE NEWS.

OaIduO anu Ile uOcGOIS are KEEP
busy.
Gov. Ross has not accepted the
presidency of the Agricultural anc
Mechanical college.
The state comptroller has pur
chased $4,000 worth of Stonewal
county bridge bonds.
Jim Denner, a vegetable man Of
Houston, was thrown from his Wagon
and instantly killed the other day.
"A negro child at Waxahachie
two years old took a quantity Of
carbolic acid and died from the eff
fects.
The remains of General ". H.
Hannah, who was killed at New
Birmingham, were taken to Calvert
for interment.
Caldwell, the gambler, who shot
and killed ]. II. Brown at Ell Paso
several days ago, has been denied
the benefit of bail.
The state board of education
has made an appointment of $3.50
per capita of the scholastic census
for the coming school year.
Martin Erwin committed sui
eide at Gainesville the other day by
shooting himself in the throat with
a pistol. No cause is assigned.
Bob Mills, the negro who killed
John Lane, white, near Bobbin,
Montgomery county, a year ago, was
given fifty years in the penitentiary.
-Messrs. B. F. Yoakum and J.
S. Mcnamara, the receivers of the
Arkansas Pass railroad, have qualified
by giving the required 100000
bond.
VIM. Brentz, late teller of the
City bank at Sherman, has been ar
rested on the charge of committing
arson at Burlington, Montague
county.
The Dewitt Volunteers were
given a brilliant reception by their
young lady friends in Cuero on their
return from the San Antonio en-
campment.
Capt. J. A. Hutchins, formerly
a member of the legislature from
Hays county, died at Austin the
other day. Tie remains were taken
to San Marcos.
Mrs. Bob Burns, residing ON
Fish creek, Cook county. suicided
by taking strychnine because of a
trivial difficulty between herself and
a grown daughter.
"A meeting was held at Waco on
the 18th to organize the Master
Plumbers association of Texas. The
attendance was from all over the
state and was large.
Rev. W. ". Mitchell, a distin
guished minister of the Presbyterian
denomination at Fort Worth. has
been arrested and lodged in jail on
five charges Of forgery.
Work on the new hall for the
democratic state convention at San
Antonio is progressing rapidly and
is expected to be completed week
before the time specified.
"A Mexican living at Gonzales
that his wife had been
kicked in the stomach by a mule and
died. Investigation showed that he
had choked the woman to death.
Jesse Goodwin, the convict
guard who was shot at a coaling
camp near Alto by an escaping con-
Wet, died from his wounds. The
remains were taken to Hampstead.
Antonio Celia, driver of an ice
wagon at Fort Worth, was drowned
in the Clear fork of the Trinity He
drove his wagon into the stream to
wash the wheels and got INTO deep |
water.
AT an election held at Rockport
on the 10Th to determine the ques-
ton of changing the name of the
town to Arkansas Pass, f27 votes
were cast for Arkansas Pass. against |
30 for Rockport.
"a man named Tracey, alias VIM
Mitchell, who was wanted in Bell
for horsetheft committed
seven years ago, was Tiled by Off
GERS IN a cornfeld near Bonham
while resisting arrest.
john Gilfoile, an old citizen of
Jack county, was found at the bot
tom of 20-foot coal shaft with his
neck broken near Graham. He was
80 years old and resided in the wes-
tern part of Young county.
-Guissippi Bataglia while out
bird hunting near San Antonio acct
dentally shot one Catarino, and the
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