Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-04-24
STATE NEWS.

-4J-uNA CLA Nasc GA y tNAAAAO LIZ LAAS AhNA
mers in Wilson county by pulling
up young corn.
Rain is badly needed at Flores
vile and vegetation is at standstill
in consequence
The Kyle Standardization is to
be moved to San Marcos and will be
enlarged and improved.
The Southern Baptist conven-
ton will meet at Fort Worth on the
9Th of next mouth. \
The poles are being planted for
telephone line between Beeville,
Oak9ille and Pleasanton.
The Taylor Cotton Seed Oil and
Gin company with capital stock of
100000, has filed charter.
-Timpson hopes to get the rail
road going from Tyler to New Or
leans, as it is on a direct line
An offer of S25O,OOO for the
Driskill hotel at Austin from outside
capitalists has been refused.
The organization of board of
trade at Victoria has been COM
pleted by the election of officers.
The rats have been exceedingly
destructive to young corn in Hays
county, especially near the fences.
The wife Col. Joel H. B. Miller
in Austin has just fallen heir to
property in Philadelphia valued at
100000.
Rev. Jesse Tubb, one of the
Oldest Baptist preachers in Texas,
died in Waco on the night of the
18th.
The residence of John Hanson
was destroyed by fire at Marshall on
the night of the 18th. Insurance.
$1,000.
w. F. Birmingham, formerly of
the Fort Worth Gazette, has been
made business manager of the Hous-
ton Post.
The Sabine & East Texas rail
way company paid 1882 tax on pas
senger earnings for the quarter end
ing March 81.
"A wealthy capitalist of New
York has subscribed $1,000 to the
building of Presbyterian chucrch |
at New Birmingham.
Shanghai Pierce, the well
known stockman of Wharton county
is shipping ten thousand beeves to
the Indian Territory.
The citizens of Rusk held
mass-meeting and passed resolutions
Of regret on the death of the late
Hon. Samuel J. Randall.
Congressman Moore has intro
duced a bill appropriating $4,000
to remove distinctions to naviga-
lion in the Trinity river to prevent
overfows.
The Austin National bank or
ganized on the 18th with capital of
100000, subscribed about equally
BY Pennsylvania and Austin parties.
At meeting of the citizens of
Austin to devise ways and means of
the city over four thous
md dollars was subscribed to adver-
Use it abroad.
The bill appropriating $780,
300 for the enlargement Of federal
at Dallas has been reported
'avorably by the senete committee
amendment
Heavy rains and overfows have
badly damaged the farming interests
IF Shelby county. All of the fruit
was killed by the freeze and many
If the peach trees were killed to the
ground.
"A daily paper to be printed in
jhe Spanish language is to be started
1t Eagle Pass, and the publication
If the Eagle Pass Times will be sus-
pended, the proprietor going into
he new daily.
The charters of the StapeIs Wa
.er Power company, of Staples
Store, Guadalupe county, capital
stock $4,000, and the Galveston
Building and Loan association with
capital of 100000, have been
lied.
R. u. McGaugh, a painter and
dill poster at Denton, took a large
lose of morphine at noon on the
18th, and retired to his room. Soon
lfter he called to his wife, who sum-
noned a physician, but he arrived
90 late.
A lunatic from San Antonio
named McDermott made his escape
rom the'Austin asylum few nights
tgo. He is the one who sayagely
attacked and beat DR.. Dorset, and
he swears that he will kill him and
iov. Ross.
The jury in the case of j. n,
Drake for the murder of Prof. S. L.
-t,;,,,, - JVooo m, 4ba 0-tb dow of