Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25
NEWS ITEMS.


Switchmens Mutual Benefit asso-
citation is in session at Buffalo.
Senator Carlisle of Kentucky has
celebrated his fifty-ffth birthday.
Several sugar mills are ready for
operation at Plaquemine, La.
U. S. legation at City of Mexico
congratulates Diaz on his birthday.
Kansas bakers advance the price
of bread on account of a rise in
-four.
The Brussels labor congress will
not fix a day for the strike at pres
ent.
The man of genius may be guide
but the man of talents will be a
leader.
The extreme sense of perfection in
some men is the greatest obstacle to
their success.
Williamstown, KY, is becoming
noted as a divorce center for new
married couples.
| The course of true love never runs
smooth, and it would not be half
the fun if it would.
We must often consider, not what
the wise will think. but what the
foolish will say.
Sometimes man is a hard-work-
ing man and then again sometimes
he is only a hard nottingham.
Boutelle. of Maine, is a large, fine
looking man, with blue eyes and
blonde hair and moustache,
Bob Shelton, colored, was hanged
at Laurens, S. c., for the murder in
February last, of William Reyford.
Rube Burrows, the notorious
+ train robber, accompanied by a pal,
! was seen near Mississippi City.
: Mrs. Eliza Sparks, Of Louisville.
XIV, was thrown from dog cart
4 while driving and Instantly killed.
It is better for a young man I.
! have his trousers bag at the knel
than to have his brains bag at e
fears.
Eddie Lagarde, aged 6 ysass; VS.
drowned in Bayou Lafourche, LEA
: Thebodaux, La. His body was re
; covered.
L. NJ. Fishback, of New Orleans
has been given franchise by thu
city of Alexandria, La, for an cleo
I trio light plant.
d The Baltimore Shot and Leac
g Company is reported to have deter
mined to sell out to the American
Shot and Lead Company.
O Erastus Wiman's son. William
( will be married to Miss Deere
l. daughter of the millionaire Western
re plowmaker, on October s.
10 Miss Rose Elizabeth Clevelan'
has sailed for Europe an
'e her brother is getting ready to sa:
a back into the Presidency.
u President W. A. Qualt, of Bake
;, y university, Baldwin, Kan, is only 81
8 He is said to be the youngest CO
! lege president in the world.
20 There are at present about 125,0O
or Jews in the Russian army. Thi
IL number includes the $4,000 JEWS
y. conscrips drawn last spring.
ut Eight mission ships are no
l. cruising in the North sea, each
lg combination of church, chapel, ten
u perance hall and dispensary.
u, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, formerl
d Miss Anita Mccormick, has prope
le ty in her own right and will inner
d S1O.OO0,000 from her mother.
a. The soldiers at Hazard, PER-
county jail, now guard thirty-thre
q outlaws. Another murderer IRE
:; Bill Combs, has been captured.
of The women of Asheville, N. G
IL have formed league of housekeeI
tie ers to secure good servants and Fl
tn schedules of capacity and rates c
g wages.
W Mcbride, the man who murdere
his brother-in-law in cold blood 8
y Atoka, Tenn, bribed his iailer an
IL escaped from the Upton count
jail.
-. The Tennessee congressional COZ
% % vention at Memphis cast 4,8OO ba
~ lots, and reached its sixth day will
y, ~ out a prospect of a break in tn
n deadlock.
as A libel suit was brought againi
ne the Chattanooga Daily Times ft
of $4,000 damages by John W. Hot
rs man, the well known iron man