Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-15
STATE NEWS.
-Clarksville has one of the larg-
4 canning factnrieS in the state

The Houston Commercial club,
with capital OF $4,000, has filed
charter.
Crops in Victoria county are in
splendid condition and the prospects
are fattering.
The city councilof Sherman will
extend the electric light system i'm
mediately and put up forty lights.
The city council Of Corsicana
has decided to bore an arteslan well
and to pave tie principal business
streets.
Williams & Bros store at Cold
Springs was destroyed by fire
originated in the barn Of J. P.
Carnes.
The stockholders of the pro-
posed cotton compress at Dublin
have organized and will proceed to
build at once.
The corn crop of Wilson county
is looking in splendid condition, but
cotton is looking bad on account of
the excessive rains.
The people of Lampasas are
trying to build a railroad from that
place to some point on the Austin
q Northwestern road.
"A cotton factory is proposed at
Austin, to be organized, built and
ready for operations by the time the
water power is procured.
Shanghai Pierce, the well
known Wharton county stockman, is
shipping 10000 beeves to the Ind
ian Territory.
Around Liberty some of the
planters will not only be compelled
to plant their cotton over, but they
will have to buy seed.
w. P. Sapp shot and killed
Marion Willingham two miles and
half from Caldwell on the 9th. Both
parties were farmers.
The sixth annual convention of
the Texas Bankers association met
at Houston on last Tuesday. The
meeting was slimly attended.
The convicted lynchers of young
Fleischig on Galveston island have
been granted writ of habeas cor
pus by the court of appeals.
Beverly CLANCY, coIored, has
been lodged in jail at Waco on the
charge of criminally assaulting Sophie |
Smith, colored girl Is years of age. !
Austin is rapidly filing up with
strangers and the hotels are doing a !
big business. There is great deal
of inquiry in the real estate market.
The Brownsville Cosmopolitan
says that the stockmen and farmers
down that way are in good humor.
The rains have relieved their ankle.
ty.
"A negro convict on the john D.
Rogers farm, near Millican, was ac-
cidentally drowned last week while
attempting to cross a swollen
stream in q skiff.
-SeYmoure Mayfeld recovered
Judgment in the district court at
Palestine for $4,000 damages for in
iuries received while an engineer on
the international.
The capitol syndicate people
are having $4,000 acres of their land
in the neighborhood of Texline cut
up into farming tracts, which will
he put on the market.
Antonio Estrada, who killed
Francisco Ximenes at Floresyi.1e
over a year ago, and who has been a
fugitive in Mexico, has been cap
tured.
The charter OF the Fort Worth |
Wool Milling company with capt.
tai stock of 100000 has been filed. |
G. W. and E. F. Post Of Fort Worth |
are the incorporates.
"A little son of j. N. Smith at |
Sherman fell off the yard fence with
an open knife in his hand. He re-
ceived a serious stab in the abdomen,
from which he may not recover.
John Williams, a railroad COW
ductor, was convicted iii tie fe, Il
court at San Antonio the otAei ~ |
OF sending obscene matter t4ro.sh |
the mails to his divorced wife.
At special meeting Of the San
Antonio city council franchise was
granted to party of Denver CAPT, |
talists for the construction of an |
overhead electric railway system,
which will be built at once.
The stock ranch of 10000 acres
in Runnels county belonging to A. |
Fl. Webb, of Colorado City. has been
sold under deed of trust to satisfy |
an Indebtedness of $4,000. |
Houghton & Robinson, of Austin,
were the purchasers.
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