Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-07
STATE NEWS.

-lu0 m0uD0IS VI GuS Sdu1 pDCA4AIC
church will erect a house of worhip
at McDade at once.
Major John Smith, one of the
Oldest and most prominent citizens
of Crock EFT, is dead.
The West Texas Medical asso-
citation concluded its session at San
Antonio with grand banquet.
The Western Investment com
pany of Nebraska has been granted
a permit to do business in Texas.
"A new postofice las been estab-
lished at Aver, Deaf Smith county,
with James Med. Campbell post
master.
-Overton Hollingsworth, a lad
living in Waco, was seriously hurt
by runaway dray horse and may
die.
Work on the cable road at DIAL
las that is to be run on Elm street
and out to the fairgrounds has be-
gun.
Temple is soon to be lighted
by electricity. Subscribers to five
hundred incandescent lights have
been secured.
&C. Emanuel, liquor dealer at
jacksonville. has made an assign
ment. The liabilities are in excess
of the assets.
Helen Jackson, an octoroon girl
living at Dallas, was poisoned by Joe
Thompson, colored, through fit of
jealousy. The girl recovered.
The governor offers reward of
$500 each for the arrest and convic-
ton Of the fence-cutters IN Brown,
Taylor and Callahan counties.
Several carloads of home seek
ers from points in Tennessee en-
route to the panhandle country
passed through Dallas the other
day.
Three dusky females attacked a
colored waiter at the Royal hotel at
Waco and administered a cowhiding
to him. He had been slandering
them.
"A difficulty occurred last week
fourteen miles below Bastrop in
which Mack Weeks shot and killed
John Hill. Both parties were color
ed. Weeks is in jail.
e. W. Brooks residence with
contents, ten miles in the country
from Sulphur Springs, was des-
troyed by fire last week. 1t was in
sured for $1,000.
Pastures are rapidly drying up
throughout Cook county and many
farmers are driving their cattle ten
miles to water. Cotton has not suf-
fered to any extent.
The city council of Houston has
rescinded a grant to the Houston
Street Railway company to place
on a portion of Congress street and
on the Louisiana street bridge.
The annual Holiness meeting
: begins in a few days at Scottville
campgrounds, nine miles east of
Marshall, and several families have
already moved to the grounds.
The farmers of Hopkins county
are beginning to feel alarmed at the
dry, hot weather. If rain doesn't
reach some sections of the country
soon the cotton crop will be cut
short.
- james Fuller, of Kunze, in at
tempting to board a switch train at
the yellow pine lumber camps neal
Colmesniel on last Thursday, fell
and was run over, receiving injuries
thought to be fatal.
An exciting scene occurred on
the streets of Ell Paso the other day
between lawyer and justice of the
peace. The justice had ordered the
lawyer to be taken to jail and the
attorney wanted to thrash him.
-Larkin and Marion Hope, the
murderers of R. E! and John Stat
ford at Columbus, have been admit.
ted to bail in the sum of $4,000 each
in habeas corpus trial held before
4 Judge Teichmueller at LAGRANGE.
The United States Rolling Stocl
company has filed proceedings al
San Antonio intervening IN the re
ownership case of the Arkansas Pass
road, and asking that its claim O
nearly $4,000 be given preference
G. NJ. E. Aubrey was knocked
down and rendered insensible al
Fort Worth by an electric car troll
ley. He was getting off the car al
the driver was reversing the trolley
which broke and fell on Aubrey
head. .....-.
Two boys, VIM. Worrell anC