Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

IN pasas branch of the Santa Fe roa
near Zephyr station. The tram We
"a stopped but the wretch could not 1
found.
lie Three negroes engaged in
J. quarrel at Temple which resulted i
Sam Smith and Charley Fowle
making an assault on Will William!
IS hitting him over the head with
u bottle.
Mrs. Claudia Rowland has FLEE
4 suit against the West Fort Wortl
ii Land and Street Railroad compan,
for $4,000 damages for injuries t.
Y her husband which resulted in his
death.
Mrs. Anna Lewis was arrested
l at Fort Worth for appearing on the
streets in male attire. She was
looking for her husband, whom she
suspected of being out visiting the
i. varieties.
Wiley Carswell, a colored man
IS years old, has been arrested at
kerens, Navarro county, on the
charge of criminally assaulting Mar
garette Hawthorne, a negro girl
nine years of age.
"A railroad mechanic at Palestine
while under the influence of morphine
fired a pistol at his wife, wounding
her in the hand, and when the DO
llcemen went to arrest him he shot
at them with a winchester.
The treasurer reports bonds
held by the state school fund as fol-
lows: County bonds, S2,963, 533;
state bonds, S2,O4S, 800: railroad
bonds, S1,753,317; total, S6,665,66O
increase one year, S240,913.
Mrs. Anna Hughes has filed
suit at Dallas against the Central
railroad for $4,000 damages for the
loss of her husband, who was fire.
man on the road and who was killed
IN a recent collision near Howe.
Floyd Wright, the 2-year-old
child of o. Wright, met with hor
rible accident at Dallas. The little
fellow undertook to pull a horses
tail when the animal kicked, striking
him On the right temple and break s
ing his skull.
-Four months ago the remains '
Of a negro named Pat Henry were g
.ound in an old well near Palestine '
md investigation showed he had f
'een murdered. John Wilson, col h
red, has just been arrested, charged C
With the crime. a
Superintendent Cooper has ap- f. {,
ointed to the four $1,000 Peabody ~
ormal college scholarships S. j.
'ewis of Cass county, W. B. Glass
ock of Ellis, Miss Fannie Merry
Gather of jackson, and W. G. Jones y
McLennan. 81
AT Palestine on the night of o.
lie 10Th Dave Colley was fatally q
lot by Ed Matthews with pistol. y,
fired four shots, one of II
hich broke Mr.. James McMeans' - -
g and another wounded Geo. W. 70
nrkett in the thigh. ~ NJ
The titles to the site for the be
W Fort Bliss to be established at nj
Paso are about completed and CHI
ady for delivery. TIE titles to HI
0 acres of the 1000 acres purchased sh
made direct from the governor of hn
xas to the United States. ha
Ben Doughty, once a conductor SIN
the Missouri Pacific railway, fell VA va
OF the baggage car of the east {
lnd Texas and Pacific train at Dy
TT Worth as the train was going yo'
und curve. His head was hor. e'r'
" gashed, leg broken and other I I
lrles sustained. cha
yOl
The assessment rolls o. twenty Bv
mites received in the last few DAYS scie
he comptroller's Office Indicate an nor
.regate increase in taxable values By
53,6OO.OOO. 1t is estimated that hav
years assessment all over the few
e will increase from $4,000, 900 dea
'55, 100000 over last years. you
In difficulty near Little River spir
5ch, Bell county. A. g. Yeaaer urgi
shot in the head and face by W. Det J;
Huddleston with shotgun, but Bell
not seriously hurt. Yeager then
' his pistol and shot Huddleston Sc
he side, from the effects of which yiel'
died. This was the fourth per- they
killed in the county inside of quail
(. yielt
II: W. Kimble, a young man o 1bbe
It rs years old, was Shot and in. tbnr,
tly killed by Chas. Baker at the for
RS residence in San Antonio on ohI;;,
18th instant. Kimble was paw brne
attention to Bakers niece and secrc
been warned not to come on the noco,
Uses. u m,
I'd Bayne and VIM. Jones, two the
rom Kansas City about II wears or hi
we're arrested at Gainesville for breed
no. a criDDled man on5 bo1l: Of th,