Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
STATE NEWS.

-Ihe crops IN CaluWeu county
are about all housed.
Red Silver had fallen very low
before this last rain.
Henry George spoke in Dallas
Wednesday night.
An average crop OF cotton is
reported from Hamilton county.
The Falls county crops in gen.
eral have been better than last year.
The cotton crop is Grayson
county will soon be all harvested.
Robert Chambers, fisherman,
was drowned at Arkansas Pass Thurs
day,
Judge Amos P. Foster, of
Austin, a well known Texan, is
dead.
Cotton is much better in Van
Zandt county than farmers had ez-
pected.
Cotton in Houston county has
exceeded the expectation of the
planters.
The bulk of the cotton crop is
picked in Hunt county, though some
fields are still white.
r. G.. Lanham was attacked
near Sherman by a pet deer Thurs
day and badly gored,
Cotton picking will probably
continue in the vicinity of Victoria
until after the holidays.
There is a considerable amount
of sickness, especially pneumonia
reported from Crockett.
Some of the finest turnips ever
raised in the state are being mar
keted now in Fannin county.
There are Sc inmates of the
Confederate home at Austin and the
buildings are crowded to their ut
most capacity.
The Beaumont Journal reports
good deal of building in residences
and live times in the construction of
business houses.
r. Freedman, Longview mer-
chant had his stock of goods burned
Thursday. The fire company sue
ceeded in saving the building.
Reports from the local markets
in great many counties state that
much of the staple now coming in is
damaged by sand and dirt.
Wheat sowing is still going on
in Baylor county at lively rate.
That sown in September and Octo-
Der is up and looking fine.
Ed Viau stabbed Ernest Clark |
at Fort Worth Thursday, and it is
probable Clark will die. Both |
parties were 16-year-old boys.
DIR. Rutherford has decided not |
to quarantine Los Vocas opposite
Del Rio as he thinks he can soon
stamp out the small pox there.
Texas is already the seventh
state, in point of population, having
moved up four points, but in the
year, 1900, she Will occupy the third
rank.
The decomposed body Of Chas.
Cox who misteriously disappeared
about week ago, was found in the
fore-hold of a tug-boat at Galveston
Thurday.
"A party of hunters from Victoria
Wednesday shot considerable game
and two Italians, which will form
subject for investigation by the
grand jury.
The governor has. committed
the sentence. of Dick MCGEE, of
Galveston, sent up in 1883 for
counterfeiting, so that his term will
expire on December % next.
Eugene Williams and Henry
HERON OF IeXarkana went hunting
Wednesday in Red river bottom.
They agreed to meet at a given
eoint, but Heron didn't come back.
lieutenant Geo. NJ. Turner.
tried by court marshal at San An
esSor the embezzlement of funds
~ In his being found guilty
fnced to dismissal from the
he Thomas hotel at Floresville
3 Wednesday night. 1t was
pied by Stoyel Hassell, and
the property of A. G. Thomas
children of Corpus Christi. It
insured for $4,000 and the fur
pre for $500.
Mrs. 1. 7. Andrews, of Weather
ford, WIS seriously gored in the ,
bowels and back by pet heifer
Thursday. The children having
taught it to play with them would
dodge out of the way when it as
sumed hooking attitude, but Mrs. !