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

, Mass.
Major Penn, the Baptist evan
, gelist, is holding a camp-meeting a
Athens.
The Free Methodists are hold
ing camp-meeting and street meet
ings at Terrell.
The ex-confederates of Wilson
county had barbecue and reunion
at Sour Springs on July so.
Milan founders, who was acci
dentally shot at Bolton several day!
ago, died from the effect of his
wounds.
The Iron City News, Printing
and Lithographing company ofLlanc
with capital of $4,000 has filed a
charter.
-Chauncey Donaldson, the II
year-old son of Frank Donaldson,
living at San Marcos, accidentally
killed himself while toying with a
pistol.
Mrs. Nellie Alden, of Dallas, has
brought suit against the Houston &
Texas Central railway company for
S25, 600 damages, caused by killing
her husband.
j. L. Yates, living in the north
ern portion of Hunt county, has
been jailed Cor bigamy. He was re-
Gently married while having wife
in an adjoining county.
Splendid rains have fallen in
Carson county and the panhandle
country. The corn and sorghum
crops are assured and cotton planted
in June is in bloom.
Between 1 and o'clock on last
Tuesday morning at Houston John
Walton, negro, was killed by the
officers while attempting to make
his escape from them.
Willie Fiegels, aged years,
and Willie Mandel, 8 years old, !
were arrested and put in jail at
Fort Worth the other day on the
charge of highway robbery.
Cowboys on the Leon river in |
Coryell county have been amusing
themselves soaring the negro squat
tiers, charcoal burners and wood cut
tiers by shooting around their camps.
A fire broke out six miles east of
Seymour the other day and burned
several large pastures and large
portion of the prairie, resulting in
considerable damage to some of the
stockmen.
The South Heights Rapid Tran
sit Street railway of San Antonio,
with capital of $4,000, and the
sunset Brick and Tile company of
Gonzales with capital of $4,000
lave fled charters.
An English engineer proposes t
making doubled shell boilers, main
aiming a pressure between them.
5y these means he calculates that a I
much higher pressure can be carried I
han is possible even with the coil =
oilers already in use.
Three Mexicans cravled under '
box-car at Pecos City to get out ,
f the rain and went to sleep. Pres r
ntly freight train came along and a
hoved the car forward, cutting two c
them all to pieces and, wounding i
he third. /
", ]. Treedles, formerly of :
Philadelphia, but recently one of the
wners and the manager of the New >,
birmingham electric light plant, died !.
that place a few days ago of V
7pho-malarial fever. The remains tt
ere shipped to Philadelphia. ii
The application made by citi- il
ems of Coke county to dissolve the a
junction restraining the commits II
oners of that county from letting n
le contract for the construction of Sc
courthouse and Jail at Hayrick d.
as overruled by the district Judge. Re
"A negro woman at Dallas in a 10
of anger seized a brickbat to r
row at another negro woman.
be missile slipped from her hand,
emit straight in the air, and des- =
nding, struck the woman who d
rev 1t on the arm, breaking the
me in two places between the ell -
wv and shoulder.
w. E. Nichols, who lived with
S wife and two children twelve
lies from Hallettsvil.e. Oh the
ayidad, has unceremoniously taken
S departure, accompanied by Miss
Lie Hix, a young lady'of Is or 16
ars. He also took about SI1OO
longing to his wife, for which she
d just sold a piece of land.
Levi Brannon wooed and won
ass widow named Mrs. Romemele
Den son who had recaptI, oh