Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-06-26
STATE NEWS.

way on the 18th.
L. L. North, a sawmill man liv-
ing nine miles north of Gilmer, has
made an assignment.
Ben Hasburg, a clothier and
gents furnishing goods merchant at
Denison, committed suicide on the
18th.
The city council of Bolton has
leased the waterworks of that place
to q. A. Wear for five years at Sis
per month.
There are $50 suits in the
courts at Sherman to recover delin-
quent subscriptions to the Cotton
Belt bonus.
Judge j. R. Dickinson, judge
of the DIST judicial district, died at
his home in Waco after protracted
Illness last Thursday.
Jas. Mcdonald, contractor be-
tween 10 and so years old, dropped
dead at San Antonio while walking
along Commerce street.
"A publishing company has been
organized at Schulenberg which will
start a new paper to be called the
Schul enberg News.
Ben Gillespie, a white man
from the Chickasaw nation, has been
lodged in jail at Dallas on the
charge of assaulting his niece.
Joe Wilkins and jim Stevens,
the San Antonio policemen who kill
ed c. W. Collins, have been admitted
to bail in the sum of $4,000 each.
"A water spout occurred on the
Southern Pacific road near Hay
mond station the other day, in
which several lives were reported
lost.
"A stranger named Robinson
from Memphis, Tenn, attempted to
board passing train at Longview,
when his leg struck switch target,
breaking it in two places.
&C. NJ. Click, a postal clerk, re-
covered Judgment for $4,000 in the
district court of Ell Paso against the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road
for personal injuries.
On the 18th at Wills Point W.
R. Collier, a prescription clerk in a
drugstore, shot and instantly killed
DR.. E. G. Tines. Tines was drunk,
disputed medicine bill and drew a
knife on Collier.
John Swayne, for many years
sheriff of Grimes county, was killed
two miles and half from Navasota
on Thursday in the river bottom by
Bill Smith, a negro, who split his
head open with an ak.
While Hrs. D. H. Lindsey was
engaged in cooking a meal at Tyler
on the 18th she endeavored to hurry
the fire by pouring oil on it. The
flames instantly shot up, the can ex-
ploding and saturating her clothing
and she was fatally burnt.
-AIilt. Chambers, of Lenora, a
small station on the Frisco road,
owed John Dutfs mother So board
bill. Duff met him in the road and
drew his gun on Chambers and
made him pay it. He was subse-
queutly arrested for robbery.
e. A. Henegar, from Gordon,
was arrested and taken to Dallas aud
part under bond by the United States
commissioner Oh the charge Of refus
ing to continue the work of taking
the census after being engaged at it
for four days.
Oliver Renfro, alias Harris, a
burly old darkey so years old, living
near East Hamilton, San Augustine
county, logged his 12-year-old grand
son so numerically that the boy
died shortly afterward in great
agony.
Gilbert S. Nichols, postmaster
at Velasco, committed suicide on
the 18th by shooting himself
through the heart A note left be-
hind by him admits that he was CON
siderably behind in his postoffice ac-
counts
The defendants, 6. II. Wickes.
the colored justice, of the peace and
others of Bastrop county concerned
in the Cedar creek killing several
months ago, have been granted a
new trial on the ground that the
verdict was not clearly worded.
Rev. R. L. DabneY, professor of
philosophy in the state university.
has resigned on account of bad
health. The regents accepted his
resignation but appointed him emeri-
tus professor with a division of the
salary between him and an assistant
to be selected at the next meeting of
the board.
The dead body of an old lady
known as Aunt Homa Garrett was