Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-03-05
STATE NEWS.

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There was small fire in a saw
mill of R. G. Story at Waco Wednes
day night.
Denton county wheat prospects
are reported to have never been more
promising.
The millinery store of Misses
Gordon at Bolton was burned We'd
nesday night.
Henry johnson, the Shumate
murderer, at Emory, has been SEN
fenced to death.
Burglars done a saloon in
Troy Wednesday night securing
S106 and some cigars.
AT Mckinney last Thursday a
negro lad, age II years. fell into a
well and was drowned.
The Physicians association of
the Panhandle met in Vernon on
TUESDAY, the 24th instant.
The Taylor college building is
rapidly nearing completion and will
soon be ready for occupancy.
The grocery store and contents
of Wade Warren were burned at
Gainesville Wednesday night.
The new Masonic hall at Thalla
is about completed and will be ready
for the next regular meeting of the
lodge.
Peter Braden was found dead
in a Coal Camp at jefferson Thurs
day. Heart disease supposed to be
the cause.
Every business house in the
village of Cation is closed on &C
count of illness of the denizens with
la-grippe.
Mr.. Thos. Little, of Floyd,
Hunt county, found a dead infant
floating In a pool of water near his
home recently.
The general impression seems
to be that the fruit crop IN north
and east Texas has been killed by
the recent cold snap.
Catherine Salisbury was placed
on trial in Dallas Tuesday for the
murder of Mrs. Mary g. Fromleth,
and is expected to be sensational.
"A boy at Corsicana stole little
sack of peanuts, awaited trial
month in jail and then was sen
fenced to "a hours Imprisonment.
"A little son of Mrs. Anderson,
of Abbott, Hill county, had his
head accidently cut off by an axe in
the hands of playmate Thursday
last.
Webb county commissioners have
contracted for the completion of the
bridge over the Chacon, which has
remained unfinished for several
The Cumberland Presbyterians
of Iowa Park will organize a church
on February IS, and have secured
Rev. G. W. Basham of Henrietta to
preach for them.
Gov. Hogg offers reward of 5000 |
for the arrest and conviction of the
murderer of ". Fl. Byron on the |
tug Justice IN Galveston harbor
some time since.
"A stranger passing through |
Wichita Falls inquired of one of her
what they were doing to en-
courage immigration. "Lying like
hi" said the Wichita man.
The bulk of the oat crop in
Dallas county is reported as already
sown. The wheat prospects are
fiattering and promise a big yield,
though the acreage is not large.
-Lampasas Leader: Wheat is
looking well. Not much sown.
People are sowing oats and break
ing land in fields dry enough. We
look forward to good crop year.
Dave Harris suicided by inhal-
ing morphine recently at Center. It
was his fifteenth attempt. He left q
written antemortem statement in
which he said life bad been failure.
The committee appointed by
the Worlds Fair convention held in
Houston in December to urge a
Worlds Fair appropriation are at
Austin working for the appropria-
ton.
"A bill has been passed by the
house requiring railroads to keep
lepots and passenger houses lighted
and in comfortable condition one
hour after the arrival and departure
If trains.