Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-30
STATE NEWS.

Ennis is to have an electric light
plant.
Lee county has had abundant
rains.
Cotton picking has commenced
around San Marcos.
Marble Falls reports the crop
prospects never better.
The corn crop in Greer county
has been cut short by drouth.
Drilling las been commenced on
Belton's third artesian well.
The rain last week did a great
deal of good in Burnet county.
Family reunions in Upshaw
county are getting to be the thing.
The Fifth Regiment band got
the band prize at theencampment.
Ten thousand people attended
the Alliance camp-meeting at Nc
Kinney.
The yacht race atGalveston Sat
urday was failure and was run over
Sunday.
Water is scarce in Hidalgo and
Cameron counties and cattle are dy-
ing for the want of it.
The residence of Mr.. Heck
Barksdale was burned at Waxah-
ACHE Saturday night.
The Navasota Leader says all
portions of the prairie were visited
by good rains last week.
The 11-year.old son of David
HAYES, was drowned in the Rio
Grande at Ell Paso Saturday.
Robert Rumbles, a fireman at a
mill near Planck, was caught by
belt Saturday and lost his right
arm.
The Houston Age is of the opn-
ion that the extra session of the leg
islature will be called to meet in
April of next year
-Jallor Tevis, at Beaumont, was
knocked down end run over by the
prisoners, but all the prisoners ex-
cept one have been captured.
Twenty thousand acres of land
has been purchased in Tom Green
county by the Iowa and Texas Land
company and colony will be settled
upon it.
Valentine Sanford, life time
convict at Rusk, was shot and killed
by guard at Rusk Saturday. He
was imprisoned for the killing of
his own mother.
Dick Duncan, the condemned
murderer, is being closely watched.
He was recently searched and big
knife between his legs notched like
a saw was found.
Capt. Phillip Smith, of the
schooner Tidal Wave, shot and
killed Richard Mays, one of the yes
sells crew, at Wallisville, Chambers
county, last Monday morning.
As R. q. Benson and son were
driving from Elgin, Saturday, light
ming struck and instantly killed one
of the mules in the team and stunned
Mr.. Benson and the boy, Both win
probably.
The Winsboro Messenger says
j. R. Smith brought in a peach
weighing eleven ounces and measur-
ing ten and one-half inchess in cir
conference, which the wind had
blown of.
Jos. Brown, who was shot in the
leg by man named Wood at Luf-
kin, recently, had to have his leg
amputated and may die from the
wound, as it Is believed blood poison
has already set in.
"A negro was shot in the back
at Huntsville last December, and
killed, and until recently his muir
der has been a mystery, but the con-
fession of a negro duplicating 9th
ers is about to bring it to light, and
the matter is to be investigated by
the courts.
"A quarter of a million dollars
vanished in smoke at Dallas Satur-
day morning. ]. B. Cowan's whole
sale liquor house with 700 barrels of
whisky and cotton gin warehouse,
the Texas storage company's ware
house and other minor losses. To
tai loss, S290,000; insurance, $780,
00O :
The gauge of the Austin and
Northwestern railway viii be broad
ened within sixty days and the Eous-
ton and Texas Central will be in
charge after that time and running
cars to Marble Falls, the western
terminus. Then Houston and Mar
BILE Falls will be bound together in
closer bonds of friendship.
The Rockport says watermel-
ons and vegetables, which can not
be surpassed for their size and fla