Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-25
STATE NEWS.
Ennis had a owo inch rainfall

Hampstead has made her frs
shipment of melons.
William Hudson. a bootblac
had his foot run over by the tram q
! Longview Tuesday.
B. B. Hoskins who killed Chal
lie Rudicille at Terrell was acquit
ted at Kaufman Tuesday.
The question of observance Q
the Sunday law in Ft. Worth ha
been taken up by the ladies of tn
Panther city.
"A two story business block o
seven stores were burned at GA
Cliff Tuesday morning. Loss $35,
900.
The coats and vests of two mel
were found near Trinity river Wed
nesday the owners of which are be
lieved to have been drowned
Rachael Rutherford was killed
near Fairfield by an unknown visito,
one night recently, she refused tt
tell who it was that shot her.
The hay crop of this season il
coming in rapidly. A great deal is
being shipped at IS per ton from
different sections of the state.
Carrie Munson was arrested in
Houston recently and imprisoned
while using a horse and buggy she
is said to have stolen in Fort Worth.
One night recently ct Gilmer, a
two-days-old infant was left on the
steps Of VIM. Styles residence. All
efforts to find its parents have proved
futile.
Walter Davis, OF Gilmer, shot
himself recently with suicidal intent,
the ball of a 3S-calibre pistol crush
ing through his skull and lodging
in the brain pan.
In the case of o. Booth. at
EastIand, charged with the murder
of his sou-in-law, a Mr.. Strickland.
over family difficulties, the jury find
that he was ju5tifable.
-Lishtning struck the Methodist
church steeple at Terrell, melting
the ball on top and making a hole in
the steeple large enough for a COW
to go through, Tuesday.
E. 7. Rabbit, the New Orleans
drummer who witnessed the Bowen
killing has been arrested at Luiing
and was made to give bond for his
appearance at Pearsall.
Albert Capers, a young man
well known in the vicinity OF Cor
man was arrested recently charged
with a criminal assault upon the 13-
year old daughter Of jim Turner.
R. F. Kennedy has been arrest
ed at Midland for disturbing reli-
gious worship. He appeared at the
church door in his night clothes
and ordered the preaching stopped.
John Hutchins Sealy, Galveston,
Texas, il the only Southern youth
hat was among a class of 100 that
vas graduated from Princeton
University, New Jersey, on Wednes-
lay last.
-Bub Steel, a negro man of Rusk
ell in a sixty-fve foot we'll Tuesday
md was killed. He had been down
% adjust some piping and as he
vas being drawn up the rope broke
With the above result.
j. H. Wright, arrested at San
Antonio, on suspicion, was formally
delivered to Deputy Sheriff Herman,
If Galveston, recently and will be
'arried back there to answer several
harges of forgery.
Con Mcintyre was fatally hurt
y a gravel train on the Houston &
Texas Central railroad at Waco
tuesday. He went to sleep on the
rack but aroused time enough to
imp up, but fell back against the
rain and had his skull broken.
Cant raise hogs in Texas-eh?
Why a man down on the Trinity
liver has one with five legs, all of
which it uses in walking This
ught to give an extra shoulder or
IAN to each hog. And yet people
7ill complain.-Democrat and Re i
,orter.
Crops on the line of the San An
ohio and Arkansas Pass railway be-
ween Corpus Christi and San An
ohio Aever looked healthier. Corn
nd cotton is in pine condition and
be prosperous farmer is all smiles.
lis pocketbook will soon be replen-
she'd.
At Come Park in Fl. Worth
unday Nina Melvin was to do the
act in a balloon, but when
wenty-feet from terra frma the
ope holding the bar on which the
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