Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23

lone hlghWayman on the South
bound Texas and Pacific as it was
leaving the local yards at Texarkana
Wednesday evening. He only made
a small haul.
"A wonderful well has been dis
covered in San Augustine county,
which has been analysed and pro-
nounced similar to that of Wooten
Wells; sick people are focking there
every day and the water is having a
remarkable beneficial effect upon
some of them.
"A colored man in the U. S.
court at Austin was fined 500 and
given thirty days in jail for selling
beer without a government license.
His plan was to collect money from
some of the sisters of bibulous hab-
its, lay in key of beer and give it
away to them on Sunday.
The Henderson county Con-
federate Veteran association held its
annual reunion at Athens on the
18th inst. Fully 5000 people were
present. Fine speeches, interpersed
with recitatiohs by the ladies, and a
bounteous dinner constituted the
exercises of the day.
"A business permit was issued by
the secretary of state to the Yer
mont Investment and Guaranty
company; capital, 100000, This
company proposes to lend money
and make investments. There is
probability of a number of eastern
companies intending to take the
places of the foreign loan companies
driven out by the alien land act.
Anthony Murphey, a colored
hack driver at Victoria, was hailed
by Allen Nelson, who, as soon as
the hack stopped fred a load of
buckshot at Murphey. Most of
the load taking effect in his night
side. Nelson the assailant was shot
through the head about a year ago
by negro youth and the shooting
of lLurphey is in some way connected
with that shooting.
The following charters have
been granted at Austin recently:
Lake Navigation company, to navi
gate Austins dam lake; Atlanta
lumber mills, Cass county, 100000
capital; Fort Worth and Utica
Trust company, $25O,OOO capital;
Honey Grove Artesian Water com
pany, $4,000 capital; the Behren
Drug company of Waco and San An
gelo Securing Mill company, $780,
600.
Mrs. Polly Newberry, of Joshua
is in durance vile charged with one
of the most atrocious crimes ever
perpetrated in the State of Texas,
the horrible butchery of her three
little grand children. She had
numerous scratches on her neck and
says that two strangers cut them
trying to make her tell where $500
that they thought was on the prem
Uses was secreted. She claims that
they murdered the children.
Friedrich L.. Rumschissel, a
wellto-do German citizen of San
Antonio, left home some time since
to go to a farm five miles from
there and mysteriously disappeared.
A constant search has been kept up
for him, and recently he has been
found in mesquite thlcket, a mile
beyond the suburbs. He was hang
ing to limb by a small rope and
was stark naked, save for a handker-
chief around the neck and had evil
IDENTIFY been dead for long time as
the body was much decomposed.
The Breckenridge Texan,
Stephens county, says: The Cum
berland Presbyterian church at this
place have let the contract for
building their church to Mr..
Camp, of Albany. The build
ing is to be thirtytwo feet wide and
forty-feet long, with two towers,
seventy-two feet high, and will cost
about $4,000. 1t is to be construct
ed on a lot on Rose avenue north
of Col. Roses residence. Mr.. J. ].
Ward and the contractor left for
che mills Wednesday to purchase
lumber for the building.
-Uriah Lott, president of the
Arkansas Pass railway is soon to ap-
ply for charter for new road to
be known as the San Antonio and
Tampico railway, giving a through
route via Monterey from San An
tonic to Tamplco, Mexico. The cap
ital has been secured and the sur
vey has been almost completed.
The line will begin at Alice, in Neu-
ces county, and run to Monterey,
Mexico, a distance of 230 miles,
where it will tap the Mexican Gulf
road at the Rio Grande river. A
branch of 1876 miles will be run to
Brownsville.
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