Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-31
STATE NEWS.

i" SA4RPO'
-Four residences were burglariz.
ed on Monday night at Giddings.
Texas taxable values aggregate
the splendid sum of 54,767,SO0.
La grippe has struck Caldwell,
and great many are sick with colds.
Iowa emigrants have recently ar
rived at Liberty, Texas, and will en-
gage in rice culture.
"A grocery store and millinery es
tablishment was destroyed by fire at
st. Joe Tuesday night.
Over 1000 excursionists passed
Beldman on the Cotton Belt going
east in twenty four hours.
AT San Antonio Tuesday the
residence of T. NJ. Gray was bur-
glarized and S75 taken from the in
mates.
The postmaster of Liberty Hill
was caught by the P. o. inspector
5000 short in his accounts, but made
the deficit good.
Several tons of hay belonging
to L. Miller, and stored away in a
house owned by A. Gilmer were
consumed by fire Monday night
at Orange.
Thomas Kraitchar, jr., who was
in the wreck near Brennan, was
seriously hurt. He was out on the
streets of Caldwell a few days ago,
though still splitting blood.
II. L. Hackeny, of Muscow at
tempted to board log train while
in motion Tuesday, slipped and fell
under the wheels, getting one of his
legs so badly crushed as to necessi-
tate ampatation.
The penitentiary agent took
the new convicts from the jail at
Caldwell to the penitentiary on
Wednesday. Four were delivered
to Major White, in that county, five
were carried to Huntsville, three
in jail, two of them pend
ing an appeal and one to be carried
to the lunatic asylum.
Sunday morning Theodore Holt,
well known as newspaper man in
Fort Worth and other cities of Tex
as, as we'll as in Arkansas, was found
dead in his bed. His death was due to
grip, superinduced by a fall received
three weeks ago, when three of his
ribs were broken. He was connect
ed with the Evening Mail at the
time of his death.
Sheriff J. T. Newman, of Sweet
water, arrested a man here Sunday
;or carrying a pistol, who he suspect
ed of being on the dodge, and who
admits he Billed a man named Rich
lrdson at Hico, Hamilton county, |
about three years ago. He has every |
appearance of being very desperate
nan. He is now in jail on a charge
If carrying arms. The sheriff of |
Hamilton county has been wired.
The marshal of Trenton shot
nan by the name of Green Saturday
hight. 1t appears that some parties
lad been in the habit of riding their
lorses up and down the sidewalks.
young man named Green under
ook to perpetrate this practice Sat
Irday night. The town marshal
sked him to get off the walk. Refus-
ing the repeated demands of the
ffcer to cease the violation of the
idewalk ordinance, the marshal fired
t him. The ball took effect in
ireen's back, producing a probably
atal wound
On Tuesday last in the Buffalo
in Burleson county,
wo darkeys, John Green and Tony
Ieadows, got into a row about some
rifing matter. Green opened fire
n Meadows with a pistol. After
hooting three times and failing to
o any execution, and seeing his
nemy preparing to shoot back, he
roke to run and was fired upon by
Ieadows with double barreled
hotgun, receiving three duck shot
l the feshy part of his thigh. The
-ound is not dangerous. Meadows
J in jail, trying to give bond.
Quite sensation was created
Burnet Tuesday by a man riding
luously into town and announcing
nat man by the name of Patton,
tho was boring a we'll two niles
orth of that place, had been shot
/ the head. DR.. Christian, the
heriff, constable and others imme-
lately fastened to the place of the
tragedy, and arriving
mere it was found that Patton had
cen struck by the crank of the
lachine he was running, and in his :
RACED condition declared he had
cen shot, ne being alone at the
me of the accident. He is seri-
usly injured.