Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-02


day night between Jimmy Brown,
the Galveston spider, and Tom
Dumas, of Ft. Worth, was draw.
the police interfering after
rounds. -
w. 7. Gamer was serid ~, if
not fatally stabbed at Edna Thurs
day by H. B. Butler. The knife en-.
tered just below the right nipple,
cutting a rib in two and entering
the lung.
Hampstead was visited by
couple of Obstructive cyclones within
an hour of each other Thursday
evening which blew off some ten
roofs and demolished one end of the
round house.
"A Dlillican special to the Post
says several Washington county
farmers have bought land there, and
that they are good citizens and
Washington county's loss will be
gain to Brazos.
II. F. Carroll in jail at Dallas
on charge of stealing a watch. was
made trusty and forged the name
the sheriff on an order for So and
has been sentenced for two years in
the penitentiary.
Pedro Valesquez, a well TODD
Mexican, near San Antonio, was
stung on the arm by a spider
Thursday. His arm is badly swool-
leu. modification has set in and his
life is dispaired of.
Ben Joiner, of Brentwood, was
recently bitten by a skunk while
asleep. The boys hand was striped
the color of the skunk and badly
swoolen. A mad stone WINS applied,
adhered and drew the stripes of
poison and swelling out.
The remains of mastodon have
been unearthed by Jas. Woods on
the bank of the San Marcos river
near Luling. The remains are in a
fair state of preservation. One of
the teeth is thirteen inches long.
The ankle bones are sixteen inches
in diameter.
Eddie, the 8-year-old son of Pc
ter CASTILLO, took a dynamite cart
ridge out to break it, to see what
was in it, near Texarkana. He laid
it on an anvil and struck it with a
hammer. He was hurled about Is
feet, one eye was torn from its
socket, and the sight of the other
destroyed. He is in a precarious
condition.
An ex-member of the Texas leg
islature,. Geo. 7. Haswell, has been
driven hopelessly insane by the re.
ception of news of good fortune
He furnished the design for the CEN
tennial souveneir and the Worlds
fair. commissioners accepted the
proposition of the souvenier COM
pany. The sudden elevation from
despair to the pinnacle of hope was
too much for him.
"A Fort Worth tramp made an
insulting proposition to lady in
Fort Worth and shortly afterwards
the lady's husband came home and
upon being informed of the occur
renee took his shotgun and started
after the tramp. He found him
mile away, called to him to stop and
was answered by shot from a re-
volver. Throwing his shotgun
down on the tramp he pepppered
him in the face. He ran through
corn field and made his escape.
Parker Jackson, a colored bar
Der, of Parss, promised his wife
money to take a trip. He refused
and she threatened to call on another
friend for it, when he knocked her
down. She fell near shotgun
which she grabbed and Jac9son ran
out at the door and turned Just in
time to miss catching the contents
of both barrels of the gun which she
fred through the door at him as he
went out.
AT Encinal recently the sherif's
posse who went to arrest Floyd
Gardner were fired upon by him and
Jas. Irren, negroes, W E. Rembold,
white, Juan REM, Mexican. The
first named had about an hour be-
fore shot at Deputy Sheriff John
Replin They fred three shots
simultaneously at the posse killing
Jonas Cope and striking r. A. Carr
in the leg. The fire was returned.
The Mexican and Rembold were
killed, the two negroes escaping un-
hurt, but were subsequently cap
tured.
Returns from the celebration of
st. Johns day, the Mexican feast
day, says a San Antonio special are
coming in slowly. Up to date FIVE
men have been killed in this section,
and the latest is Augustin Herman
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