Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
STATE NEWS.

The stable and barn of Mrs.
Pease was burned at Austin Satur-
day.
The city collectors safe at San
Antonio was robbed Friday night OF
800.
Judge Geo. Clark, of Waco,
spoke at Denton Saturday to large
audience.
/ j. W. and J. V. Goodards' gin
and six bales of cotton was burned
near Kimbal Saturday.
There is not single criminal
case on the docket in the District
court of Heartily county.
"A man named Simonton got his
arm ground off in the machinery of
the oil mill at Rockdale Friday.
The residence of E. c. Hudson,
IN Burleson county was recently
burned, in the Porter prairie neigh
borhood.
The little child of the widow
Mount was struck by the train at
Texarkana Friday evening and in
stally killed.
Charlie Fowler has been arrest
ed at Waco charged with stealing a
horse at Cleburne, at which place he
is now in jail.
The four-year-old son of Will
Clark, at Cisco, fell into a pot of
boiling soap while playing around it
Friday and there is no hope for his
recovery.
R. S. Lovett, Esq, of Dallas,
has been appointed general attorney
of the Texas Pacific railway COM
pany, wee Baker, Bolts & Baker, re-
signed. Effective January 1, 1892
MIR. P, Larkin, prominent re-
publican of Tyler county, who was
recently appointed postmaster at
Beaumont, has completed his bond
of $4,000 and will take charge of
the office as soon as it is approved.
Their has been considerable ex-
citement on the streets over the re-
port that mad dog was running
around town at Giddinfs. A crowd
soon chased him around near the
courthouse and shot him. He had
bitten several dogs before he was
killed.
The United States soldier Bar
rett, who some time since, was
bayonetted while under arrest in
prison by a Mexican soldier in
Neueva Laredo, and who was after
wards sent to Monterey to stand his
trial was found guilty and fined 80
on charge of drunk and disorderly.
He is in the hospital at Monterey
yet but is expected to return to Fort
Mcintosh at Laredo soon.
Mrs. McLaren, wife of Sheriff
McLaren, died very suddenly at her
home in Raynor Saturday of heart
failure. She was at home alone
with baby boy, attending to her
household affairs, and no one knew
of her illness until her daughter
Della returned home at noon from
school, Mortified to find her mother
on the bed still in death. A neigh
Dor had been to the house only short
time before and Mrs. McLaren was
apparently as well as usual, although
she had been in feeble health for
some time. She was quite favorlte.
A terrible triangular fight took
place in a blacksmith shop at the
village of Aspermont, Saturday, be-
tween the two Flannery brothers
and Joe Bradley, IN which the latter
got badly used up. Hammers, tongs
and wagon spokes were the principal
weapons used, and blood flowed
freely, and heads, legs and old
clothes suffered at fearful rate.
County Attorney 7. ]. Belcher was
notified and fastened to interview
the wounded. All the parties have
been arrested and placed under
bonds to answer for aggravated as
salt and battery.
Friday night about 8 o'clock
at Pittsburg Henry Harper was shot
by his stepson, Alfred Harper.
Henry stood for his stepson there in
town for some goods he bought.
Henry sent a load of cotton to town
by Alfred and told him to pay the
debts, but Alfred did not dot do as
Henry told him, but pocketed the
money and went back home. The
creditors went to Henry for the
money. He told them he would go
over and see Alfred about it. As
he entered Alfred asked what he
wanted.
Henry asked where the money
was he told him to pay 10 the par