Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-10
STATE NEWS.

at Lampasas.
The residence of E. G. West, at
Texarkana, was burned Saturday
night,
Floyd Knode suicided with an
overdose of morphine at Sherman
recently.
Edward Cunningham Will erect
a sugar refinery on his plantation in
Fort Bend county.
Confidence men following Lemon
Bros, circus worked up two victims
at Denison Saturday night.
1t is stated that the Panhandle
-four mills have resumed operations
under new management at Yer
non.
"A. h. Clarke will, it is stated,
put cotton gin, chair factory and
iron works into operation at Hen
derson.
State Geologist Dumble says
the iron ore fields of East Texas
will yield 100000 tons to the
square mile.
There is a strong probability of
the office of county superintendent
of public schools being abolished in
Bexar county.
j. B. McCIoud was committed
to jail IN Fort Worth Sunday charged
with murder committed in Motley
county last Spring.
Arthur WINNER, of Oakville, ae-
cidently shot and killed himself with
a shot gun Saturday evening while
preparing to go hunting.
-Aransas Pass hopes to secure
deep water by the explosion of dy-
Mantle similar to the way the
Brunswick bar was blasted out.
IS. Godfrey, peaceable negro
of Orange, while going home Satur-
day night was severely cut In the
neck by three drunken white boys.
The J. B. Thomas, automatic
car coupler has been tested aad
proved grand success. MIR. 7. re-
sides in Greenville and has his for
tune made.
-Ex-city marshal Shad White, of
Eagle Pass, recently struck Lee
Burleson, Dick Duncan's attorney
over the head with six-shooter.
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w. A. Shelton was killed at
Mount Calm recently by JAS. Sy-
pert, his soD-in-laM. Bad blood had
existed for some time. Sypert was
placed under $1,000 bond.
AT Austin Sunday evening a
man named Louis Hernboyer shot
at Eliza Gray twice and when she fell
he then shot himself through the
head. He is dead. She was not
hurt. I
The residence of Geo. Chapman,
near Forney, was struck by light
ming recently and his entire family
badly shocked, his stove demolished
and his residence considerably IN
jured.
w. R. Sanford, lineman of the
telephone company at San Antonio
had his hands burned to the bone
with a suspended wire that was
charged with electricity from being
crossed with a moter wire.
Wheat has been coming into
Vernon so rapidly that it has been
impossible for the elevators to ac-
eommodate it with room notwith-
standing there are two there with
capacity of 225,000 bushels,
"A suit has been fled in the Dis
trict court of Runnels county to
dissolve the corporation of Ballinger
The ground relied upon are the same
upon which Oak Cliff corporation
was dissolved; too much rural terri
tory.
Tom Williams, negro saloon
porter, was killed near Corsicana by
white man Saturday evening. They
met and each refused to give the
right of way and commenced cutting
each other. The white man was Sc
verely cut.
Superintendent lines, of the
Southern Pacific, reports that five
of the robbers that held up the
train at Samuels siding, have been
hemmed in by the rangers and Mex
lean troops in the Texas Peninsula,
and cannot escape.
-Four prisoners in jail at Gle
burne, Tom Self, who had been
sentenced to 35 years in the peniten-
tiary, Wesly Roberts charged with
horse theft, Jay Eikleberger, charged
with forgery, and Jack Wright
charged with theft, sawed out and
made their escape Saturday night
A handsaw file was found in the cell.
&C. N. Tribble, a section boss on
the Santa Fe, at San Angelo, was
shot at with shot gun near the
,ooeioffioa in that nlaca SATURDAY. hv