Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
STATE NEWS.

house.
Commerce wants new passen-
ger depot.
Floyd City needs a boot and
shoe shop.
-Rockdale is building a cotton
seed oil mill
Glen Rose, Somerville county,
needs bank.
The tobacco crop OF east Texas
is said to be fine.
The Mexia Democrat will here
after be issued semi-weekly.
The insurance companies are
evacuating the city of Dallas.
The interest in the Christian
meeting at Milford still continues.
Col. T. R. Bonner one of the
receivers of the 1. & G. N. railway
company, died at Tyler Sunday.
The Retail Liquor Dealers asso-
citation Of Texas will hold a state
convention in Austin on Sept 10Th.
Prof. J. NJ. Carlisle of Fl.
Worth, has been appointed State
Superin 5endent of Public Instruc-
ton.
The Valley News says the range
in Bosque county has not been so
good in ten years. Grass and water
are plenty.
Some one tried to wreck train
near Palestine by placing a piece of
railroad iron across the track, but it
was discovered.
There have been twenty-six ac-
cessions to the church. DR.. Rogers
has given the church a lot, and they
will build at an early date.
Weaver & Wilson's furniture
factory at Sulphur Springs was
burned Sunday night, believed to
be the work of an incendiarY.
"A respite of the death sentence
against Ed Powell and Jim Leper,
of GatesNille, Coryell county, has
been granted until Sept. 29th.
CoIlinsville held an election re-
Gently for the purpose of deciding
whether to incorporate or not. The
vote stood As for and 38 against.
indictments have been found
against number of lawyers in Ma
varro county for the failure to pay
their occupation tax, and thirty of
them are under arrest
The Pilot Point Post-Mirror
says that section is needing rain.
Vegetation is drying up and rain
would be good thing for those
wishing to pillow for wheat.
"A terrific storm passed over
Limestone county Sunday, a meat
market, part of the depot, town
hall, and one residence being demol-
ished at Mt. Calm. The damage to
crops is inestimable, but very great
Pete Clement, Paris colored
dude, went to a country entertain
ment and made some disparaging
remarks about the provision for
comfort, when a country negro
knocked him silly with a soda pop
bottle clipping one ear entirely of.
w. J. Collins, blacksmith at
Wynnewood, in Cook county, was
recently bitten by a mad dog, but
went to Gainesville, where he sue
cured maidstone, which adhered to
the wound two hours extracting
large quantities of virus. He ap-
prehends no further trouble.
The night clerk of the Union
depot hotel at Dallas, made love to
country lass, proposed marriage,
got couple offriends to go through
a mock ceremony at the hotel, and
after staying with her that night
told her that lie guessed the fell
lows were joking the night
before. She was an orphan
girl from Palmer, Ellis county. but
has relatives who will endeavor to
avenge her wrong by bitter prose-
cution if the three can be caught.
Several weeks since Mrs. F.
Farmer of Little Rock, Ark, was IN
Denison in search of lost husband.
She departed soon after her arrival
with apparently no success, To-
day she put in second appearance,
and says she has been searching
diligently for the past few months
and has now come to the conclusion
that he was killed on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas. railway. She
says she has proof sufficient to sub
stantiate these facts, and viii imme-
diately bring suit against the com
pany for damages.
An Austin News reporter
to ascertain how many Texas plant
ers would avail themselves of the
bounty called on Col. Burke, collec-
tor of internal revenue Saturday
and the records of his Office show
that the following planters have