Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-03-19

Farmers are considerably be
hind with their work owing to unfa-
yorable weather.
The local option election at
Strawn went over by default. The
polls we're not opened.
The estimated total of Texas
school fund on August 1 is estimated,
from all sources, at S2,350,600.
Ennis is trying to get a state
normal school. The railroad reser-
walton is being cleared for the depot.
The habeas corpus crse of Mrs.
Mary Inez McCahe is set for March
18th before Judge Maxey at Austin.
Ed. Baker who was arrested at
Gainesville for an unnamabie offence
the other day has been declared in
sane.
The Northwest Texas Cattle
Raises Association which convened
in Dallas Tuesday was a great sue,
cess.
"A drove of donkeys were sold
under the stock-law ordinance at
Terrell Tuesday, all bringing good
prices.
Farmers have about finished
planting corn in the Hubbard por-
ton of Hill county. Fruit not in
jured.
Officers are still after the slayer
of young McLennan in Waco recent
". The reward has been increased
to 500.
There will be a much larger
acreage of cotton put in the north
Concho country this season than
last year.
Three thousand head of cattle
were sold at Albany Tuesday which
was the opening of the Spring cat
tie trade Gnere.
"A great deal of the corn crop in
Bell countYis already up. The gen
eral home supply crop is much
larger than usual.
j. T. Tyler of Taylor received
Judgment for SIPS against the TaY-
lor, Bastrop and Houston road for
damage to household goods.
Joe Stephens of Aurora, stu
dent in Trinity university, Tex, was
accidently shot in the eye by one OF
his school fellow, Wednesday.
-Sallie Freeman was struck by
her lover in San Antonio and died
a short time afterward, but the
doctors pronounced it heart trouble.
Alfred Grey was arrested at
Salava Tuesday night charged with
the attempted assassination of D. G.
Walden last Sunday night at Bolton.
VIM. Jackson who killed his
brother recently at Paris was given
an examining trial Tuesday and his
bond fixed at $4,000, which he failed
to give. III f
The missing candidate for city
ecretary or the city of Dallas, J. N.
Collier, has not yet been heard from.
Every effort has been made to learn
of his whereabouts.
i'm q comparison with other
states as to the number and value OF
horses, mules, mich COWS, oxen and
other cattle, Texas leads by 81, 444,
249. In sheep she leads by nearly
half million.
The county commissioners at
Groesbeck have accepted plans for
a new courthouse. The building is
to be fire proof throughout, two
stories, with tower on the northeast
corner. 1t will be 96x66.
A commercial traveller by the
name of Montgomery while deliri-
GUS with fever leaped through "a
x36 inch window from the second
story of a hotel in Waco to the
ground, but was not seriously hurt.
AT Hampstead Tuesday the jury
in the case of the State against
Clark Stewart, charged with the
murder of johnson Cades returned
into court verdict giving the de,
PENDANT five years in the penitentiary
-Rube Arlington, an escaped con-
Wet was captured in the Y. NJ. G. A.
rooms at Fort Worth where he was
attending an entertainment Tuesday
highland returned to the chain gang
on the railroad where he had been
working.
John Holden, of st. Joe, Mo-,
near Grand Prairie, left the house
where he was stopping and did not
return in due, time. Parties went in
search and found him in an out
house in a dying condition. He died
soon after.
Farmers are about through