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

49,
Cuero.
Settlers are focking into Hale
county.
The acreage Of corn in Graysor
county is large.
i Immigration is pouring into
Swisher county.
-Ladonia has received $500 bales
of cotton during the season.
Bee county farmers are con.
fident of a big crop this season.
"A new Methodist church is in
process Of erection at Stockdale.
&C. W. Richil was held up and
sandbagged near Forney recently.
Two AIexicans at Big Springs
got ten years each for horse stealing.
-Milford's Baptist church is al
most completed and the furniture
has been ordered.
Two residences owned by Joe
Bruckmuller were destroyed by fire
Sunday morning in Marshal.
Policeman John Fem was
killed at Houston Saturday night,
and the slayer is still at large.
Work has commenced on the
new Baptist church which the color
ed people are building at Tyler.
Waller Coffee, the little fellow
so terribly crushed by the cars at
Sherman Saturday died Sunday.
-Cuero Star: Most of the farm
ers of the county have corn up and
their cotton seed in the ground.
Cooke county has awarded the
contracts for seven bridges to be
built over the creeks this spring.
Alderman Henry Bitter, of San
Antonio, died from the effects of
having his leg amputated Sunday.
-Lampasas Dispatch: Peach and
plum trees are in. bloom and many
farmers are through planting corn.
-Hillsboro Reflector: 1t is feared
that the fruit crop will be failure
on account of the recent cold wealth
er.
Ounce Wilkerson, one of the
prisoners in the Bolton jail has the
smallpox-He has been in jail nine
weeks.
The tide of immigration that is
pouring into Tom Green county is
heavier than ever before from all
reports.
Corn planting in Corryell coun-
ty is under way and people are busy
planting and preparing their land
for cotton.
The postofice at Forney was
broken into Sunday night with a
sledge hammer, but nothing of value
was stolen.
Will Sprouse was jailed at Dali
las Monday, charged with being i'm
plicated in the killing of Jno. Webb |
at Garland.
-Kerrville's large and substantial
high school building is completed, |
and it will be opened Immediately |
for the high school.
-Twenty-three cars of fat hogs
for Mexico and 107 cars of fat cattle |
for the North passed each other at |
Denison Sunday. |
AN attempt was made Sunday
to destroy the court house at Bolton
but by prompt work of the depart
ment it was saved.
Denton county commmission-
ers have let the contract for the new
jail at about $4,000. The lowest
bid was about $4,000.
Prof. Dwyer, the balloonist,
was driven against fence while try
ing to make an ascension at New
Boston Sunday evening.
The new Christian church at
Corsicana, recently dedicated, meas
lres 50x50 feet and is gothic in
architecture. The cost was $685.
BOO.
Limestone county people are
exported to be opposed to the tax
If so cents on the 500 to build
$4,000 court house at Mexia.
One person in Childress county
made over $500 from watermelons
md turnips last season, and he only
had in cultivation about one acre of
each.
The Abilene National bank has
increased it's capital and surplus to
100000, making the total capital of
he three national banks in the city
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