Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
STATE NEWS.

Cotton in Shelby county is
poor and badly in the grass on
account of tco much rain.
The brick yards at Abilene are
running day and night to keep up
with the demand for brick.
Randall, Carson and Grayson
counties report rains copious and
crop prospects unsurpassed.
1t is expected that there will be
at least eight stone buildings erected
in Childress on Main street this
summer.
New residences are popping up
as if by magic in Denison on half a
dozen streets across the once much
abused viaduct.
Ben Clark, who was to have
been hung at Houston Friday, had
his sentence committed by the Gov
ernor Thursday.
More new houses are being con-
tracted for, and everybody seems
determined to own his own home
Tyler Reporter
Wheat harvesting will COM
mence in the Abilene country next
week, and the prospect is excellent
for a good-yield.
e. B. Defoor was the name
of the man killed by Constable
Russell at SaIado a few days ago.
Russell's bond was fixed at $1,000.
MIR. and Mrs. Hunter, charged
with the killing of officer Seasby, at
Houston, recently on a preliminary
examination were remanded without
bail.
Work, it is said, will begin on
the opera house at seymour at an
early date. The iron columns and a
part of the other material are in
readiness.
Rush Brice, brakeman on the
east bound Texas and Pacific freight
train was caught between the cars
at Big Sandy Thursday and badly
crushed.
The yield of sweet potatoes in
Wilbarger county will average over
one hundred bushels per acre. In
some instances the yield is twice
that quantity.
The orchards in and around
Estacado are laden with fruit of all
kinds and promise a larger yield
than has ever been known in the
Central Plains.
The extensive banking and mer-
camille and commission house of ].
W. Riddle, of Piedras Negras, has
made an assignment but will pay
dollar for dollar.
R. W. Harris, ex-city secretary
of Mex1a, who was found short in
his accounts about $1,000, which his
bondsmen paid, has been found to
be $40 more short.
"A new bridge is being built over
San Juan creek between San An.
tonic and West End, which will save
about half a miles travel to the
people in that suburb.
"A great many OF Childress
county farmers are counting on at
least thirty bushels of wheat per
acre, while few expect to harvest
thirty-fve bushels per acre.
AT negro dance at Dale, Cald-
we'll county recently, Tom McFee
dropped his revolver, and it went off
breaking the arm of Will Roberts.
The arm was amputated and McFee
is under arrest.
1T is rumored at Waco that the
Rock Island road has got control of
the Texas Central railway tap,
which traverses the counties of
Shackleford, Eastland, Erath,
Bosque and McLennan.
-Workmen while engaged in
drilling an artesian well at Denison
struck a fine flow of water at the
distance of 100 feet below the
surface. They estimate the flow at
10000 gallons every twenty-four
hours.
The case of the State of Texas
vs.. the sureties of W. n. Ramey,
late assistant superintendent of the
penitentiary, was decided at Rusk
recently, the court rendering judg-
ment in favor of the State for $1,000.
"A woman giving her name as
Mrs. Viers, with two children, is
working the state, on the 'long
ways from home and without
money" racket. She worked Taylor
for a good sum and remitted daily
to man in Austin. She is fraud
and professional mendicant.