Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

OF OuD1u, Qlou wednesday,.
BRITISH West Indies want recip-
roclty with the United States.
A FEuD. at Names, Col, resulted
in killing Garnock Cunningham.
SECRETARY FOSTER, who has been
quite sick, is reported to be improv-
ing.
a NEW trial was refused at Con-
cord, N. H, in the Sawtelle murder
case.
ENTRIES for the Tennessee derby
of 1898 are to close January Is,
1892.
RUSSIAN priests refuse to marry
peasants who have no means of sub
sistence.
FRANCE demands reparation for
the killing of twelve Frenchmen at
Rio Janeiro.
The New York bomb thrower,
Russell Sage's would be-assassin is
still unknown.
The elections IN Norway resulted
m a sweeping victory for the Radi-
Gals of the left.
THE Cherokees say if the govern
ment will give them 81 an acre they
will sell the strip.
The city council of Richmond is
talking of giving Mrs. Jefferson
Davis residence.
The National lead trust will reor-
ganize under the laws OF New Jer-
sey with capital of S30,000,OOO.
Ex-CITY Treasurer Leaks of Kan
sas City is on trial on a charge of
stealing $4,000 of the city's fund.
WEDNESDAY at La Junta the depot
Waterman was killed by crazy
traveller, who then took his own life
DR.. WELT, has resigned the presi-
dency of the republic of Switzerland
and chief of the railway department.
THB result of the wreck on the
Memphis road out of Kansas City,
is five men dead and nine wounded.
The Trans Missouri association
has authorized oue-fare round trip
rate, 200 miles limit for the HOLIDAYS.
CONGRESSMAN Kilgore had to leave
Washington Wednesday to visit his
son who is in dying condition at
Borne.
S. J. RITcHIE and wife of Cleve-
land have asked to have receiver
appointed for the Canadian copper
company.
The rebels ofnorth China have mad
another engagement with imperial
troops the Insurgents sustaining a
crushing defeat.
JAMES E. Moore, Chicago agent of
the Louisiana lottery company, was
arrested Wednesday, Tickets were
found in his coal bin.
REAL friendship is trustful, not
suspicious. The true friend will be
slow to believe evil report and will
see only mistake where others
imagine wrong doing.
The funeral of Don Pedro ex-
Emperor of Brazil took place We'd
desday the remains inferred at Lis
bon. Royal honors were accorded
by the French government.
REFERRING to Chiffon, a Washing
ton correspondent says the new
Senator has made a fine impression.
and will in the opinion of the Lone
Star delegation make fine record
for ability and usefulness.
The Gillian House of Representa-
tives votes down proposal to with
draw the Gillian Minister now at
Washington and abolish the legation
on account of U. S. Minister Eagans
insulting notes to the Government. |
REPRESENTATIVES of thirty-one state |
Worlds fair exhibit associations met
at Chicago Wednesday. President
Baker in an address said in substance
that state boards would control their
exhibits and would have power to
say who should have space. The |
board of control does not agree with
President Baker.
The city council of Dallas in ses-
sion Wednesday night adopted the
following resolution: Resolved. I
that it is the sense of the city coun- .
Gil that the people of Texas and the
best interests of the Democracy of
The country require that the legisla-
ire shall eject the Hon. r. Q. Mills
. assent Texas in the United