Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-30
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
-Chillieothe wants irst-clas.
barber.
Del Rio wants $4,000 schoo
house.
Vernon wants and needs cot
ton mill.
The Brazos river has been out
of its banks.
WIN. Sweeney has smallpox al
Paris Texas.
-Wesatche had a waterspout
Wednesday.
Hubbard City is boring fol
artesian water.
il. Pierce, of Tate, suicided at
Dallas Thursday.
There will be plenty of fruit this
year in Montague county.
There was a heavy rain and
hail storm at Del Rio Monday.
Many dead cattle have been
seen floating down the Brazos.
"A sister of Cole and Jim Young
er is teaching school at Hutchins.
-Bastrop is to have an artesian
well as source of water supply.
The Bodcaw lumber company
has increased its capital to S15O,000.
A damaging cyclone passed near
Meyersville, Dewitt county, Tues
day.
Crockett citizens are agitating
the question of waterworks sys-
tenn.
Geo. Martin is being tried in
Dallas for the murder of Della
Close.
The residence of Geo. v.
Hughes was burned in Dallas Thurs
day night.
IS. L. Martin, of Sherman, took
morphine with suicidal intention
Tuesday and died.
Miss Alma Jackson, of Atlanta,
died from the effects of poison acct
IDENTIFY taken Monday.
Mrs. ]. N. Barthelow, of Sher-
man, died at her home on North
Walnut street Monday.
Henry Hill and wife walked up
at Kaufman one night recently and
found their baby suffocated.
Bob White, cattleman, was
killed by Joe Millsap, a farmer,
near Dangerfeld recently.
Henry Watterson, Star-eyed, of
the Louisville rier-JournaI, is
making a lecture tour of Texas.
VIM. Smith fell out of wagon
near Gainesville Monday and sus-
tanned injuries from which he died.
One of the circus attaches in
the pest house in Corsicana, has de-
veloped genuine case of varioloid.
"A frst-class amateur baseball
nine has been organized in Fort
Worth and will soon take the field.
AT HilIsboro Thursday S. j.
Box shot j. S. Merrill twice with a
pistol, inficting dangerous wounds.
The recent showers in Potter
county, it is reported, have put the
crops in the finest condition since
1885.
Martin Hernandez. q six-year-
old Mexican boy, killed a wild cat
and cayote recently near San An
tonic.
II. n. Corgill, an old citizen of
Decatur, was killed at that place
Monday by Marshal North while re-
sisting arrest.
The heavy rains at Tyler for the
past several days have greatly
damaged property both in the city
and county.
II. B. Wood, i'll a fit of mental
alteration caused by sickness, tried
10 commit suicide at Fort Worth by
shooting himself.
Dallas parties have purchased a
fine quarry of stone two miles west
of Cisco, and will begin work there
with large force.
Two suspects have been arrest
ed at Colmesneil believed to be the
two men who murdered McLennan
at Waco March 3rd.
Callahan county farmers are
well up with their work; corn plant
ing is through with and cotton plant
ing is now in order
The company interested in
Velasco, at the mouth of the Brazos,
are confident the present rise in the
Brazos will insure them deep water.
The silver ore recently dis
covered in the vicinity of Cisco has
been sent away for analysis and is
found to yield high percentage of
the white metal.
1T is the general oninion of