Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-15
Another disastrous fire occurred

, day. 1t was the dwelling OF MIR. A
j. Underwood, on the corner o
johnson and Third streets. TIL
house caught from the explosion o
a lamp in the kitchen, and in few
minutes the whole house was ablaze
The fire department was on hand
but the water did not reach the
house. In fact there was nothing
but dry nozzle until the house haC
tumbled in. Adjoining property was
saved by the bucket brigade. The
building adjoining cost $4,000. Il
was a total loss. Only few things
were saved from the house in the
way offurniture or household goods.
Insurance, $4,000 on dwelling and
500 on household goods, in the
Hartford of Hartford. The
wind was blowing gale
from the northwest and the morn
ing air cold, so that the building and
contents burned like finder.
The Brown hotel at Alvord
burned Wednesday night, loss $4,000.
There were about 100 guests in the
hotel at the time, some of whom
were seriously injured while other
made narrow escapes. A stone
mason engaged on the Hatchett
building, had his leg broken in two
places by jumping from the second
story. A lady, sleeping on the second
floor, threw her baby from the
window, which was caught by some
one below. The lady then jumped
to a shade tree near by and reached
the ground safely, neither being
hurt. The fire is supposed to have
originated by a lamp being over
turned through carelessness of some
guest. Mr.. Brown has moved into
the two-story stone building of ]. A.
Goldman and will continue the hotel
business the same as in the past.
Jas. Rogers, in the district court
at Paris, was awarded damagesin
the sum of $1,000 against the st.
Louis and San Francisco railway.
Last November Miss Mamie Rogers
while driving in that city in a road
cart across the railroadI her horse
ran away and threw the girl out, her
foot caught and her brains were
beaten out.
Work has been begun on the
new music room addition to the
public school building. The room
will be nicely finished. The ladies
of Bremond deserve credit fer their
enterprise and should receive encor-
agement, as they have taken it upon
themselves to pay for hits addition.
|-Bremond Star.
In every direction around Alvin
the work of setting out pears, straw
berries and flowers is going on.
Hundreds of acres will be set out
in pears this fnll and winter, and
the area in strawberries will be dou-
bled and trebled.-Alvin Sun.
The Corsicana Courier Obser
yer says the cotton crop of that sec
ton is much better than was expect
ed a month ago. Farmers have made
good use OF the open weather for
gathering the crops.
4. Crowds Of people are pouring
into Nocona and vicinity. None 60
away, or if they do they soon come
back and locate. Only two of our
people attempted to secure homes in
the Indian country.
The San Antonio Daily Light
has issued a beautiful German
American Day special edition, con-
tanning handsome colored illustrat-
ions of the floats, with descriptions.
+ Mr.. Bage reports portions of
his field that will yield full bale of
cotton to the acre. The entire crop
will average threefourths of bale
to the scre.-Texas Wells Herald
Col. 7. J. Robinson brought us
a beet this week that caps the climax
on beets. It measured sixteen in
ches around and seventeen inches
in length.-Colorado Clipper.
Dallas had two fires at the
same time, j o'clock Tuesday
Tuesday night. One a grocery
store and the other a cottage.
The Comanche brick and tile
company has manufactured and sold
over 100000 bricks since they
commenced business here.-Com-
anche Chief.
The first sowing of wheat in this
county is up and looking well, some
thing never known before.-Carson
County Chronicle.
The cotton in the E. r. John
son neighborhood looks as if it will
yield a bale to the acre.-Brecken-
ridge Texan.
& The furniture factory of Rollins
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