Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-24
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the mainland.
The bridge across Post Oal
leading to Emmett is completed.
The contract for the erection o
the new Methodist church at Kerr
vile has been let.
"A railroad bridge on the NJ. K
& T., two miles north of Lufkin wa
was burned last week.
The District court of Colorado
county returned % true bills-1!
felonies and 13 misdemeanors.
Hugh Jackson for killing hi
brother-in-law at Georgetown wa:
remanded to jail without bail,
| Newcomers continue at arrive
at Comanche on every train. DC
Comanche has welcome for then
all.
Italy needs more dwellings, it is
almost impossible to get any kind
of a house. Ten or fifteen nice cot,
tages could be rented out at once.
The new schoolhouse at Espu'
ella is nearly completed and will be
furnished with all conveniences fol-
the term, which will open about DC,
tober II.
AT Devine, small station on
the I. & G. n. west of San Antonio
Thursday, the 7-year old of Jas. P.
Robinson shot and killed his 5-year.
old sister.
-Theo. Hickman, 15-year old
boy of Muscow, stabbed with sur
geons knife Bully Townsend, colored,
inficting four dangerous wounds
Thursday.
Dick Duncan before his execu-
ton wrote four letters in his blood
and offered $50 to any one who
would whip the editor of the Eagle
Pass Guide.
The Telephone says Mr.. =. J. T.
Pearson will commence the erection
of two-story hotel at Harold at
once. W. Knight will erect a black
smith shop.
There is daily inquiry made at
Sherman for good tenant houses by
parties who wish to rent, but the
scarcity of month ago is even more
tightly drawn.
ALI the fools are not dead vet
An Albany N. Y. drummer at Whar.
ton Wednesday was carried to an
adjacent swamp snipe hunting get
ting IN at 4 a. m.
The Whaley chapel camp-meet
ing at Gainesville closed with good
results-twenty OF more CONVEX.
sions and twelve additions to the
Methodist church.
Mr.. j. NJ. Childers is erecting q
new building in the burned dist ici
at Comanche. The building will be
25xS0 feet, and two-stories high. Ii
will cost about $500.
At Kennedy Junction Thursday
on the Arkansas Pass road, Sax But
Ter, a deputy constable, shot John
Pace IN the mouth with As calibre
revolver. He will die.
H. NJ. Fickinger has been ap
pointed travelling passenger agent
of the Kansas City, Fl. Scott and
Memphis, in Arkansas and Texas
with headquarters at Little Rock
Ark.
Mrs. Flora Cunningham died al
Hampstead Tuesday. She was the
wife of Mr.. Ben Cunningham
superintendent of the railway mai
service, with headquarters at Hous
ton.
There is enough asphaltum il
Anderson county to supply the In
ion for the next hundred years, and
toward the successful development
of the fields the company has beer
organized.
The North Texas Baptist col
lege at Jacksboro opened on tn 7tl
with bright prospects for the ensu
ing year. Over $1,000 worth of new
furniture and apparatus have beer
purchased.
Several carloads of the materia,
for the new IRON bridge across the
river between Runge and Kennedy
have arrived, and work will probably
begin in a short time and be pushed
rapidly to completion.
Prof. Ellis, the balloonist of the
rain making party now at Ell Pasc
made an ascension Thursday even.
ing, and fioated in q northeastern
direction over the Organ range, and
at s o'clock had not been found.
I "A young man man named Pat
rick at San Antonio painting tele,
graph poles fell on an electric trolly
wire of the street railway and wa:
instantly killed by the shock, but
the body up sizzled before falling tc
the ground 80 feet below.