Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-09
STATE NEWS.
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The residence of S. Franklin al
Estacado was burned Tuesday.
"A man named Farrar was sand
bagged in Ft. Worth Thursday.
The residence of Capt. Stephen
Turner, of Waco was burned Tues
day.
The United States survey of
Cypress river was started at Jeffer-
Wednesday,
The cotton acreage of Kaufman
county will be considerably larger
than it was last season.
A citizens meeting was held in
Ladonio Tuesday for the purpose OF
securing an arteslan well.
Williamson county farmers are
well up with their work and the crop
prospects are encouraging.
There is consideral feeling at
Paris between neighbors owing to
diseased horses running at large.
The 0Tethodists of Waxahachie
are now engaged in finding suit
able location for their new church
From Hamilton the report is
that there is no loss of cattle during
the winter, sheep in good condition,
In Red RIVER county the fruit
crop is going to be immense A
large acreage will be planted in cot
ton.
Dirt has been broken for the
Light Guard armory at Houston.
Lieut.. George n. Torrey laid the
first brick.
w. S. Day, a prominent real es-
tate man of Ft. Worth, was thrown
from his buggy and badly hurt
Thursday.
& Farmers nave their ground in
good shape for another year and al
most all their corn planted in the
vicinity of Detroit.
The cotton acreage of Wise coun-
ty will be larger this year than last,
while that of corn is an average and
that Of oats greater.
@. A. Cof, formerly a conduc
tor on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railway, was robbed of $3.50
in Denison Thursday.
Will Trumbo, who tried recent
ly to shoot himself at Whitesboro,
has been declared insane and sent to
the Terrell asylum.
Corn is doing nicely in Tom
Green county, and oats have an ex-
cellent stand. A great deal of cot
ton will be planted.
Sherman is going to have fac
tory located there for the manufac-
ture of gin machinery. It Will en-
ploY forty men at the outset.
The Georgia hotel at. Dallas
was burned Tuesday night, and Jim
McAllister was suffocated. Several
other parties we're seriously injured.
An ice factory will soon be in
operation at Wichita. The plant |
will cost $25,0 900 and will haye a ca
pacity of twelve and half tons per
Day.
Rev, DR.. Smoot, chaplain OF the
senate at Austin, will dedicate the
new Presbyterian church at. New
Birmingham as soon as it is COM |
oleted.
The porter who caught con.
1uctor Brown when he was shot on |
the train failed to identify Chas.
Parker who is in jail at Sherman, as |
5he man.
There has not been for several
years a more uniform "upness" of |
arm work with the close of March
han is to be observed this season
around Eddy. |
R. B. Alexander, tried in the
District court at Texarkana, Tues
lay on the charge of murder alleged
10 have been committed a year ago, |
was acquitted.
An old mar rs years old, with
'ut any known cause, attacked
7oung man while asleep in his room,
hear Farmersyille, severing his head
rom his body.
The Coleman county fruit which
vas reported destroyed by the cold
'pell Is all safe. Only the very for
ward blooms were injured, and not
'nough to hurt.
The farmers of Montague coun-
y are preparing to plant large
creage in cotton. The acreage now |
devoted to wheat, corn. oats, etc, is
l. |