Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-10

u
who was arrested in Denver ant
brought to Texas, having married
his second wife in Texas, has dovel
oped unmistakable signs of insanity
The recent election in BrLzori,
has not settled the question at 1ssu,
A writ of injunction has been grant
ed restraining Judge Matterso1
from counting the vote taken at tht
recent election held fer the purpose
of changing the present county
seat.
&C. G. Boyd shot and killed hi
brother-in-law Ed. Brady Il miles
from Athens Thursday. Brady was
quiet and leaves a family. Boyc
was reckless and chad it in for
Brady, because Brady opposed his
marrying his sister. This is not oul
G. G. Boyd.
DR.. ". S. Bolten, who shot and
killed S. b. Cavitt, in Juarez, Mex,
and afterwards escaped from the
Mexican jail in disguise, is now in
Ell Paso, having been extradited
from New Mexico. His confeder.
ate, Clayton, is in Coahula, Mexico,
condemned to be shot.
List of patents for Texas:
Printers furniture, Robert Clarke,
Galveston; tuning hammer, Ben J,
Fuchstiger: coin holder, harles
Heimer and P. W. Schwander, Hous-
ton; cotton seed delinting apparatus,
Joseph Hollingsworth and A. Oar
win, Waco; velocipede, pedal attach
ment, VIM. Wheeler, Terrell.
Miss Mamie Dickens, late of
Van Alstyne, where she was brought
into prominence IN connection with
some trouble some time ago, We'd
nesday filed suit against the Sher-
man Register also the Dispatch,
Journal and Guide at Denison.
Each suit is for $4,000, all for the
publicity they made about her.
Two boys, VIII Roach and
Chas. johnson, aged respectively IA
and Is years, were locked up at Ft.
Worth Thursday, and in the city
court stated that they were from
Oakland, Cal, and had run away
from home to go to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. They left Los An
gelos, Cal, SIX weeks ago and had
got that far without a dollar. They
will perhaps, be there in time
How tastes differ! Andrew
Lang writes best in rose garden,
Tolstoi IN bed, Dumas on an ebony
desk, while the average editor can
turn out bright ideas on the top of
a -four barrel, a dry goods box, or
The back of type galley with as
much ease as if surrounded by roses
and ebony library furniture. Moth
ing like work On q newspaper for
one to ignore the sur
'oundings.--Bellville Standard.
1t is reported that the county
of Tom Green county
will refuse to pay the fees on the
'calps of wild ANIMALS as provided
or by an act of the last legislature.
They take the position that great
many thousand dollars would be re-
Iuired to pay off the hunters, and
hat a strict compliance with the
aw would bankrupt the country. |
Several other counties in that sec
ion of the state are in the same fix. |
The loss by the train robbery |
lear Samuels sidins was was greater
han at first reported. Instead of
5000 it will reach $4,000, and
nay go even higher. A singular
eature of the occurrence is the
of Messenger J. E.
ninth. He is the man who killed
NO train robbers near Ell Paso in
6S6. In this last affair he with
TODD the threats of the assail-
nts for some time, but when they
their intention to blow up
be cor he gave in. He was so
hagrined by his temporary loss of
erve that upon reaching San An
onio he resigned. Since the Ell
'aso affair he has married, has
ormed family ties, and to this fact
ascribed his failure to shoot. The
failing clerk acted with much cool
ess and secreted all his valuable
ackages before the bandits entered.
he country in which the hold up
'ok place is an exceeding wild and
roken one and the event is likely to
occur at any time.
"A San Antonio special says: Six
zen stopped train No. 20 on the
Pacific railway at 1926 !
clock Wednesday and held it until s
25 a, M, twenty miles west of
angtry and one mile east of side
ack called Samuels, which is about
velve miles from the Rio Grande.
he train left this city Tuesday
ternoon for the West at 4:40
clock. The passengers were IN
olested, as the men seemed to want
lily the contents of the express car
a s. H. !