Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-07
STATE NEWS.

The Yoakum compress closes
for the season Saturday.
The residence of A. Ballot was
burned at Marshal Wednesday.
The residence of Tom Martin
was burned at Paris Wednesday.
-Henceforth eight hours will
constitute days work at Dallas.
AT the recent colt show in Hemp
stead some very fine colts were
shown.
Editor johnson, late of the
Yoakum Graphic, is to start paper
at San Diego.
Crops of all kinds are growing
finely and farmers are well up with
their work around Cisco.
Ex-senator VIM. Burgess, of Sc
gum, is reported to be dying at his
home in that city with erasipelas of
theEface.
Rain at intervals the past week,
and the farmers are iubilant over the
prospects of good crops around Wal
nut Springs.
&C. II. Brewster, a prominent
business man of San Antonio, was
thrown from his buggy and seriously
hurt Wednesday.
Caleb Epps, charged with the
murder of Jack Fox in 1888, acquit-
ted in the United States court at
Paris recently.
Parties at San Angelo have pur-
chased the franchise of the Sher-
wood canning factory, and will
operate the same.
Miss Addie Lyle, aged Is, eloped
with James Sturges, from Spring
town recently, and the couple were
married at Jacksboro.
The machinery for the furniture
factory at Marshal has arrived and,
it is thought, will be ready to begin
work on next Monday.
Rev. P. Armstrong died Oh the
9th inst, at Berclair. He was a |
notable figure IN the moral and reli-
gious field of the south.
-Runge, Karnes county, will
soon have an extensive brick making
plant. The material is similar to
the Calaveras brick clay.
The Brooklyn Eagle published a |
long article on Talmage without
whiskers. They have peculiar ideas |
of the value of news items in that
city. !
The Luling ice factory is idle.
The machine was too small to manu-
facturo ice in competition with the
breweries, and the proprietor aban-
doned it.
H. Gulley, of Wise county, was
arrested and carried to Pamela coun |
ty to a charge of an assault with in
tent to murder. Mr.. Gulley stands |
well as a citizen.
Rice Townsend shot and killed
Andrew Warren between Moffet and
Monday Wednesday last, and on a
preliminary hearing was remanded
to jail without bail.
AT a public sale of a town lot
the Baird lodge, Knights of Pythias,
was the purchaser, at S130. The
lodge intends building a hall for
their use on said lot.
Alpha Castle No. l. Knights of
the Golden Eagle, has been institu-
ted at Dallas, with 7. G.. OReillY as
noble chief. The order will be
spread over the State.
j. Rol Reel, the Kansas City
Sun correspondent,has been arrested
and now languishes behind the bars
of McLennan county jail at Waco on
a charge of criminal libel.
George W. Howard, deputy
sheriff of Montague county, brought
Dock Mcdaniel into Montague re-
Gently and placed him in jail as a
prisoner wanted at Goldthwaite.
"A stock company will be incor-
porated at Galveston by Chicago
capitalists to establish a new town
near that city for the purpose of
inaugurating manufacturing enter
prises.
Geo. Blunt and Lie Hayes were
brought into Paris Wednesday from
the Indian Territory, charged with a
dastardly outrage upon a thirteen
year-old girl. They were jailed with
out bail
VIM. Jackson who in drunken
row killed his brother some time
since, was tried in the District
court at Paris recently and SEN
fenced to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary.
AT meeting of the trustees of