Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-22

HEBREW bankers in Paris are com
bining to defeat the efforts to float
Russian loan.
Ar San Francisco another earth
quake shock was felt Wednesday
No damage is reported.
JOIN HoEY, President Of thu
Adams Express Co., has beel
bounced. charged with malfeasanc'
in Office.
The Russian embassy at Berlin il
preparing for the reception of thu
Car on the 22nd. He will remain
several days.
A revolution society at Kieff arr
taking advantage of the famine tt
excite revolt, guided by Swiss ant
French exiles.
ScURvY and typhus are raging IL
the Russi8n famine districts. Four
teen million people are in urgent
need of succor.
CAPTAIN DUNCAN, of Chicago, be-
lieves that Niagara Falls can be
damned and secure deeper water on
the great lakes.
A YOUNG lady named Mary Nc
Laughlin walked off the rear plat
form of a New York Central train
near West Batavia, n. Y, at 4
O'Clock Wednesday morning and was
killed. She is supposed to have
been a somnabulist.
On each ballot to be cast, accord
ing to the provisions of the new
election law in Ohio, are to be these
distinguishing devices that have
been adopted by the parties: Re-
publican, eagle; Democratic, roos-
ter Prohibition, rose; Peoples,
pillow and hammer.
Ar VIadivostock fourteen Russian
convicts escaped while working on a
new railway and killed three inmates
of a farmhouse to obtain clothing.
They also killed French officer and
afterwards a Russian bandmaster,
who was returning from the officers
funeral, stripping the bodies.
ACCORDING to the last reports,
there are at present on the Federal
pension roll 100000 names. Ac-
cording to other authorities there
were enlisted in the Federal army
100000 soldiers The war lasted
four years, and the Confederate
forces numbered in the aggregate
$4,000. Where the fighting came
in is easily seen.
War would seem to be the trade
in the fatherland. In the year 1890
it is said, 1896 men were recruit
ed for the German army. Out of
these 1915 we're not permitted to
enter, as they were in excess of the
number provided for by the army
budget The volunteers numbered
1866, making the total of 1872, 500,
of whom 412l are destined for the
feet.
PARNELL's heart was once lost in
this country If one may believe
the Boston Globes correspondent.
he loved and sought in marriage a
Providence girl twenty years ago,
but her stern father, a millionaire,
by the way, would not approve of
the match, as the sutton was without
a calling. The Irishman's affection
was reciprocated and the separation
brought sorrow to two hearts.
THE Nacogdoches Chronicle comes
to US this week with a splendid
write up of Nacogdoches county,
and printed on tinted paper, the
color of the pale red rose, and con-
tanning the following appreciated
compliment to the BANNER:
THE BRENNAN WEEKLY BANNER
prints more reading matter than any
country paper in the State, and
nearly every line of it is original and
condensed new paragraphs. The
BANNER is a fine paper.
AMONG the subjects which will
come up for action before the next
Congress, says Bradstreets, is that
of immigration and the regulation
thereof. There promises to be a
considerable amount of new material
bearing on the subject available. In
the first place there will a report |
from the commissioners who are
now abroad investigating the sub
iect in the different European coun-
tries, and who, if advance limitations
by cable of what they will have to
present are not exaggerated, will
have some highly interesting facts
to lay before Congress. Then the
Senste Committee on Immigration