Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
STATE NEWS.

Henderson boys have organize
a band.
Many prospectors are going il
to Baylor county, also Hale count!
H. G. Graves residence a
Amarillo, was burned Tuesday night
! The Harold Telephone say
263 cars of wheat have been shipped
from Harold this season.
Geo. Givens was gored by ,
COW on the streets of Paris and has
sued the city for ten thousand dol
lars.
"A Midway correspondent to the
Greenville Banner says he made 21C
gallons of sorghum off one acre Of
land.
! "A railroad bridge on the Texas
and Pacific near Sherman Thursday
burned delaying the train several
hours.
The buildings are all complete
and the machinery placed in posi-
ton at the Tyler coffin and trunk
factory.
The wheat crop in Hale county
is averaging about eighteen bushels
per acre, and oats ifty-four bushels
per acre.
The new Methodist church at
Cleburne is being papered and dec
grated, and will soon be ready for
occupancy.
Juan Rivas, Mexican visitor
to San Antonio, was found in a
camp-yard there Thursday morning
with fractured skull.
"A switch is beng built from
the main track to the Henderson
pottery, which will greatly facilitate
the shipping of wares.
The rain editor of the coming
West, R. R. Lively, while in SEEMING
near Snyder, Scurry county, came
near being drowned recently.
The new opera house at Jeffer-
son will be opened next Tuesday by
home talent. The house has seat
ing capacity of about five hundred.
Work has been commenced on
the new school building at Hale City
and will be pushed rapidly to com
pletion. The house will be 4Ox6O
feet.
Santiago Tigarena, a noted Mex
lean horse thief was recently cap
tured near Laredo and lodged in
Jail. He came across to see his
The Lubbock Leader says nice
showers have fallen in that county
The past week. Grass is looking
green and the sod ready to be
turned.
"A cutting afray at Palestine
Thursday between Dora Benson and
Mary Stephens, resulted in Dora's
beng severely wounded on the head
and back.
The three-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Thompson, of Gal
7eston, was burned to death while
playing with lighted toy lantern
Thursday night.
"A girl in San Antonio, by the
lame of Lula Davis, diked out in boys
disguise and took in the city. She
vas arrested and locked up, but an
ldmirer got her out.
Mayor pro tenn and alderman o.
{. Harry, of Dallas, and manufac-
iurer of that city, was shot by his
oook-keeper six times in the count
ng room Wednesday morning.
The prisoners at Fairfield broke
'ut Thursday night and all succeed
ID in escaping except an old crazy
nan and Simon Raddock, who
'arved Jack Dies a few days ago,
md he did not try to escape.
There was grand meeting of
he Alliance, the Peoples party,
Democracy at Paris Thursday to-
yether with the ex-confederate camp
|. S. Johnson, when big barbecue
nd speaking was INDUCED in.
L. 6. Dodgen, living on Tom
Jobb's place below Meridian, raised
Turing this season six watermelons,
which in total weighed 300 pounds,
he largest weighing seventy-three
pounds, and all growing on one vine
-Delsie Gillen, of Huntsville,
vas found near the railroad track,
lalf mile from Troy Thursday with
4calibre bullet in her thigh,
which had entered above the knee
nd ranged upward for a foot where
t was cut out.
The Bolton oil mill will open up
Z. New seed rooms and
lew machinery have been added
Turing the summer. The capacity
5 now sixty tons instead of forty,
s it was last season. The mill will
mDlOy forty hands.