Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-15

HEAVY rains in Western Kansa
have caused all the rivers to ris
and much damage has resulted.
ALI vessels arriving at New Yorl
Monday reported heavy seas, grea
gusts of wind and fog in mid-ocean
The tin plate campaign thunde
has been loaded until the lively rat
tie with which it was at first used i
now but dull ''thud"
Ar Halifax, MS, 1000 painters
:, pIasterers, carpenters, masons ant
metal workers are out on a strike
with no prospect of settlement.
FIRE broke out Monday in four
story London warehouse filed will
tallow, cinnamon and colonial pro
! ducts. and completely Quilted the
building,
JONI McBRIEN of Huntington, l.
L, cow-hided DR.. T. S. Turner who
in divorce suit brought by Mrs
Turner confessed intimacy will
O'Brin's wife.
New YORK Democrats Will hold 6
meeting of business men October
q, for the purpose of indorsing
Flowers candidacy. Fassett has
been indorsed by Boss Platt.
AT Durango, Col, the ease Of
Baron Nordenskoldt, the Swedish
nobleman and scientist, charged
with robbing the graves of the In
dams of relics, was dismissed.
SIR JOIN PoPR HENNEssEY, mem
Der of parliamen for North Kilken-
ney, is dead. He defeated Vincent
Scully, the Parnell candidate, in
North Kilkenny immediately be-
fore the O'Shea divorce case.
NEAR Marianne, Ark, John Fields,
Lee Andrews and John Davis, three
more riotous cotton pickers, were
arrested. Andrews was arrested in
fight between posse and the RI
oters In a canebrake recently.
OwING to the relaxation of the
passport system French people are
Hooking into Metz and Strasburg.
The rule requiring foreigners to de-
clare their presence within twenty
four hours is being strictly enforced.
II. T. TRUMPBoUR, assistant treas.
urer of the Ulster county savings
bank at Kingston, N. Y, has con
fessed and throws the principal
blanks on Ostrander, the treasurer.
saying that be got most of the Si13-
600 stolen.
BoULkNGER, Balmaceda and Par
nell, three great leaders of three
valient nations, France, Chill and
ireland all dead. Boulanger,
the booster Balmaceda the
bandit and the paltroon Parnell have
all recently cashed in their checks.
THE New York democrats are
making good use of Chauncey
Depew's excoriation of Platt and
Fassett last winter for their acts in
preventing New York from securing
the worlds fair. Depew finds him
self unable to support Fassett with
any grace.
SENATOR VEST of Missouri was in
New York few days ago, and is
reported as being enthusiastic as to
democratic chances in the next
presidentlsi campaign. The senator
is leYel-headed man as well as an
acute political observer and knows
what he is talking about.
NEGOTIATIONS looking to an agree
ment upon a reciprocity treaty be.
tween the United States and Mexico
are in active progress in the City of
Mexico between the special commits
sion appointed by the Mexican gov
eminent and United States Minister
Ryan.
ADvIoEs from Brazil state that
there are revolutionary tendencies
In several provinces in Brazil and
that the troops have mutinied. This
looks very much like that country
no sooner becomes a republic that
she follows in the footsteps of her
republican neighbors in a constant
agitation for change in the person
mel of the government.
THE Courier Journal says: ''The
tariff is tax or it is not. II it is a
tax it must be lowered, for the pub |
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