Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-17
STATE NEWS.

TWENTY-FIVE bales of cotton were
burned at Sweet Home Friday
night.
Joe Jones, the celebrated evan
gelist, is holding a protracted meet
ing at Sulphur Springs.
Fred Flemming's Office at Cor
sicana was burglarized Saturday,
his safe opened and S2S5.15. stolen.
General Lyle post of the Grand
Army of the Republic was organized
Friday at Greenville with twenty
five members.
Sparks from a passing locomotive
set fire to 100 bales of cotton at the
compress at Navasota Saturday.
Loss about S2500.
There is considerable alarm at
Cotulla about small pox, there being
% cases there. The disease is con-
fined to the Mexican part of the
city.
AT Navasota, Friday night, the
store of J. A. Denveraux was entered
and his safe taken to the woods and
and broken open and robbed of
$500.
-Soloman Stoakes was shot and
fatally wounded Friday evening at
Greenville by Wylie Hart. Stoakes
is not expected to live. Both par
ties are negroes.
Dan Helm and Henry Swan, both
colored, in the District court at
Weatherford were both found guilty
of perjury and sent to the peniten-
tiary for five years.
The ginhouse of DR.. J. A. Nc
Alpine near Navasota Friday burned
with several bales of cotton; also
his barn with its contents. The fire
was accidental. Loss, S2500 ;insur-
ance, $500.
Ticket Agent Martin, of the
Central at Corsicana, has mysteri-
ously disappeared and is short in
his accounts. He was subsequently
at Groesbeck by Sheriff
Love, of Limestone county.
The Fort Wayne electric light
company has brought suit against
the Terrell ice, light and water COM
pany for balance due on construc-
ton of plant, but the plant keeps UP
its work of watering, cooling ana
lighting the natives in an efficient
manner.
The well-known firm of J. 81.
McIlven & Son, dealers in groce-
ries at Fairfield was attached Friday
night for a small sum by a Corsi-
cana company They Immediately
made a trust deed securing their
preferred creditors. Several claims
were filed against them Friday,
but satisfactory settlements have
been made and they opened Satur-
day.
-Chas. Vine, the negro who muir
dered Deputy-Sherif Dan Morgan
on Red River abort a week ago and
threw his body in the river, has
been arrested at GAINESVILLE. Two
other negroes, one his brother, were
held as accessories. The murdered
man was very popular at Bowie, and
if the negro is taken there for a pre-
Iiminary hearing will probably be
lynched.
e. W. Caldwell and his brother
in-law, VIII Bell, two prominent
farmers OF tue larry neighborhood,
seven miles west of Corsicana, had a
difficulty Saturday morning, which
resulted in Caldwell stabbing Bell
four times, one cut in the abdomen,
two in the breast and one in the
back, under the shoulder blade
IL is thought Bell will not recover.
Caldwell came IN and gave himself
up. The trouble arose about some
cotton picking.
The following is list of pat
ents for Texas granted from the pat
ent Office at Washington, D. c., re-
Gently: Fumigator, Stephen z. Ba-
Earth, Wilbery; Railway tie, Albert
B. Guddington, Austin; Andiron,
Jeremiah and J. A. Kembero,
Georgetown; Cotton chopper, Jas.
McAul, Abilene; Sawdust converter,
William Ross, Willard Cultivator,
James G. Thomas, Pilot Point :;
Trade mark for flour, Wichita Val
ley mill and elevator company,
Falls.
III December, 1868, while the
hostile armies of Brass and Rosen-
Grams lay confronting each other
near Murfreesboro, the soldiers in
the two forces used to meet and ex-
change articles. Stone river lay be-
tween them, and they would wade
into its shollow waters, the Confed-
crates to trade tobacco tor Yankee
coffee. One day ]. G. Britt of Paris