Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20
STATE NEWS.
Bolton continues to improve.

$4,000 is still unpaid.
Iowa Democrats say the Republi-
cans have sold out to the cold water
men.
The Northwest Texas Press
Association was in session at Yer
non Tuesday.
The treaty between the United
States, Cuba and Porto Rico has
been promulgated.
Ed Holmes daughter was fatal
ly burned at Lockhart Tuesday by
the explosion of an oil can.
John Appleton shot Jno. W.
Fitzgerald few miles south of Ne
vada, Collin county, Tuesday.
VIM. Watkins was shot and
killed on the Cunningham planta-
ton in Fl. Bend county Tuesday, by
negro woman.
The Uvalde Reflector says cot
ton picking has commenced vigorous
ly in that section. The yield is
above the average.
Judge A. J. Booty, of Henderson
has notified the Rusk county bar of
his intention to resign as Judge of
tie third judicial district.
The leading saloons of Fort
Worth were all opened Sunday, and
| will again be fined $50 and cost, and
again appeal to the higher courts.
Bill Williams, of Bonham, took
twenty-five cents worth of NOR
phine Tuesday with suicidal intent.
There is no hopes of his recovery.
DIR. J. G. Bates, of Paris, is
dead. He was a gallant confeder-
ate soldier of the 9th Texas cavalry,
Ross brigade and rose to the col
onelcY.
I'm the District court at Bolton
Wednesday, Sam Gary was found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree and his punishment was as
sessed at ten years in the pen.
MIR. b. G. Wood, editor of the
Round Rock News, and Miss Annie
II. Dooley we're married at the resi-
dence of the brides brother, Mr.. S.
V. Dooley, at Round Rock, Tuesday
last.
Sandy Gun, 20 years old, was
fired at by some one from the brush
at his sons place five miles from Con
zales Tuesday, the ball just missing
him. No clue. It is thought the
shot was intended for his son.
The gamblers of Fl. Worth re-
alize that the county attorney there
means business and that their occu-
patton will come to an end Septem-
Der the LIST, and are trimming their
sails to suit the wind, and will, fly
out" of there.
Whether or not we are to have
an extra session of the legislature is
still agitating some of the papers
Gov. Hogg is perhaps as cognizant
of the necessities of the state as
any one in it and will perhaps call
the extra session as soon as it is
needed.
The city council of Victoria ap-
propriated $500 to offer reward for |
the murderer of Miss Mary Hensoldt |
and the citizens raised $500. The |
commissioner will be asked to sup
plement it, and the Governor Will |
probably offer as much as the Vic
toria people. |
Bob Euucan and John Dren-
ming near Gonzales fell out about a
little account when Dreuning as
saulted Duncan with knife cutting
him twice in the side, once in the
arm and twice in the face. the bowels
protruding, and perhaps fatally
wounding him.
-Upham, the former middle
weight champion of Texas has just
been sent to the Galveston county
poor farm to work out fine of $500
on the poor farm at so cents day
deducting rainy days and Sundays
and cost of wearing apparel. He
was much crest-fallen because none
of his former friends or admirers
would hire him out at good salary.
Julia Hollis, an eleven-year-old
girl at Lockhart attempted to light
the kitchen fire with kerosene. The
can exploded and the child was en-
veloped in flames. The flesh dropped
from her legs and fell to the floor
and in that condition she gave her
little brother directions how to put
out the fire, which be did smother
ing it with a Blanket.
The county commissioners in
session at San Angelo Tuesday
bluntly refused to pay the fees on
the scalps of wild animals, as pro-
vided in the act passed by the re-
cent legislature. It would require
thousands of dollars to pay for the
scalps of the wild animals in each |
county in West Texas, which would
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