Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-09
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Leonard is to have a mattress
factory.
-Brownwood has organized a fire
company.
Crops are excellent in Arm
strong county.
| Vernon has sold fortY-three
threshers this season.
San Angelo Summer Normal
opens next Monday.
Camp Stanley is the name selec.
ted for the Austin camp.
The peach crop of Wilbargel
county is fine this year.
The new corn crop of Ric
Grande City is selling at 25 cents q
peck.
Timely rains are reported from
nearly every section of Texas during
the past week.
The Santa Fe depot at Bolton
has been levied on to satisfy an exc
cution for S34
Geo. Pollard, of Ft. Worth,
ended his life Monday night by
shooting himself.
"A block of business houses, in
Guiding the Trawick hotel were burn
ed at Dublin recently.
Geo. Pollard was disappointed
in love at Fort Worth and shot
himself through the heart.
The new cotton seed oil mill at
Halletsville will be completed in
time to work up this years crop of
seed.
The thief who has been rob-
bing the Fl. Worth fuel company
for months has recently been cap
tured.
Electric lights, water works and
an ice plant are to be put in at Guam
nah, The capitalists are of Fort
Worth.
The railway commission will
begin the classification and sub
division of freights and property at
Austin on the 18th inst.
j. W. Turner, of Dallas, and
Thos. Shields, of Ft. Worth, are
matched to wrestle at Dallas on the
25th for $3.50
The contract has been let for
building a new Methodist church at
Robert Lee, Cook county It will
be neat frame structure.
The jury in the Bob Holmes
murder case convicted him of muir
der in the second degree, at McKin-
ney, and give him eighteen years in
the penitentiary.
The Sunset oil company of
Brownwood, is negotiating for ma
chinery for another well and will
soon be ready to begin boring in
place for oil.
Valentine Gisse who left San
Antonio few days ago for Nueces
Conyon, with his seven year-old son
has been found dead with the wagon
turned over on them.
The doors of the Ninth National
bank at Dallas were closed Thurs
day. It is undergoing an inyestiga-
lion. The prevailings tringency of
the money market is assigned as the
cause
The eighteenth anniversary eel
ebration at Temple Monday was at
tended by $1,000 people. In the
race participated in by Taylor, Bel
ton and Temple fremen, Temple
won the $3.50 prize.
On the 21st., Lucy King, deaf
and dumb woman was run over by a
car of the West End Electric Rail-
way company, dragged 60 feet and
ground up. She alleges careless,
ness of the motor man and sues for
$4,000.
j. F. McKinnon, of Waco, has
suit against NJ T. Nix, of
Alvarado, for obtaining goods under
false pretenses, having traded the
gentleman drug store for land in
Haskell county, to which he finds
he title is not good.
The survivors of Parsons Texas
Brigade association held their re-
lnion at Temple, July 1. Captain ,
". G. Veal, of Ft. Worth, was cleo I
ed commander for the ensuing 5
ear; Governor Pendleton, first vice
commander; NJ B. Highsmith, Sec
md; James Coney, third; A. Dick
nan, secretary; W. II. Getzendown,
reasurer. The reunion was cor
Lial indeed, and was intensified by
be presentation of banner to the
on behalf of Temples
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