Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
STATE NEWS.

Temple had another fire Wed
nesday night. Damage slight.
Cisco, Whitney and Chico
report good crops and timely rains
San Antonio had a small fire
on Alamo plaza Wednesday morn
ing.
Appropriate decoration day ex
ercises were held at Dallas Satur
day.
1t is now settled fact thai
Austin will have two rapid transit
lines.
Electric lights are beng put in
many of the private residences at
Abilene.
Nevada is anincorporated town
and new sidewalks will be built all
over the city.
johnson, the Kansas City Sun
day Sun mans trial will he called at
Dallas Monday.
The Archer City courthouse
will be under Roadway within the
next sixty days.
"A Wilbarger county farmer
reports thirty acres in watermelons,
valued at $4,000.
"A Paris special says deputy
marshal Jim Campbell, of the Mus
cogee court, was killed at Antlers
Monday by being thrown from a
horse.
The outcome of the Houston
shooting at Sam Jones' tabernacle
Sunday night is that Tom SearbY
is dead and Mr.. and Mrs. F. L..
Hunter are in jail.
The dwelling of D. NJ. Coulson,
at Archer City was struck by light
ming recently, killing T. E. Moore
and wounding Mr.. Coulson's baby
by the flying glass.
The Eagle Lake murder case of
H. H. Moore, now in progress at La
Grange on change of venue from
Colorado county is attracting con-
siderable attention.
Lafayette Rogers, who is
charged with outraging little May
Derden, was given a preliminary
hearing at Dallas Wednesday and
committed to jail without bail.
The contractor of the artesian
well at Columbus is having trouble
boring the well. He has bored four,
all of which he wds compelled to
abandon, and is now on the fifth.
Wheeler county has had the
heaviest rainfall during the past few
days that has visited them this year.
The ground is soaked, the water
holes are full and everybody is
happy.
The Jury in the case of Archie
Washington, charged with the muir
der of Clark Washington, brought
in e verdict at Orange of guilty and
gave him a life sentence in the peni-
Tertiary.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Maddox,
of Waco, Il years of age, well pro-
portioned and fair of face, has dis
appeared under mysterious circum.
stances and her parents are quite
uneasy.
"A Dallas fisherman discovered
some white men digging up treas.
ure near the railroad, and the ques-
ton is, was it the $4,000 stolen
from the Wells Fargo Express Co.,
over year ago.
The greater portion of the fruit
belt in Cooke county has not been
disturbed by the hail and wind
storms, and the orchard owners gen.
orally report the finest prospects for
all kinds of fruit they have ever had.
Wade Neel has just recovered
S2500 damages from the Western
Union telegraph company at Paris
for its failure to deliver a message
until the lapse of "a hours for
which he paid in advance for its de-
livery.
Cotton chopping is under full
Roadway now and it is said the ac-
reage in the Colorado country VIII
be greater by ten to one over any of
the previous years. Colorado City
will handle from five thousand to
six thousands bales this fall.
"A young man by the name of
Lemons fell from box car at Deni-
son recently and received internal
injuries of a serious character.
Lemons. with two other youths,
was playing on the top of the cars
when he fell striking the bumpers.
The Board of Trade of Corpus
Christi has instructed their secre-
tary to write Gov. Hogg an invita-
ton to come down and pass a few
weeks at the seaside. Gov. Hogg
has gone fishing but didn't go to
Corpus. Hope Corpus don't feel
snubbed.
AT Texarkana recently, Ike
johnson, colored, tried to kill Cal
vim Scott, by shooting at him with a