Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-17

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TERMs.-Legal and transient advertise
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Obituary notices and tributes OF respect IN
serted at half price.
Entered at the postofice at BRENNAN, Texas,
as second-claSs mail matter.
Official Journal of Green's Brigade Association
OUR AGENTS.
JOHN F. WEIBUscH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
The colored Farmers Alliance of
Louisiana met at Shreveport Thurs
day.
WILLIAM DALTON and Kelley Dean,
the suspected Ceres tram robbers,
were Unidentified by Mrs. Graham.
The walls of foundry in Leeds
collapsed Wednesday and killed two
children and fatally injured two
others.
A FIRE in the four-story brick
building, numbers 107 to Ill Myrtle
avenue, New York, caused a $780,
600 loss.
The American tin plate company
with capital stock of 100000, has
organized to manufacture tin plate
and sheet IRON near Elmwood, Ind.
THR railway commission allowed
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe and
the East Line a general merchan-
disc tariff over their lines from DIAL
las.
The Chickasaw legislature is IN
session, and Gov. Byrd is his mes
sage recommends that the penalty
for embezzlement be increased and
that national jail be built.
REPORTS of Republican agitation
in Spain are founded on fact. The
army reserves have been called out
aud a new army corps is to be formed.
Republicsnism is increasing.
The Arkansas Worlds fair commit
tee has sent to every county in Ar
kansas asking for subscription on
the basis of three-tenths of mill on
all taxable property.
Negotiations are pending to re-
store the Western Union wires to
the floor of the Chicago board of
trade, which were removed some
time since in the war on the bucket
shops.
The deadly cotton gin now rivals
the kerosene can in its work of de-
population. Every day the daily
papers contain the notice of some
unfortunate getting caught by the
saws. But with the improved ma
chinery the number of these acct
dents are diminishing.
AT Astoria, Ore, Wednesday
Hazel Hawthorn, aged six years, fell
into the river. Charles Strom sprang
to rescue her, but struck his head |
and became unconscious, and both |
we're drowned. The bodies have
been recovered. The child's arms
we're found clasped around Strom's
neck.
The compromise reached between
the Cherokee Commission and the
Kickapoos allows the Indians to re-
tain eighty acres for each member
of the tribe. This viii allow $4,000 |
acres for public settlement. Their
land adjoins and is in part precisely
like that which has Just become
famous as the Panhandle wheat belt.
SPEAKER MILNER believes there
will be an extra session of the legis-
lature to re-apportion the state, says
the Dallas Tlmes-Herald. He does
not believe, however, that the alien
land law will be taken up untess it
beto make aslght amendment,if it is
found that the law needs pruning.
The principle, like the kernel of a
nut, is all right.
The Fort Worth Gazette says ga
negro travelling from Arkansas into
Texas, or from Texas into Arkansas,
or any other state, doesn't have to