Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23
STATE NEWS.
-Hillsboro wants a broom factc

business is picking up at q live
, ly rate at Hillsboro.
Walker counties cotton croE
will be immense this year.
The stable, barn and forage oil
J. NJ. Carter was burned at Waco
Saturday.
Gov. Hogg has pardoned Had
White, of Milan county, convicted
of horse theft.
j Cotton picking will begin
earlier than usual this year in Lam
pasas county.
The continued. drouth in Bell
county is proving injurious to the
growing crops.
Country produce Of all kinds is
reported very scarce at Huntsville
and brings good prices.
VIM. Roell, of San Antonio, is
mysteriously missing and fears are
entertained of foul play.
The peach crop is quite small
in Walker county this year, but the
watermelon crop is immense.
The Paris Pickets decided by a
unanimous vote not to attend the
State encampment at Austin.
Geo. Wilson killed VIM. Miller
near Seguin with a pocket knife.
The trouble was over Wilson's wife.
The little two ,year-old daughter
of Mr.. Decker, of Sherman. drank
laudanum from bottle Saturday,
and will probably die.
Mrs. Fergusion's boarding
house at Houston was burgIarlzed
of S2O7 in cash by a negro named
Smith Saturday night.
"A negro attacked a conductor
with a knife on the Arkansas Pass
railroad because the conductor en-
forced the separate coach law.
Lon Kinkaid, a Tom Green
county COW boy was arrested at San
Angelo Saturday, charged with
shooting Tom Guerra, Mexican re-
Gently.
AT Tyler on the 18th inst,
Robert Clay, while under the infu-
ence of whiskey, shot Eli White,
negro barber in the head. White
will die.
The Hunt County Alliance has
passed resolutions endorsing the
alien land law and condemning Gov
ernor Hogg for the appointive COM
mission.
The mail facilities at Goliad
have been greatly Improved; they
now have letter boxes and mail car
riers, both of which are a great con-
venience.
j. 81. Welks, charged with un-
lawfully using the mails in Falls
county, was arrested and carried to
Waco recently, where he made an
appearance bond
The railroad commission has
gone to Dallas to give the business
men of that city chance to appear
and do their kicking. From there
they will visit Fort Worth.
The working men of Galveston
are hot as hornets because convict
labor is to be worked on the Calves
ton ietties and harbor improvements
by O'Connor, Laing & Smoot.
.-Servarano Gomez, of San An
tonic, aged Is, has abducted Victo-
rino Uniteras, aged Ii. Parents
have sworn out warrants and the
officers are looking for the couple.
The new National commercial
college at Denison has been COM
pleted. 1t is 120x75 feet, and four
stories high, and cost about $780,
900. The first session will open
September l.
Dick Duncan, the condemned
murderer, who is in jail at Eagle
Pass, spends his time practicing on
the harmonica and is developing in
to a musician. He plays on the
banjo and violin also.
H. 81. Webb, negro school
teacher at Daingerfeld, told his
brethren that negroes were the su-
periors of white men. 1t required
the joint efforts of five doctors to
extract bird shot from his anatomy.
Lucy King, a deaf a dumb
negro woman, RIM over at San An
tonic by an electric car a few weeks
ago, died from her injuries. The
suit started by her against the COM
pany for $4,000 Will be prosecuted
by her heirs.
Albert Klatt, of Galveston, who
was to have been married Sunday to
Mrs. Annie Lawson, buxom widow,
was arrested Saturday and carried
to Houston and lodged in Jail,
charged with skipping the city with
a lot of tools and other property.
"A big partition suit has been
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