Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-06
STATE NEWS.

"A few cotton worms are report
ed near Gonzales.
The Sunday law is being rigidly
enforced at Laredo.
There is talk of basket factory
being established in Marshal.
The BARRIERS of San Antonio
have agreed to close on Sunday.
There was a confederate re-
union at Sour Springs last Wednes
day.
The Manor fire department will
have a grand ball and barbecue
August 18th.
The Masonic Fraternity Of
Yoakum, contemplate the erection
of $4,000 temple.
-Jno. NJ. Young, of Gonzales
goes to the pen five years on con,
viction of horse stealing.
The Kansas City Sun man has
been writing up the boys at Hemp
stead and they are indignant.
The body of an unknown Mexi,
can was found near Manor recently
supposed to have been murdered.
Alvin Opitz, proprietor of the
Opitz park, was run over by the
cars at Hitchcock and killed Tues
day night.
"A meteor fell near Manor re-
Gently and set fire to the grass and
came near destroying the premises
of Mr.. Rauss Galloway.
"A package containing $500 is
mysterlously missing from the
Southern Pacific Office at Kountze,
and officials are investigating.
The county authorities at Fort
Worth are inaugurating a crusade
against the saloons that have been
after 8 o'clock and before
4 o'clock. One hundred and ten
warrants have been sworn out.
The $4,000 courthouse in
course of erection at Woodville is
progressing rapidly under the man
of Contractor Mcknight of
Corpus Christi. The foundation is
being laid with rock from near Rock
land.
-Lenny Harrison, colored, ac-
cidently shot by Willie Ross at
Cuero Tuesday while playing with
a target gun. The ball entered the
boys neck and may prove fatal. 1t
was the 4th negro shot in that Sec
ton in the last two weeks.
The saw mill men of the State are
trying to determine where the first
saw mill in the State was established.
An old citizens of Dayton tells of
perhaps the earliest at the head of
what is known as French prairie,
near Dayton on the west bank Of
The Trinity river.
Frank Z. Clark, collector of
customs at Ell Paso who was deposed
and reinstated was enthusiastically
received on his return from Wash
ington. The band played Hail the
,onquering who comes" while he was
1Tawn home by enthusiastic repub-
leans.
"A Buda mob attacked the con-
1uctor Mr.. Wilder, on the north
ocund train before it passed Kyle
evening, and used him up
With kniYes and sticks. He stopped
here to turn them over to the Off
GERS but they escaped while the
rain was awaiting the officers.
Miss Maud Gertrude Smith, of
a beautiful girl of seven
zen summers, suicided in that city
Tuesday by shooting herself through
he breast. No cause was assigned
or the rash act, apparently no
world of troubles to rush from
into the great unknown.
Mr.. W. G. Carter, of Corpus
Christi, was drowned while in bath
ng there Monday night. He was
Express messenger between there
nd San Antonio. Physicians are
divided as to whether he died of ap-
,plexy or from internal injuries
gainst the bottom of the bay which
vas shallow there.
Frank Coyle, railroad brake
nan, had some money and got
trunk Tuesday After dark he
vent to sleep on the track of the
southern Pacific railway near San
Antonio, freight came along and
ut him in two. He was a member
n good standing of the Brother
lood of Railway Brakemen, and has
brother in Pueblo, Col.
"A gentleman named Hesmith of
Iount tain Peak, Ellis county, writes
o the county clerk of Dallas: Jim
Roberts stole MY daughter Tuesday
iOht " The writer states that Roh-