Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23
STATE NEWS.


marketed at Lampasas.
Baird had big ball, barbecue
and banquet Wednesday.
Mckinney is preparing for a
big Alliance camp-meeting.
The residence of Jno. Farthing,
at Gainesville, was burned recently.
Ben Burrell, a negro burglar,
has been arrested and jailed at Ty-
Ter.
The Bolton water company
with a capital of $4,000 has been
chartered.
Hon. Horace Chiffon will 3D.
dress the people of Bonham on the
2Sth inst.
The residence of j. H. Nc
Daniels at Sherman, was burned
Wednesday.
Percy f. Taylor was recently
convicted of forgery and given six
years in the penitentiary from Dial
las.
The examining trial of Sanders
Adding for the shooting of George
Bass, at Decatur, was set for Thurs
day.
The Henderson county Associa-
ton OF Confederate veterans held
its annual reunion Tuesday last at
Athens.
AN invalid hotel is to be opened
at Lampassas by DR.. L. NJ. Briggs
for the treatment of patients from q
distance.
"A $4,000 stock company has
been organized in Corsicana, with
which they propose to build new
opera house.
The residence of County Judge
". X. Jones, of Del Rio, was burned
Wednesday. House was only par
TALLY insured.
Judge jenkins, of Waco, made
a speech at McGregor recently on
the proposed amendments. He IA
vors them all.
Bob Smith was arrested at
Paris recently charged with seduc-
ing girl, by Deputy .. S. Marsal
Geo. Tucker
Marion Martin is spoken of as
the prospective candidate of the
third party for the next governor
ship of Texas.
The northwest Texas Press AS
ISOLATION will convene in semi-annu-
al session at Vernon, Tuesday, Au-
gust 11th, 1891.
Capt. G. A. Power, the man
who beat Hon. Jno, ]. Ingalls, in
Kansas gave the people OF Colum
bus a talk on the 10th.
The County Commissioners at
Marshal recently cancelled S10,550
railroad subsidy bonds, called in
during the last twelve months.
Jim Smith was shot in the
knee at Waelder, Wednesday, while
trying to escape from the deputy
sheriff who had him under arrest.
The penitentiary board at Aus
tin recently accepted bids for about
1900 convicts at slight advance
over the prevailing prices last year.
Sherman county was the first
in the State to send to Austin the
1891 assessment showing an in
crease of S19,117 in taxable values.
Cards are out for the marriage
of Mr.. Asa T. Hoyt, editor of the
Lampassas Dispatch, to Miss
Nellie BauerfeId, of Sulphur City,
Ben Hassett and D. L. Harris
were lodged in jail at Bolton recent
ly charged with the killing of Mr..
Dugan at Temple last Saturday
night.
An old crippled man named
Campbell was robbed at Fort
Worth of S7S while on his way to
Wichita county where his son was
shot few days age.
A wild man near GAINESVILLE,
Ark, has been territorizing the
community for some tine and re-
Gently one hundred men spent the
day in the woods trying to capture
him.
Governor Hogg has appointed
R. S. Harrison, of Austin, many
years chief bookkeeper in the state
comptroller's Office, to the position
of state revenue agent, an Office Gre
ated at the last session of the legis-
lature.
Pepper and Power of Kansas and
Morgan and Hall of Missouri, Evan
Jones and Moody of Texas, some
sub-treasury and some anti, will
attend the Alliance camp-meeting
at Mckinney, which begins July