Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-05
STATE NEWS.
Smallpox at Rosenberg.

Red river is being made navigs-
bic.
Galveston now has electric street
railway service.
Caldwell county will build five
IRON bridges, at a cost of S6,777.75.
Galveston gives notice that APP
plicatlon will be made to have her
charter amended.
The Texas Voluntary Guard
Association are ordered to meet at
Galveston on the 9th inst.
The magnificent courthouse of
Limestone county, at Groesbeck,
was burned Sunday morning.
Perry Townsend fell on some
moving machinery near Everts and
was instantly killed Saturday.
An old gentleman who was de-
ranged was locked up at Dallas Sat
urday night by the police who
thought ne was drunk.
= Charley Imboden of Fort
Worth has been arrested on indict-
ments charging him with swindling
and ENLIGHTENMENT.
Two arrests have been made
Bias Loya and son, near Brownsville,
parties supposed to be connected
with the recent train robbery near
there.
W. B. Gibbs, president of the
merchants and planters bank at
Kesse is dead. He was buried Tues
day at Navasota with Masonic
honors. 20 r
"A new town has been started
aid ~postofice obtained on Happy
Hollow, in the northern part of
Swisher county. The new town of
called Adair.
The secretary of war has mott
fed the Ell Paso authorities that the
260 acres Of land necessary for the
new fort must be donated. When
this is done work will commence
Immediately.
Sunday morning John Sheard
was shot and killed by D. Dryer In
saloon at Wallis. Both were drink
ing, Sheard was advancing on his
with a knife.
An old man was found dead in
Houston Sunday evening. His name
was John Morris, and the coroners
verdict was to the effect that he died
from exposure and neglect.
The stockholders in the $780,
600 hotel to be built in Cleburne
are making arrangements to com
mence operations early in the
The design submitted by
Dauson is very handsome,
and if adopted by the stockholders
the building will contain ifty-eight
chambers, bar and billiard room, a
spacious dining room and every con
fence for a eommodious hotel.
The American Banker, New
York, of this week notes the follow
ing Texas items: Belton-Thomas
FARRELL & Co. have established a
savings bank here " = Bremond-
There Is talk of organizing a national
bank here : $ 2 Ell Paso-1he last
statement of the FL Paso national
bank shows a strong and growing
business. For the past six months
they show q profit of $4,000 on a
of $3.50, 600; this means 122
per cent, and indicates the amount
of business done at that much favor
ed institution. Its total individual
deposits now aggregate nsarly 1885,
600, and much of this money rep
resents capital that has been
brought to Ell Paso from distant
in the territory that properly
belongs to this place. The Ell Paso
national bank is doing much good
There viii be a meeting Feb,
the 5th of the Interstate deepwster
committee at Galveston and will be
composed of representative business
men of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
and South Dakota, Wyoming
Utah. Montana, and Oklahoma. The
meeting at Galveston is of pre-
Iiminary character and viii decide
the representation each state and
territory is entitled to for a future
congress, which will be held in some
western city selected by the dele
gates who attend the Galveston
meeting. The object for which this
congress is called is to ask for such
legislation from the United States
government as will result in a bene-
it to the west. 1t is q union ives
TERN and southern interests, which
mas been freely discussed by the
public men and newspapers Of the