Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-11


wife of Gilbert T. Potter, of Fort
Worth, committed suicide at Lin
coin Park sanitarium, Chicago, Mon
day, by throwing herself from s
fourth story window.
UNCLE SAM had better look after
the Charleston. The Itata after un
loading her cargo of guns for the
Insurgents, might take a notion tc
have some fun chasing her awhile
and ..run her in"
The Legislature at Springfield,
Ill, was turned into Bedlum We'd
nesday by the ruling of the speaker
who would not listen to the vocifer-
Gus yells of some members who
were in favor of reconsidering the
bill appropriating S750,000 to the
Chicago Exposition.
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The prince of Wales has an income
of SI,000,000 that the British pub
lie pays for the support of himself
and his family The queen, in adj
dition, gives him an annual allow
ance of about a quarter of that
amount. 1t looks like he ought to
be able by economy to pull through
and make ends meet on that amount.
THOUSANDS of veterans assem-
bled Tuesday at jackson. Mississip-
pi, and a committee was appointed
to wait upon Mrs. Jefferson Davis
and ascertain where is to be the last
resting place of the dead chieftain
so that immediate steps might be
taken by thst organization towards
the erection of a monument to his
memory.
ArFA1Rs are lively in chrch circles
all over the United Charges are
either being make or investigated
relative to the belief of many Leah
ing lights. In this progressive age
many ministers are taking advanced
gruund while many others are seek
ing to hold the church to literal
construction, accepted for yearf, of
the cardinal principles of the differ
rent denominations.
Gas. A. OGDEN, the orator of
the day at the memorial service in
San Antonio advocated with much
earnestness the building of q gigan-
tic monument to be erected in mem
DRY Of the valor and patriotism OF
Federals and Confederates alike.
The movement has been taken up by
the Grand Army and the Confeder-
ate camps and is expected to as
sumo rational character soon.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, sounds the
war alarm in Kansas. He says the
issues for 1892 should be handled
as ''war, secession and State SOW
ereignty" were handled thirty years
ago. He believes Cleveland and
Harrison will be the nominees. He
pitches the contest upon practical
questions and not upon memories
or emotions" and yet he opposes a |
policy of ''dickering with popular er-
rors or compromising with unprin-
cipled leaders He hopes for Aus
terlitz, but he fears Waterloo.
SECRETARY of the Treasury Foster
has appointed commission com
posed of ex-Congressman Charles
II. Grosvenor of Ohio; DR.. Walter
Kempster, the noted expert on in
sanity, and Mr. Pewderly, brother
of Mr.. T. V. Powderly, to proceed
to Europe and investigate the i'm
migration problem. The commits
sion viii sail about the middle of
June. Prior TO. their departure the
commission will devote some time to
studying the charactar of the
Immigrants who come to this coun.
try and land at the port of New
York.
A SANTA Anna special says: ''The
man with the hoe took possession of
eA0 AAohoAel pdseuEe duJO1ulnS IulS
place to-day. Over three hundred
farmers and business men from the
old states and older counties in
Texas attended the public auction
sale of farm lands here and the ban
ner land sale of Texas was made.
Total amount of sales, S107. 900.
Average price per acre paid was 81.
A large amount of acreage property
adjoining this town was sold at
good prices. This is the first sale
of the kind ever made in the state
and is the beginning of the end of
the big pastures in the Brownwood
country
EK-PosTMAsTER General Dickinson
said IL an interview with a New
York Times reporter the other day:
81 have no fears that the Alliance,
however strong it may become be-
fore 1892, will injure the Democrat
lie party's chances of electing its