Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-25
STATE NEWS.

Inc WneaG crop OF EastIanu
county is now in shock
The fruit crop of Erath county
is very satisfactory this season.
Green corn has made its appear
ance in the market at Denison.
j. II. Cullcway's residence at
Marshal was burned Saturday night.
Peaches are abundant in Mason
now but there will be few late ones.
Grass in Lipscomb county is
fine and cattle are getting fat rapid
ly.
The Galveston Athletic associa-
ton has been disbanded by local
dissentlons.
-Johnsonville has been shipping
from ten to twenty-five bushels of
cucumbers daily.
Miss D. s. Newcomb, of Paris,
charged with incest, with her uncle,
was jailed Saturday:
Volunteer oats are on the
market at Vernon and are selling at
40 cents per bushel
Crops around Van Alstyne,
Grayson county, have been consider
ably damaged by rain.
Corn and tomatoes around Pilot
Point, being grown for the canning
factory, are doing well.
1t is thought the corn crop of
Jones county will yield from thirty
to fifty bushels per acre
The oat crop in Donley county
is estimated at from forty to seven
ty-fve bushels per acre.
Farmers around Grapevine, Tar
rant county, report the cotton doing
well but corn needs rain.
Girls Mullins wasa rrested at Paris
Saturday charged with the theft of
a horse from Tom Moore.
"A fire at Corsicana Saturday
night burned the drug store of
Shook x Co. Loss $4,000.
Crops in Cherokee county are
in furnishing condition, the recent
rains having done much good.
The wheat crop of Collin county
is better than for years, and oats
will make more than an average
yield.
Sam Cockstone has been de-
clared guilty of murder in the first
degree at Clarksville, and sentenced
to be hung.
"A horse thief near Ell Paso
took an overdose of morphine and
killed himself. His name was Blake
Rowland
j. G. Harlan, of Houston, and
Harry Stouder, of New Orleans,
were drowned in the surf at Calves
ton Sunday.
d. G. Ooley, of Lipscomb coun-
ty, has a large acreage of millet
which he thinks will make three
tons per acre.
Some farmers in Navarro county
are calculating on one hundred
bushels of oats to the acre. The
crop is immense.
The contract has been let for
thenew Methodist church at Quanah.
The building Is to be of stone and
to cost not less than $4,000.
Mr.. Pullion, living near Medi-
cine Mounds, south of 'Quanah,
killed a panther the first of the
week that measured nine feet.
Tom Dumas, of Fl. Worth, has
accepted the challenge of Jimmy
Brown, of Galveston, to spar ten
rounds for $50 and the entire gate
receipts.
j. D. Farr, freight brakeman,
was seriously hurt at Paris Satur-
day. He was thrown from the top
of the train and had his leg run
over by the cars and badly mangled.
j. W. McBrayer, a civil engin-
eer, was found lying in an alley at
Fl. Worth and was arrested as a
drunk. He was locked in the Gala
.boose and an hour later found dead.
The general crop prospects of
Somerwell county were never better.
Oats and wheat are being cut and
the yield is large, while corn is well
advanced and cotton in good condi-
tiUn.
The little child of Charley
johnson, an engineer on the Santa
Fe road, at Gainesville, who was
burned last Wednesday night while
kindling a fire with coal oil, died
from her injuries.
MIR. j. L. Caylor, a prominent
fruit grower of Fannin county, still
had some good sound apples that
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