Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-15
STATE NEWS.

-Hondo City wants more houses.
Jacksonville needs waterworks.
The grass around Luling is
fine.
Nevada, Collin county, wants a
bank.
-Menardville needs a good church
building.
The Arkansas Pass bar is to be
blasted out.
-Childress wants a system of
waterwsrks.
-Dimmitt, Castro county, needs a
livery and feed stable.
A great many prospectors are
gong to Vernon.
The pecan crop along the San
Saba river is very good.
-Prospectors still visit Arkansas
Pass, says the Harbor Herald.
Burnett and Mulkey are at San
Marcos carrying on revival.
Several attempts at burglary
have been made at Caldwell recent
ly.
The residence of Maj. Willy
Jones was burned at Waco Monday
night.
The Daily Register is the name
of a new paper at Terrell, by W. 7.
Jones.
Hon. W. Fl. Grain and Hon. Ben
Terrell are to speak at Beeville in
joint debate.
The excavation for the new
Langhammer building at Bellville
was completed last week.
Waco day at the McGregor
State Grange fair was observed by a
large delegation from the Geyser
city.
Mr.. Faun, near Kerrville, has
picked eighteen bales of cotton from
25 acres, and has two more in the
field.
The cattle men of Ell Paso
county are rejoicing over recent
good rains, which insures good pas
turage.
The Evangelical Lutheran con-
gregation of Giddings were granted
a charter at Austin Tuesday-capi-
tai $1,000.
About twelve new buildings
contracted for is the record of build
ing contracts made during the past
week at Velasco.
ne fain-fnakers at San Diego
have had TO postpone their expert
ments on account Of the continued
wet weather. !
The Yelasco Commercial club,
capital $4,000, L. r. Bryan and II
others directors, was granted a.
charter at Austin Tuesday.
The Jacksonville Banner says
the brick building at that place
which have been standing all sum-
mer are now to be completed right
away.
-Pearsall had a $4,000 fire
Monday night, the International no.
tel, Buckeyes saloon and the inter-
vening buildings burned. Insur-
ance $4,000.
Deputy Sheriff CASTOR and Sam
Morris were brutally assassinated
Tuesday night at Arthur City, a
Frisco Station on the border of
Texas and the Indian Territory.
"A little girl with long hair was
on exhibition in the city Tuesday.
The girl is eight years old and has
hair forty-nine inches long. She
was raised in Cooke, county near
Gainesville.-Honey Grove Texas
Citizen.
Nathan Duncan, an old and es-
teemed farmer, while at work in his
field near Paris, hit himself in the |
with a hoe that slipped |
from his hand, causing a hemor-
rhage from the effects of which he
died.
w. ]. Stages, who shot and
killed Maj. J. T. Echols because
Echols slapped him, in Comal coun-
5y recently, had preliminary hear
ing at Boerne, Kendall county Tues
day and was denied bail. The case
will finally be tried at New Brauns-
tels.
The Lethro carbon company of
New York City have closed negotia-
ions for the purchase of $4,000
lcres of land in Uvalde county, on
which is situated the greater part
If the new mineral deposits discov-
9red a few months ago, and which
treated such a start in the world. It
S a remarkable discovery 80 patients
covering the uses to which 1t can
De put.