Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-16
STATE NEWS.

hip Tuesday.
The fund for a monument to
fallen ex confederates has reached
] to about $500.
Frank Allen, at Mckinney, on a
charge of illicit dealing in horse
flesh, has been jailed.
An empty two story dwelling
at Sherman was bnrned Monday
night. Loss $4,000.
Harrison county redeemed 500
of compromise bonds, and Zavalla
county $500 worth of bonds.
AT Belden constable in raid
ing gambling den unearthed elev-
en- ebony crap shooters in one room.
"A negro insulted Mrs. Bozeman
at Huntsville recently and was
killed by her son the same evening.
The sale of lots by the Waco
Female Institution was $4,000,
which insures the building of the
college.
-Corsicana is to have new and
handsome opera house. A $4,000
stock company has been organized
to build it.
The Southern Pacific was de-
rallied at Steels, seven miles west Of
Houston Tuesday night, tearing mp
the track for 300 yards.
-Iarrant county, outside of Fort
Worth reports 1920 school children
and Hunt county GIL, Johnson
county 1901, and Dallas zoos.
-Corsicana has had a number of
6res recently and the insurance men
are exercised over them, and are
making exhaustive Investigations.
An old negro man and his
horse were both drowned while at
tempting to swim Red river at
Thompsons Ferry near Denton re-
Gently.
Edward Donnelly an employe
of the Radiance lumber company at
Beaumont lost hand Tuesday by
its coming IN contact with the saw
of a table planer.
The first bale of the new cot
ton crop raised in Duval county and
sold in Houston, brought S21750.
The proceeds as last year went to
Baylor's Orphan Home.
IF. A. Lynch, of Birmingham,
Ala, and Miss Hattie 4. Stalles, of
Gainesville, were married at that
place Tuesday, not having seen each
other for twelve years,
-Adjt.-Gen. Mabry will employ a
portion of the militia in a mock raid
on Austin, July 81 and %, to wrest
it from the hands of supposed ma
rauders. It will be very exciting.
The Fort Worth Gazette has
put on scholarship contest offering
the most popular girl OF Texas a
scholarship in Hardin College aud
Mozart Conservatory of Music,
Mexico, Mo.
The completion of the gap in
the Arkansas Pass railroad is being
vigorously pushed from Lexington
north. The track is laid to within
six miles south of this point, and it
is expected that trains will be run
ming in there by the close of the
week.
List of patents recently granted
for Texas: Wire stretcher, Jas. o.
Fleming; corn planter,
William H. Davis, Chappell Hill;
self-setting trap, Lawson G. Dowell,
Walton; FIRE escape, William o. Rut-
ledge, Galveston; middle breaker,
Schoenfelder, Burton; lamp
burner, Isaac F. Sterling, Marlin;
letter box, Wiley B. Wesson, Fort
Worth.
"A man by the name Of ". A.
calling himself Wild Bill,
who has been making Honey Grove
headquarters, was recently arrested
on charge of using indecent Ian
guage in the presence Of ladies.
Upon his release he started to walk
to Window, and Oh his way fell III
with a companion, named A. Z. Car
ney, who gave Wild Bill drugged
whiskey and then robbed him. He
was subsequently arrested however,
and is now in durance vile
-Chas. Williams, colored, was
brought to his home in Paris Tues
day from Brookston with his head
badly broken up and unconscious.
Williams and II. H. Street, OF
Brookston disputed over debt and
wound up in fight, of which Viii
Iiams kad the best until J. e. Ezell
struck him over the head with
E1all ir 11nder hOnd