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

finest gins is Rockwell county.
The red water in the Brazos il
said by old inhabitants to portenc
an August flood, as the color shows
rains in the red hills of the Panhan
die.
An unnatural and inhumar
mother killed a new born babe neal
Marshal recently and partially
buried it, and the buzzards scratched
it up.
AT Fairfield recently, a little
child of Mr.. Willie Gordon was
kicked by an old family horse, get.
ting its skull fractured and LEG
broken.
because of some remarks R. W.
Parent, of Waco, is in trouble with
lady, who attempted him with a
pistol, but who was caught before
she could shoot.
Martin Flynn road-master of
the Ell Paso division of the Rio
Grande fell off the rear of a backing
train at that pace Monday and was
run over by six cars.
Ben Russell and Ed Hughes
are in Jail at kaufman on charges
respectively of assault and seduc-
ton, the same young lady being in
volved in both cases.
Work has been resumed on the
Presbyterian church at Seymour by
the contractors, The brick has been
burned and the building will be
pushed to completion.
-Jno. Kennedy, of Fredericksburg
took enough strychnine to kill
drove of horses from the effects of
which he de1d before medical asis-
lance could be rendered.
Another indictment for criminal
libel has been filed against johnson,
at Dallas, the Kansas City Sunday
Sun man recently fined $3.50 there
in default of which he is in jail.
The five "Corndodgers," none
of them over Is years old, at Fort
Worth, have been turned over to
their fathers to be practically inter
viewed for their shortcomings.
Two men named Hogan and
Heron, at Corsicana, are under ar
rest for carrying concealed weapons
but behind the charge is a supposed
attempt to kidnap young lady.
-Bosque has large percentage
of increase in the cotton crop over
last year, and expects to make
enough cotton this year to place her
the banner counties for cot
ton.
Hunt county wheat will make
form twenty to thirty bushels per
acre this year. There is not large
The oat crop is also fine
and will make fifty to seventyfve
bushels per acre.
The case of the State of Texas
VS.. the sureties of W. n. Ramey,
late assistant superintendent of the
penitentiary, was decided at Rusk
recently, the court rendering judg-
ment in favor of the State for $1,000.
-Messrs. J. n. Hughes, J. B.
Dale and Hugh Halsell, the cotton
seed oil mill men, are in Greenville
ready to push work on their build
ings to be erected in Northwest
Greenville, on the oldcompress site. |
The influence of Sam Jones
reached as far out from |
Houston as Hampstead and the
gambling houses of that place have
been ordered closed and the people
it is said will stand by the officers
IN the enforcement of the gaming
avs.
The Taylor correspondent of
the Post says: "Mrs. John Thread
gill was inferred here Monday at 3
,. N. 1t was the largest procession
hat has been in Taylor for , ears.
The deceased was the sister in-law
If MIR. A. I. Threadgiu of this city.
"A woman giving her name as
Ms. Viers, with two children. is
the state, on the long
Ways from home and without
money" racket. She worked Taylor
or good sum and RENTED daily
o man in Austin. She is a fraud
nd professional mendicant.
William Hall called to see US a
ew minutes Monday evening He
eported a fourl-egged chicken at
is house. The chicken was
atched few days ago, but did not
i've long. He put it in a jar of
lcohol and is preserving it as a
uriosity.-Hico Courier.
Property in our town and :
throughout the entire county is
apidly advancing in value. Indeed, }
Tithin the past twelve months it
as almost doubled in prire There