Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-10

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the war will be paid by the new
Chllian government.
The farmers of Washington coun
ty have no fears about the strike Of
the cotton pickers league.
The late cool weather had bad eff
feet on the cotton crop in Alabama
which will be reduced 20 per cent.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN KELLY, of Kansas
has joined the Third Party. He was
an enthusiastic McKinly bill man.
The German mail steamer Kause
tor was wrecked between Zanzibar
and Moszamfque. No lives were
lost.
IT is announced from Washington
that Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut,
has been offered the war Secretary
ship.
The Schwarzenau Maneuvers de.
veloped the fact that German smoke
less powder is far superior to Aus
trian.
AFFAIRS in Chill are all serene
again, under the Junta Government.
Brazil and Peru congratulate the
victors.
SEID BEY, Turkish ambassador at
Vienna, was appointed minister of
foreign affairs in the new Turkish
cabinet.
FOREST fires in the Cascade noun
tains extending twenty-five miles de-
stroyed much valuable timber and
are still spreading.
Mrs. HENRIETTA MORGAN, of Lex
ington, KY, mother of the famous
raider, Jno. Morgan, is dead. She
was Sc years of age.
The International agricultural con
gress opened The Hague Monday
and will remain In session until Sat.
urday, September II.
One hundred and fifty thousand
troops have been ordered to Warsaw
which makes half million Russians
on the Polish frontier.
The New Zealand house of repre-
sentatives passed bill granting
women residential suffrage and quail
flying them for parliament.
HoUsToN and San Antonio indorse
ex-senator Maxey for the interstate
commerce commissionership, made
vacant by the death of Gen. Bragg.
The Tennessee Legislature has a
bill pending, making it felony to
engage in a prize fight with or with
out gloves, or to aid or abet a fight.
Two seamen were washed over
board and drowned from the steam
ship Quart Castle while in hurri-
cane on trip from Halifax to Ber-
muda.
AT Halifax, N. S., two revolving
turrets will be placed on the Fort
York redoubt. They will be made
of stone, and will hold four sixty
ton guns.
RUSSIAN newspapers hint that il
Djevad Pasha, new Turkish minis
ter, desires the good will of Russia
he should forcibly terminate the
Bulgarian quarrel.
The Cleburne Chronicle says, the
people would not like to see the
railroad commission exercise undue
haste in making rates for the rail,
roads, for they want them dealt
with Justly. Yet just as soon as it
can they would like to see the ex.
press robbers jumped on to with all
four feet, and each commissioner
armed with crow-bar and broad-ax,
If the express companies send up q
howl that they have been cut too
much then they should be hit be.
tween the eyes and their complaints
considered at the sweet will of the
commisslon-not earlier than next
summer.
The Huntsville Item contains an
editorial addressed to the weekly
papers of the state in which it deals
with the 'foreign advertisement
question, and the ridiculous propo.
sitions received from advertising
agencies and firms who try to work
the skin game racket. It expresses
surprise that many of the weekly
papers give space apparently in &C,
ceptance of the propositions which
demand rates far below those asked
of local patrons. The BANNER has
had considerable trouble from the
same cause, especially with Nelson,
Chesman & Co., of st. Louis, who
seems to want the whole world fol
nothing.