Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
STATE NEWS.

is in session at Livingston.
"A phrenologist at Devers was
rotten egged Wednesday night.
A section house on the Bremond
road, near Corrigan was burned 6
few days ago.
AT Liberty four citizens were
arrested for depredating upon stock
not their own.
Arrangements are about per,
fected for the establishment of anoth,
er morning daily at Fl. Worth.
"A gambler named Igo wac fined
S37 by the district court of Tom
Green county last week for killing. a
man.
The E. Bauman millinery estab-
lishment, at Fort Worth, about the
biggest thing of the kind in the
State, has failed.
The San Angelo Enterprise
mentions an instance where the pc
cans from one tree IN Tom Green
county sold for S5S.
Dock Brotherton, wife muir
derer. was sentenced to hang on Fri
day, March Is, 1892, by Judge
Miller at Wichita Falls.
Seven full car loads of pecans
have been shipped from San An
gelo this season, selling at Z cents
per pound, netting $4,000.
A young man from the Terri
tory was jailed at Gainesville We'd
nesday, charged with passing coun-
terfiet money, and SIG in spurious
money was found on his person.
The committee appointed by
the last grand jury to examine the
official records of Clay county has
begun its work at Henrietta. It
will take several days to complete it.
Jose F. Gonzalas, Mexican con-
sui at Rio Grande City, has been
succeeded by Jose Zayes Guarneros
from the City of Mexico and who
has arrived and taken charge of the
consulate in that city.
6. G. Gidding's hardware store at
Alvarado, was burglarized of about
$40 worth of goods, including two
revolvers, bowie knife, pocket knives,
etc. The cash drawer was broken
open: but the safe was not molested.
AT Weatherford J. G. Whitlaw,
on a charge of theft of yearllng,
was sentenced to two years in the
penitentlary. He is one of the
wealthlest and best known citizens
of the county from which he is SEN
fenced.
1t is reported from Savoy, Fan
min county, by reliable parties, that
parties suspected of completely in
the Cash Wiley shooting scrape were
given twenty-four hours in which to
leave the community and they &C
cordingly left.
A man named Ferguson kid
mapped a 16-year old girl, Miss Bea-
trice Holloway, at Luella Wednes,
day and ran away with her. A
cousin of the young lady ran off
with her lover to the Territory a
few days ago and was married.
"A man go years of age was con-
victed at Kountze few months ago
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years, for branding little
calf which he thought
his own. A long petitioa was for
warded Immediately to Governor
Hogg, signed by the Judge, district
attorney and jury. But the man is
still serving his term.
Governor Hogg has been notif-
ed by Secretary Blaine that the re-
quest of the governor made in Sep
TENDER for a conference with the
of Mexico concerning the |
establishment of a quarantine by
Texas against the Mexican ports of |
Vera Cruz, Tuxpan and Tampico has
been accepted BY the Mexican au-
thorities, who asked the governor to |
name the tune and place of the con-
ference.
A party claiming to be discharged
from travelling show car by the
writes to the comptroller
that the exhibit car is filed with
wax animals, monkeys, snakes, birds,
sea serpents, etc, has been
and is now travelling and giving ex-
libitions in Texas without paying the
ocal license OF any other taxes. He
lvoids payment, excepting occasion
lily when he meets firm collector
~ representing his exhibit as a
benevolent, educational institution,
by the law. The letter to
he comptroller ends with these sig
lifcant words: when rogues fall
,ut honest men get their dues"