Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-17
STATE NEWS.

-DS Leon WdutS Dduh-
Tyler wants Touring mill.
Taylor wants electric lights.
Sherman needs a new city hall.
-Greenville needs more houses
| to rent.
lubbock wants new school
building.
The Office of chief of police has
been abolished at Texarkana.
The residence of Jno Koenig,
near Houston, was burned recently.
-Elgin is to have system of
waterworks. Bids are being received.
-Dimmitt, Castro county, needs
blacksmith shop and drug store.
The attendance at the Bell coun-
ty fair at Bolton Wednesday was
1000.
The Picsyune says Beeville has
shipped 1000 bales of cotton this
season.
Fifty bales of cotton was
burned on a platform at Flatonio
Thursday.
The material for the court
house at Lubbock is being placed on
the ground.
The contract for building I've
one-story stores was let Tuesday at
San Antonio.
The residence of G. ". Maltz-
berger was burned in San Antonio
Thursday night,
-Chas. Hancock, of Blossom,
suicided with an overdose of NOR
phine Thursday.
-Bishoff Bros, gin at Bartlett
was burned recently, catching from
friction of the press.
AT Granger Thursday $4,000
was subscribed to the Trinity, Cam
erom and Western road.
II. G. Woodward, of Eastland,
had his hand and arm torn to pieces
in gin Thursday evening.
AT a recent election in Italy
precinct, Ellis county, prohibition
carried by majority of SO votes.
The Beeville Picayune says
plo7er are plentiful on the prairies
and hunters are bringing in large
numbers of them.
Financial Agent Finley has filed
his penitentiary report for August.
1t shows the total cash received,
S5S,42 and expenditures S49,69S.
The tide of immigration from
the southeastern states has set in and
every train is said to be carrying
home-seekers to the Panhandle coun-
try.
The st. Louis and Solthwes-
tern railroad will build third story
and add wing to their general Of
fee buildings in Tyler,
The contract has been let for
the brick work on the Baker build
ings at Tyler. The buildings will
be two stories high, with pressed
brick fronts.
At Brookhaven, twenty miles
northwest of Bolton, Tuesday night
Bradley & Bundrath, general 'mer-
chants, were burned out. Loss,
$1,000; no insurance.
AT Corsicana WEDNESDAYS Police
man Highnote shot and killed Bob
Cubley, son of the Sheriff. Calvin
White had his right arm shattered
with two pistol balls.
-Berry's gin near Holland was
burned Wednesday evening. About
80 bales of cotton were burned on
the platform at cotton yard at Hol-
land the same morning.
G. ". Thrift, a young man of
Mesquite, has been arrested and car
ried to Dallas on a charge of at |
tempting to criminally assault Ella
Harding, a IA year old girl while
picking cotton.
-Chas. R. Hodins, ranchman
living near Ell Paso while watering
his horses at Huecco tanks was shot |
at by Frenchman, who has been
threatening the lives of people who
used the water.
Nearly all the stock in the
Stuttz pavilion at Corpus Christi
has been taken and it is proposed to
have the pavilion open by next sea-
son. 1t is to be eighty by 40 feet
and will seat 1000 people.
The authorities of West Texas
are in hot pursuit of the train rob
bers, and one of them had to
abandon his horse. They have
crossed into Mexico. Both sides
are composed of determined men
and when they come in contact a
bloody conflict is expected.
Two serious accidents occurred
at Muldoon Sunday night. The g.
e NJ.