Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-29

las dA1AEOh az NOW LUX HuQ E6DOIg-
ed very rough weather. Robert
Butler, pilot, of Queenstown, was
brought over, the weather. being so.
rough that he coSid not leave the
vessel after plotting her out of the
harbor,
/ A SERIOUS conflict occurred in the
town of San Michel, province of
Modena, Spain, between working
men and Socialists, ID which two
men were killed and three were
seriously wounded. The roit was
quelled by the police, who arrested
the most demonstrative on both
sides.
THoUGH the cotton crop is shorter
than that of last year, the clerk of
the weather is certainly giving every
opportunity for the planter to gath
er all that has been grown. The
weather the entire fall has been I'M
precedently favorable for the har-
vesting of that staple, and the large
receipts prove that the planter has
taken advantage of it.
mo other country surpasses this
IN the inventive genius of its citizens
or the business sagacitY of its CAPT
talists," writes the President, and
the Louisville Courier-Journal wants
to know if we are SO very smart
how is it that We must be forever
dependent upon an exorbitant tariff?
How is it that our industries must
always be infant.
The Pennsylvania Republicans
who recently issued an address de-
nouncing Quay methods, have foru-
ed permanent organization, known
as the Reform Republican League
of Pennsylvania" its ayowed object
being ''to bread up boss rule and
dishonorable political methods in
Pennsylvania and to restore to the
people control of their public affairs.
The resignation of Governor
Steele as Governor of Oklaohma has
again broght the negro to the front.
The dusky residents of that territory
are inisting that the new governor
to be appointed shall be of a sable
hue. Verify the man and brother is
giving the present head of the
nasional executive department
untold trouble by persistent asser-
tons of his belief that it is time that
his party, give him substantial re-
cognition in the matter of Office.
In discussing financial affairs, the
New York Commercial Bulletin says:
During the past week there has been
4 very marked improvement in the
payments of Southern merchants to
this center. Long-outstand1ng ar
rears are being liquidated, and al
together the indications show a gen
orally improved financial condition
n that section. The unusually large
quantity of cotton coming into
market is undoubtedly one of the
causes of this gratifying improve
nent.
AT Findlay one night last week
Secretary of the Treasury Foster
made the first of ten speeches which
lie is to deliver in Ohio in aid of Maj
Mckinley. Like all the other
speakers In the State,
headed by the Major himself,
he Secretary gave the silver buis-
ion first place in has Argument sup
porting the claims of the leader of
ariff protectionists. After having
nominated Maj Mckinley because Of
lis tariff record, the Republicans
contend that he should be elected
because he now opposes free silver.
IT is reported that the new PRO-
ess of making sugar from sorghum
" the use of alcohol, recently rec
by Secretary Rusk, has
,een put into very successful opera
ior at Hanover, Ind, by numbea
# the leading cane growers, ans
lids fair to entirely supersede tb
Id method. The process consist
d mixing certain proportion of Al
ohol with the syrup, and it pr
luces a sugar nearly pure viii
esting over 80 deg. It is also 4
erted that the alcohol proce
ields an average of 200 pounds
ugar to the ton of cane, an amour
ouble that obtained by the old Or
ess.
NOTWITHSTANDING the denial of Il
avy department officials Saturd;
nat there was anything sensation
| Commander Schley's account
he shooting of one of the sailors
lie Baltimore at Valparaiso by
lillian mob, it now appears 4
lie contents of Capt. Schley1s
atch were laid before Presid
harrison. He read it carefully
al times, and his Indignation
'eased with each reading.
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