Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-02

The news comes from New
that neither Cleveland nor Hill n
come South this year.
TIE contract for horticultural hal
at the Worlds fair, to cost S201,
$50, has been awarded.
TIE Illinois legislature has passed
the Australian ballot bill and it ha:
been signed by the governor.
TIE Russian government has for
bid the Jews to emigrate and ovel
one hundred are detained on the
frontier.
BILLS abolishing plural voting
and enfranchising women will be in,
troduced in the New South Wales
parliament.
IT is said that there is no rivalry
between Blaine and Harrison and
they are on the best OF terms and
that Blaine Eill support Harrison
for president.
JOHANN MosT, the anarchist has
been imprisoned in New York for
the term of one year. The country
will be relieved of his rantings for
at least that length of time.
THE Chicago Times of June 10
contained 119 pages That's too
much paper for one issue. People
in this busy age don't want to look
over book of that size to find the
news.
COMPLAINTS are now pouring in
upon the railroad commission and
in little while that body will have
its hands full Of work. The com.
plants are of almost every con
ceiYable kind.
THE Chicago Farmers Review re-
ports wheat in fine condition in
nearly all sections of the country.
Corn is generally reported improv-
ing in conditions and promising fair
to average crops.
A BAND of armed Kurds are hold
ing an English girl aged fourteen,
named Katie Greenfield, Tenn, who
was abducted at the Turkish consul
late in Ioujbolak, Persia, in def
ance of the English consul.
The Supreme Court of Indiana
has just rendered decision to the
effect that German must be taught
in the public schools when a petition
signed by twenty-five or more
residents of the school district is
presented to the commissioners.
VAN Duran PRATHER, state lecturer
of the Kansas Alliance, has ad-
dressed a communication to the con
gressional alliance setting out a plan
for organization in compliance with
the plan OF the national council.
formed at Washington last Febru.
airy.
SIB GORDON CUMM1vG and his New
York wife are coming to America.
and the 400" Of New York have de
cided to snub them. There is pos
sibly room in the United States out
side the circle of the 400 for Cum
mings his wife to have q very pleas
ant time unless he thinks ike them.
that the '.rustic cackIe of that 400
is the murmer of the world"
IT Is said that President Diaz will
issue a proclamation prohibiting
gambling in Mexico. When Mexi-
cans can be kept from betting on a
chicken fight or on the turn of a
card President Diaz will have been
long since planted beneath the
cactus and civilization will have
gained such foot hold down there
that 1t will be safe travelling in the
interior
President HURLEY, of the Worlds
Fair exhibit association has been no
titled from Chicago that the Texas
site has been located on the exposi
ton. grounds. In point of size the
site is the third largest of all the
states, the space allotted illinois be-
ing first in point of sitf esiifor-
mia second. The states are grouped |
according to geographical location. |
The Texas location is the first to !
the right of the main entrance. The |
location could not have been more
favorable had it been selected by
the Texas directors, and it shows |
that Secretary Dickinson is looking !
out for his native state.