Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-16

county are so heavily laden that
they are actually breaking down, es-
peclally peach trees. Corn and cot
ton never looked better. New oats
are sellinng rapidly in Coleman at
i so cents.
] Capt. W. H. Wagley, II
near Hubbard, Hill county, has a
his crop almost entirely ruined b y
cloud burst over it. Cotton
was waste high was literally beat
into the earth, and corn was leyeled
to the ground
The collector of customs at Ell
Paso, F. B. Clark, is to be removed.
There is nothing wrong with his ac-
counts, but it is.alleged that he is
two fond of wine women and song.
His friends say his removal is the
work of party rivals.
"A large deposit of meerschaum
has been recently found in New
Mexico, the first ever discovered in
America. The discovery causee a
great deal of excitement and adds
to the mineral resources of our cou
try another valuable find.
Ed White and Louis Lee NO,
pugilists who fought at Dallas Sat
urday night, fought sure enough
and rolled on the floor fghtinG<
Lee hitting White two or three
blows in the face while they were
rolling on the floor, the referees
giving White the fight.
The Robertson county Alliance
passed resolutions indorsing the st.
Louis and Ocala platform, and the
official organs of the alliance State
and National viz: The Southern Mer-
curry and the National Economist.
The new paper published at Dallas
called the Farmers World was sen
sibly criticised and condemned.
Mrs. F. S. Sanders, Miss Dan
iels and the young man Lane, charged
with the burning of a bridge on the
Arizona and New Mexico railrS ID,
have been given hearing at Eel
Paso. The bail of Mrs. S. was fixed
at $3.50. The bond of Miss D. at
$500, while Lanes bond was held at
$1,000. The ladies gave the bond,
but Lane laaguishes in jail:
$. P. Anderson, Swede living
fifteen miles west of Clifton, Bos-
que county, lost his wife and three
daughters by flash of lightning
which struck his house one day re-
Gently. Every one of the family in
the house were killed. A can of
kerosene was set on fire and the
flames spread so rapidly that Mr..
Anderson was only able to get his
wife out of the house the bodies of
his daughters burning up.
The cattle market has taxi
tumble and contracts for July ade-
livery are being forfeited owing to
the low prices now prevailing. Ten
thousand head of cattle purchased
at S28 head in April for July de-
livery at UYalde have been forfeited
by the buyer, who looses $4,000
bonus deposited to bind the sale.
Armour, Chicago, who contracted
sor $4,000, forfeited his deposit.
Many cattle there are now bringing
no more than SIS
On last Thursday evening Jack
Good, farmer living near Roxton,
Lamar county, it is charged, went to
the house of a neighbor, S. Scott,
and finding Mrs. Scott alone, gave
her an unmereiful beating, knocking
hez down and stamping and kicking
her about the body and in the stom-
ach to such an extent that her life is
despaired of, and her physician has
warned the officers to hold Good un-
til her condition changes. Good
was caught hiding in the brush near
his home on Saturday by Constable
Rex Bryant and put in Jail at ".
-Lucius Rascoe, white farmer,
not far from San Antonio, who has
been having trouble with No ban
and negro thieves. He watched
his horses, saw Mexican walking
off with one and fired on him with q
shotgun. The thief fell but rose
and escaped. Fearing an attack on
his house he removed his family to
a neighbours, five miles away and
started home to spend the night
alone, and has not been seen since.
His horse was found with saddle
and bride. There is little doubt of
foul play.
AT Cottondale, Wise county,
Wednesday night some unknown as
sassin ATTEMPTED to kill George
Bass, WORTHY yourg nun of that p
place, by shooting him through the
window while asleep. Mr.. Bass
was sleeping at his fathers residence
and the family were awakened about
IL o'clock by the report of a pistol.
Upon going into the room they
found the young man wounded.