Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-22

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there, for the purpose of holding al
inquest over tho body of one Henry
Chambers. colored, who was a ten
ant on Mr.. Carleton's farm. The
lamentable feature involved is thai
it devolved upon Mr.. Carleton, one
of our most worthy county men, tc
bring Chambers down to mother
earth with load of buckshot from
his gun while the brute was in the
act of striking Mr., Carleton with the
blade of an axe.
Clifford & Harmon are drawing
the plans and specifications for the
Methodist church, the dimensions
of which will be thirty six feet front
and thirty-fve fees long, with a
height of over fifty feet. 1t will
have a seating capacity of about
800. These gentlemen are pushing
the work on the Presbyterian
church so as to complete it as soon
as possible. The bell for this
church will weigh about eight hun
dred pounds.-Quintana Times.
William J. Perry, Charles Bull
lock, Charles Lusk and John Moon
were tried Wednesday in the crimi-
nal court at Houston, and found
guilty of gambling and fined S25
and ten days in jail, This is the
first time in Texas that gamblers
have ever been jailed. Billy Perry
was the leading gambler of Texas
up to the time of Sam Jones arrival,
when he closed his house and went
into the real estate business. He is
worth S25O,O00.
Our farmers are taking advan-
tage of the fine weather and are
sowing immense crops of wheat. Mr..
Steve Brown reports that he has
about thirty acres of as fine wheat
as he eyer saw up on Netherlands
farm. Last year 3Ir. Mcfarland
had wheat on the ground and this
has come up from seed that was
left on the ground when the wheat
was harvested.-Hartley County Citi-
zen.
Three horse thieves, John Han
cock, Bud Jacobs and Kid Davis,
were captured Tuesday in the Chloe
taw Nation and passed through
Denison under the care OF United
States marshal bound for Paris.
This, it is hoped, will completely
break up the gang that has been
operating in the Choctaw country
for the past year.
The work at the deep well goes
on and the hole is going down slow
ly. The other morning the drill
penetrated a vein of blue mud OF
soapstone which assists in impeding
the progress of the work. The
depth now closely approaches 1000
feet, and the tubing is filed to with
in $50 feet of the top with water
Paris News.
"A farmer living FIVE miles west
of Wynnewood was called to his
door Tuesday night by two men,
who had hidden themselves in the
yard, who opened fire on him as he
stepped in the door, rlddling his
body with bullets, killing him in
stantly. The assassins are at large.
No cause is assigned for the bloody
| deed.
The Memphis Journal says John
R. and Byron Jones have let the
contract for large business house.
which will be occupied as whole
sale grocery house. J. A. Mont
gomery will be build a business
house on the east side of the square.
LA. and G. r Brice have com
menced beautiful residence.
"A fire broke out at u noon
Wednesday at Queen City in the
steam dry kiln belonging to the
Queen City lumber company, des
troying the kiln and planning mill
and about five hundred thousand
feet of dressed lumber. Loss about
$4,000, covered by $1,000 or $4,000
insurance.
-Chas. R. Beatty, a Hill county
farmer, has at depth of $50 feet
struck an excellent article of crude
petroleum on his farm, two and one
half miles southeast of Hillsboro
4 Many think that there are millions
in it. MIR. Beatty was recently of
tered S35 an acre for his farm, com
prising $50 acres.
The Caldwell Chronicle say:
work on NJ. L. Womack's big bricl
building will commence shortly
I Brieklaying on the new jail com
menced last week. The foundation
Is from three to four feet deep, anG
about eighteen inches Bcross.
Hay is coming in from the
country now by the big wagon loads
The farmers evidently have beer
making hay while the sun shone.-