Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-07-01
STATE NEWS.

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Several mad COWS died and
others we're killed at Hampstead
last week.
There will be wheel races at
Galveston and Houston on the
4th of July.
Hampstead postoffice is third
class and has been increased in
salary to 81, 300 per year.
The ex-Confederates Of
Karnes county are arranging for
a two days encampment the last
week in July.
Oats are so plentiful in San
Saba county that it is predicted
they will sell as low as one and a
half cent a bundle.
Cattle on the range in Texas
are in fine condition, and just
now are in active demand at stiff
prices in spot cash.
The benefits and disadvan-
tages of the cyclindrical cotton
bale is being discussed by the
farmers in various parts of the
State.
The surface we'll of the
Hampstead Waterworks COM
pany has been finished, giving
them an abundance of water for
all purposes.
Henry Galloway, a colored
stockman of San Saba county,
sold last week 76 head of three
and four year old beeves at S26
per head.
Members of the Texas Press
Association will enjoy an excur-
sion to Nashville next month,
leaving Fort Worth on July 10th,
via Cotton Belt route.
Harmon johnson, a 13-year-
old negro boy, has been jailed at
Waco on a charge of attempting
to commit rape on the 10-year-
old daughter of Nose Martin.
Hugh Fitzgerald, while
bathing in Clear Creek, near
Gainesville, made a dive and
struck a rock in the bed Of the
creek. He was completely
scalped and received injuries
which may yet prove serious.
The First National Bank of
Comanche, after a suspension of
some two months, has been reor-
ganized on sounder basis than
before, and is now ready for
business. Capital stock $4,000.
In Cooke county the wheat,
corn and oat crops are the heav-
lest ever raised there. The
reapers are busy and half the
wheat is already in shock, and
with fair weather for the next |
ten days the wheat and oat crop
crop will have been harvested.
-McLennan county, has dis
posed of her County Farm, claim
ing that it was found to be an ex-
pensive and improbable invest
ment. The farm cost $40, 900
four years ago and was sold for
Sc, 687, being a loss to the county
of So, 313, not including the inter-
est paid on the money.
They have a regular Sunday
law muddle at Denison over the
question of jurisdiction-the
by special charter,
absolute jurisdiction
over this matter in the city while
the Justice of the Peace of the
precinct claims to be exercising
the power delegated to him by
the Texas statutes.
In Bandera county harvest
ing is over and threshing is IN
der full Roadway. Oats are very
good; wheat will average about
l5 bushels to the acre; corn crop
good, but cotton does not look
promising.
While boxing a few days ago
at Terrell, Bower Cox struck S.
H. White a heavy blow in the
side. At the time the blow was
received it was thought no injury
was done, but while lifting White
that a rib had been
broken.
I'm the trial of the case of De-
Witt county against A. o. Wat
son and his sureties, at Cuero,
or failure to complete the court
house, the jury gave the county
4 verdict for S23,OS6.10. The /
county sued for 4,815, but the
Inference between that figure
and the verdict represented at
fees for the county and
he jury declined to allow it.
"A negro named Aaron Brown