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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1897
Page
6
A jumble of notes and ditties outlines diverse topics. It mentions the next Confederate Veterans reunion in Atlanta on July 20 21 28 25 1808 with errors, plus commentary on pensioners and aging veterans and a dozen economic and political snippets from 1897.
The Laredo Times supports confinement of Texas convicts in state penitentiaries and boosting in state factories to manufacture Texas raw materials. A Georgetown speech by Hon. George W. Glasscock is cited praising large prison workshops to produce cloth furniture and other goods. The plan aims to boost cotton wool timber demand, save freight, and keep spending within Texas.
Washington correspondent Col Charley Edwards lauds Joe Sayers as a trusted, hardworking Texas delegate in Congress. He notes Sayers has saved money for the country, dominated his committee room, and kept to duty without travel, urging that Texas has many such men and praising Sayers’s role in advancing Buffalo Bayou work.
The American Malting Company of Chicago reportedly plans to raise 560 million to buy leading breweries and major distilleries to form a single dominant trust with vast national power.
Tom Ransom, a colored shaving parlor employee near the Central hotel, sparked a Christmas revel by demolishing shop windows with a hatchet and brush while shouting wildly. He then moved to Lehmann's corner to shave plaster from a brick wall until Policeman Lockett intervened.
A muddied column reflects on social views including regional distance shaping romance, personal fate, labor groups like Knights of Labor eyeing influence in elections, and a note on cotton prices for farmers. It also mentions a massive bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg weighing 1000 tons.
The Greenville Herald argues that all recent financial reforms were enacted by Republicans over the past thirty years. It says the Democratic Party bears no responsibility for the gold standard or the monetary system.
Charles Johnson 22 a switchman in the Texas and Pacific yards Fort Worth was run over by a train last Saturday morning. Mrs Ella Welverton Blake wife of J W Blake chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee died at her Mexia home last Saturday morning from a paralytic stroke. In Beeville last Saturday night John Rape was shot and seriously wounded by Constable Joe Thornton who surrendered to the sheriff waived examination and gave bond. A hydro-phobia remedy once secret to the Yaqui of Sonora has been marketed by a California doctor. A National City Bank deposit total stands at 80 million dollars illustrating wealth concentration in money centers.
The report lists Grand Central depot Dresden at 14 million, Frankford 8.5 million, Cologne 8.5 million 1000, and Munich 4 million. A statistician claims since 1693 there have been forty bicycle deaths per football death. advocates urge Georgia legislature to note this.
The New York Journal will soon occupy a thirty story building and aims to construct a tower to heaven next, signaling bold growth for the publication.
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