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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1891
Page
2
The Brenham Banner lists rates for local and transient advertisements with obituaries half price, and cites various items: a Mississippi snow storm, tax bills, jurors sworn in New Orleans, railroad and federal bills, shipwreck recoveries, and political maneuvering in Kansas and Illinois. It also notes Cherokee strip openings, Bird Island ownership claims, and Oklahoma migration trends among African Americans.
Discussion on free coinage for silver compares world conditions to US prospects with gold and silver. A freight train wreck on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad near Dawson Kentucky killed oxen and damaged cars, with significant losses. The San Antonio Times editorial staff faced indictments for criminal libel, later apologized. The 16 year old reporter Koenigsberg authored the disputed report.
Legislators debate funding a Texas display at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Advocates argue a large investment will showcase state resources, attract immigrants, raise land values, stimulate development, and bring twofold returns for the cost, promoting Texas as the best state in the Union.
The Texas Legislature in San Antonio enacted an appropriation to create a home for Confederate veterans, despite some opposition. The measure relieves veterans from reliance on charity and honors their service, though debate continued on broader fiscal bills and party unity. Other reports note Senate activity, a remark by Col. Bob Ingersoll on truth, and local incidents in Belt and Bryan’s Mills.
It announces that subscribers can receive the American Farmer mailed free for one year in exchange for paying arrears and subscribing for another year, or new subscribers paying one year in advance. The American Farmer is described as a leading 16 page national agricultural journal valued for economy and education in farming.
The state of Texas commands publication for 20 days in a Washington County newspaper of the final account and discharge request of T. C. Hynes administrator for Jennie Burt alias Jennie Pool. The county court of Washington meets on the third Monday in March 1891 in Brenham for interested parties to contest. Issued February 8 1891. Sheriff D. Be Teague and Deputy TM Teague certify true copy.
The state commands the sheriff to summon George Edmunds to appear at the next Washington County District Court term in Brenham on March 2, 1891, to answer a petition filed February 12, 1890 in case 6789, a suit for divorce from Mary Ann Lizzie Edmunds on grounds of three years abandonment and cruel treatment. The writ is to be published weekly for four weeks in the Brenham Weekly Banner.
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