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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
4
A grand bargain sale advertises over 500 capes and jackets for youth with a millinery department boasting unmatched selections. It highlights 300 pattern hats imported from New York and urges customers to call, inspect, and compare offerings before purchasing.
The piece argues for maintaining silver as money, condemns evasions around its use, notes Spain may turn to lottery schemes to ease finances, and mentions anticipated 1900 Democratic slogans about gold and silver coinage. It also reports strained relations with Germany and a German warship sent to demand $43,000 in gold indemnity for a detained German subject.
Hon. Geo. Faep Wiioras of Massachusetts predicts a democratic majority in the next congress with no change in the issue before 1900. Tur Belton Reporter notes gold Democrats visible in Tuesday elections, opposing the Democratic party and aiding Republicans in every state surveyed.
The 1900 campaign keynote expresses support across democrats populists and silver republicans. He vows to persist with greater earnestness until the gold monopoly is broken and the many trusts are overthrown.
State brief notes a Beeville telephone exchange effort and a larger Sardis Ellis county wheat acreage. The Victoria county fair is praised, racing praised, and various local items: Santa Fe Wilson jailed in Cleburne for burglary, Daughters of the Confederacy formed in Houston, Stump Ashby seeks to practice law, Mexicans back Judge Wells for governor, four Chinamen to be deported from Houston, calf sale in Ennis, oil hits Corsicana, Gus Hamilton arrested in Temple, and a notable Kentucky walnut tree worth thousands.
Sugar mills operate at full capacity converting a heavy cane harvest into sugar and molasses with steady processing across facilities.
A Deapwoop dispatch states a body of free milling gold ore was struck in the Hawkeye mine near Plum Gulch with an essay value of 1986 dollars per ton. Locals celebrate the prospect of a new Klondike while a Chicago Tribune letter from a Chinese writer proposes societal reforms and civil service standards.
In a letter dated recently Rev W Wimberly says he is prospering beyond his expectations and does not deny reports of his death from yellow fever. The Banner wishes him continued success and hopes he outlives fever epidemics and harmful newspaper reports.
Hon J W Barney lauds a strong showing in a year and asserts a near certainty of victory in next year's congressional elections and a broader win for democracy in 1900. The remark frames the current result as a stepping stone to ongoing party success.
The Galveston Tribune reports Mr. Watterson will surrender and fight as a private in the Democracy, its banner marked with free silver. Gold Democrats have little choice but to accept Bryanism or secede, with most already gone and few old leaders remaining for the next lineup.
The Texas Farmer argues farmers are not more complaining than other trades. He says farmers with ordinary industry seldom suffer for food or clothing and enjoy all life’s basics plus many comforts, unlike some other callings. The piece weighs relative hardship among professions.
A beer delivery team swerved onto Peabody Street Sunday, stopped before the Opera Saloon, and the driver fell over the dashboard but escaped injury. Col Tim Johnson at Hempstead remains critically ill, with doctors declaring no chance of recovery and he has prepared his affairs.
Brief item collection notes diverse topics from Texas counties. Jail funding in Brazos, tobacco near West, cotton union at Carroll Springs, Seguin brick houses, Santa Fe sheep shipments, a Houston burglary killed, Guadelupe indictments against saloonkeepers, New York buyers eye Willis tobacco, Judge Shirley pecan profits, Hallettsville school expansion, Tarrent and Grayson crop outlooks, Collin onion yield, Yoakum Episcopal minstrel planning.
The Williamson County Cotton Growers Union held a Georgetown meeting last Saturday. It reports harmony among tenants merchants and landlords and urges members to stay out of debt avoid crop mortgages and diversify crops where possible.
Quotations for cotton rose one eighth since last report, advancing sixty two and a half cents per bale and adding about ten thousand dollars in value to the cotton stored in Washington county.
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