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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1891
Page
7
Brenham items report court adjournment for a German Day, local crowds thinning, German business houses closing, banks closing at noon, and naturalization grants in district court. Also noted are cotton picking delays from equinoctial showers, one fatal shooting near Lyons, and a Santa Fe rail wreck near Bellville with multiple cars damaged.
The Grand Jury adjourned after delivering seventeen indictments this term, with forty seven returned overall. Major counts include murder, attempt to murder, assault with intent to rape, burglary, perjury, forgery, theft, gambling houses, and fornication where efforts to curb the offense were emphasized as a societal aim.
The article reports that Lee Hughes, the Chapel Hill wife murderer, faces a public hanging on Friday October 30. Sheriff Teague has not chosen a site but will not use the jail and does not plan a stockade, expecting a large crowd.
The Halon-Volters, famed gymnasts and world explorers, announced to appear at Forepaugh’s Circus and perform the Leap for Life at 40 feet mid air. Viewers in Constantinople and Europe have long praised their feats and private royal showcases. The event is set for Wednesday October 21 at the grand palace hall.
Millie Carlotta, dubbed the lion queen, performs with five lions in the Adam Forepaugh Show. The German South African daughter eloped with Col Boone, an ivory hunter turned lion trainer, after a romance opposed by her parents.
Readers are informed that on Wednesday October 21 the Adam Forepaugh Show will exhibit Carlotta and her husband with their trained lions in the circus ring.
Monthly Fire Department drill proceeds Friday with Connor Hose exhibition due to engine crew illness. Water pressure impresses as nozzle blasts backward, toppling a reporter and pushing a boy off the curb. Nebraskan visitor Lanxis weighs electric light investments here amid Brenham’s slow progress.
Brenham marked German Day with a large parade and pageantry honoring the 205th landing of the first German colony on the Concordia. The procession featured Grand Marshals, the George Washington staff, Knights of Honor, various bands and societies, and floats. festivities continued at Germania Park with speeches, music, drills, and a grand pyrotechnic display.
In district court Monday A and H Harrison and B S Rogers answered Mr A Simon’s injunction suit stopping their engine used for electric lights on Opera House nights. They deny all allegations detailing no disturbance or smoke and request dissolution of the injunction plus damages including lamps idle engineer store lamps and closure costs. They claim the suit is spiteful and seek $1000 exemplary damages with many witnesses expected and public interest.
Mrs J H Johnson died at age sixty three in Brenham after a twenty six day battle with typhoid fever. She leaves six children Lee Willie Woody of Pecos City. Mrs P Charskie of Houston. Mrs Sallie Sallus and Annie, both of Brenham. The family mourns a loving wife and mother as the community offers sympathy. Also noted are local civic items including Lt. T J Dicknax’s Army recruiting office in Brenham and a Washington exhibit by Richard Kleine, plus plans for a St Peter’s Bazaar and German Day displays.
Germany Day was celebrated Tuesday in Shelby and Bellville, both in Austin greet and kept many from coming here that would otherwise have swelled the immense crowd. Mesers. FE. Retenarot, G. W. Booker and T. N. Fincher have been appointed jury commissioners for their term of the court and will meet on the 12th inst.
The county court convened with Judge Teague presiding. Cases include The State vs. Sanford for aggravated assault and battery fined $25, The State vs. Will Jordan for shooting an ox, and The State vs. Linus Jackson for unlawfully toting a gun, fined $25. Also continued suits and upcoming murder trials noted along with local social and business items.
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