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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1897
Page
3
The Houston Post notes dengue waning with fever receding while Brenham faces quarantine tensions and stigma. Clerks report post office job interest, trains restrict pass through Chappell Hill, and locals discuss vagrancy and nuisance issues amid fever scare.
An extract from the Houston Sunday Telegraph dated Nov 10 1867 recounts Dr E Stockbridge arriving in Brenham in September to treat yellow fever. He names patients treated and notes four deaths including Miss Blunt after a prolonged illness. The local section describes panic, families fleeing Brenham, factory shutdowns, railroad lay offs, and health measures at county lines to curb contagion.
H. G. Klatt, wounded in Latium, was in Brenham as J. M. Mathis was employed to assist in prosecuting those responsible for the recent cutting scrape. The brother, once thought fatally wounded, is now able to sit up.
In Watrousville on Thursday evening Charles Fortune attacked Will Clay with a two by four, injuring him. Clay requires meals served on the mantelpiece for days. Fortune fled but was captured by Policeman Burkhead and jailed on a $25 bond for mayor's court.
Three sentences claim to contain every letter of the alphabet. The longest has thirty-three letters, the shortest twenty-nine. Examples include Why give up six dozen black jam and Have judges pick my new quartz fly box.
The Argentine government invites bids from United States citizens to construct a central railroad station in Buenos Ayres with a project cost not exceeding 4 million dollars.
A movement forms to sell the full-blood Choctaws rights in the Indian Territory and relocate the entire tribe to Mezigo land, seeking government action on the transfer.
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