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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1890
Page
6
News items report rich tar gold discoveries near Ardmore Indian Territory and the burning of the steamer Annie Young on Lake Superior with eight men lost. Other notes mention tariff politics, Irish governance, and various statewide actions and opinions.
S W Wurrt calls for arrest of Alfred M Parker over false stock reports. Knights of Labor weigh independent party for balance of power. Texas Masons plan 325000 boarding house in Austin for masons and widows to aid university access. Ex mayor of Ft Worth reunites with wife Addie Cullen in New York. Census notes Washington county growth amid immigration and undercounts. Dallas Weekly News promotes Texas history quiz with premiums. Hoggs Governor bid tied to Democratic platform. Chinaman seeks citizenship and questions on naturalization laws. Williamson County ex Confederate soldiers urge funding for a home for disabled veterans and a public school history publishing house.
After the police chief Hennesy’s murder in New Orleans, reports reveal an Italian secret mafia plan to kill more officers and state authorities. A fifty member citizen committee vows to pursue the murderers with strong backing as tensions rise and a potential race riot looms.
A wide range of brief items covers visits and movements of politicians in Canada Scotland and the United States. Highlights include labor strikes in Vienna. German and American political maneuvering. ongoing Irish home rule talks. Brazilian recognition by Britain. and upcoming or adjourned conventions. Also noted are crimes, ship losses, and local elections impacts.
The Manufacturers' Record cites the Conger Compound Lard bill as causing a multi million dollar impact on Southern agriculture. Although the measure failed this session, fears it could pass depressed cotton-seed oil prices and hurt cotton growers and oil producers. Prices for this season's crop now run 8 to 9 dollars a ton, down from 14 to 16 dollars last year, a blow to small farmers reliant on cotton-seed income.
The Columbia Register outlines optimistic cotton projections from 1679 to 1881 suggesting 15.6 million bales in ten years at $50 a bale and $8 million in goods, fueled by new farming methods. It critiques tariff-driven price increases and notes political maneuvers around protectionism. It also reports on the New Orleans chief of police murder case, Sicilian immigration, Sabine Pass water depth, and local business visits.
At a meeting led by Col. Sledge editor of the Washington Economist the group voted to start a new Alliance daily to replace the Southern Mercury and back the sub treasury bill. A Dallas meeting will choose a location and editor with funds claimed to be ready. Also notes a Texas bulletin on screw worm and a Utah Mormon polygamy shift. Forecasts a Pacific storm wave around the 24th to 28th.
A Western Texas writer extols county fairs as hands on learning for farmers and families. Visit early to study cattle, apples, grain, machinery, churns, poultry, sheep and pork breeds, and note pecan growing as a profitable alternative per Mount Zion horticultural notes.
A barrage of fashion and social observations from the era covers matching, collars, coats, rough cheviot nap, and the rise of women in Kansas education. It notes foreigners owning land, bankers’ cutaway demand, and style tips like four in hand ties, shell jackets, and bowery roughs. It also mentions Vanderbilt and Gould wealth, a Kansas woman in public instruction, and a pun about islands from a father's question.
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