Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.

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Austria proposes 10 increase
her navy.
British warships have been al.
lowed to enter Port Arthur.
High water in the Ohio river
last week caused considerable
damage.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
advocates sending negro troops to
Cuba to do the fighting.
The Iowa legislature has appro-
priated 100000 to put the militia
in condition for war.
The wet weather of last week
interferred some with tobacco cul.
ture in Montgomery county.
Judge Taylor is to open his
campaign for governor next Mon.
day at Huntingdon.
China has not a single war port
left in which she can accommodate
the new fleet that is building for
her.
A negro mob is in hot pursuit
of q white man who assaulted a
negro girl near Eldorado, Kans.
A family of five persons lost
their lives by the sinking of a
houseboat near Mount Carmel, III.
4 boiler explosion near Camp.
bcllsville, KY, killed four men
and injured another. The mill
was demolished.
An earthquake in California last
week did half a million dollars
damage at the Mare Island navy
yard.
It is difficult for the wildcats in
northern Alabama to keep still,
owing 10 the activity of the deputy
revenue officers.
Forty floating submarine mines
were secretly planted in Havana
harbor last Wednesday night by
tho Spanish government.
Newspaper correspondents are
being notified that the moment
war is declared all Americans
must leave Havana.
The Pennsylvania railroad claims
to be able to handle 100000 sol.
| diers alone and unaided from New
York to Washington in "a hours.
Lieut.. Col. Ludlow expects to
have three dynamite guns at Fort
Hancock, Sandy Hook, ready for
service in o week.
Gen. Lee lights his cigars with
letters containing warnings of in.
slant death, and has given orders
for a stomach pump in case OF
poison.
President Mckinley and Mark
Hanna were burned in effigy at
Richmond, Va, upon reading the
presidents message and the in
quiry report.
Lieut.. Hood, of Florence, Ala,
one of the uninjured officers of
the Maine, has been ordered to
duty to command the torpedo
boat Hawk.
Reports from all over the state
convey the information that the
frosts and cold weather have not
injured vegetation nor fruit to any
appreciable extent.
The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Com.
pany received a big order for guns
and carriages for the United States
navy, to be delivered July !. The
company works are running night
and day.
Public vaccination has been
ordered at Tupelo, Miss, where
seven cases of smallpox are
housed in the pesthouse. The
disease is confined to the negroes
The state board of health has
charge.
Camp Hardee, Of Birmingham
the largest camp of Confederate
Veterans in Alabama, adopted res
olutions indorsing McKinley's
course and pledging support O.
lives and property in case war il
found necessary.
| VIC. Brann, of the Iconoclast
at Waco, Texas, has met his dealt
just as the reading public hat
been expecting for more than {
year. He was shot to death in {
street duel Saturday by Fl. +
Davis. Some time age he attacked
the morals of Baylor university
Capt. Davis had two daughter
in the university.-Davis is deat
) also.
w. Fl. Ferguson, of Nashville
has a copy of the New York Dali.