Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

chairman of the board of directors of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road Co.
THE New Orleans chamber of COM
merce has decided to favor the hold
| ing in New Orleans in 1903 of an inter
national exposition to commemorate
| the centennial of the purchase OF
Louisiana by the United States. A
committee of 100 will be appointed to
| examine into the movement, select q
/ site and devise ways and means
Two sailors, S. X. Richards and
| Benjamin Nugent, were recently
asphyxiated by gas in a boarding
| house at 100 La Sale avenue, Chicago
THE leading sewing machine agencies
of the country have organized an as
ISOLATION, the object of which is to con-
troll the sale of sewing machines in the
United States and keep prices up.
THE secretary of the navy has made
his annual report to President Cleve-
land, in which he strongly urges the
increase of the navy. 1--WE are not in
want of ordinary unarmored cruisers
or of unboats,'' he says, 'tbut we are
lamentably deficient in torpedo boats,
and we certainly need more battle
ships" The entire expense of the
navy department for the year ended
June 80, 1895, was So. 14s, 376 of which
more than half was for the pay of the
navy. The appropriation for the cur
rent year is 500, 334 O25 and the esti-
mate for next year $40, 81, 166.
WHAT may be the first step in the
long-desired union of the northern
and southern Baptist churches was
at Greenville, S. c., recently. The body
voted to cooperate with the American
Baptist Home Mission society, the
Home Mission Board of Southern
Baptists and the Colored Baptist con-
vention of South Carolina in mission
airy work among the colored people of
South Carolina.
IN Cass county. Mimi, seventeen
townships seeded and decided to be-
come part of Crow Wing county.
The trouble arose over a bond issue
which the county officers had ordered
and which was opposed by the seced-
ers. Gov. Clough will issue proclama
ton formally announcing the new
deal.
SECRETARY OF WAR LAMONT has sub
mitted his annual report to President
Cleveland. The feature of it is a show
ing of the hardness with which the
plans for coast defenses are being
carried out. The expenses of the war
department for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1895, were $50, 987, 78O. The
appropriation for the current fiscal
year was $40, 466, 571 and the estimate
for the following year, $51, 945, 643. The
numb of enlisted men in the army is
25, 7O6 and the effective list is placed
at 90 5s4 The army, the secretary
said, was better fed, clothed and
housed than ever before.
CHARLES n. SMITH was hanged at De-
catur, ILL.,, on the 29th for the murder
of his child and sister-in-law. On the
scaffold Smith was calm and he spoke
in a faint voice, but otherwise seemed
unaffected. Asked if he had a state
ment to make, he said: ST am sorry
for what have done.'
DURING the progress of church fair
at Wooster, o., an immense crowd was
packed into the city armory, when a
lamp in one of the booths exploded,
setting fire to She draperies of Miss
Myrtle Elser, ar attendant. A rush
for the single e3it occurred and many
women and children were trampled
upon. Fully 1Oc persons jumped from
the windows, many being badly cut by
glass Mrs. Carcie Mckee was thrown
through window, sustaining injuries
which will likely prove fatal. Jennie
Putnam, 1O-year-old cripple, could
not help herself and received internal
injuries which will cause her death.