Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1888 — NEWS BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BUDGET.

Fresh Intelligence from Every Part of the Civilized World. Foreign and Domestic News, Political Events, Personal Points, Labor Notes, Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. LAHAIt. Tlie Secretary of the Interior Sends His Resignation to the President. Secretary Lamar has tendered to the President his resignation as Sjcretary of the Interior, and it has been accepted by the President. Mr. Lamar’s letter is dated Jan. 7, and closes as follows: In terminating my relations to you as a member of your official" family, I desire to express my gratolul sense of the obligation I am under to you personally tor the consideration and kindness which have always characterized your treatment of me. and for the generous confidence and support which you have steadily given me in the trying and arduous administration of this department. I shall always be proud to have been associated with the honorable record you will leave upon the page of your country's history. The I'resident, in accepting the resignation, says: lam sure that the close confidence and the relations of positive affection which have grown up between ub need no expression or interpretation. And jet I find it utterly impossible for me to finish this note without assuring you that the things which have churocterizedyour conduct and bearing in the position from which you now retire—all your devotion to your country and your chief; your self-sacriiicing care and solicitude for pabiic interests ; all the bentit which your official service has conferred upon your fellow-countrymen, and all the affection and kindness you have so often exhibited toward me personally—l shall constantly remember with tenderness and gratitude.

j THE NEXT WHEAT HA IVEST. Present Condition of tlie I’lunt in the States of tlio Central West Hetter tlian Anticipated. East Eall. The Farmer's Review, of Chicago, prints the following summary of tha condition of the winter-wheat crop: The whiter-wheat crop is in better condition than could have been hoped for before the breaking of the drought in the fall. This is attributable to late rains just before the setting in of winter and the snow mantle which has quite generally covered the growing wheat since. Eate reports of crop correspondents briefly summarized give the following percentages of condition as compared with an average: Ohio, forty-two counties, condition 82.0 per cent.; Illinois, sixty-six counties, 90.7 per cent'; Missouri, forty-nine counties, 88.6 cent.; Kansas, forty-nine counties, 105 per cent.; ■Wisconsin, twenty-six counties, 'J>. 5 per cent.; Michigan, twenty-two counties, 88.3 per cent.; Kentucky, twenty couutios, 87.2 per cent. These figures indicate an averago condition of about 87 per cent, in the winter-wheat States of the Central West. November reports on ucreage seeded to winter wheat in the same State indicated about 94 per cent, of an acieage, which with the present condition indicates about 83 per cent of an average amount of crop for the coming harvest, provided acreage conditions are meanwhile experienced."

MANY KOAOS HAVE FAILED. i Annual Statistics Show Iludly for Hallways —The Alton Is Still Fighting. In its hast issue the Railway Age, of Chicago, publishes a statement showing that— During the year 18s7 thirty-ono railroads in this country, with an aggregate funded debt of $164,1*22,000, and capital stock of 8163,659,e00, have been foreclosed and sold. Several very large companies contributed to swell the total to its appalling aggregate, notable among them being the Indiana, Bloomington & Western, Kentucky Central, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia, Central lowa, and Texas & Pacific, these six companies alone being reponsible for nearly 70 per cent, of the mileage and nearly 80 .per cent, of the capital represented ia the aggregate for the year. The record of new cases of railway insolvency is also quite large, eight roads having passed into the hands of receivers during the year. These eight roads represent 1,046 miles of track, and have a funded debt of $42,887,0.0, and capital stock aggregating $47,431,000. The large amount of new construction during the past year is regarded us ominous, but the fact that the greater part of the new building has been by strong lines renders the railroad situation for 1888 stronger than it appears.

] lOWA FARMERS SQUEEZED. Enable to Take Up Mortgages Resulting from Meager Railway Facilities. A becent dispatch from Dos Moines, lowa, states that— Complaints of the scarcity of cars continue to come from the farmers of Northwestern lowa. Railway Commissioner Coffin recently paid a •visit to that part of the State, and has since been urging upon the roads the importance of furnishing necessary facilities for farmers to move their surplus produce. One of the chief articles "of shipment is baled hay and a dispatch states that while there is a shortage of cars for all purposes the hay man only get about one-tenth or less of tne cars that come. Thousands of dollars of mortgages are just due in that part of lowa. A strong effort should be mane to relieve the farmers in some form, as they are at the mercy of the collectors and attorneys. If collections are enforced it will create a panic, as they have as a rule received credit during the season, and perhaps Lorrowed money to get along with, witu the exception of a market for the hay and chances lor shipments. ! REQUISITES FOR STATEHOOD. .Enabling Acts for Some of the Territories likely to Be Fassed. Mb. Springer, Chairman of the House Committee on Territories, in an interview at Washington the other day, said: Very probably enabling acts will be passed for some of the Territories ; that is we may pass an act enabling some of the Territories to adont State constitutions, and to construct the machinery of State government preparatory to recognition as States. The admission of a new State is a very important matter and cannot be done on a mere application or on any mere arithmetical basis. fcomeho wan impression has got abroad that a territory must have a certain population to qualify it for admission. There is no law and no custom about it. The admission of a new State is entirely a matter of legislative discretion. It is within the power of Congress to erect “No Man's Land’’ into a State and admit it to the Union. The State of waß admitted when she had less than 40,000 people. Dakota has over 600,000. The Congress, in its discretion may exclude Dakota and may admit “No Man’s Land."