Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The President on the 2d signed the bill admitting Idaho as a State. At least twenty horses have died iu the harvest fields of Clark county during the week of heat. The new wheat crop of Kansas is reaching the local market. The dealers pronoun ee the grain as first-class. A Pasteur Institute, for the cure of rabies, lias been opened in connection with the Rush Medical College, Cuicago. France and England are preparing to enact retaliatory measures against the United States on account of the McKinley bill.

A riot occurred among cloak strikers, at New York, on the 3d. Several persons were injured. The proprietors and clerks were not allowed to enter their places of business. ~~

Sunday night four men surrounded the sawmill of J. E. White, at Tallahassee, Fla., drove off the workmen by a display of shotguns and set fire to tho mill, which was burned to the ground. The board having in charge the trial trip of the new war vessel Philadelphia, reported on the 3d, stating .that the vessel was first class in all respects and up to.the requirements of the contract. At the annual banquet of the Club National, held at Montreal, Can., at tho Wiudsor Hotel, Hon. Wilfred Laurier, the leader of the Liberal party in Canada, said: “Canada can not always remain a colony. The time must come when we will take our proper position in the world, and for my part I favor independence.” Statesmen who remained iu Washington Friday discussed the outlook for the admission of additional States into the Union, and they were unanimous in the conclu® sion that no more will come in sooner than the Fifty-third Congress,four years hence. There are but four remaining Territories —Arizona, New Mexica, Utha and Oklahoma. Tho Indian lerritory and Alaska are now but provinces, without representation in Congress. It will take four years for the proposed laud title court to clear up the titles to tho laud in Arizonia and New Mexico, and till that is done state-, hood is impracticable. The anti-Mormon law will likely put Utah in the proper social State for Statehood by the Fiftythird Congress, and not till that time is it believed Oklahoma will have sufficient population for Statehood. Indian Terri, tory and Alaska will come in last, and the latter, it is thought, will make the fiftieth State, so that the twentieth century will close with fifty stars in our flag.

From this time forward the House will devote itself to the settlement of contested election cases, the original package, bankruptcy and a few unimportant measures which have passed the Senate. The work of the House is virtually done for the session, aside from conference work on tariff and silver. The Republican Senators will determine in eaucus early next week the order of business, In view of a clash between the tariff and the river and harbor bills. If it is determined that the election bill shall follow rivers and harbors, silver and the tariff, no one can estimate the length of the session or forecast the result of tariff debate, but if it should be concluded that the election bill shall go over to the next session, it Is stated, on the best Democratic authority, and the Republicans who object to features of tht tariff bill, that it can be passed within ten days from the time it Is taken up in the Senate. The fact that there is a strong demand from the business of the country for the speedy disposition of the Vsriff bill, so that orders for fall and winter trade may issue, will be the strongest argument for postponement of the election bill till the next session.