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 Ford's activities. He stuck to his last and knew little of what was happening outside his daily routine. In the year 1890 the new states of Idaho and Wyoming were  admitted into the Union, the People's party held its first convention in Kansas City, the McKinley tariff law  went into effect, Chief Sitting Bull was killed in the  Sioux war, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands acquired a ten-year-old queen, Wilhelmina. In 1891 a bomb thrower blew himself to pieces when trying to kill Russell Sage in New York, and his identity as a New