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American News.

American News.
David b. HilPs attack on the Wilson
bill and the President has raised the
biggest row in the Democratic party
that has been known for years, and it
promises to split the organization
wide open. The free trade democrats
are denouncing Hill as a traitor-a
Republican in disguise-and roast
ing him as hard as language will
do it. There is great anxiety in the
party as to what course Hill and his
followers will take when it comes to
voting on the measure, and it is now
thought that the chances are about
even that the bill will pass or fail.
Among thinking men it is earnestly
desired that it be adopted as soon as
possible. The South is Disguised with
the situation, and Populists will be
stronger than ever in that section.
The Democratic majority in the
House has stultified itself by being
made to hold a voting quorum, and
finally adopting the famous rules
drawn by Tom Reed, and which they
denounced as the rules of Car. The
Republicans are very much elated
over the fact, as it enables the chair
to prevent fillibustering.
The men who captured Chris Evans
paid the balance of the reward offered.
Wells, Fargo & Co. handed over $1,000
to the men last week.
David Dudley Field, the great
lawyer, and brother of Stephen Field,
is dead, at the age of 80. He was the
most eminent law reformer of the
century.
An order reducing the wages of train
men on the Great Northern Railroad
has caused d tie up of that great sys-
tenn. The employees all went out and
The strikers say that foreign men
shall not operate the road.
The indications at the present writ
ing are that the new Chinese treaty
will be defeated, as there appear to
be several jokers in it that did not APP
pear on the surface.
The Huns in the Pennsylvania coke
fields are still causing great deal of
trouble. They are assaulting work
men driving home from their labors,
and viciously defying the officers of
the law.
Two jurors in the Heath murder
trial at Fresno saved Heath's neck
by staying out eighty-six hours. The
other ten were for hanging him. The
mystery still remains. Who killed
McWhirter if Heath did not.
p Sullivan, who slaughtered his
wife four years ago, is to be hanged in
San Quentin next Friday.
The army of industry, or tramps,
which was held up at Ogden by the
authorities, finally captured a Union
Pacific train and are now being rushed
across the country to the Missouri
river. The authorities could not
manage the mob. and it looks as
though some of them may reach
Washington.
The Atlantic Coast has been swept
by one of the worst storms ever
known. Many craft were wrecked
and number of lives lost. Crops
and buildings along the coast were
greatly damaged.
I President Cleveland has had the
pleasure of sitting in the White
house and talking with the postmas-
ter at Chicago by means of the new
long-distance telephone.
The family of Howard Gould have
broken off the match between him
and Odette Tyler, the actress.
A bandit held up the cashier of the
bank at Charlottesville, Neb., secured
$4,000, locked the cashier in the vault
and escaped.
In 100000 fire at Buffalo ON the
18th, twenty workmen are said to
have persisted.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, who
pardoned the anarchists of the Hay
market riot, is dying.