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News Items of Interest. Spain is still forwarding troops to Morocco. The Supreme Court began its October term. A destructive fire occurred at the Cortodon mines at Carthage, Mo. Debate in both branches of Congress was marked by a show of ill-temper. This week a battle royal will be waged in the Senate on the silver question. Great crowds are already in Chicago to take part in "Chicago Day" at the World's Fair. An Alabama mob shot to death a negro who had attempted to outrage a white woman. A. M. Daivs, the oldest merchant of Jonesboro, Ark., was killed in a runaway accident. The steamship Russia from Hamburg with six deaths from cholera at sea arrived at New York. At Norton, Kas., a merchant murderously assaulted his partner and then attempted suicide. Indians in Northwestern Wyoming are on the rampage, killing the settlers' stock and starting fires. Most of the House committees will be kept busy during the present week considering various measures. A 7-year-old somnambulist was shot and killed near Valley Furnace, W. Va., being mistaken for a burglar. Two deaf and dumb young women were killed yesterday by a train near Bluffs, Ill., on the Wabash Railroad. A Big Four train struck a loaded street car near Cincinnati, killing one person and probably fatally injuring two others. Governor Lewelling has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of the assailant of Miss Burr at Fort Scott. John Woods, aged 76 years, died yesterday at his home near Tipton, Mo., from the effects of injuries inflicted by a pet ram. The Ways and Means Committee is working on the new tariff bill with the object of making protection incidental to raising revenue. The Republicans of Iowa are becoming more and more dissatisfied with Jackson and the Republican press is openly echoing the dissatisfaction. There are about 800 cases, several of them important, to be disposed of at the next term of the Supreme Court which convenes at Jefferson City to-day. O. K. Caldwell, ex-cashier of the defunct Citizens' Bank of Nevada, Mo., has been arrested on a charge of receiving money when he knew the bank to be insolvent. The commission and Board of Experts investigating the business methods of the various departments with a view of bettering them have made substantial progress. The 500 miners who have been on a strike in the East Tennessee mining districts for 18 months have consented to a 10 per cent reduction and gone to work. A mob forcibly ejected Jim Dunn from a lot in Pawnee, Ok., which he had settled on during the temporary absence of Miss Blake who had made a 15-mile run and secured it. It has been discovered that Colonel William F. Switzler is ineligible to the office of curator of the State University, to which he was recently appointed by Governor Stone. Jackson, candidate of the Republicans for Governor of Iowa, has proposed to the State Committee to withdraw his name on account of the pension scandal attached to his name. Last Thursday night a young man at Memphis, Tenn., committed suicide because his fiance broke her engagement with him. Saturday the young lady took morphine and was barely saved from death. Mass meetings were held in many cities of Great Britain, at which sympathy was expressed for the striking coal miners and the Government denounced for sending troops against the strikers. # GREAT CROWDS AT CHICAGO. Probably a Million People Inside the World's Fair Gates To-Day.