State News Brevities

The Elk Rápida furnace ia soon to bo shut down for repairs. During the last 19 inonths that it has been in blaat it has made over 19,500 tons of iron. The Seventh-day Adventists proposo to build a $25,000 church at Battlo Creek the coming summer. The new building is to seat 1,500 people. The Kalamazoo asylum is having a System of eleotrio bells established by which instan taneous communication can be had with all the rooms and offices of tho institution. At an adjourned term of the Circuit Court held at Cassopolia on the 13 iust., Eben E. Burgdorf was sentcnced to imprisoument for 10 months for forgiug an order for $25. A bilí of exceptions was settled in thu case of Tho Peoplo vs. Leopold Dunkol, convicted of fiiing into a railroad train.