The State

At Marquette the o:her evening Larry Flnn, a drunken louter aged 43 years, chopped off his wife's head with au ax. The munler was premeditated, as ha sharpened the ax at a neighbor's shop in the afternoon. The house was burned last Miinmer by a tire supposei to have been set by uimsoif, an 1 Finu's faniily consistui of himCelC, wife nn:i two boys, the eldest agol lii, have lived in a dilapídate I ítable near the old home sinee. Finn attaoked hia wife shortly after supper, cleaving open her heai at the first blowThere was no quarrel and the rnurder was cold-blooded. The eldest boy ran from the boujb screaining murJer. He met a ppüccman at the corner who returned with him and forced open the door. Finn had mangled the body of his wife almost beyond recognition, and olïored resistance to the policoinen, but was bpeedily disarmed aud jailed. Threats of lynching are inade but will probably not be carried into execution as the jail is strong and well guarded. Finn has born a hard reputation for years, and a warrant for his arrest w.ta out for him on auother charge when the inurler was committedFire in Grand Rápida. Part of the furniture factory of Nelson Mater & Co., of (irand Rapids, was des" troyed by fire at an early hour on Sunday, Nov. S7. Kelson, Mater & Co.'s loss will aggregate about $2JÜ,000, upon which there is insuranoa between $15,ÜCIO and $150,000. The building was erected ton years ago at a cost of $40,000 and was fllled with valuable furniture; $3U,00J worth oL Roods to fill hotel orders were in tha building and in another ten days would have b6en shipped. The factory building containing machinery and materials wa3 saved. Bteps will be takan to secure newquarters ïor fiuisliing and storage, and operations will be rezumad as soun as possible in the old factory and in teinporary quartors.