State Notes

"W'alter Cord of Macoomb townshlp, Mich.. aged 26, went hopelessly crazy over politics, and since election has I done nothing but shriek "16 to 1." At Owosso, Mich.. John D. Brewer's vaina ble horse was found in a pool of blood. Rats had lacerated and torn the legs to the bones and the horse is ruined. Miss Dolly Mollar, of Otsego, Mich., went crazy election níght while shouting "Hurrah for McKinley!" Then she chased her father and mother around with a butcher knife. The doctors say she is hopeless. Cadet Ernest Steinmeyerof the Michigan Military academy at Orchard Lake, Mich., died of heart disease. He was riding in cavalry drill when death came. He feil to the floor of the riding hall. Steinmeyer's parents reside in Milwaukee. Appel I3ros., clothiers, of Grand Rapids, Mich., have flled chattel mortgages to secure merchandise creditors, naming the Peninsular Trust company as : trustee. The first mortgage is for 000 and the second for $14,000. Ihe ! itors are mostly Chicago houses. Michael King, formerly wheelman of the steamer City of Louisville, was killed in Bcntcn Harbor, Mich., by an electric car. Kditor Jcseph Bert Smiley of Galesburg, Mich.. the Michigan poet, announces himself as a candidate for postmaster in that village. A Iapeer, Mich., man who coveted a certain horse belonging to another agreed to work six days for the owner i in return for the horse. He labored I faithfully for flve days, when the horse died suddenly and t.ie barain was off. l Southwestern Michigan is ílooded i with counterfeit half dollars of the date of 1885. Herman J. Schwartz of Saginaw. Mich., despondent on account of ill health. eommitted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver.