State Notes

The president has remitted the fine in the case of Addie B. Holland, sentenced in Michigan, in November, 1895, to two years' imprisonment and $250 fine for "embezzling postoffice funds. Charles Rambaud, of L'Anse, Mich., was sentenced to eight montas" imprlsonment and fined $3,000 for trespassing on government land. Kilbourne Seeback, of Port Huron, Mich., aged 1T, was felled to the ground by a blow that broke hisneck andcaused instant death. Owen McAaron, another boy, is in jail on suspicion. Thres persons committed suïcide in Detroit. Mrs. Francés Schischke, agred 45; Charles Weitzke. a tailor, aged 58, and an unknown man who jumped off the ferry boat into the river. In Saginaw, Mich., John McMasters, aged 12, was riding a friend's bicycle, standing on the step barefooted, when his big toe caught in the wheel and was torn off. At Bay City, Mich., Thomas Laderach, who in default of ?50 fine was sent te jail for ninety days for swearing, has appealed to the circuit court, and the first profanity case in many years wil! be fought out to tl.e finish. An owl bearing a heavy burden in its talons was laboring in the air, neai Brooklyn, Mich., and was shot by a hunter. When the bird came to the ground a living, but wounded blue racer, 5 feet long, was clutched in its claw?. L. E. Spock, of Londen, Eng., has been at Grand Rapids., Mich., buying furniture for the European market. He says that foreigner9 have only one fault to find with American furniture - it i; made more handsome than durable.