A Fiend's Work

Moont Pleas.vnt, Mich., Maren 16.-. ?he small station of Wise, eleven miles uorth of here, was the sceno of a terrible rime and a futile attenipt to hide it Saturd;y morning. Dennis Burns, a laborng man, occupies a smal! cottage on the border of the village with his wife and three children, the eldest of which was a girl of eight years. Burns left home early in the morning, and Mrs. Burns, needing a pail of water, went for it to a neiyhbor's well, leaving the children in bed. She stood chatting at the well with a neighbor until her attention was called to her house by smoke pouring rom the door. An Atruvious Crinie Committed. She rushed home, her steps accelerated Dy the screams of the childrea and the sursting of flames from the ürst-story Windows. Without stopping to count tne risk she dashed into the flame-filled house and selzed the two youngest childreu Erom the crib.ynd, hastily quenching the ñames, attempted to get the eider one out. Help arrived and the eldest one was draggeil out horribly burned, but she lived long euough to teil her motner that a big man had entered the house and. after feloniously assaulting her, had set fire to the bed-clothing with matches and run out the back door. Diabolism Alxnogt Unparalleled. The second child corroborated the eider, and the doctor's examination proved it beyond a doubt. The flend had evidently caloulated to cremate the three children, and thus destroy all traces of his crime, as it would have been natural to suppose that the children set themselves on fire. There is absolutely no clew to the miscreant, as the children, one 3 and the other 5, canoot give a good description of him. The sheriff of Isabellacounty is searching for clues, and there will be a lynching party iL he is caught. Michigan Asylum Abusea. Kalamazoo, Mich., March 13.- ïhe legislative committee investigating the affairs of the asylum has adduced evidence going to show that Dr. Palmer and his wife deprived Ktta Edwards, one of the patients, of food for five days; that flour supplied to the asylum was sold to outside partios for over a year, and no record made of the transactions; that patients were deprived of food for refusing to work, and that several of them had their teeth drawn in order to prevent them from biting the attendants. Senator Friedlander's Case. LANSING, Mich., March 18. - As yet no new developments have arisen in the Friedlander affair. Attorneys Devell and Dart, who have been retained by the Indian woman, Mary Petoskey, are here, but spend most of their time in the law department of the state library. They refuse to talk about the case.