Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-04
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

N. Will has been appointed postmaster
at Ray Center, Macomb county, vice +. l..
Chubb, resigned.
Saginaw's new city mission has been
dedicated. Rev. J. w. Reid, of Grand
Rapids, officiating.
The commissioner of pensions has APP
pointed DIR. A. L. Berdick member of
the board Of pension examining surgeons
ut Manistique.
Martin Buchanan, an Ionia young man
with a strong penchant for pursuing
young ladies' at night. and pronounced
desire TO shoot his father, has been declared
insane. He will be taken TO an asylum.
Mrs. Hamilton Black. OF Essexville, has
been bound over TO the United States
court for passing counterfeit money. Her
husband, the photographer. was implicated
once before in codnterfeitng business.
Devils Lake may be a queer place to
hunt for ice, but Hudson corporation
has just been formed, with ex-Represeuta-
tive A. .. Abbott at its head, TO raise the
Devil-lake ice, and to store and market 1T
A will was probated at Grand Haven
recently that was drawn up AZ years ago.
A striking feature of it was that both the
subscribing witnesses are still living. The
will was that of the late j. C. Van Hees,
of iceland.
A tough gang of Counterfeters has been
captured at Harr!etta, Wexford county.
Their outfit of dies. casts and spurious
coin was also captured, and the four COM
prisiug the gang are now in tho Grand
Rapids jail.
IInNAk 70.
who titled two ''eishties' few yours ago.
is now owner of s, 900 acres Of California
fruit land, all Of which is planted. and
which gives him the comfortable income OF
5000, 600 year.
Mrs. John Van Auken. Mrs. Clark and
Mrs. Wescott, of Hartford, three victims
of the recent DIN wreck on the Lake
Erie & Western railway in Ohio. have re-
ceived $4,000 from the road US damages
for their Injuries.
Crystal, Montcalm county, wants a rail-
road to help out her industries and her
handsome inland summer resort She is
holding out two plump arms and a most
winning smile 10 the Toledo, Saginaw g.
Muskegon railroad company.
The Bissell carpet sweeper company
last week deposited the grestest volume CT
mail ever put in the Grand Rapids post
office. 1t consisted of circulars, was equal
TO TIVE solid cords aud enriched Uncle
Sans Golfers to the extent of $50.
The salt handled by the Michigan salt
company of Saginaw, in October Melted
the manufacturers So cents a barrel, an
increase Of four cents over the price for
September. During the month of October
the sales OF the salt company exceeded by
so, 900 barrels those for the corresponding
month last year.
Another mystery solved. Charles Perry.
the bright young man who suddenly and
mysteriously disappeared from Kalamazoo
and made a local hit aud something of a
sensation for the press. has written a
postal card TO his landlady say ing she may
please forward his clothing and trunk 10
him in Cleveland, ..
Chicago capitalists have bought and will
beauHfy Macatawa park, opposite Ottawa
beach at the mouth OF Black lake. The
ground is composed of beautiful bathing
beach, high and wooded cliffs, deep and
winding ravines and is. naturally, one of
| the most handsome resorts in Michigan
A big hotel is among the possibilities.
Peter English is talking the plain Lam
guage of Queen Vic's subjects to citizens of
Benton Harbor He is caef owner or the
water works, gas works, and protector of
a big ship canal scheme. ami now wants a
franchise for an electric belt line around
tho young city. He says he will give en-
ployment to all idle men in town il be can
lave it.