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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

WHILE railroads in the United States
are showing great depression and
shrinkage in earnings, and in the Western
section q falling off of $73,000,O00 in
earnings, the English railroads appear
to be having remarkable prosperity.
The London Economist of Aug. 3 says
that "during the last few weeks the
home rallWay-share market has been ex-
tremely active and prices generally have
advanced very sharply;" that one reason
for this is the favorable dividends, while
these have resulted from increased earn
ings, in spite of the advance in price of
all railway material, coal and of wages of
workmen. The price of coal alone has
advanced from 20 to 20 per cent. The
British journal adds that while these ad-
vances may cut down the net earnings for
the last half of this year, still the fact re-
mains that the condition of the roads is
highly prosperous one, in marked con
trast to that of ours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
STILL ON THE oRONIN MYSTERY
Sullivan Further Implicated by Recent Dis
cOyerieS,

CH1oAGo.-The police have secured
some important evidence in the
Cronin case. 1t is said to be to the effect
that on the night of the murder pair of
horses belonging to O'Sullivan the ice
man now in jail, as one of the Cronin
murderers, were attached to one of his
ice wagons and were driven rapidly in
the vicinity in which the murder was
committed by three excited men, and
4ere driven In front of the saloon in Lake
view at about 9 o'clock; that they were
covered with foam and that the men in
the wagon went in and had drinks. 1t
has been supposed, evei since the muir
der that these horses remain ed in the
barn all that night. The police admit to
the substantial correctness of these
statements, but decline to speak further
about the matter except to say that
neither of tie men in the wagon is in
Jail. The police claim to have dis
covered q tin smith who has identified
Martin Burke as the man for whom he
soldered tin box the Monday following
the tragedy, and which it is thought, the
police say, to have contained Cronin's
clothes. second box soldered is sup
posed to have contained the missing
instrument case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
sCHWElNFORTH's SAM JONESISM.
Saying of the Northwest One of Many Modern
MeSsiahS

Saying of the Northwest One of Many Modern
Messiahs.
One of that small band in Minneapolis
which believes in the claim which "Rev."
George Jacob Schweinforth makes, tina
he is Jesus Christ, recently told Mime
apolis reporter the story Of Sohwein-
furth's life. He livef near Rockford, ILL.,,
where he owns farm. He is reputed to
be worth $50 600 and has considerable
following in his own neighbOrhood.
Among other, characteristic remarks cred
tied to this m an are the following:
If there is anything 1 do despise it is
these little gum drop preachers who
shoot with their smooth bore gun and
shoot over the big devils in the front
seats to hit the little devils in the back
seats.
Some preachers take offense when I
talk likt thae, and I say to them: cts
my fly paper, but it's your application.
If it don't fit you don't put it on"
There are too many Of those kind of
preachers--little fellows that you can
put six of them in your watch-pocket
and then put Waterbury alongside of
them.
God honors brave man In the right,
and a yellow dog won't smell of a man
who is coward.
Put an archaugel in saloon and it
wilt make devil of him,
Adam was put on this world first, and
woman came after, and she has been
after man ever since, God bless her.
The rum power may just as well get
ready to go, for it must, and pardon me
sing as it goes, "Good-by, Ny Lover,
Good-by!"
Get in the gospel elevators. Don't try
TO climb the stairs
Inidelity is a big gas bag. Some day
God will stick knife in it and let ali the
gas out and down il will 60. When l
see man lifting himself over rail
fence by his boot straps l will believe in
iufdelity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Wild Bull and Bustle.

One afternoon, recently, wild bull
broke loose from an enclosure at the cor
ner Of Madison and Thirty-frst streets.
The infurated apimal rushed toward Mis-
sion street, and near Twenty-eight stree6
encountered Ricardo Perrin, whom he
tossed from his horns as if the unfortu-
nate man were a feather. Perrin IN
his fall had two ribs broken. The bull
proceeded little further, and attacke d
Pusette Antonio, whom he hurled into the
air. Pusetre fell heavily on his face and
had his nose badly bruised. He spit
blood for some time, but was able to walk
home. The wild beast then attacked
woman, whose name the Examiner report
err could not learn, and lodged his horne
yiciously in her hustle, lifting the fright
ened young lady from the ground.
0 wing to the weight of her body the bus
tie gave way, and its owner fell, more
scared than hurt.
The animal, with the feminine flag
floating from his horns, continued in his
mad career, but was finally lassoed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER WRITERS.

ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER WRITER'S.
A large number and probably major
ity of the contributions sent to newspa-
pere by casual writers are excluded be-
cause they are too long. As q rule, those
unaccustomed to writing for publication
never write until they become specially
interested in some particular abuse or
public question and then they commit
the natural serror of assuming that the
world is in entire sympathy with them on
their hobby. The result is that they write
column after column which would never
be read if published, and their labors
achieve only place in the wa5te-basket.
Persons who have never been trained to
the concisenees necessary TIC a popular
newspaper, should first of all consider
that the readers of a paper must have all
they have no time and less inclination for
prosy contributions on any subject. Such
articles are now limited to few class
Journals of the smallest circulation, and
they are unseen and unfelt by the people
of this progressive age. Only the
tersest apd most pointed contri-
buttons can be given space in the
popular newspaper of to-day and they
are always the most useful end con-
Only the trained editor thoroughly under
stand the rare art of saying the most IL
the least space, and the pulpit, the ros.
trum and even the magazine are gradual
ly learning something of the art; but the
casual writer who dashes for publicity
only when he or she is wildly excited
over some public question usually de
stroys many valuable ideas by diffusing
them over multiplied pages. In some
cases the editor can make such contribu-
tions passablo by the reckless use of the
obIiterating blue pencil, but as rule all
dlffuse articles must be rewritten to make
them acceptable. Let every casual news
paper writer start on the assam ption that
the briefest and most incisive articles
are always acceptable because most popu-
lar, and there is only one way to make
practical application of the theory. First,
write what you have TO say on the chosen
subject. Second, study Is over carefully
and then write it over again. Third,
study it over again with equal or increased
care, and re-write it again. BY that time
the original article will be from one
fourth to ope-third the length of the orr
ginal, and the author can't fail to see that
it is more attractive, more logical and in
every way more useful and creditable
Editors have no time for such re-
writing in their daily work, but there are
no successful editors who have not
thoroughly learned to write first hand IS
most men would write after repeated re-
visions. Many orators in pulpit and
forum wrestle under their midnight lamps
to re-write their sermons and orations
and thus make them pointed, finished
and impressive, and the sooner that casu-
al writer's understand that forcible snd
attractive expression is the fruit of the
sevarest labor, the sooner will they have
ready access TO the columns of popular
newspapers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

THE action of the California magistrate
who issued a warrant for the arrest OF
Judge Field on the charge of completely
in the death of Judge Terry is everywhere
Justly condemned. It is under the cir
ounstances ar outrage. The evidence
shows that Judge Field had nothing to do
with che killing of Terry. He was simply
assaulted and struck by Terry, when Maggie
interfered and shot the latter. The arrest
of Judge Field was an outrage, but it dis
graoes no one but Dogberry who issued
the warrant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
WANT IT BAD.
Although Not Prohibition States the Dakotas
Want Water.

Although Not Prohibition States the Dakotas
Want Water.
HURON, s. d. - Reports from 60
towns in various parts of North and
South Dakota, forwarded to s. w. Glenn,
in charge of the United States signal
Office, and manager of the Dakota crop
and weather service, in this city. indicates
for the week ending Aug. 18, that the
crops generally needed rain. Early
planted corn in the southern counties is
rapidly maturing, and in the north where
showers have been frequent of late, corn
and fax, also grass and ell the root crops
are greatly in need of rain. A majority
of the reports indicate that the wheat
yield is much better than expected and
is of a high grade. Much of it is begin
ming to find it's way to market.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

FIVE hundred fool Frenohmen of Lon
don have presented an address of SYM
pathy and coincidence to the fool French
man of the age. If Gen. Boulangel
should return to France he will soon find
out how the rest of his countrymen re-
gard him. But he won't return; even his
fooli shness has limit. 1t is dollars to
cents that in less than two years he will
either be wsiter in q restaurant or the
husband of an American heiress. Either
position would be about his size.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
FOR THEIR CREDITORS BENEFIT
Keystone Furnace Company of Reading, Pi
% fnp c0Q0 Qa0

Keystone Furnace Company of Reading, Pa.
Fail for $2800O0
READING, Penn.-Wednesday afternoon
the Keystone Furnace company which
operates two large furnaces here with a
cap scity of $50 tons per week made an
assignment for the benefit of their
creditors. The president of the com
pany, Henry Bushong, attributes the fail
ure to dizziness in iron trade. The assets
of the company consist of two furnaces
aud some land probably worth 100000,
Mortgages are recorded against the com
pany amounting to $4,000 and floating
obligations, some of which mature to-
morrow, amount to between 100000 and
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

Tx the Revue d'Hugine Therspeutivue
Blanche Howard, a female doctor, gives
statistical proof that the mortality from
diphtheria is rapidly increasing. Twenty
years ago in France this mortality was
between SO and 45 deaths in every loO,-
600 inhabitants; now it amounts to ITO
to 121 in every 100000. In England the
deaths in every 100000 number %; in
America, so to so; in Germany, 40 to
155; Christiana, $40.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

and other railroad ompanies, have al
ready gone out, and the railway carmen
are joining them. The laborers at
Spratt's biscuit factory have struck, caus
ing an entire stoppage of work. All
CLASSES of unskilled labor in London
threaten to join in the strike, and trouble
Is feared. The police are making prep
aratIons for an emergency.
Thousands of vessels lie idle in the
London docks, and the Indian mail steam
ers are detained in port. Four thousand
ightermen have struck. Mounted police
patrol the streets, and the situation is be-
coming critical
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
A HeIOful Little Maid,
Ruffaio Courier

buIIalO COuTleT
Her parents think Elsie the cutest child
in the world, and certainly for 5-year oil
this fairy is wonderfully handy about the
house. She has great ambition to be
helpful, however much in the way she
may happen to get in her Iaudable but
naturally not yet very effective desire to
make herself useful. The other day her
father had a gentleman friend to dinner,
and after the repast told the little girl to
fetch couple of cigars from his box.
"Dld you ind them, EisieG" he asked, Is
she returned. Eyes papa, and I bit the
ends off for WOMB
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
AN AWFUL TRAGEDY.

a Father Accidentally Shoots His Own Son
While Hunting.
MARsHALLTowN, Iowa. fatal aoci-
dent occurred near Eidorado Wednesday
afternoon. While out hunting a banker,
L. f. Wisner, accidentally shot
and killed his own son George,
about % years of age. Mr.. Wisner
was president and principal owner of the
Hardin county bank and owned several
thousand acres of land, and was the
wealthiest man in central Iowa, being
very popular and widely known, His
wife and young son are almost crazed
over the tragedy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
CHINESE FLOATING GARDENS.
How These Queer Specimens of Celestial
Ingenuity Are Made.

HOW 1Htst QuttI HptCiHItHs VI OoIcoO1lII
Ingenuity Are Made
In the month of April bamboo raft
ten to twelve feet long and about half as
broad, Is prepared, says the China Re
view. The poles are dashed together,
with interstices of an inch between each.
Over this layer of straw an inch thick
is spread, and theu coating two inches
thick of adhesive mud, taken from the
bottom of canal or pond, which receives
the seed. The raft is moored to the
bank in still water, and requires no fur
Their attention. The straw soon gives way
and the soil also, the roots drawing sup
mort frcm the water alone. In about twenty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
WISCONSIN,

TIC New York Evening Post speaks
bmmendingIy of Senator Spooner for
soting against Blair's education bill
The sentiment In the south has largely
changed on the subject of this bill since
the last vote on it was taken. 1t is likely
to be defeated in the next congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
4 Flour Mill Burned.

ST.. GATHERINGS, Ont, Aug 23.-The
Empire and Phoenix Touring mills, both
owned by Sylvester Mellon, were totally
burned this morning. The Empire mill
was one of the largest and finest mills in
this county, and was erected only few
years ago at q cost of 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
The Boy Who Was His Own Grandfather.

There was widow and her daughter-in-
law, and a man and his son. The widow
married the son, and the daughter mar
ried 'sthe old man." The widow was,
therefore, the mother to her husbands
father, and consequently grandmother to
TO her own husband. They had son to
whom she was great-grandmother. Nov,
as the son of the great grandmother must
be either grandfather or great uncle,
this boy was one or the other. He was
his own grandfather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
The London Strikers.

LoNDoN-Memters of other trades are
joining the striking dockmen. The car
men of Pickforo Il Co., general carriers
and agents of the London Il Northwestern
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Josh BILLINGS Philosophy.

New York weekly.
The great mistake ov American life IL
that we discount every thing-all our hap
piness. all our desires, all our expektas-
huns.
Emmy man who will spred SANDER IL
sekondhanded liar, mulch NEARER If posi-
BILE, than the one who origin ated it.
Menny people are like an old hen with
one chicken; they display CRATE deal ov
fuss and hurry, but very little dispatch.
All lies, before they bekum current,
pass thru three hands, the fust IL sum
very diskreet person, who looks wise, and
only hopes that things amt so and so; the
sekond il lawless gossip, who haz nc
doubt but what things are SO, or even wuss
the third il malishus vampire, who fully
indorses the foul blot, and spreds it broad
cast thru the land.
Pride and anger are closely allied.
Diskreshun liz the smartest thing emmy
man possesses. If he haz got plenty ov
braines with it. he liz giant; and if he
hai'nt got mulch Ov emmy, he IL a respek-
table pigmy.
My opinyun ov strikly honest men is
that they are skarse.
He who haz got nothing to do in this
life but to amuse hisself, haz got on hand
| the hardest kind ov a job know ov.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

King Kaiakaua, of the Sandwich Is
lands, thinks of Indicating. Here is a
chance for Eoulanger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

John L. Sullivan considers bis expert
ence in Mississippi court the best ad-
vertisement he ever received.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Ways of the Shah,
Rochester Express.


The Shah drinks kimmei by the tumb-
lerful. When he found that Lord Sails
bury's son was clergyman at Hatfield, he
was surprised that tbs Prime Minister
had not "done better" by the boy. When
he saw a pretty young woman at the Mar
borough House garden party he walked
over to her and stared at her until she
beat retreat. He admires fat women,
and when somebody spoke of the Duchess
of Leinster, he said: Hem! but Lady
Rosebery-ah! beautiful" She weighs
over 200 pounds. He doesn't like ugly
women, and when one is presented to him,
coolly signifies his disfavor, remarking
either in Persian or French: "Take her
away; she is too ugly" He has his hair
and mustache dyed black by his barber;
as he is 60 years old, nature has dyed both
handsome gray by this time, and her
handiwork is retouched. When hegoes to
sleep grea5 care is taken about waking
him mp slowly, because it is supposed his
soul leaves the body during slumber, and
if he were reused suddenly it might not
| be able to steal back and death would be
tbs result.
Hints for Short Ladies. Tall Ladies and Vul-
gar Women.
short, stoPt person should avoid
wearing a dress flounoed or frilled to the
waist, or even to any considerable height,
as also high distended skirt, which
might be tolerable on one of her taller
sisters. In like manner long waist is
equally 1ncongruous on tall person, and
very small hat or bonnet to one who
| has g full or prominent face; nor should
woman of small stature wear large pat
terms, nor one very tall a long, scanty
cloak, or a depending scarf; nor bad
walker, founces; nor one with a snort
throat or neck, feathers; nor one with
high shoulders, shawl.
It raises smile to see vulgar woman
dressed in the apparel of polished
lady; that which adorns the one merely
tends to display the defects of the other.
-CoOIey
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
they must not toucn.

they must not touch.
The law requires that the rail shall not
be less than six feet from both the ballot
box and the voting shelf. Within this
rail are two tables, one to hold the bal
lots to be given out, and check list, on
which the names Of all receiving ballots
are checked; the other contains CORE
spending check list, where the names Of
those depositing ballots are checked.
The entrance and exit through the rail,
and the shelf to which one goes to mark
the ballots, are marked in the accompa-
nying cuts as placed against the wall
Where the ward room will be used for
other purposes between elections, it is
best that the ballot shelves, to which the
voter goes to make his little check
against the name of his candidate, be ar
ranged to fold, both the partitions and
the shelf, at the bottom. They can also
be nailed or screwed together perma-
nently. Common wooden horses are
used as the best means of supports to the
shelves and are considered more stable
than any plan Of folding legs and less
liable to disarrangement. They can be
easily slipped one within the other and
stored away in a small space. The non
folding shelves are easily supported by
placing upright strips against the wall
where the studding offers solid nailings,
and screwed on the shelves. The shelves
may be on brackets or suspended from
stout hooks. The rail-and the shelves
should be stout enough to support con-
siderable pressure.
The cuts here given show the plan Of
how room 20 by "a feet may be fitted
for balloting according to the new sys-
tenn. The same general plan can be ap-
piled to rooms Of different sizes.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
ONE FORM OF MARKING PLACES.

ONE FORM OF MARKING PLACES.
In some states the voter drops the bal
lot into the box himself, while in others
he hands it to an inspector, who drops it
in for him. 1t remains in the box until
the polls are closed, when the inspectors
begin to count the votes. By this means
complete secrecy is obtained; but efforts
have often been made by party managers
to discover how certain persons have
voted by resorting to tickets of a peculiar
color or marked tickets, but the law in
most states forbids the use of any except
plain white paper.
The ballot-in its secret formulas
been in use for years in France, Switzer-
land, Italy and Greece. The systems in
these countries differ. In some the voter
is given ticket with the names of all
the candidates upon it, from which he
strikes all except those for whom he
wishes to vote, and then deposits 1t in a
box; in others he makes mark oppo-
site the names of those candidates who
are his choice. In Germany they vote
by q written or printed ticket delivered
openly to the officer Of the polls, who
reads off and records the vote immedi-
alely in voice that all may hear. In
Russia they don't spend any time in
venting new ballot boxes. The people
are not expected to indicate their pref
erence for officials-the car takes care
Of all that "#
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
REFORM OF THE BALLOT.
HISTORY OF BALLOT CASTING FROM
EARLY TIMES.

The Australian System, Which, with Va
rious Notifications, Has Been Adopted
in Several States of the American Union.
Other Systems.
Ballots were cast very early in the his
tory Of man, the word ballot being de-
rived from Greek word meaning "to
throw" The ballot box is as old as the
ballot. The Athenians voted in their
assemblies and in their courts, at first
by casting pebbles into the boxes. AZ
forwards they used white and black
beans, the white meaning Eyes," the
black mo" The same process is used
to this day in electing members to socie-
ties, and the term s'black balled" was
doubtless used among the Athenians as
at the present day. At Athens the as
semblies which were held in public
places were separated from the people
only by ropes, and when the members
went up to the ballot box to vote all
could see how they voted,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
Stock Sheep for Sale.

have 4 900 head Of good Stock Sheep for sale
Address w. L. Baker, Cora, Cascade county