Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07

VOTING MACHINE has been introduced
into Detroit which successfully registers
the ayes and nays and counts them by
machinery.
The 100000 hogs raised in the conn
fry are valued at S200.0OO,000. The
Mississippi valley claims TO have raised
three-fOurths of the number.
THE children of David Sto5dard, who
vas publicly executed at Rock Island, H.,
in 1854 for the murder his wife, have been
left fortune of $4,000 by the death of
an aunt in California.
TIE earnings of the Union Pacific Road
increased during January comparatively
$4,000, while the expenses increased
$4,000.
AUsTRALIA has no wheat for export, but
Argentine Republic will it Is estimated,
have about 8,000,OO0 bushels of wheat for
export.
The deepest OCEAN soundings were
recently made by the English surveying
ship Egera, one depth being 4 205 and
another 4, 440 fathoms-abOUt equgl TO
five Engligh miles.
J. B. SLATER, who was held for trial
at Marsballtown, Iowa, on the charge of
| bigamy, has skipped his bail, and the
most vigiIant search OF tbs officers fail to
find him.
A CONSTABLE of SeyIor township, near
| Des MOines, Iowa, has been putting seized
| liquors into his own cellar instead of de-
stroying them, and has gotten himself
into serious trouble over the matter.
THERE is man il Los Angeles whose
business it is to travel east with the
corpses of people who go to Southern
California to find health, and who die in
stead.
FINN Bros, of Greyling, Mich, have
jrs4 struck a gold mine which promises
great results. 1t is near the Michigan
mine and gold was struck at 10 feet from
| the surface. A few pounds of rock when
smelted yielded $l36 worth Of gold.
GENERAL attention is at length called
30 the fact that the growth of the New
York Grant monument fund is now sc
slow as scarcely to be a growth at all
received now and then, but practically
the collection of funds for this purpose
has ceased.
KATE FIELD says that the woman who
aims TO be fashionable might as veil com
nit suicide NJ the start. She must neg
leot home, husband and children, put
away comfort and convenience, be first
GLASS hypocrite and good slanderer and
at the end of ten years break down and
become q physical wreck.
TIE cowboys of the Colorado and New
Mexico Cattle company have been driv-
ing the settlers out of Collins, No Mans
Land. The settlers were given a few
hours TO pack up their goods and leave
but about ten of them have fortified
themselves in a sod house and defy the
cowboys. Serious trouble is antici pated
OSCAR NEEBE, now serving a 15-yeal
sentence in the joliet penitentiary foi
completely In the Haymarket tragedy
has written an open letter in which he
says that he Is not and never has been ar
anarchist, and has nothing 80 confess
The letter is drawn Oat by the statement
that Judge Grinnell and othsrs would sigr
petition for Neebe's pardon provided ht
would make a confession.
ST. CLOUD, Minn.-Henry Fisher SOLD
his farm near mere for IS, 700. He gave
the money to his daughter, who sewec
5000 up in quilt and put the remainder
in the bottom of a lard pail, running Iari
on top of i. The family started fo
Washington territory. On the way thu
girl went crazy and TIE quilt and lart
pail were lost The family is destitute
the mother has died of grief, and th,
daughter is in the insane asylum.