Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
INFORMATION TO VOTERS,

Retire alone to booth or COM
partment and prepare ballot
by marking cross (X) in the
square at the right Of the candi-
date for whom you wish to vote.
The names are arranged under
the title of office in alphabetical
order.
If you wish to vote for a person
for certain office whose name is
not on the ballot, write or insert
by sticker the name in the blank
space at the end Of the list of
candidates for the office and mark
a cross at the right of it.
Don't mark your ballot in any
other way. If you spoil your
ballot, return it to the ballot clerk
and get another. You cannot get
more than three in all.
Five minutes time is allowed in
booth to mark ballot.
Unofficial ballots or memoran-
dunn to assist the voter in marking
his ballot can be taken into the
booth and may be used to copy
from.
Do not show any one how you
have marked your ballot. After
marking ballot fold it so that the
inside cannot be seen but so that
the printed Endorsement and
signatures of the ballot clerks on
the outside may be seen. Then
pass out of the booth, give your
name to the inspector in charge
of ballot box; hand him your
ballot to be'placed in box and pass
out of voting place.
A voter who declares on oath to
presiding officer that, by reason of
physical disability, he is unable to
mark his ballot, can have assist
ance Of one or two of election
officers in marking the same. The
presiding officer may administer
the oath. 1t is sufficient if such
voter shall simply state such fact
under oath orally, and inspectors
are advised to give it a liberal
Interpretation and to mark and
receive the ballot of any legal
voter whenever such voter shall
state, under oath, that he is unable
to mark it himself.
No voter shall receive a ballot
from any other person than one of
the ballot clerks or inspectors of
election.
The bill providing for an assist
ant Secretary of War has passed
both House and Senate and has
gone to the President for his
approval.
EX-President Cleveland has sold
his suburban residence near this
city for $4,000. His friends
say he has cleared 100000 in
the transaction, but lots of people
here believe that the entire amount
received is profit as the place was
given TO him by a real estate
syndicate for the purpose Of
booming property in the vicinity.
Mr.. c. E. Kincaid, correspond
ent of the Louisville, Kentucky,
Times had personal difficulty last
Friday in a corridor of the capitol
building with ex-Representative
Taulbee, of Kentucky, and the
latter gentleman was shot in the
head by the former. The widest
excitement existed for a while in
building. Mr.. Taulbee is now out
of danger and Kincaid has been
released on bail.
The bill providing for the hold
ing of Worlds Fair in 1892 is
still in the hands of the House
committee, and will not be report
ed to the House until it is fixed up
to suit the Chicago people who
have not fully decided just what
they want. It will pass the House
though not without opposition,
but its fate in the Senate is
regarded as very uncertain.
The Three Americas Congress
has adopted a resolution recon-
mending the appointment of a
commission to examine and report
upon the feasibility of building a
railroad to connect the three