Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
Brief State Happenings.

\. III. Brokaw of Kaukauna carried
$4,000 life insurance
Miss Julia r. Elliott Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has been appointed librarian of
the Marinette public library.
There are now 200 eases OF typhoid
fever in West Superior, according to a
count made by the Board of Health.
The mill of the Foote- Cornish Milling
Company was sold at public auction to
\. H. Bartlett of Oshkosh for So. 100
Norman II. Brokaw. aged 43 years,
died very suddenly at Kaukauna. Mr..
Brokaw was born at Centeryille, Mich.
in 1851
John A. Peterson, farmer in Wood
County, placed charge of dynamite UNI
der a stump and kicked lighted fuse
after it, but will survive.
Tom Baker and John Cannelton be-
came involved in political argument at
Bryant and Baker, it is alleged, stabbed
and instantly killed Cannelton.
Mast Bros, with headquarters at Mar
blehead. have purchased ten-acre tract
of land near Kewaunee and will soon be-
gin the erection of large lime kilns.
The spread of diphtheria in Oshkosh
became so rapid that the health and
school authorities determined to close the
schools, both public and parochial.
The Nordburg Manufacturing Company
has purchased thirty acres of ground in
Lake and will at once erect new shops
covering six acres of ground and costing
t500,000
Frank Bukradt of Prospect. while
coming ont from Milwaukee ON a lumber
wagon. fell from the wagon on the Be
lott road. His neck was broken and he
died instantly.
More than LOO foreigners at Kenosha
have signifed their intention during the
last few months to become citizens of
the United States. Poles take the lead
and Italians second.
Vernon $. Davis. an early settler and
one of the best-known farmers of Rock
County, is dead He was for a number
Of years a member of the County Board
from Newark township.
Will C. Richardson. an Oshkosh Lad.
aged 13 years. who ran away from home
few days ago, was arrested at Apple
lRA Al NtilAlNHs Win Il ffIniN. MAIn WHO'LL
he was travelling, and sent back home.
William better known as Billy"
Roach. was brought into Rhinelander
by Northwestern switching crew con-
pletely dismembered. His head was
crushed and both arms and legs are gone.
f. +. Clemmens, who has been working
Tor Wilkinson & CO. of Iron River, on
their switch engine, met with an acct
dent which viii cripple hiIn for life. The
engine was derailed and Clemmens was
thrown under the wheels, breaking one
leg between the knee and the ankle AID
crushing the other one SO thar amputa-
ton will be necessary.
The ladies Of st. Matthew'S Church AT
KenoSha have chu>en for their Thanks
giving play the three-aet comedy, I'm
Gle. by ]. Il. Byron, The proceeds of
the play viii be given TO the fund for the
new Guild hall. which has been increas-
ed by the S2T5 realized from the rum
mage sale.
Thomas Farmer, formerly OF West
Bend, died at Cedar Rapids. Iowa. His
parents were among the FIRST settlers of
Washington County. from where he en-
listed in 1861 in the Twelfth Wisconsin
volunteers and was made first lieutenant
OF his company.
Another death from the food has been
reported The little S-year-old son of +.
Matchey Of Pleasant Valley Strayed out
in the yard and fell into the raging tor
rent, that is usually but small thread
81 a stream The child was swept down
stream aud drowned.
J. T. Kaufman Of Fond iu Lac weht
TO Milwaukee 70 consult physicians IN
the hope thar they will be able To ne
store to him his powers OF speech. Five
months ago be was afflicted with a severe
cold. his vocal organs were affected and
IN short time hrs voice was gone. He
has not been able 10 speak above a whis-
per since aud at Intervals even this pow
er was lost to him.
4 freight wreck occurred at Amherst
.lssetion in the excavation recently made
by the Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany for the lowering Of the track bed.
The track was all torn up and several
ears wedged m the ssndhank.
The firm Of John oslay X Co, exfsn-
size loggers. has recently opencd fesr
new camps on the Northwestern read
near Merser. This company has put
IN 1t.oo0e0o0 feet Of pine for the Fam
beau Lumber Company during the past
summer and expeeFS to ppi in 20.0eaO00
feet more during the winter Fred
Smith, another logger. viii put in 3.JO0.-
coo feet on Prairie this winter He viii
empiey thirty men.