Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-14
Brief state Happenings.

\. II. Brokaw of Kaukauna carried
$4,000 life insurance.
Miss Julia E. Elliott of Grand Rapids.
Mich, has been appointed librarian of
the Marinette public library.
There are now 200 cases 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
A. H. Bartlett of Oshkosh for $500.
Norman H. Brokaw, aged 40 years,
died very suddenly at Kaukauna. Mr..
Brokaw was born at Centerville, Mich,
in 1857.
John A. Peterson, a farmer in Wood
County, placed a charge of dynamite I'M
der stump and kicked a lighted fuse
after it, but will survive.
Tom Baker and John Cannelton be-
came involved in a political argument at
Bryant and Baker, it is alleged, stabbed
and instantly killed Cannelton.
Mast Bros, with headquarters at Mar
blehead. have purchased a 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 pafochial.
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
100000.
Frank Bukradt of Prospect. while
coming out from Milwaukee on lumber
wagon, fell from the wagon on the Be
lott road. His neck was broken and he
died instantly.
More than $50 foreigners at Kenosha
have signified their intention during the
last few months to become citizens of
the United States Poles take the lead
and Italians secol d.
Vernon S. Davis an early settler and
one of the best-known farmers of Rock
County. is dead lie was for number
of years n member of the County Board
from Newark township.
WIN C. Richardson, an Oshkosh lad,
aged Is years. who ran away from home
a few days ago. was arrested at Apple
ton in company with a tramp, with whom
he was travelling, and sent back home.
w ltiiahis bGiAfi huONH rs blliy
Roach, was brought into Rhinelander
by a Northwestern switching crew COM
pletely 'dismembered. His head was
crushed and both arms and legs are gone.
L. f. Gle tnmens, who has been working
for Wilkinson < Co. of Iron River on
their switch engine, met with an accI-
dent which will cripple him for life. The
engine was derailed and Clemmens was
thrown under the wheels, breaking one
leg between the knee and the ankle and
crushing the other one SO that ampGta
ton will be necessary.
Tx. ladies of St Matthew'S Church at
Kenosha have chosen for their@Thanks-
giving play the three-act comedy, I'm
Gle by ]. X. Byron. The proceeds of
the play will be given to the fund for the
new Guild hall, which has been increas-
ed by the $275 realized from the rum
mage sale.
Thomas Farmer. formerl- OF Vest
Bend, d.od 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 I'll st lieutenant
of his company.
Another death from the food has been
reported. The little 3-year-old son OF f.
MatcLey Of Pleasant Valley strayed ont
in the yard aud fell into the raging tor
rent. that Is usually but a small thread
az a stream The child was swept down
! stream ana drowned.
]. F. kaufman Of Fond du Lac went
( 20 Milwaukee To consult physicians in
( the hone that they will be able 70 re-
( store to him his powers OF speech, Five
months ago he was afflicted with Z severe
E Old. his vocal organs were affected and
Z 81 SHORE time hts voice was gone lie
1 Yrss nv been abr = sneak sbove p Wbis-
cer itee and At Intervals even his pow-
81 ives >est o him