Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-07-19
State News.

DoldVoI1 LAKE Assembly, Twelve days,
July 80 to August 10.
A large attendance is expected at the
opening day, Wednesday, July 30, Of the
Delevan Lake Assembly.
William Henke, carpenter, aged 80
years, was instantly killed by lightning
at Marshfield Monday afternoon, during
the worst electrical storm Of the season.
Two others were rendered unconscious
by the same bolt.
A new Evangelical Lutheran church
metery near Clyman was dedicated
last Tuesday. Messers NOwack & Sch
muetZler, our local undertakers, conduct
ed the burial of the first person inferred
there on the same day.
Dispatches from st Paul report that a
recent hail storm that swept over pOr-
South Dakota totally destroyed over
10000 acres of growing crops. At
places hail fell to the depth of two feet.
Owing to the strike of freight hand
lers and teamsters in Chicago thousands
of bushels of tomatoes are rotting on
the vines in southern and central Ill
inOis. The loss to vegetable and small
fruit growers will also be immense from
the same cause.
Carrie Nation, the Kansas "jOint
smasher," delivered two lectures, after
noon and evening, Thursday. at Fond du
Lac under the auspices of the Fond du
Lac street Railway e Light company.
According to the last reports she was
headed this way.
Several young couples in Racine are
considerably worried and wonder if they
are Legally married. During the past
six months five marriages have been
performed by ministers coming from
other states. According to the law these
ministers should file credentials of
license or appointment, with some cir
cult court of Wisconsin.
Suspended from a ropes end and a
rafter in a deserted house across the
road from her husbands farm place.
near North Prairie, the body of Mrs.
Theodore Waltz, aged sixty years, was
found about noon last Sunday. She had
apparently been dead about three hours.
The deceased had been released from an
insane asylum some years ago, and it
is supposed that she had become tempo
rarily insane.
1t has been discovered that the minis
tiers who came there never filed creden-
tials with the clerk of the court. County
officials will take steps to compile list
of marriages performed by unqualified
ministers, which will no doubt prove
interesting to many recently married
people who are on the anxious seat.
If this is the case in Racine it no
doubt holds good in many other cities of
Wisconsin, where similar situation may
exist.
William Drake, one of the first settlers
in Columbus, died in that city. aged SO
years He was native of New York
and with his father, jeremiah Drake,
came to Columbus in 1S43, and were
prOprietOrs of the first flour mill in this
section. Mr.. Drake was chairman of
the town board for several terms, and
also sheriff of Columbus county for
two terms. John Younger another old
settler, died here Sunday aged 70 years.
Fire starting in a defective fue
DESTROYED the Lakeside hotel together
with. all it's cottages and two large
cottages belonging to the neighbOring
resort, the Log Cabin. The hotel is
owned by the estate of the late Thomas
Farrell of Chicago, and it had been
newly furnished and remOdeled for this
seasons patronage. This is the fifth
hotel fire at Delevan lake, three within
year. The loss is about $1,000, partly
covered by insurance.
A family reunion was held at the home
Of Sylvester Winderker in the town Of
Byron, Fond du Lac county, lasi Sunday,
in honor of the Windecker triplets, who
have the distinction of being the oldest
triplets in the world. They are Sydney
Windecker Of Fond du Lac, Sylvester
Windecker, of Byron and Mrs. Sedate
Pier, of Wausau. They were born at
Lowville, N. Y, June 9, 1874, and hence
are little more than SO years of age.
Among those present at the reunion were
Mrs. [. W. Bostwick. the eldest sister,
who gave birth to twins five days after
the triplets were born, and Mrs. Mary
Goodell, one of the twins. They are
from Newark, Ohio.