Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11
RUTLAND COUNTY.
RUTLAND.

Patrick Cahill who is employed by the
city was seriously injured by dynamite
explosion while at work in the Baxter
street sewer Friday. II appears that
Mr. Cahill had placed two charges OF dy-
Mantle under II rock which was being
blasted out. One Of them exploded proper
~ and as the other did not Cahill went to
see what was the trouble and the charge
exploded just as he reached the place cut
ting and bruisins the whole front side of
the body. The skull was fractured and
the right eye destroyed. Tho chances of
his recovery are very doubtful indeed.
Mr.. +. A. Richardson, who has COM
pleted canvass of the city for the YER
mont Bible society, reports N04 families
visited which included ll,7sl persons.
There were STA Roman Catholics. 45l5 per-
sons attending Protestant churches and
s42 Sunday school pupils. There were
three illiterate families. In West Rutland
500 families had $50 members. There were
l&G Catholics and III persons attending
Protestant churches, 29S Sunday school
pupils and II illiterate families. In Sher-
hutne l02 families had 402 members. There
were &c Catholics and 1872 Protestants
There were 112 Sunday school pupils and
one illiterate family.
Passenger engine No. 232 of the Rutland
road has just come from the shops after
having received a thorough overhauling.
New ffues have been put In and a fresh
coat of paint added, The engine will be-
gin service on the flyer to-day.
Miles WEIGH. who is employed by the
Lincoln Iron Works company. met with
severe accident Saturday, whereby his
right arm was broken and his forehead
! and face badly cut. 1t appears that
Welch was turning a derrick crank to
raise a heavy casting, when his hands
slipped off from tho handle and the weight
of the casting caused the handle to re-
volve rapidly in an opposite direction.
The ratchet which is supposed to prevent
such accidents failed to work and the rap
idly revolving crank struck WEIGH, break
! ing the right arm below the elbow and
cutting a long cash across the forehead,
which fortunately did not break the skull.
| lie was carried to his home on Forest
street, where he is doing as we'll as could
be expected.
There is very little excitement in mat
tiers political nowadays. For governor,
r w, Mooney will undoubtedly poll more
votes in this locality than have ever been
accorded a democratic nominee.
/ Mrs. Wheeock G.. Neazey and her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Clifford Walton, of Washington on,
are at Mrs. J. b. Pages on South Main
street
President Henry F.. Field has prepared
"A report of the Rutland hospital for the
! year ending June 80. This report shows
60 cases treated at the hospital, OF which
/ "a were surgical and 10 medical. or the
whole number 4S were discharged cured,
10 were improved were not improved,
and died S!xty-two of the patients paid
in full one paid in part and six were
treated free
Little Mabel Maign, the 1S year old
daughter of o. j. Maign of New York
city, was seriously burned by the explo-
ior of lamp Monday evening at a farm
house north of the city on the Pittsford
road. where the Maign family are spend
ing the summer. 1t appears that the lit
tie girl was descending the stairs with
some books in one hand and in the other
the lamp, which was accidentally dropped
and the explosion set fire to the girl $
clothing, Miss Austin, an aunt of the lit
tie girl, succeeded in putting out the
flames, but was badly burned about the
hands. The little Maign girl was badly
burned and is in a critical condition.
The Soldiers Aid society, composed OF
some of Rutland's patriotic women, are
very busy these days cutting and max
Ing garments for Company A boys, The
women have taken large quantity of
clothing home with them to be made up,
Pauline Brooks the Cuban girl daush-
ter of Hon. Paul Brooks. ex-AmericaA
consul, who sailed on the steamer Reso-
lutte as a government nurse, arrived on
July 20 She had been anxious for II long
time to go to the assistance OF her fellow
countrymen,
Dan p. Peabody. high sheriff OF Rutland
county, is quite Ill of rheumatism OF the
heart.
Mrs, e. ID. Poronto of Roberts Ave, has
IA night blooming cereus which has seven
large buds which are expected to open
this evening.
Word was received here yesterday of the
death Of Mrs Clara Hosmer Noe. of ty.
phoid fever at Mile Point, Lake Cham
plain where she has been camping. Mrs
Noe was formerly of Rutland and was
well known In this community.
4 pr, J. NJ Hamilton. Vermont Regimenta
surgeon who was taken III with typhoid
fever at Chattanooga arrived here yester'
day accompanied by Mrs. Hamilton,
little Mabel Maign who was so serious
ly burned by the explosion of Il kerosene
lamp Monday night died of her injuries
yesterday.
Joseph Ladeal, who lives In hut neal
Wizards mill in Sherburne has disappear
ell and no trace has been learned of his
whereabouts. He came to Rutland early
In the week and started home with his