Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-07-27
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, JULY ~, 1898.
Vermont News.

The New York SUMS Chickamauga CORE
spondent tells this story: The Sth New
York aud the lst Vermont INDUCED in sham
battle on Monday, and the boys have not yet
tain boys were decidedly outwitted. A feat
ure OF the battle was the trench digging by
| the Gothamites. With the aid of about two
dozen picks and shovels and their meat plates
the men threw up breastworks enough to
conceal the entire regiment in the remark
ably short time of % minutes. The trenches
were situated on the crest of a hill and were
about two feet deep. The regiment was in
extended order, each squad having a separate
trench. The horses OF the officers were led
back in the woods some 200 yards. The men
scious of the presence Of the Sh, the LIST Yer
mont marched up the hill and executed some
pretty maj euvres within so feet of the New
Workers. Had it been a real battle, many
a New Highlander would have been planted
beneath sod.
There is no denying that Vermont blood is
cutting big figure in this war and If it lasts
much longer we suspect that it will be re-
CURED OF all appointees to important posi-
tons to prove that one of their great-grand-
parents, at least, was born in the Green
Mountain state. It has just been discovered
that Capt. Jack Phillips, under whose COM
mand that old "hoodoo,' the battleship
Texas, has been doing such excellent service,
is the son of an eminent physician who used
to practice in Castleton and that his mother
was the daughter of one of the founders of
the old Vermont medical college.
Esther, the nine-year-old daughter of John
all Friday morning picking the bugs from
the plants. She had gathered large pail
full when she brought them to the rear of the
house, poured a lot of oil on them and then
set fire to the mass. In some way the kero-
sene can exploded and the little girl was
nor xv,sfb b,,r
mother when she heard the cries of the child
came to her rescue, but when she saw what
had happened, sank to the ground uncon-
scious. The child's cries attracted the atten-
tion of the neighbors and soon they came
and tore the burning clothes from the little
way up along the clapboards to the roof.
Through some hard work performed by Mrs.
Daniel Smith, the fire was extinguished
before a great deal of damage was done.
The child was badly burned about her legs
and arms.
The Burlington Shoe company has made
an assignment for the benefit of its creditors
whose claims amount to about $4,000, offset
with assets amounting to $54 900. Max L.
Powell has been appointed assignee. The
Boston Counter company has sued the COM
pany for $1,000 and Chadbourne & Moore,
Boston firm, have entered suit for $7S9 IA.
Conductor Wyman of the Rutland railroad
IS nursing an enla1 geu nose resulting from
catching baby thrown from the noon train
as it was leaving the station at Burlington.
The baby's mother mistook the station and
did not leave the train until it started and
then left her baby in the car. Another
woman thinking the child was going to be
left and probably reasoning that it had bet
ter be killed than carried by, promptly threw
it out of the train. Conductor Wyman was
struck full in the face by the flying kid but |
saved its life and at no greater expense than
a swollen nose.
Jules Desjardins of Burlington is lying at
his home with both legs paraly zed and in
ternal injuries as a result of fall from the |
roof of one of the cotton mill buildings Satur-
day. Desjardins was recovering the roof, |
assisted by his son and Frank Lavelfe. They
both fell but are not seriously hurt.