Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-29
State News items.

The first number of the Camera, an
amateur photographers magazine,
published by G. FL. Clark ofSt. Johns
bury, has made it's appearance.
A contract for soldiers monument
for Bar Harbor, Me-, has been award
ed to a Barre firm. The monument
is to be 81 feet high with figure of a
soldier, eight feet high, surrounding
it. The base will be IL feet square.
The Grand Trunk railway have I'M
der consideration the erection of a
big ice house at Island Pond capable
of holding one thousand tons. The
building is necessity to furnish the
ice for the big shipments of fresh beef
from the west, destined for England.
The Sons and Daughters of Yer
mont in Springfield, Mass, had su
gar eat at the Y M. G. A. rooms in
that city last week, covers being laid
for $50 persons. The officers of the
society have decided to hold their an
nual banquet April 10, when Gov.
Grout and other state officers will be
present.
Mason S. Stone, State Superinten
dent of Education, is making arrange
ments for summer schools for teach
ers, to be held in five different towns
in Vermont, in July and August. The
yet been selected, but they will be
held in towns most central for the
greatest number of teachers.
r. Dannatt of Windsor was ac
cidently shot in his shoulder by his
guide, while hunting in northern New
Hampshire last September. A few
days since he went to hospital in
Boston to have the ball Extracted. 1t
was found near the lung, by means of
the x ray, and within very few
minutes afterwards was removed. He
is rapidly recovering.
Prof. S. J. Banpied, principal of the
Montpelier high school, died Sunday
afternoon after brief illness from ul-
ceration of the stomach. Prof. Blan
pied had been at the head of the
city schools for the past five years.
He was a member of the executive
committee of the State Teachers As
ISOLATION and was one of the promin-
ent educators of the state.
The testimony of DR.. j. I'll. Judkins
in the Marsh murder trial was the
most important yet produced. DIR.
Judkins swore that he sold Mrs. Marsh
arsenic about month before her hus
DanQ'S Q0dC1 al the NOrUQu0lQ -Oru9
store, of which he was proprietor.
Mrs. Joseph Carney, through an in
terpreter, testified to hearing Mrs.
Marsh wish her husband dead.
Dispatches of last week contained |
notice of the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Estey & Camp corpora
ton of Chicago, with aview of clos
ing up the business there. The death |
of I. N. Camp brought about some /
changes. Last fall Gen. Estey ar |
ranged for division of the business, I
so that the Estey's took the st. Louis I
house and the Camp estate the Chica-
go house. This receivership is for
the purpose of settling the estate of
Mr.. Camp, and has no connection
whatever with the Estey Organ Com
pany, or any of its interests.
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train from Cincinnati and ST. Louis
was derailed near Oakland last week.
The engine, baggage and passenger
car landed in ditch, and the first
sleeping car rolled into a stream of
water. The seriously injured were
N. d. Phelps and wife of Barre, VT,
and w. r. Fuller, sleeping car con-
ductor. A dozen others were hurt
slightly n d. Phelps is chief engi-
neer of the Barre fire department.. He
is a member of the firm of Phelps
Brothers, merchants, and with his
wife had been on an extended western
trip. 4g