Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-16
State News Items.

Emilio Guerra, the Cuban cadet at
Norwich university, saw snow for the
first time recently. He is already
wearing two sets of heavy under
| clothing with an overcoat thrown IN,
and is chilly most of the time. Get
| ting accustomed to the cOmicallt1es
of Vermont winter promises to be
pretty serious affair for Mr.. Guerra.
Cecil, the five-years- old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Meanwhile, was in
| stantly killed Friday at Wallingford
by having his head caught between a
hay rack and the barn. Mr.. Maran-
vile had driven to the barn when the
little boy jumped down and ran
around to the rear of the wagon, pre-
sumably to enter the barn, when the
horses backing quickly caused his IN
Simultaneous death.
Edward Gaines. aged twenty, was
instantly killed Wednesday morning
at Bristol flats. He was shooting
chickens and bad just killed one as
another flew by him. He took his
shotgun by the barrel and struck at
the chicken. The stock struck the
grouod, causing the discharge of the
gun, the contents passing through Mr..
Gaines heart. He died after giving
one cry. The accident happened
within a few rods of his fathers
house.
A strange and startling accident
occurred at the dynamo station at
Highgaterecently. An eight foot iron
pulley in the wheel room, weighing
many hundred pounds and running at
very high speed, burst with noise
like 10-inch gun. A fragment OF the
pulley crashed out through the side of
the building and landed in the rapids
many rods below, leaving a hole
where it went out big enough to let a
man through. Other fragments went
up to the floor of the dynamo room
twenty feet above, ripping up the
hard wood flooring. The big line
shaft kept going and q section of the
pulley that remained on the hub,
banged away at the heavy inch belt.
The belt stood the great strain few
seconds.
Alta special meeting Of the trustees
of the University Of Vermont, held at
Burlington recently, the designations
of the seven professors in the medical
department were accepted, and the
respective chairs declared to be
vacant. After prolonged discussion
it was voted that the several pro-
fessors whose designations had been
accepted be appointed to the chairs
previously held by them, for one year,
their terms of office to expire at the
close of the next medical commence
ment. A committee was appointed
TO draw up rules and regulations for
the medical department under the
new regime. The trustees voted to
confer the honorary degree Of Doctor
Of Laws on Admiral George Dewey.
The Oldest outstanding policy in the
National Life Insurance company Of
Montpelier, was shown to various
persons recently in the Office of Gen.
T. S. Peck, the general agent of the
company in that city. 1t was issued
November 10, 1852, to Daniel Roberts,
being policy No IS, and bears the
signature of DR.. julius Y. Dewey as
president and George Reed as secre-
tary Of the company. It was an
annual life policy and for many years
had been self sustaining; that is, there
had been no premium TO pay, but in
stead the company had paid a cash
dividend each year to Mr.. Roberts.
There was also a considerable addition
TO the principal Of the policy, showing
that the National Life in certain cases
is paying it's policy holders even more
than their contracts call for.