Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-06-12

both Alexander and Hyde for acts
,mmitted in the company's conduct.
At stormy meeting of the directors,
both these contending factions joined
hands long enough to reject the report.
In consequence, Frick, Hartman and
eight other directors have since re-
.igued. An effort is being made now
% secure some man of high prestige
10 take the Office of chairman of the
board, VINO will be really the new
head of the Equitable. In spite of
much talk, there has bsen no truce
between Hyde and Alexander yet.
President May Visit Vermont.
Representative Foster called at the
White House recently to extend to
the President an invitation to attend
the unwilling of memorial to Ethan
Allen at Burlington, August II. The
people of Vermont celebrate the battle
of Bennington on that day. Among
others who will attend the ceremony
is Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary
of the interior, who is descendant of
the Revolutionary leader. The Pres
i lent could not give definite res
ponse to the invitation at this time.
This site of the memorial will be
Indian Rock, on the farm once owned
by the hero of Ticonderoga. The site
was given to the Sons of the Revolu-
ton in Vermont as a public park.
The monument will cost $4,000, and
about one-half of this sum has been
raised
Sparks over Two Feet Long.
To demonstrate how little danger
there is in electrical force when
properly and scientifically handled,
Professor Elihu Thomson of Lynn,
Mass, permitted over 500, 900 volts to
pass through his body without dis
playing the slightest tremor or ex-
periencing the slightest physica
discomfort from the test. The
demonstration was made for the
benefit of the members of the Com
mercial club of Boston. Professor
Thomson adjusted special apparatus
to his body. A high frequency cur
rent was used, and the professor
completed the circuit. Suddenly
there was fash from the finger tips
and electric sparks two feet long flew
into the air in quick succession,
Illuminating two incardescent lights
that were held that distance from the
| fingers.
Norway and Sweden in Trouble.
The storthing Wednesday declared
the union between Norway and Swe-
den under one king to be dissolved,
and that the king had ceased to
act as the king of Norway.
The storthing further empowered the
present state council to act as the
government of Norway until further
notice and exercise the power here
tofore appertaning to the king. An
address to the king was adopted, de-
claring that no i'll feeling was enter
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the Swedish nation, and asking his
majesty to cooperate in the selection
of young prince of the house of Der
nadotte to occupy the throne of Nor
way. The dissolution of the union be-
tween Sweden and Norway has been
pending for some time past and had
it's growth in the desire which grew
stronger as time passed for the estab-
lishment of separate consular systems
| for the two countries. King Oscar
recently vetoed at Stockholm g
measure presented to him by the
council of the state, providing for
separate consular repres entation, and
the Norwegians maintained that the
King by SO doing and partly by his
absence from Norway had suspended
his rights and duties as King of Nor
way.