St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-07-29

ing him down and jumping on him, aud
that Rolfe Canning died on the 4th day
of July of peritonitis induced by said in
juries. Alvah Day, son of Burt Day is a
boy II years of age. Raymond Adams,
son of Ethan Adams, is 10 years of age.
Both live in East Coventry and attend
this school. On the Oath day of June, at
| about noon, Rolfe went home from school
sick, and was attended by physicians,
who did not consider his case hopeless
until Friday, July 8. The boys were ar
rested and taken to Barton last week
Tuesday, and the states attorney and
F. c. Williams appeared for the state
and F. D. Carpenter and John Young for
respondents.
Death of silas Griffith.
Silas L. Griffith, aged &c, of Dandy,
died last week Tuesday afternoon at his
summer home, The Palms, near San
Diego, Cal. He was critically i'll with
typhoid fever last summer, and never
fully recovered. His death was caused
by skin disease, which closed the pores.
leaving the system unable to throw Oft
the secretions, so that uraemic poisoning
developed. From a poor lad Mr.. Crit
| fifth rose to the greatest individual lum.
herman in the East, and one of the
wealthiest men in Vermont. He was
born in Dandy and attended school there
and also the Kimball- Union Academy in
| Meriden, N. H. He had no capital in his
early years, but finally secured backing
with which to engage in a mercantile
business in Dandy. His entrance into
the lumber business was in part acci.
dental, as he was forced into numbering
| operations on land which he had accepted
| in North Dorset in payment OF debt.
He soon branched out extensively, and
eventually became the personal owner of
over $4,000 acres of land, with an out.
put from his nine lumber mills of 25O,.
900 feet annually. He gave employment
to between 600 and 700 men and about
300 oxen and horses. In addition to his
personal business in Dandy and Mt.
Tabor, he operated mills in company
with Eugene Mcintyre and others in
Peru, Arlington, Dorset, Manchester,
South Wallingford, and with c. L. Soule
in Groton. Mr.. Griffith had served in
both branches of the Vermont legisla-
ture. He had Travelled over a large part
of the world, and had great collection
Of curios and mementoes in his home
at Dandy. Two fads in which he was
interested and from which other people
derived great pleasure were his extensive
lighthouses at Dandy and his fish ponds
in Dandy, Peru and Groton. A short
time ago he arranged for the erection of
public library and memorial building
in Dandy at an expense of 100000. He
is survived by his wife and daughter,
Mrs. W. Fl. Riddle of Rutland, two broth
ers and sister in Dandy.
A monument of light Barre granite
which will be placed on the grave OF Rear
Admiral Sampson, U. S. N, at the Ma
tional Cemetery at Washington, has just
been completed by firm of workers in
monumental and statuary granite and
shipped to the capital. The stone weighs
four tons. The monument bears the
inscription: "Rear Admiral William
Thomas Sampson, United States Navy.
Feb, 9, 1S40-March 6, 1902"
Tuesday night of last week man an.
peared at the boarding house at the
brickyard in Essex Junction and engaged
two men who are employed in the yard