The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-29
Fairfield County News.
More Hungarian Partridge.

Fairfield County News. | More Hungarian Partridge. Danbury is to have. another allot-
 ment of Hunga-'ln cartridges which
 are a part of a large shipment import | ed by the Connecticut Commissioners
 of Fisheries and Game. to be distrib- ! uted throughout the State. Danbury:s share will be ten pairs Of the birds, | Redeing, Ridgefield, New Fairfield and
 Brookfield will also each receive ten
 pairs. They will probably be kept un- ! til the weather is more favorable be-
 fore they are released. 1 Danbury & Harlem Road The Danbury & Harlem railroad, which was sold at auction in White
 Plains, N. Y., Saturday by order of l the Supreme court of New York State,
 was purchased by H. Hector McNeil of Philadelphia, representing the protec-
 tive committee appointed by the bond holders after the road became involv- 1 ed in financial difficulties The only
 other bidder was Joseph Serre of Dan l bury. The bid of MT Serre, which was for $21, 900. was followed by MT. ! McNeil's bid of 1000, at which price the property was knocked down 2 to | him. The purchase of the road by the | representatives of the bondholders | iiAOeIiiOt tIdI LllC T IlllldOS1pI1l1 dIIQ OCuOT ] interests which purchased the bonds of the road and found their holdings | an apparent loss, have added $22,00O in cash to their investment in Danbury & Harlem property; which is now all 1 their own.
 Woodchoppers in Demand Farmers in the vicinity of Bethel and 1 all along the line of the Highland di- | vision of the New Haven road are l laI, l to live in camps in the woods and get out railroad ties for the spring deliv- cry. It is reported that there is a shortage in the delivery of ties due to the fact that help is scarce and it may be possible that there will be an ad- vance in prices in a few weeks. At | present the corporation is paying 50 cents for "firsts'' and 30 cents for "sec- OndS.''
 Her Right Arm Torn Off, | Miss Catherine Kane of Stamford
 about 25 years of age, suffered the loss of an arm, Saturday, as the result of
 an accident in a steam laundry. She was employed as a hand ironer, and l went to machine which wrings 1 clothes No one at the laundry knows just how it happened but her arm was caught in the machinery and was torn off at the elbow joint.
 | OdI ISII IlOuSC DuIIlSu A house which for many years has been a land mark in Darien, having ] been used at different times for a pri- i vate school, a sanitarium and a home for children, was totally destroyed by 1 fire, Friday night. It was owned by 1 George Everett. who bought it few months ago from Samuel Grumman his family An oil stove was left in 1 the bath room, to keep the pipes from
 freezing, and this caused the fire. The
 house was insured for $7.000, but was considered to be worth much more 1 than that.
 | Wells a Paranoiac.
 Herman Wells was on Saturday found l to be insane, at a hearing before the | Stamford Probate court. Wells has been ! living at the Stamford House for some | what over two years. Previously he spent eight years in sanitarium He
 was in a hospital on Ward S Island for | a number of years. DrS. Staub and | Van VIeet testified that he is victim i of paranoia. He. has an idea that the
 police are prosecuting him. He was
 a musician of considerab ble ability when i was due to overwork in an effort to
 perfect himself in music. He is about
 50 years old.
 Fox Hunters Object
 1 The report that a posse of Danbury l hunters will be formed for the purpose
 of exterminating the foxes in that sec tion, is interesting to hunters in and
 around Danbury, but in the nearby | towns the movement is not attracting
 attention. Some of the old-tin4e hunt
 CTS who have chased the fox for sport
 say that there are not enough foxes to ] go around at present and any move 1 for a general slaughter is not looked upon with favor The bird hunters who are agitating the subject of a
 grand round up, say that the foxes
 are capturing all the game birds in the
 woods. On the other hand. the fox
 hunters say that the foxes do not mo-
 lest the game birds to any extent.
 Stole Horse and Wagon
 1 A most deliberate thief stole a horse
 and wagon. and some other articles in 1 Noroton, Sunday night. The thief all | so loaded big bundle of hay into the
 wagon together with several bags of | oats, and in addition fed the horse a l short distance from the barn.
 Danbury's Grand List
 1 The Danbury town grand list aggre- | gates S9,713,62S, an Increase of $444, 1 OPS.
 Greenwich Town Affairs. | in the investigation of the .finan- l Cldl dlIdlIo Ol IIlS LOWl Ol
 now in progress, the accountants re-
 port shows total assets as shown by l the selectmen's report of $472, ,724 and
 an excess of liabilities over assets, probably accumulated deficits extend l ing over number of years, of $423 243.
 The town has bond obligations of $685.
 900 and temporary loans of not less 1 than S542 450. The funds raised by de- l mand notes amount to SITS 100, and for 1 the last year the net excess of expen- diture disbursements over appropria-
 tions was $62, ,712 The report further
 declares that during the past year the
 selectmen have exceeded their powers | by mourning expenditures without au- l thority to the extent of $80,902. The 1 town had, by the last census, a popu- l lation of 12172, and at the past rate of 1 increase has about 14.000. 1t has a