The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-02
Fairfield County News.
Struck by Lightning.

COW owned by William Beers of Norwalk was struck and killed by lightning during the shower of Mon day afternoon. MT. Beers had just re- fused an offer of s150 for the COW.
 The residence of Joseph Cable, on the New Canaan road, was struck by lightning Monday afternoon and con- siderably damaged. The visitor tore through the roof of the house. taking off 8 portion of the shingles and burn ed the matting from the floor of the bath room. It followed the lead pipes 10 the sink in the kitchen and scorch- ed things up considerably.
 Cranbury caught the full force of the thunder storm The lightning struck several houses and scared the occupants badly. although no serious damage was done. At the home of George E. BoutOn. lightning struck the chimney and sent the bricks fly ing in all directions. Then the bolt passed down the chimney. The home of Charles F.. Gregory was also visited by the lightning. It struck the gal vanized iron top to the chimney in the rear of his home and blew the top out of it. The inmates felt the shock, but no further damage was done.
 Sentenced to Six Months.
 Mrs. Julia A. Mcdonald, housekeep- CT for Daniel G. Betts in South Will ton who possesses a string of aliases and a list of husbands exceeded only by her nerve, was arrested last week on a serious charge-that of fraud against the government in connection with swearing out false pensions. She was sentenced to the Fairfield County jail for six months.
 Mrs. McDonald is now 64 years old. When she was IT years old she was married to Charles Eaton and in the T--4~ +0I in Company B. Twenty-first c. V. He was discharged on July 5, 1865 and died on June 20, 1867. Before her mar riage to Eaton Mrs. McDonald's maid en name was Rhodes, and just how many times she has been married the government authorities have been un- able to learn, but she lived with a man named Ainey and a man named Mcdonald and she took the name of each in turn, but the inspectors for the pension department learned that on May IS, 1S73 she was married to Geo. M. Palmer in Morris, this state. Palm CT is now dead. Recently she made application for pension as being the widow of Eaton and in her declaration she said nothing about having been married to Palmer. As the widow of Eaton she would have over s5, 900 com ing to her, She made claim under three different laws, and swore to the
  each petition.
 Her Narrow Escape.
 Miss Myrtle Finney had an ex- tremely narrow escape from being killed, Friday, while at work in the office of the Norwalk Woolen mills in Winnipauk. A bullet came through the window in front of her, and pass ed within a few inches of her head, and into the wall of the room. The bullet came from the direction of South Wilton. There is no question but that the bullet came from dis tance.
 Loss About s1,000.
 At Rowayton, Monday night, fire destroyed a dock building, owned by Jacob B. Raymond. He used it as a place of storage for much of his dredging, spile driving and dock building tools. These were all burned, the loss of blocks, falls, ropes, chains, scaffolding, etc, aggregating about $500. The building was worth as much more. MT. Raymond did not carry any insurance