The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-19
Fairfield County News.
Struck By Trolley Car.

The delivery wagon of George c. Schussler of Shelton, was struck by 0 trolley car Wednesday afternoon, and the wagon was wrecked and the driver considerably injured. The wagon was being driven by Harold Schussler, who had with him on the seat a friend named Beckman. The driver swung his horse on the tracks of the trolley company in order to pass a team. Young Schussler had no idea that car was near him, and being tightly shut in the wagon, did aged to get the horse off the track, out the car struck the wagon and overturned it. Young Schussler land ed underneath and saved Beckman, receiving himself some severe flesh wounds, but fracturing no bones.
 Lost Life in Storm.
 Patrick Collins, of Brookfield, per- ished and was found dead near his nome Saturday morning. Mr. Collins who was seventy-three years of ago. is supposed to have arisen Friday night or early Saturday morning and gone out 10 the barns. The presump- ton is that he became confused in the storm and losing his bearings wandered in the wrong direction and was overcome by the cold.
 Deer in Winnipauk.
 William F. Bryant while passing through Winnipauk, saw young deer grazing not far from the road AS soon as it sighted him, it scamper- ed off into the woods. Robert Lou don, a Winnipauk milkman, found doe and two lawns in his barnyard when he went out to milk the other morning. The animals were quite tame.
 His Feet Frozen.
 As the result of having frozen his feet, James Vansiclian Davis,of New Canaan, lost the entire power of walking Saturday evening, while waiting for a train at the Norwalk station. He had been walking through the woods near Stratford Friday, and spent Friday night in a lumber camp. He states that while walking some snow went in the top of his felt boots end Saturday morning when he awOke his feet were very cold but he did rot think anything wrong. At Nor walk his boots and hose were remov- ed, and his feet were found to be apparently frozen. Dr. Burnell said, however, that the members were not badly frozen. About 7:3O Sunday morning he was able to hobble along slowly, and left for his home.
 Missing Man Heard From. In 1893 William A. Olmstead. of I one morning to engage a hired man and never came back. The mystery was not cleared up until last week, when a dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., to Wilbur Olmstead, announced his death from dfphtheria. In 1895 a body was found in New York har- Dor, which, from papers found in his clothing, was thought to be the re- mains of the missing man. Friends and relatives from Wilton failed to identify the body. After seven years Mrs. Olmstead, who in the meantime had worked to support herself and children, applied to the courts and Olmstead was adjudged dead About five years ago she married a prosper ous farmer named Springhorn and removed to New Jersey. The dis patch to Wilbur Olmstead was fol- lowed by a letter from Olmstead's s l landlady in Rochester, which stated that he had been boarding with her for number of years, that he was steady and hardworking, and when his illness was found to be critical, he said in reply to questions that he had neither wife, children, father or mother, and that his savings should go to his cousin, Wilbur Olmstead, of Wilton. As some of the children are still under age Mrs Springhorn was notified and left for Rochester on l Monday to try and unravel the strange story.