The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-22

hairless actor has been under the weather for several weeks in his boarding house and had been partic- ularly enjoined from exchanging morn- ing, afternoon or evening greetings with John Barleycorn.
 Feeling that the doctor was mis- taken in his diagnosis Of what was the trouble with him. the comedian threw his bathrobs over his pajamas on the nights.in question and slipped out ito the corner" to see if business was going on as usual. 1t was, and before he left he had contributed sub- stantially to the tavern keepers rent. As he strolled homeward aglang aglee, some one fired off a revolver and a great crowd who thought he was an East Indian Gackwar gathered around the half-clad actor fn the bathrobe. A policeman, who heard the shot, questioned Bigelow but he said he knew nothing about it. Placing his hand on the side pocket of the bath robe, the policeman, however, found a revolver, which he held to be prima facie evidence of the comedians guilt and arrested him. The prisoner swore by love and a few others whom he said he knew, that he had never seen the weapon before and that some jokesmith had placed the revolver In his pocket when he wasn't looking. He was given a pair of pants to shield
 
 taken to the Night Court where he re- peated his denial of the ownership of the engine of death in a speech brist- ling with threats against the Zinsee- bee who had got him into the scrape.
 Expressing his surprise that so astute a citizen as Mir. Bigelou should fall so easy a prey to the humor of a fellow citizen and the hope that the comedian would in future visit the delicatessen store down the street in- stead of the dead house on the corner, the court discharged him with promise to remember the judicial admonition when the imp of gloom next tempts him.
 An echo of the summer warfare on Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of the Depart ment of Agriculture and his agent in this city Dr. H. H. Rusby, dean of the College of Pharmacy, sounded here the other day when Dr. Rusby obtained warrant for the arrest of Albin Warth of that place on a charge of criminal libel. The case promises to renew the old antiquity between Secretary of Agriculture Wilson on one side and Dr.. Wiley and his associates on the other
 A letter by MT. Warth to Secretary Wilson on July 13 was the basis for the move by pr. Rusby. It charged pr. Rusby with being employed by certain. drug interests in this city and favoring them in his official work. Soon after the letter was written the House Committee on Investigating Ex- penditures in the Department of Agri- culture went into the Wiley contro- versy. Warth's letter was not pro- were asked covering it's charges.
 The arrest of Warth, followed the publication of his letter in the amended report of Dr. Wiley and his associates in the Pure Food bureau by the op- ponents of that department. In ex- plafning the statement contained in the Warth letter that he was unduly Rusby said here yesterday;
 T don't know Warth. Last sprtng a we'll known drug firm asked me for a arabic chemist. recommended Dr. Mansfield. It appears I was pro- viding successor to Warth with that firm, but I did not then know it. The letter bears date not long after Dr. Mansfield got the place and evidently was inspired by desire to injure him i'm the mistaken beief that had pur- posed and with malice aforethought contrived to depose Warth from his position"
 In banking circles the suits brought against nupber of banks by Nellie s. V. recover; g, 100000, which they paid out against her account on forged checks, is causing some disturbance, in the event of her success in establishing her claim for reimbursement, at least one of the institutions will be seriously crippled, while the SOthers will have a big hoe put in their surplus. As the first and probObly most famous Amerf- can newspaper women, the exploits of Nellie Bly, in the business world have for some years been a subject of great interest to those who have watched her career since she ceased writing. To those who recall the great initiative and enterprise she dis played in, travelling alone twenty odd years around the world to prove that Jules Verne's vision of it's circumnavi- gation in eighty days was not a phantasy of fiction, but susceptible Of actual demonstration the success she achieved in building up the business left +o her by Albert Seaman, the aged mil ' aire she married about fifteen yeals ago, was not unexpected. From insclGbing her impressions of boodlers and statesmen to running a can manu- acturing plant seemed a long and rats- CT proSaic change of environments, but the little Woman,. who in her day caus- ed more than one grafter to quake in his boots and Squirm. in terror of her dclQ pen, Was equal lO It, 10 tIlc IOT- tune bequeathed her by Seaman, she added more than three million addi- tional and deve' Dped the business sun- til she was the boss of a shop employ ing 2,500 men and girls. But while she was applying her brains and energies to expanding the business, her book keepers dippeds heavily into the cash box and by means of forged paper, lit eralIy pulled the foundation from under her feet Not until then did she dis cover why it was that tn spite of the steady increase in the volume of bus mess done by her company, her re- sources were approximately dwin- ding away.
 How the banks came to cash all this paper without suspecting anything wrong is an enigma to local bankers No explanation has been made by them though they have announced their in- tention of contesting the suits fnsti- the money.
 What is declared to be the highest price ever paid for piece of land in the world was announced the othe, day in connection with the sale of the northwest corner of thirty-fourth St and Broadway, in the Herald Square section of the city. The seller was
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