The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-20
Fairfield County News.
Norwalk-New Canaan

Fairfield County News. Norwalk-New Canaan | The campaign for the Norwalk. | New Canaan Street Railway line was i launched Thursday evening when the l original incorporators of the company and the directors of the Norwalk Board of Trade met. The reports of the engineers who recently went over were accepted. It was voted that a soliciting committee of three Norwalk and three New Canaan incorporators be chosen to accept money to start the company.
 Accepts the Call. Rev. E. McGregor of Clinton, has | accepted a call to the First Congrega- tional church, Norwalk.
 Prosecutor Has the List.
 Personal Tax Collector Charles NJ. Slater of Stamford has turned over ] names of 2,Os9 delinquents. who may be arraigned in court soon.
 Gas in Oven Exploded. As Mrs. James Blakeslee of Dan- l bury, was preparing breakfast on a gas range Sunday she detected the ! odor of escaping gas. Looking at the
 range she saw that one of the gas
 cocks feeding the burners Of the oven,
 which was not in use, was partially open. She took the precaution to shut 1 this and the cocks which were open | at the top of the stove and then opened the oven door. A terrific ex- | plosion followed instantly and she | kitchen. She is of the opinion that the gas cock was opened by her small schild, which was playing about the l kitchen.
 Expert Young Trappers. Two young boys named Beardsley
 and Ericsson of Shelton, have been l trapping wild game for the past cou-
 pie of months and during that time have secured seven foxes. The boys have a long line of traps set, which they attend to each day before and after school hours. Most of the fox es captured by them are the small grey variety, but a few of them are very large ones.
 Lived in a. Cave. With the arrest and conviction of
 John Brennan, 21 years old, the police departments of Stamford and Green | wich have one thing less to bother them. Brennan was sent to jail for four months, or, to be more exact. 120 days. Sixty days of the sentence for
 vagrancy and sixty days were for in turing John Rocks saloon, Oct F.
 For year or more Brennan's residence has been a cave in a woods at River. side. In the cave were found grocer ies and condensed milk and lot of
 empty tin cans which had contained canned goods. The bones of many
 chickens and ducks which Brennan had dined off were there. too. Bren- nan has done no work that the police know about since he went to live Ill the cave.
 Police Seeking Ezollo A bullet. not stiletto, killed Jos
 eph Scarfone, who was murdered at avenue. An autopsy disclosed this. It
 was .32 calibre bullet and 1t pene- trated Scarfones lung, and took downward course, piercing the heart. The police are now bending every ef- fort to find Paul Ezollo, a young. man wko boarded with Scarfone at the Giancola house. Ezollo disappeared Friday night. The police have learn
 ed that he quarreled with Scarfone
 on the Wednesday preceding the lat ter's death. The two clinched, and
 would have done one another injury
 of Nichelo Giancola. He separated
 the men. That same day Scarfone
 was laid off by Mr. Giancola and the
 next day Mrs. Giancola informed him he'd have to find another boarding place. The Giancola's explanation was that she needed Scarfones room The police have an idea she feared more serious trouble between the two men.
 Just what the quarrel was about is
 not plain. It is said that it was caus
 .'the boss of the beer" The 'boss of the beer" is the person who. at drinking party among these folk, dis
 poses of the beer.
 Killed by Train. The body of Edward B. Sanford. aged AZ, of Norwalk, was found beside
 the railroad tracks near Saugatuck
 Sunday morning by railroad men. san- ford had been hit by a train, one leg
 severed, the other broken, and he had
 sustained fracture of the ribs. Death
 was caused by loss of blood An unknown man, about 50 years
 morning. He was run down from the
 rear. His head was crushed and death
 was instantaneous.
 Losses by Fire. A two-story frame building known as ''the old grist mill" and a large
 harm nearby, at Stin Fsver. both bui,d-
 ings the property of Dr. J. A. Knowles
 of New Milford, were destroyed early
 was undoubtedly of incendiary origin.
 A third building, a barn, was also
 damaged by the fire. which burst out
 simultaneously in the three buildings,
 The damage, which Will not amount to
 more than $500, was not covered by
 insurance.
 A box of matches reposes ever upon
 the desk of the Brewer & Malone Feed
 Company at Norwalk. The feed
 company has several cats. One of the
 cats climbed up on the desk Saturday
 morning and in catching her foot in
 the match box, knocked 1t to the floor
 four feet below. The matches caught ire and soon merry little b'aze was
 starting on the floor. It was soon eN- tingu'shed. with slight loss.
 Nothing remains but a shell of L.
 Frankefeldt & Sons cap manufac, tory in Norwa'k. whicN was gut.sa by hre saturday afternon. The building including stock and supp les Is a total loss that will amount to ov- err $9,000. The origin of the fire is un- known but theories of defective wiring are advanced