The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-13
Collins Heirs
 Contesting For
 Estate Of $3,6OO

sOtSAtO VI ~O5OOS Prof. Boyesen, Well Known
 Educator, Badly Burned July
 4 by Explosion of Powder
 Redding, July 13-The hearing on
 the admission to probate of the will of the late Patrick Collins. which was appointed for last Saturday. has been postponed to July IF. Since the heirs who were ignored in the will decided
 to contest 1t they have learned that
 the estate does not include the house and land which were supposed to be- long to the late MT. Collins. The prop erty was owned by his wife whose death preceded that of her husband and who some years ago executed and had placed on record an instrument by the terms of which he was to have the life use of it and upon his death it was to go to the children in equal shares. Consequently the es- tate now in dispute consists of the $3,600 of property which went to Col lins from his daughter Margaret. One of the witnesses for the contesting heirs will testify to an incident oc- curing at a wake attended by Collins
 
 in which the mourners had gathered were slightly raised and when some one suggested that they be closed Collins objected, saying that the door yard was filled with angels who would be offended if not permitted to see and hear all that was going on in- side.
 Prof. Boyesen, who is connected with Brooklyn educational institu- tion and is occupying summer quar- ters in Henry Adams house at the Center, was badly burned on the Fourth by a powder explosion which came about in rather a singular way. of powder he wished to set off and the father undertook to show him how it might be done without danger by the aid of a small electric battery. Carrying the powder package the professor went a short distance and dropped small quantity on the ground intending to have series of end of the wire connected with the battery, supposing the battery to be at the time inactive, and touched it to the pile of powder. The explosion which followed ignited the package in the professors hand and he was shockingly burned about the body and face, the side on which the powder was held suffering the worst. He was fortunate enough, however, to escape the loss of his eyesight. He is still laid up from his burns and it will be some time yet before the injuries are healed.
 A change was effected this week in the firm of Greenbaum & Klein, the lower Ridge merchants. Mir. Green baum retires and is succeeded by Carl Klein of Bridgeport, a brother of the remaining partner. The new member is an energetic and affable young man who will doubtless do his share towards maintaining the standing and success of the firm. MT. Greenbaum who is about to return to Bridgeport with his family has not decided which of several business opportunities he will embrace. The mother of the Klein brothers will keep house for them during the rest of the summer at least.
 The inspectors of Highway Con- Macdonald should have the extent and of their authority more clearly defined. When the Ridge road contractors began laying telford in their present job Inspector Innis of Ridgefield gave his approval to the in which the work was being done. Then Chief Engineer Kelsey of Hartford office came along and order ed that the stone be taken up and relaid so as to give a crown at the center. He declined to allow pay for the additional work on the ground that Innis had exceeded his author ity in sanctioning the first style of Last week Inspectors Brush and White looked over the work at the junction of Giles hill and or dered that the south fork of the con- meeting cross highway be graded up to provide a slope approach as has been done with the north fork. First Sanford pointed out that this would make both branches of the owing to the steepness of the pitch, but the inspectors, while admitting this were insistent. An appeal to Com: Macdonald was followed by 8 wis., l 1t from Engineer McElroy who revok- ed the inspectors order and directed that the grade remain as at present l but that a more substantial retain ing wall be built and that the fork | be given additional width.
 Ex-Selectman Joseph Sullivan was | taken severely i'll last week with acute l gastritis and liver trouble and is still [ In serious condition He suffers at tacks of violent pains and finds it | almost impossible to retain anything | on his stomach.
 Mention was made in this correspon- dence several weeks ago of the biting of Charles Selleck by dog belonging | to w. c. Doig and of the victims s claim for damages MT. Doig paid s250 in settlement and killed the of lending dog. Soon afterwards a dog which he valued very highly was poisoned and a general poisoning of other dogs in the neighborhood fol- owed. Who the poisoner was or what ais motive have not been learned
 Philip Stark, who went to New York a week ago last Saturday on what would have been his marriage rip had not Mrs. Eliza Crofut, the promised bride, flunked at the last returned to town last Sun lay and is now officiating as cook in he family of Attorney Barnes. Soon after reaching New York Stark suc- ,umbed to the heat and was taken 70 hospital where he remained for several days.
 Upon driving away from the West Bedding station last Friday evening Mrs. William Miller of Sanfordtown was run into by an auto which took ,ff wheel of her wagon. She and he other two occupants were thrown