The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-09
Fairfield County News
Automobile Accidents.


 Racing along the Connecticut turn pike at Norwalk, Sunday afternoon an l unknown autoist struck two automo- I piles and damaged them considerably also ran into team, turned the ve- 1 hicle over and dumped the two Wom- en occupants into the road. John Cu- neo+ of South Nerwalk, was the owner Of one of the danager automobiles. | Neither MT. Cuneo nor the other au- | toist nor the women in the buggy was injured, but all were somewhat shak- en up..
 racing car turned turtle on the Sugar Hollow road, Danbury, last 1 week and the occupants, two young men who live in Greenwich, were hurl- ed to the ground but were not injured seriously. The car was going at the rate of seventy miles an hour. It was badly smashed. It was owned by l Edward Laidlaw, of Greenwich, and was driven by his son, seventeen years old, who was accompanied by a friend from Greenwich
 Springda1e. colnded with an automo- bile belonging to Terah Miller of North Stamford Sunday. MT Miller, law and grandson were in the car at the time. Mrs. Miller and MT. Mil 1er's son were the most seriously in- jured Morris face was cut and his jaw was injured so badly that he cannot eat. Mrs. Mil1er's arm was broken and her side was injured. The other three escapedS with a shaking
 The horse turned directly across the road. When the automobile struck it, pranced about. crashing through the windshield. The top of the auto was torn off and the windshield was brok- en.
 Good Roads Contracts.
 The bids for the proposed new pieces Danbury this fall, were opened in the office of State Highway Commission Macdonald, in Hartford, on Sat urday. The contract for the construc- ton of the two-nile strip of new state road on the Mill Plain road, was awarded to Contractor John Knapp, of structfon of the uncomp1eted portion of road near the t-old mi1I," near the Ridgefeld line, on the Danbury- Nor walk turnpike, was awarded to H Sanford Osborn, of Bedding.
 First Selectman Bailey of Bethel has received the following letter from Highway Commissioner Macdonald, regarding the piece of state road to. be built through the center of the town: "The matter of the contract advertis- ed some little time ago in the town commissioner and he is of the opin- ion that the reductions in prices made by MT. Kellogg were not enough 10 justify him to award the contract on the revised figures. He has decided to readvertise this section of work"
 Division of Cost.
 Decision announced by the public utilities commission in the matter of the recons tru ction of the bridge car rying White street over the tracks of the New York, New Haven. and Hartford Railroad Company in the city of Danbury. The bridge planned by the railroad company was approved and ordered built, at a cost of $31 ,O0O. l The commission orders that the rail- | road pay eleven twenty-fourths, and i the Danbury & Bethel Street Railroad 1 Company five tWenty-fourths of the ! cost of construction, including any damages for land taken or affected.
 69 Dogs Killed
 Since the mad dog'' scare began, in | the summer, sixty-nine dogs have been | killed in the town of Danbury. '
 Injured in Runaway.
 Mrs A D. Wright and her dau ghter 1 Mrs J. T. Conroy, were seriously in 1 tured Friday afternoon. whe0 horse | which they were driving, ran away, l throwing both from the wagon. One 1 of Mrs -Wright's legs was fractured, I and her shoulder was broken. Mrs Conroy is suffering from two broken | wrists and fractured ribs A boy | was driving the wagon, which was a 1 two seated one The wagon struck a l stone, and skidded to one side, fright l ening the horse.