The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-10
Fairfield County News
Automobile Accidents.

AAANC | bridge, Saturday night, and overturn All but two of the members of the i party escaped unhurt. The autom O.
 bile was not badly damaged. MT. H. B. Stevens, suffered from bruises i and nervous shock and MT. L. Mager
 was injured about the head and | shoulder. MT. Talbot said that he was l proceeding cautiously because of a | heavy fog. He kept well to the right
 of the road. As the car neared the | bridge one of the tires became flat 1 suddenly and the machine swerved to | the right, striking the side of the 1 bridge.
 Morris Spe1ke's touring car was al- l most destroyed by fire at Stamford, 1 Monday. The car, driven by Anthony l Panapada, backfred in the carbureter. 1 MT. Panapada, was alone at the time. | chine was a mass of flames. The car
 was of 1912 model, costing about $1,-
 700. It was partly insured.
 Losses By Fire.
 At Shelton, Thursday evening, the old plant of the Housatonic River Trap l Rock Co.,, long since sdefunct, the | buildings of which were used in part l by Patrick Cribbins as 8 storehouse 1 for hay, of which he had about eight l tons in stock was destroyed by fire. l The property is owned by Patrick l Cribbins. MT. Cribbins places his | damage at not less than $1,50O, having I but little insurance on either buildings
 or contents. The engine and boilers
 are practically total loss. The origin | of the fire can only be conjectured, 1 it being thought the work of hobos, who frequent this line of travel. l Fire that broke out shortly before 1880 Monday morning damaged the | home of William Minck to the extent l of $500. Mrs. Mfnck, who was taken | i'll during the night, had gone down 1 stairs with a lamp to get some medi- | cine. On her way upstairs she fell. | and the lamp started a fire which | spread rapidly.
 1 Creditors File Petition.
 Creditors of the Bishop Box Com l pany of Stamford have filed a petition
 asking that the company. which has | been in the hands of a, receiver since June 13, be adjudicated a bankrupt. The petitioning creditors and the i amounts which they say are due them i are: American Straw Board Company l of New York, $534.58; Manhattan
 Straw Board Company of New York,
 $1,002.03; Robert T. Warehouse of | Philadelphia, $28.28. The fact that l the company is in the possession of a
 receiver is the act of bankruptcy l charged against it and which the 1 creditors say should result in it's being
 adjudicated a bankrupt.
 Struck By Lightning.
 The home of Jesse A. Hopson at l Norwalk, was struck by lightning Sun 1 day afternoon and while no serious | damage resulted, the house was badly 1 shaken up. The lightning struck the l chimney and cut this down on a bias. | A large hole was cut in the roof. The
 walls in the house were also some 1 what cracked.
 The home of Eugene weafer at
 NorwaIk was also struck by lightning
 during the storm Sunday afternoon, 1 but fortunately no one was injured
 and the house was not seriously dam
 aged. The lightning tore off a corntce
 but did no further harm.
 The barn owned and occupied by Jacob Popp in Norwa1k, was struck
 by lightning during the electrical l storm Sunday. The bolt struck the peak tearing off the shingles and
 splintering the timber. The damage 1 can be repaired at a slight cost. | During the heavy electrical storm on l Sunday afternoon lightning struck the | house of D. L. Hunt at Da,nbury, dam : 1 aged the house considerably, shocked
 the occupants and apparently spent
 much of it's force on a rock in the dooryard, which it split a charge of l dynamite might have done. The light ming lifted off a, section of the shing1ed outer wall of the house, smashed the | telephone, tore the paper off the wall
 of the dining room, shot through the i kitchen and lifted off the cover of a
 cistern underneath the kitchen and l then went out by way of the back
 door.
 Typhoid From Milk.
 i Deputy Inspector Cruttenden, of the
 state health department, was in Nor 1 walk, Sunday and in company with l Milk Inspector Francis J. McKeof, went to Wilton, where the Justus K. 1 Raymond farm was inspected and or
 ders for improvements made. The Da- l the inspector expressed the opinion | that it was from there the typhoid | epidemic spread, possibly through the l improper washing of bottles. The to- l tai number of cases in Norwalk now l is thirty-seven. There have been two i deaths, both Wilton people.
 1 Hunting on Sunday.
 County Game Warden Wilbur F. | Smith, having received information | that some one was in the habit of get | ting up early in the morning and 1 shooting gray squirrels, left his home l Sunday morning for West Norwalk l Soon after reaching the place he was
 rewarded by seeing a young man with l a gun. Two squirrels were in the tree
 above MT. Smiths head, and the youth l took a shot at them. As he did so l MT. Smith placed him under arrest He gave his name as Rocco Cinia. l Judge Keogh found the accused guilty 1 of hunting on Sunday, and imposed a 1 fine of $1O and costs. On the charge 1 of shooting gray squirrels the case
 was continued until December 31St | and Chief of Police Pennington will | have custody of the young mans gun 1 until that time.