The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-03
Fairfield County News
Hit by Train.

! Samuel F. Baker of Mill Plain is in -the Danbury hospital with a, scalp wound received when the bicycle on which he was riding between the, New York; New Haven E Hartford double tracks just west of Mill Plain station, coIIided with an east bound freight train Saturday night. The trainmen said that had the wheels gone just few inches further. one of Bakers arms would nave been, crush cd or cut off and perhaps he might have been killed. As it was, fsWhen the man was picked up, one arm lay close to the rail and the sleeve was caught under aN wheel.
 Hit by Auto.
 Miss Elizabeth Farrell, is in, the Danbury hospital with a broken leg and Gardiner Meder is more or less bruised and scratched as the result of an accident5 in South iNorwa1S, Friday afternoon, when a motorcycle on which Mr. Meder and Miss Farrell were riding, was run down by an au- tonobi1e driven by Judge Daniel Dunlop of South Norwa1k. All parties concerned agree that the af- fair was entirely accidental
 Spark From Bon Fire
 Samuel Morrow, coIored, is in the Norwalk hospital suffering from pain full burns and damage of $25 was done at the TSP11E S1EOp O1 cS 4NO1esSe1Ae PAnA3AO@ ing firm Wednesday afternoon, as the result of brands from a bonfire blown through the door of the repair shop by the squan that preceded the rain. Nor row was burned by the explosion of pail of gasoline which he had in his hand and into which blazing papers were whirled by the wind. MorrOw's g face and arms are badly burned.
 Left s271, ,1as Estate
 .,R Greens Farms, who died on February 14, left an estate of $271, ,128. Stewart Woodford Capen, nephew of the gen erals deceased wife, irherits 200 shares of the Metropolitan Life stock, which has been set aside in trust in fulfill nent of Mrs. Woodford's wish. Isabel H. Woodford, the generals widow, got his personal goods and half his resid- uary estate, appraised at $11O,S44 His daughter, Susan Curtis Woodford. re- ceived 4Os shares of Metropolitan Life stock and half the residuary estate, her bequest totaling up to $125,127. Bethel Man Injured.
 Clifford A. Fry of Bethel. has been injured at Poughkeepsie. N. Y. He jumped from 8 freight train cutting his face badly and also receiving two deep gashes in the head.
 Clifford Pinchot
 The J. J. Asche place on the sauga- tuck road had been leased to Mrs. Amos R. Pinchot, mother of Clifford leader, and MT. Pinchot will be here for the summer months.
 Daniel Merritt Injured.
 While digging an artesian well on the estate of Commodore B. c. Bene- dict, Indian Harbor, Greenwich Fri day, Daniel Merritt of Stamford, caught his right hand in the gears of "a m he the hand could be extricated, it was horribly nnangled It was necessary to amputate the thumb and index f1n- ger of the hand.
 Find Hives of Bees.
 Bee Inspector Co1ey of Westport and who it seems, MT. Coley deputized to assist him, stirred up a sort of horn cts nest the other day, when they went to Mrs. Helen Lsockhart's place in SPringda1e, to destroy bees which Messrs. Coley and Vanderwerken claim are foul and in danger of fouIing all other bees that come in contact with them or the source of their honey. Mrs. Lockhart ordered the men off her place There were threats to shoot. The bees were not destroyed, Mrs. Lockhart taking some of the hives away from Inspector Coley and de- posting them in the cellar of her house for safe keeping. Seen at her home. Mrs. Lockhart made this state ment: They carried a few of the hives down a hill back of my house. to a stone-pile, and I followed. When they got ready to burn them, took the hives away from them, and told them if they didn't. get off my prem ises would get a gun and shoot them off. I had asked this man Coley to show me his badge and he refused"
 MT. Vanderwerken says that MT. Co., ley is an inspector, and that he had power to burn any bees which he found to be diseased. He says that Mrs. Lockhart's bees have been sub ject to foul-hive for several years, and they should be exterminated. A hive of bees of this kind, he says, is liable to spread the disease to other bees all over the eountryside. They never pro- duce much honey, he says, and what they do make is not good. He said that MT. Coley inspected Mrs. Lock- hart's bees a year ago, told her then that they were diseased and warned he'd to get rid of them Mrs Lock