The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Fairfield County News
credttors F,iIe Petition.


 Creditors of the National Paper Can company of Norwalk have filed a pc tition that the corporation be adJudi- cated bankrupt. The petitionfng cred itors and the amounts which they say are due them are: The Norwalk Iron Works, S478.44; The Reed & Volk Elec- tricaI company $369 A; the NorwaIk Electrica1s Misunderstanding company. S442.2 .23. The claim of the petitioners is that the National Paper Can com pany while iIsoIvent, committed an act of bsnkruptcy in that it permitted a creditor to obtain a preference through legal proceedings
 Skins are Valuable.
 samuel waring, the Norwalk hunter and trapper, has already captured a score of nuskrats. St Louis ftIrriers have advised him of a stin advance in the price Of furs because of the Es1-= ropean war which shuts off much of the importations of furs.
 Death From Wound
 The shock of the pistol wound and the wound itself caused the death of John Bastcalus, the young Greek who accidentally shot himself Wednesday evening. The accident occurred in West Bedding when the young man was cleaning anis revolver He did not. know that it was loaded and when the weapon was QfSCl aISSQ pL3 D11k6Lf pen etrated the abdomen, piercing the in- testines and lodging in the bone of the. right hip
 Retired on Pension.
 Alfred Lewis, who for the last p years has been agent of the Standard Oil company in Danbury, has been re- tired under the pension plan of the company for employees who have been i in the employ Of the corporation con | tinuous1y for % years
 Murder Mystery Unso1ved.
 State Policeman Frank virelli, who has been working to unrarel the mys-. te1y of the woman whose decomposed body was found in August in Cor neIls woods. in Darien, has discovered that Mrs. Thomas Kane of New York city, whose husband identified the body as that of his wife is alive and l we'll
 1 Killing Song Birds.
 Hunting on Sunday without a, license and having possession Of dead song 1 birds made an expensive outing for Dominic Ferraro and AneIto Gallo who were arrested in Huntington by Dep uty Perrett Of Stratford Sunday. for as a result Of a hearing before Judge J. B. Dillon fines and costs anosInting l to S44 and $z7 respectively were i'm l posed on the accused. Both the ac- cused pleaded guilty to the charges of shooting on Sunday. hunting without l a license and Gallo pleaded guilty to having killed song birds. County War den Smith identified three song spar | rows four vvarbIers, one yellow | throated yirio and two white tE1roaited l sparrows. MT Smith said that all the species found on Ferraro were insec- tivous birds and Of great value in the extermination of insect pests
 1@+ Norman F. Bedient of Norwa1k E1s- tained a broken leg Sunday afternoon. | while on his way to RidgedeId on his motorcycle. He met an a1rtomobile coming in the opposite direction. The road is narrow and Bedient was forced l to the side of it The recent heavy 1 rain had made that part Of the road muddy and very slippery, and when l his machine struck that portion, 1t shidded. He was pitched off the seat and fell to the ground. The motorcy- l cle, rtderless, toppIed over and landed on BedHent's left leg. breaking both bones just above the ankle.
 Spontaneous Combustion. l Spontaneo eous combustion, believed to 1 have been caused by paint-soaked cloths is given as the cause of a fire which almost entirely destroyed a barn in Danbury, Thursday. The damage to the building and contents is estimated by Henry W. Sullivan, the owner, at nearly 8, ,O5o and is cov- cred by insurance. The building has been used as a garage on the lower l floor and. was occupied on the second floor by Joseph Casazza, as his sign painting shop up to about a week ago. None of the building was occupied for a week previous.
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