The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07
Fairfield County News
Loss by Fire.

$3, GOO resulted from a fire on the farm of Edwin s. Holly in Wdnnipauk. Sat urday, when a large barn and six sheds were burned to the ground. The barn contained eight tons of hay, wagon and farm equipment In the sheds corn was stacked, another was used for a carpenter shop and was well filled with tools, lumber and oth- CT needs while others contained wood, grain and articles in, use about a farm. No one has any idea how the fire started. Insured.
 Petitions in Bankruptcy.
 Samuel Simon. a druggist In Starn- ford, has filed a petition in bankruptcy and he made oath that he did not have the money to pay the filing fee. His liabilities are listed at 5,222.20, and S, ,212.20 of the amount is unsecured Assets for creditors are listed as fol- lows Stock in trade, $500; store fix tures and soda fountain, s3,85o
 Charlotte Maynard and Lillian. Har- ford Of Stamford, where they con- ducted millinery business, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. They have unsecured company partnership debts of $48o.52. Assets that creditors can make claim to consist of stock in trade, valued at $20o. store fixtures, valued at $200.
 Republicans Endorse Him
 The Republicans of the probate dis trIct of NorwaIk have endorsed the Democratic nominee for judge, Henry w. Gregory.
 Horse Dies Suddenly
 The hofse owned by Edgar T. An drews of Bethel died quite suddenly few days ago and incidental with it's death MT. Andrews had very nar- nal. row escape for he was riding the ani-i nal and as he fell it pushed him closely against a stone wall, pinnlns MT Andrews leg from the knee to the hip tightly. He was unable to extri- cate himself and could only wait for the animal to die, fearing that it would struggle and that his leg ana hip would be crushed. Fortunately. the animal died quietly. and he was finally able to push it away and es- cape.
 Killed While Crossing Street. Leonard " sawteIl of Coscob died. in Bellevue hospital, New Y orks NVed-s nesday as the result of injuries re- ceived when. in attempting to cross the street, he was run down by a large truck His jaw was broken and he re- ceived fractured skull. besides inter nal injuries.
 Reelected Pastor.
 At the recent annual meeting Of the, Haven't 1CnTlSI1dIl cI1uEc11 -O4 iC14iOel1tA Ss .Rev. E. 2. Ellis, pastor of the church. was recalled for the 18th year of ser 1 vice by a unanimous vote and was granted a raise of s1oo in salary. Eloped in Motor Car.
 Ioper Bard Latdlaw of Coccob and Miss Alice Darlington Rand, daughter l of L. S. Rand, a millionaire of Minne- lapolis and Greenwich, eloped Wednes- day in Lafdlaw's fast motor car, and were married in Port Chester Unknown Suicide Found. I The badly deconposed body of an l unknown suicide was found hanging 1 from a tree in the widest part Of l Keeler's woods, near the Norwalk-Da- I rIen line, Sunday. The man had hung l himself by means Of an unusually slender cord, from a very small tree. scarcely strong enough to bear the l weight of his body. The tree was l alongside a stone walls from which ne 1 Jumped after carefully doubling the 1 cord several times over the crotch of I the tree and placing loop under ms neck and another over the back sofshl head He had to double his knees-to keep his feet from the ground, untli death came The body had been hang 1 ing for three weeks and over, and was so badly deconposed that the fea- l tlres were unrecognizable. The only
 means of identification which would I tend to show from whence he came, J was an empty half-pint whfskey bot tie, which was found at his feet, and I which bore the label of a Bridgeport Aealoon.
 Makes Daylight Haul.
 A daring daylight burglary was com 1nitted Saturday afternoon at the home of H. S. Reynolds in -Danbury1a and sl goods and money to the value of ap- proxinately $100 were taken The man must have kept watch of the house I during the day and waited until he saw that no one was inside. Eh1- trance was made through the pantry window
 Auto Accidents.
 Danbury police are trying to dis
 cover the identity of a motorcycles
 over Mrs. John Kellogg without of
 ferfng aid or inquiring the extent O.
 the woraanss injuries. speeded up hi } machine and fled, leaving Mrs. Kellogg
 lying senseless in the road. The dresl which sshe was wearing was torn t'
 shreds, and one of her shoes wa wrenched from her foot and throW1 into the field adjoining the road. Be , yond a number of painful bruises ant nervous strain, she was not badly in
 5ured.
 A large limousine, owned by tn
 Peerless company of New York city
 lost two rear wheels and had the mud
 guards smashed when it was strucl
 by a NorwaIk bound trolley near tn lfIoroton golf links Sunday afternoon g Both cars were coming towards Nor ! walk. Suddenly the automobile sho
 in front Of the trolley in an attemp to go on the Broad Hall Inn, miscal euIated the speed of the trolley ant did not have time to get across tn