The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-22

the room and knocked pans, pots and kettles from tn e sink in the kitchen of the home of Mrs. Seth Sturges.
 Lightning struck in many places in and about Danbury, Monday after noon, damaging houses, splinter1ng trees and frightening people.
 A bolt of lightning struck the resi- dence of William S.. Reynolds Nails solfd1y embedded were pulled out of the woodwork; plastering ripped. off and thrown about rooms: holes made in the walls as c1eanIy. as though made. by an auger; window shades torn into ribbons and. a feather bed, a1- ways considered a safe place of re- fuge ripped open and the feathers scattered about the room. MT. Key holds estimates that the house was damaged to the extent of $2OO or $306 He has insurance sufficient to cover the loss. The bolt entered the dwelling by way of the chimney throwing the bricks in all directions but leaving about one-third of the chimney standing.
 l The residence of A. IT. Hale was visited by a bolt during the early part of the storm. 1t entered. the house near thel chimney, knocking off 12 bricks, and making 9 hole of consld- era5ble size in the roof. It is believ- ed that the bolt must have followed the gas pipes down into the cellar and into the ground as no other ktrace of the fluid has been found in the house
 New Corporations.
 The Island Beach Corporation of Greenwich. has filed certificate showing an increase of its capital stock, from $5,OOO to $100,0O0, with a corresponding increase of it's shares from 50 to 1000. s-
 The Stoughton Process Company of Greenwich has incorporated for the purpose of owning. controlling or dealing in any processes for general | ing heat in fusion furnaces by the combination of a liquid with a solid fuel, etc The amount of capital 1 stock with which the corporation in- tends to begin business is $1,0o0. The lincorporators are: Joseph E. John inson. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.; and James S. Macgregor, New York.
 Car Turned Over.
 The skidding of John H. Mu1liken's s automobile on soft tar at Norwalk "Wednesday evening, caused the ma chine to turn turtle and MT. Mul1iken, who is of New Canaan, with three companions of that place, were thrown cue. Mulliker suffered a, fracture of the. left ankle The oth- CTS escaped with minor outs and bruf- ses. The car was righted and the only apparent damage was to the windshield, which was broken.
 Dangerously Shot.
 Louis Tar1ov, 12-year-old son of Mrs Rose TarIov. of Norwa1k is in a critical. condition at the Norwa1k hos IpitaI as the result of a shooting acci- dent which occurred Friday evening. The boy was shot in the abdomen and 1 a bullet passed through from one side to the other on the left side of the body, passing out through the back. The inestines were perforated in three places. The shooting was entirely ac- lscidental and occurred when the Win chester rifle which the boy. was. carry ing, went off.
 Snake Causes Accident.
 Charles H. Ward, one of the rural carriers at the Bethel postoff1ce was 1 driving along the Glen. in. Bedding Friday when he heard a pounding and laundering in the rear, and saw bear ing down on him, a team of horses attached to a farm wagon. It was a runaway. The road is narrow and MT. Ward drove his horse onto the | side of the road, as far as was pos sible- Meanwhile the team crashed into the lighter wagon in which MT. 1 Ward sat. The driver of the runaway team was Frank Hall, of. Bedding. Ac- cording to MT. Hall, one of his team is a three-year- old colt. He went on to say that while driving along the Glen the horses saw a. large black snake and came to stop. Tall then IIgot down from his seat and taking l his whip started to beat the snake The | noise of the whip and the team 1 ssfar4fad-