The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-05
FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS
Petition In Bankruptcy.

Samuel ". Taseh. 9 jeweler in Dan bury, has filed a petition. He has lia- bi1ities of $20.e69.46, and $18,974-94 of the amount is unsecured Assets consist of stock in trade valued at $6,OOO; tools and store fixtures, e$2, 900 debts due, $998.Q8.
 Dies Of Burns.
 Hendrix w. w1ldman died in the Danbury hospital Friday as the re- suit of burns received when the dwelling in which he lived was burned to the ground. The frye was not dis covered until neighborS saw the ruins of the building. MT. Wildman was found lying unconscious in the snow, about 100 feet from the house, where he had evidently rolled in his efforts to extinguish the flames which were eneve1oping him. Practically all of hts clothing was burned off, and his body was almost N entirely covered with burns. Mr.. Wldnan was nearly S5 years of age and for years had liv- ed alone The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed that it started from an overturned lamp. MT. Wildnan, who was eccentric, is said to have been in the habit of retiring with most of his clothing.
 Mad Man Attacks Boy.
 Under the delusion that everyone is trying to poison him, Michele. Moronb
 
 is employed at the Gilbert & Bennett factory in Georgetown, is at war with the world as a whole. Up to Thurs day his condition had apparently been normal, but during the morning he became enraged at imaginary injuries and attacked Giuseppe DeI1eanni 15-year- boy. knocking him down. bruising him generally and relieving him of two or three teeth
 Faithfully Injured.
 Charles E.. Lockwood is confined to his home in NorwaIk, suffering from painful injuries sustained several days ago. MT. Lockwood is employed as messenger by the Adams Express Go. and on December 18th was riding on top of one of the big trucks in the Grand Central Station, New York. While looking at a timetable, his head came into violent contact with an iron girder. He was thrown to the platform of the station with great force. Six of his teeth were knocked out, and he swallowed two Iof them. His face was badly cut, and he was painfully bruised.
 Hurt in Coasting.
 The condition of David Dougherty, the thirteen year old RidgefeId boy brought to the Danbury hospital Thursday with a fractured skull, re- ceived in a coasting accident, is re- A9OO1AN after the boy was received at the hospital he underwent an operation Of, trepanning the skull to remove the pressure upon the brain. He soon became conscious and it is ex- pected that he will recover speedily. The boys sled crashed into a, bould- CT and his head came in contact with the stone
 Wins s1so, 900 Profit.
 Deeds filed in Reading, Pa., by New York financial men show how Henry H. Adams of Greenwich, Conn, in a few weeks made the tidy sum of $130, ,O0O.N MT. Adams bought the Temple Furnace of the Reading Iron Company, at Temple. The papers recorded give the price for the prop erty as $140,000. In a second set of deeds MT. Adams turns over the prop erty to GeoSge A. Coulton, Cuyahoga, O., for $25O,0OO. This includes only the furnaee tract of fifteen acres and the s1ag bank of sixteen acres. A farm near the furnace was sold by MT. A dams to, Albert Broden, for $5,o0O> and Frederick I. Richmond of New York becomes the buyer of the rest of the furnace property embraced in the $13O,OO deal, for $15,0oO, making MT. Adams total receipts $270,0O0.