The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-09
FLASHES

Charles Ponzi, the lightning wealth
maker is hopeless1y bankrupt.
Dr. I. s. Wechler told the New
lr'York Health Conference that Column
bia has found that the sleeping sick
ness is caused by a germ.
Seven are dead at the Edgewood
/ Arsenal from drinking wood alcohol
Rat poison, upset in flour, endang-
cred the lives of forty soldierhs at
Camp Dix.
Lloyd-George says he is convinced
that Mayor MacSwiney's gang was re-
spopsible for the murder of police
men,
Ex-senator Weeks of Massachu-
sets asks that the limit be taken off
campaign gifts.
. An attempt was made to wreck 3
The train left the tracks but jumped
back again.
Over 100 suits for divorce were re-
turned to the Superior court in New
Haven yesterday.
There are 3,026,7s9 square miles of
territory in the United States.
September IT is the anniversary of
the Constitution of the United States.
The condition of former United
States Senator w. Murray Crane is
very serious
Mrs Marparet Canasso and four
children of New Haven were serious
ly poisoned by toadstoo1s.
Representative Esch of Wisconsin
one of the authors of the Cummins-
Esch railroad bill, was defeated for
denomination
william Borofsky, "a, of 791 Madi-
son avenue suffered possible frac-
ture of the pelvis and severe con-
tusions on both thighs when he
was run over by a jitney bus last
> night at dhe corner of STAFFORD and
Central avenues. He was taken to
st. Vincents hospital where it was
said this morning his condition was
not serious and that examination
showed there were no fractures.
Mrs Rose Shapiro 55 of 83 Linen
avenue suffered a compound frac-
ture of the left elbow when she fell
from a truck at the corner of Park
avenues yesterday afternoon. She
was taken to ST. Vincent's hospital
in the Emergency hospital
Overcome by the excessive heat in
the boiler room of the American
Tube and Stamping Company while
at work in that place yesterday,
Frank Lar, of SGT Spruce street col
FlanSed and WAS taken TO the FRIDGE
port hospital
John Forboski of $50 Stratford
avenue was hit by a touring car
owned and driven by Thomas Alice
of 439 Popular street last night at
the corner of East Main street and
Crescent avenue and suffered a. frac-
ture of the right shoulder He was
tal<n to the Bridgeport hospital Mrs.
Alice, wife of the owner of the car
tainted She was also a passenger in
car at the time of the accident. She
was taken home
Israel Prunnan, 27, Of 1907 North
avenue was treated at the Elmer
gency hospital last night for frac-
tured rib and three stitches were
taken to close a liberation of his lip.
He told the Emergency physician
that he had been in a fight with an
other jitney nnap at the end of the
North Bridgeport line
Determined not to attend school, a
nine-year-old Derby boy started out
from home yesterday to see the world.
His capital consisted of money given
to him by his mother to purchase a
railroad ticker and books. The young
ster got as far as Bridgeport, and was
picked up by the Bureau of Missing
Persons. He was returned to Derby
last night
Five alleged murderers are now In
The county Jail in North avenue,
awaiting trial in the Superior court.
They are Frank Laneve, held for the
murder of Frank Ial1o, in Fairfield
Giuseppe Nancino, accused of the
murder of Frank Iandkti, in the East
Side, and Elwood r. Wade, Mrs Ethel
H Mott and John e. Johnston, prin-
cipals in the now famous George E.
Mott murder case.
WHERE PRINCES ARE PAUPERS.