The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-26
SENTENCE OF TWO
 YEARS IS GIVEN Penalty Is Paid for Voluntary
 Manslaughter SUIT TO REGAIN OFFICE Former Justice of the Peace Was Con victed of Official Wrongdoing and Pardoned and Now Wants
 the Place Back.
SUIT TO REGAIN OFFICE

Chattanooga, May 25.-(special.)-W. H. Bellows, who has been on trial in this city several days for the murder of his half-brother at the Montlake coal mines near Daisy, last year. was given a sen tence of two years in the penitentiary for voluntary manslaughter. The trou- ble arose between the two brothers over the action of Len Reynolds, the murdered man, during strike in which the broth CTS took opposite sides
 P J. Webb, who was convicted of of- ficial oppression while a justice fof the peace from the Sixth district of this county, and who thereby forfeited his office, and who was afterward pardoned by Governor Patterson, has filed a bill against w. M. Parks, who was elected on the sth inst. to fill Webb's unexpired term, holding that by virtue of the gov ernors pardon he Is still the representa- tive of the district in the county court In the bill Webb seeks to oust Parker from the office. The suit is brought in the name of the state, that being the only way in which the attorney general
 
 Webb could test the question of wheth- CT or not he was being deprived of his rights in the premises.
 Strawberry growers have during the past few days suffered considerable loss by the continued rains, which have prac- tically destroyed the berry season in this vicinity. The berries are rottenins in the field, while the shipments have al- most ceased.
 T. M. Brooks, a news butcher in the employ of the Union News company, has been arrested charged with larceny.
 Brooks, who is only Is years old, sells papers between Chattanooga and Atlanta | oyer the Alabama Great Southern road. Soon after leaving Atlanta J. s. Blair of St. Petersburg, Fla, lost valuable Elk badge while dressing in a Pullman smoker. The news butcher was in the dressing room a few moments before | the badge was missed. A search was | made and the badge was located under | a cushion of the seat under which the | wares of the butcher were kept. Upon ar | rival at Chattanooga the boy was turned 1 over to the police. He was held under | a bond of $500
 1 Mrs. w. T. Gaston, who was mage seri- ously i'll Thursday night by eating straw berries and cream, causing ptomaine pois- | oning, is much improved Dr. Ben Brown. l city food inspector, said in speaking of 1 the milk question: including the bitter | milk ot which local consumers are com | blaming, that one dairy had closed his 1 dairy on account of the bitter weeed or | fennel with which his pastures have be- l come infested. There are eight or ten 1 different Varieties of the weeds which | cows eat and thereby ihpart to the milk | their bitterness. In these varieties the ,tl- l low dog fenne and rag weed are among l the local causes for the bitter milk. Dr. | Brown said there was no way to extract | the bitterness from the milk, although l leaving the milk open in large vessels l essened the bitterness. He explained that l the bitter weed which the caws eat is not | poisonous.
 | Bids have been opened by the county high school board for the construction of manual training building at Central | high school. Wilbur Johnson was the lowest bidder, the price named being | s15.20O The lowest bid for an addition to tha stl1dv hall was SS5l0