The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23

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 The troubles of Dave Mcdowell, state factory inspector, are ended for about two years. In January last the state board of health fired" MT. Mcdowell and placed Mir. Hobbs of Laurel in the office. Mir Mcdowell promptly enjoined him. and re- fused to give up his office or the records. The courts upheld McDowell in his con- tentiOn that he had been elected for a term of four years, and that he could not be gotten rid of just for political req sons." Meantime( Hobbs presented his account for salary and office expenses to Governor Bilbo, and he approved them, but the secretary of the board of health declined to pay them for the reason that the courts had said Mcdowell was the inspector The matter dragged along to the supreme court where 1t was finally decided in favor of Mcdowell but still the governor refused to approve the accounts for Mcdowell, and a suggestion of error was filed. The supreme court promptly overruled that, and McDowell supposed he would get his money right away, but he discovered that the governor was out of town, and he remained out a week or two However, MT McDowell caught him in his office a few days since, got his signature to about $500 worth of &C., counts for five or six months salary,
 
 as a girl with her first engagement ring.
 Justice got whipped in Carroll county this week because the board of super visors got a little too smart. A negro named Mcfarland had been sentenced to hang and the date fixed for the execution. The supreme court affirmed the lower court verdict, and it was supposed as d matter of course the hanging would take place at Carrollton, capital of the Second district, where the trial took place, but the board of supervisors ordered the ex- ecution to take place near Walden, capl- tai of the First court district of that county. The lawyer in the case got busy when he heard of the order of the board Of supervisors, came down to Jackson and sued out an injunction restraining the sheriff from further proceedings and or dering the prisoner held in the district where the crime was committed, and the trial had until next term of court. Justice Samuel Cook before whom the injunction was heard, consulted with Justice Stevens and they determined the board of supervisors had just as much authority to order the hanging in another county as in another district of the same county and granted the injunction.
 Justice Cook also granted the habeas corpus asked in behalf of the two phy- sicians, and the man in the sensational
  charged With murder of Miss Miller, the pretty school teacher, and remanded to jail without bail by the preliminary trial court at Aberdeen but Justice Cook held that the crime was manslaughter, and therefore placed bond at $10,0O0 for the doctors and $50OO for the man in the case"
 During a terrific downpour of rain last Sunday the lightning cut some frightful capers. One bolt struck Mount Helm, a negro church, during services, and such another scatteration of sinners was never before experienced in Jackson. After quieting his congregation to some ex tent the pastor informed them that 1t was because the Lord was mad with them for not paying their preacher. The elders passed around the hat and got it full of coin, it is said. Another bolt killed a fine Kentucky mare on the farm of E. E. Hindman a Jackson lawyer-farmer, two miles west of town, and two other bolts destroyed a couple of negro residences.
 On complaint of Insurance Commission CT Henry the affairs of the Colored Knights of Pythias have been placed in the hands of Jim Money Vardaman as receiver. The last statement of it's con- dition filed by the order with the state commissioner showed claims of $116,o00 unpaid and the concern in bad shape gen. erally. Just two years ago members cfl the order sued S. D. Redmond, a negro lawyer of this city, for $50000 damages, claimed on account of his charge that the order was in shaky condition.
 The state board of health figured up the number of cases of infantile paralysis re- ported from over the state after the dis ease had become so very alarming in New York, and found that Mississippi has 75 cases In June, but being of a very mild type, there were few deaths These cases were reported from P counties, scat tered all over the state, and the board of health has issued a circular letter tol all county health officers, asking that every possible precauton be taken to pre- vent the spread-to swat the fly, screen the houses hold no gatherings and keep their children away from schools and churches where there Is a case reported in the neighb borhood. The report for July will be very anXlously awaited.
 The state democratic executive commit tee has been called to meet in Jackson the first day of August for the purpose of declaring candidates for the United States Senate but as John Sharp Viii dared to go up against him. he will sim ply be declared the nominee and saved the expense of having his name placed on the ticket at a cost of about $500