Show MULLOY WILL FIGHT STREET SUPERVISOR GENERALLY GENER-ALLY DENIES CHARGES Looks to a Man Up a Tree That the Council is Preparing For a Election Elec-tion in the Near Future and Wants to Have a Chance to Play I Some Favorites Report of the Building Inspector for the Week I uiding Ispector Health Department News Thomas Mulloy street supervisor will make a defense at the next session ses-sion of the city council of the charges made against him at the last meeting In the resolutions offered by Council man Buckle The officer has prepared a statement which is a general denial of all the allegations which have been set out in the complaint and will be prepared t answer any and all questions ques-tions which may ne propounded to him As a matter of fact the trial so called at the council meeting will b little more than a farce I cannot be reasonably rea-sonably expected that the entire council i coun-cil will enter into a trial of the case I at a regular session The charges will be read and the answer to the same and then there will be a session of conversation which will end by Uje entire business being referred to the committee on streets or some other aggregation for an investigation and report reort As a matter of fact it begins to look as if there was a scheme on foot to get Mulloy out so the members of the majority can put a man in the position who will put a few of the faithful in a place where they can do something for the party The fight against Mulloy will be vigorously contested As Mul vey said at the last meeting of the council the allowance for the street I department has hen about onehalf that required to keep the streets in fair condition and any man restricted as he has been could have made no I better record n BUILDIG PIUlT The amount of building going on in the city up to this time has been confined con-fined ihiefly to small repairs and additions ad-ditions with occasionally a large expenditure ex-penditure Last week the Jennings alterations on the Emporium helped out but this week the construction of a business house on West Second South comes in handy in footing a total The permits were as follows E E Jenkins brick house Eighth South 2500 C M Davis Eighth East and Fourth South same 500 I William Hurd Fourth South and S Eighth East same 2000 H Phipps business block 142 West Second South 9000 Three minor permits 470 Total U9TO HEALTH REPORT The report of the health department for the week which has just closed is somewhat remarkable in this particular particu-lar that only two persons have died In the time alluded to The deaths I were one male and one female the latter I lat-ter passing result of away as a consumption con-sumption The births during the same time were Males S females 3 I tme total to-tal 1 The contagious diseases in the city are confined to four cases of scarlet scar-let fever all of which are doing well and will recover The annual report of the department for the year 1S96 has just been issued and is a neat work The volume comprises com-prises 74 pages and is adorned with half tone engravings of Health Commissioner missioner Dalby and Sanitary Inspector Inspec-tor Greenewald which lends beauty to the book with honors about equally i divided The subject matter of the work appeared in The Herald at the time the report was submitted to the council and ordered printed |