The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
COLUMBUS NOTES.

Ex-senator ALLEN G. THURMAN will sail for
Paris April 5.
IT is more than likely that the Legislature
will adjourn by the 9th of April.
GOVERNOR FOSTER has decided not to appoint
the Longview Directors at present.
The Stubbs Sunday Observance Bill is still
quietly resting in the hands of the Conference
Committee.
The observation taken at Columbus by the
Signal Service, for the benefit Of the city, is to
be discontinued.
Mt. VERNON held mass-meeting, from which
they sent petition up to Columbus asking for
the passage of the Stubbs bill.
W. K. ROGERS, ex-Private Secretary of ex-
President Hayes, will remove to Washington
where he will practice law.
IT is not likely that the Pond Liquor Bill
will pass the House. The committee have
amended it very materially.
The General Appropriation Bill, which has
been passed, appropriates $588, 104.89. 1t pro-
vides for State expenditures outside of those Of
the State institutions.
SENATOR STRONG has introduced bill pro-
viding that when the Sheriff or Judge of any
county calls out the militia the county shall
pay for the same.
The trial of j. NJ Theison, charged with
killing his divorced wife, has been concluded at
Columbus. The jury returned verdict of
manslaughter.
1HE OCuDDS SUNDAY observance Dill has per-
haps been efectually killed in the House. A
motion to concur in the Senate amendments to
the bill resulted in 26 yeas and 46 nays.
The following persons have been made men,
bers of the State Fish Commission: Charles w.
Bond, of Lucas County; L. A. Harris. of Ham,
| llton County; and Henry c. Post, of Erie
| County.
THE O'Hagan School Book Bill, by which it
| is said books can be furnished the State Is per
cent. cheaper than the present price, is still in
| the hands of the committee. 1t is very safe to
predict that that is about rs far as it will get
Mrs. MARY N. BLISS, of Columbus, has do
| mated $40, 900 to Kenyon College, at Gambler,
hall on the college grounds. The hall is to be
called Hubbards Hail. in memory of the de-
ceased brother of Mrs. Bliss.
THERE was q long discussion in the Senate
| over the passage of Mr.. Chapman's House bill
| making guardians, as well as clerks, agents,
and employees, liable for indictment for en-
| bezzlement, in case they fail to account for
| funds entrusted to their care. The bill went to
| the table.
ATToRNEY-GENERALN NASH has filed petition
in the Supreme Court in quo ,od'rGnto, on rela.
ton of the State against the Cincinnati Central
| Elevated Railway Company, to inquire upon
what right, upon an agreed statement of facts
| they have occupied the BERNIE bank of the
Miami and Erie Canal, from Broadway to
| Brighton.
| At meeting of the Board of Public Works
the following Superintendents Of Public Works
were appointed: Ohio Canal, First Division, L.
G. Schnell; Second, Patrick Callahan; Third
A. B. Leib; Fourth, Thos. J. Gwin; Hooking
| Canal, Harlow White; Muskingum Canal, Jno
<. Anderson; Miami and Erie Canal, first divis
ion, W. H. Dumont; second, Jarvis Landon
third, James Marston.
CAPTAIN w. s. CAPPELLER, Chairman of tn.
| Republican State Central Committee, through
Major Donaldson, the Secretary, has called 4
meeting of that body at the rooms Of the Re
! publican Executive Committee in Columbus
| Wednesday, April Is, at 10 O'Clock a. m. The
date of the Republican State Convention will
be fixed at that time The usual caucus of Re
Republicans will be held Tuesday evening,
April u.
w. G.. THoMAN, Columbus correspondent O
the Cincinnati Enquirer, while returning hom'
| at an early hour, saw two men standing q
Trinity Church, point where two men hav'
| recently been assaulted and robbed. No
caring to meet them, Thoman turned ant
started in the opposite direction. The two mel
followed him, and one of them drew revolve
and fired three shots at the retreating jour
nalists, but luckily none of them took effect
The assaulting parties finally caught with tn
man of the pencil, and turned out to be police
men who had mistaken their man.
The following assignments for the Ohio Statt
Fair Ito be held from August 20 to September
81 have been made: Horses, o. P. Cheney
|
R. Baker, Elyria; Sheep and Poultry, w. N
Cowden, Quaker City; Swine c. D. Bailey
Gallipolis; Machinery and Agricultural Imple
ments, w. s. Foster, Urbana; Mechanics ant
Manufacturers Products, J. C. Levering, Lev
ering P. O., Knox County; Textile Fabrics ant
Domestic Manufactures, A. G. Wales, Massillon
Fruits, Flowers, and Fine Arts, R. 81. Hayman
Portsmouth.
The Board of Public Works have appointe
the following toll collectors Cleveland, J.
Bittel; Akron, J. A. Lantz; Massilon, d. Al
water; Canal Dover, Samuel Fertig; Roscoe
George Sykes; Dresden, E. ]. Rambo; Newark
John Kaps; Carroll, D. Gorham; Columbus,
Harris; Circleville, William Parkhurst; Chill
cothe, Albert H. RentinSer; Waverly, A. Down
ing; Portsmouth. D. Mcfarland; GAINESVILLE
A. J. Spaulding; McConnelsville, 8. c. Becl
with; Harmer, VIM. Smith; Logan, D. A. Mi
Ter; Toledo, E. j. STANDARD; Maumee, T. I
Wrocklage; st. Mary's, VIM. Hollingswortl
Piqua, J. W. Shpley: Dayton, Isaac Davi
Middletown, j. W. A. Gillispie; Lockland,
w. Skillman; Cincinnati. A. H. Meserole.
CONRAD RAUTABAcH. who was convicted {
murder, at the September term of the Shelh
County Court, in 1887. and sentenced to /
hanged on the 11th of February last, was o
the 18th day Of January reprieved until Marc
as Ex-senator Burrows, ex-Adjutant Gener,
Amos and others waited upon the Governc
and made statement that an examination {
the evidence produced at the trial is ver
doubtful as to the identity Of the defendan
and that the evidence did not warrant verdi,
OF murder IN the first degree. On the stat,
ments made by the gentlemen that called o
the Governor, he has again granted . reprie,
until Friday, April ~. 1t seems that they war
to prepare the way so A. to have his sentent
commuted to imprisonment for life.