The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-20
COLUMBUS NOTES.

q. ]. Walls, State Commissioner Of Labor
Statistics, has filed his animal report.
A THIEF stole Representative Coyert's $65
overcoat and sealskin cap out of the Capitol.
SENATOR SULLIvAN's bill prohibiting the sale
Of pools has passed the Senate and is now
law.
Mr. BARTON wants witness fees in criminal
cases increased from seventy-iye cents to s1.25
per day.
DR. scorr, of Warren, is making jealous
effort to abolish the office of Railroad Com
missioner.
force, and are showering petitions upon the
Legislature by the barrel.
THE Democratic members of the Legislature
in caucus, on the second ballot, nominated
Allen G. Thurman for United States Senator.
AN effort is to be made to have the Legisla-
ture authorize popular vote on the removal OF
the county seat of Belmont County from st.
Clairsville to Bellaire.
DR. BYERs has declined to accept the position
of Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Prison
and viii continue to act as the Secretary Of the
State Board of Charities.
Hon. J. G. DEvIN, Of Mt. Vernon, is Of the
opinion that Governor Foster will be made
Postmaster General, He says that is what the
recent conference between Garfield and Foster
meant.
THE Board of Public Works has filed its
answer in the case brought by the lessees in
on account of tools said to have been pur-
chased in 1878.
BILL introduced in the last Legislature, by
Mr.. Kirchner, of Hamilton County, to tax tele-
graph and telephone companies in Cincinnati
IS per pole erected by them in the streets, Is In
affair way to become law at an early day.
THE question of submitting to the voters Of
Ohio proposed constitutional amendment to
license the liquor traffic was sprung in the
House by Representative Tyler, of Wyandot.
E<.l1r
License to traffic in spirituous, vinous, malt
| liquors may be granted under such regulations
as may be granted by law"
A STATE Local Option Convention was held
last week, at which some four or five hundred
| persons were present The Convention was
held in the City Hall, and in front of the stage
was strung rows of petitions to the Legislature,
| asking for local option, containing the sigma
| lures Of 165, 600 persons. The object OF the
nlootin6 was to influence the hcgfriatsF ~
| Col. HILL, Chairman Of the Agricultural
| Committee Of the House, is sending out letter
| 10 the prominent Auditors OF the State, asking
| them their opinion regarding House Bill No.
| SIG, which strikes out ssPrecinct Assessor and
inserts "one Assessor for each Township"
/ Auditors had better examine section ], 448 of
! the Revised Statutes.
| Mn. RAY says his resolution In favor Of send
| ing Legislative Committee to Cincinnati to
examine into the propriety of yacating part
| of the canal between Cumminsyille and Broad
|
| scheme, but simply to determine whether that
portion of the city can not be rendered more
healthful by getting rid Of the canal and its
poisonous stenches.
ELIZA s. WOMEN, of Belmont County, has
been placed in the penitentiary for the term Of
two years, for manslaughter, in killing her
| husband. The woman is represented as being
/ a regular Xantippe, and beat her weak and in
offensive spouse on every opportunity, and at
last killed him. She was given two trials, on
the first of which she was convicted Of murder.
A NEW company has filed certificate Of its in
corporation at the Secretary of States Office,
which proposes to consolidate with the elevated
railroad at Cincinnati, to drain the canal, lower
it for track, bridge it over, and run from
Broadway to the Brighton House. This COM
pany is to be known as the Cincinnati Belt
Railroad Company, and is organized with 9
capital Of $1, ,O00, 900, in 10000 shares Of S10o
each. -
THE State Board of Agriculture was in ses-
sion the past week at which, Mr.. ID. G. Pope,
the Treasurer, made the following report: