The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
COLUMBUS NOTES.

II. J. WALLS, State Commissioner Of Labor
Statistics, has filed his animal report.
A THEE stole Representative Covert'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-five cents to $1.25
per day.
DIR. SCOTT. of Warren, is making a jealous
effort to abolish the Office of Railroad Com
| missioner.
LOCAL optionists are at Columbus in full
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.
DIR. BYERs has declined to accept the position
| of Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Prison
| and will continue to act as the Secretary of the
| State Board of Charities.
Hon. J. C. DEvIN, of Mt. Vernon, is of the
| opinion that Governor Foster will be made
Postmaster General. He saws 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
| nanddnaus to recover the sum of $21, ,313
| on account of tools said to have been pur-
chased in 1878.
| A 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
| a fair way to become q 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.
| The amendment proposed reads as follows:
License to traffic in sprituous, vinous, or 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, 900 persons. The object Of the
meeting was to influence the Legislature.
Col. HILL, Chairman of the Agricultural
Committee of the House, is sending out q letter
| to the prominent Auditors of the State, asking
them their opinion regarding House Bill No.
1 GIG, which strikes out "Precinct Assessor" and
| inserts ''one Assessor for each Township"
Auditors had better examine section ], 44S of
| the Revised Statutes. -
MR.. RAY says his resolution in favor of send
ing Legislative Committee to Cincinnati to
examine into the propriety of vacating part
| of the canal between Cumminsville and Broad
| way is not in the interest of any railroad
| 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 a
capital of 81, ,O00, 900, in TO- 600 shares Of 800
each. .......
The State Board of Agriculture was in ses-
sion the past week at which, Mr.. d. G. Pope,
the Treasurer, made the following report: