The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
LesIslatfye Proceedings.

COLUMBUS, January 12.-SENATE.-Senate
not in session.
HOUsE.-Bills introduced: To require for
eign insurance companies doing business in
Ohio to file with the Commissioner of 1nsur-
ance certificates showing that they have
authorizing city councils to divide cities into
wards so as to fix the number of voters at
700 instead of eight hundred; repeating the
act of last winter requiring the registration
of partnerships; authorizing the incorpora-
ton of societies for the detection and arrest
panies to print the fare upon railroad tickets.
Mr. BroN offered resolution calling for an
ter being amended by Mr. Myers so that the
committee of investigation shall consist of
three Republicans and two Democrats, the
mittee was appointed: Messrs Brown,
Thorp, Love, Cole and Addison. Mr.. Bohl
offered joint resolution authorizing the
Adjutant-General to dispose of a quantity of
arms and military equipments which are un-
At for use. Referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs.
COLUMBUS, January 13. - SENATE. - Mr..
Welch presented a memorial of c. T. Keeton
and 215 others of Hooking County asking the
General Assembly in accordance with both
Democratic and Republican party platforms
to afford them protection from unjust op-
preston and discrimination by the Ohio Coal
Exchange, the Columbus and Hooking VAL
ley Coal and Iron Company and the Colum-
bus, Hooking Valley and Toledo Railroad
Company, and to revoke it's charters of all
such corporations if upon investigation they
are found guilty as charged. Twenty-nine
bills were read second time and referred
to appropriate committees. Mr.. Orin offered
resolution to amend the Constitution so
that Township Trustees shall be elected for
three years instead of the. present term.
Laid on the table and ordered printed.
HOUsE.-The Committee on Finance RECON-
mended the passage of Mr.. Bohrs bill ap
prop@riatin9g @ 9 Sl6s3, ~ 90 for school purposes,
priation of S1.50 per head for each child, pro-
yided for by section 1856 OF the Revised Stat
to hfo the ffeaobtS aeh Of
placing statue of William Allen
in the Ohio niche at Washing
poned till one week from to-day. The fol-
lowing bills were passed: To prevent dissem-
| ination of epizootic and communicable dis
eases of domestic animals in the State, and
for the appointment of veterinary surgeons.
Making radical changes in the school laws
| tribunals of voluntary arbitration in indus
| trial disputes between employers and work.
| men. Creating Commission to compile
school textbooks. AT the afternoon session
| the vote by which the resolution to investigate
| the penitentiary was adopted was reconsider
| ed, and several hours consumed in making
| amendments to the resolution, after which
| it was lost on passage. Mr.. Hadley offered
a resolution asking the Engineer of the
| statement of the original cost of the canals
and the uses to which the appropriations of
| 1855 and 1854 were put, together with other in
formation, went over under notice to dis
cuss.
COLUMBUS, January 4-SENATE.-Four
local House bills were read the second time
moved that the vote be recOnsidered where
| by Mr.. Meyers House joint resolution re-
| questing the Ohio delegation in Congress to
ernment will return S, ,5OO,O 600 to Ohio which
was loaned during the war. was referred to
the Committee on Federal relations. Carried,
and after lengthy debate the resolution
was adopted.
! HousE.-The following bills were passed ::
authorizing the election of members of City
| Boards OF Education from territory annexed
for school purposes; adding cattle, swine
and other domestic animals to the list of
| those for which lien for keeping can be
enforced. The following bills were intro
duced: Providing for the piece price system
of convict labor in the penitentiary; to pro-
vide for the appointment of one female ply
sician in each Insane Asylum; amending the
| laws relative to the listing of property for
taxation SO that real estate encountered by
mortgage shall have the amount of value of
the mortgage or mortgages deducted from:its
value for taxation and the mortgages shall
be taxed; amending section 6607 so that the
court must order the distribution of money
obtained from the sale of estates ito authorize
| married women to cucumber or dispose OF
| their separate estate Independent of their
husbands; making the threatening or intimi.
| dation OF workingmen penal Cffense. The
motion to reject the bill making it a penal
ofense to intimidate laborers, and the bill
was finally admitted by vote of 81 to Is.
COLUMBUS, January 15-SENATE.-The Sen
ate passed bill making an appropriation OF
81, ,623, ESQ for the support of common
schools.
| HoUsE.-A resolution was passed favorine
the appointment of a joint committee tC
the. causes of the troubles in the Hooking
Valley. The House passed bill making it
penitentiary offense to place Instructions or
railway tracks. A bill was introduced com
pelling telegraph, telephone and electric
wires to be placed under ground.
COLUMBUS, January 16.-SENATE.-Mr. Gro
well offered a joint resolution approving the
Nicaraguan Canal treaty, and requesting the
Senators from Ohio to vote for the ratifica
ton of the same. Adopted unanimously
House joint resolution by Mr.. Mcbride pro
riding that joint committee of three on the
| part or the House and three on the part OF
the SCI ate shall investigate the causes o.
the troubles in the, Hooking Valley, wa.
adopte'i unanimously. Bills introduced
Relating 20 assignments so that the assigned
belonging % such party which is invested ii
partnership business. Making the posses
SION of goods stolen on railroad trains prim,
| facie evidence that the goods were stolen il
the county where found. Providing Il uni
form system of school-books in the Common
6eTs OF ana to of FG0noP1
to keep up partition fences between schoo
and other property.
HoUsE.-The house adopted resolution
| providing that the first tI-weekly adjourn
ment begin next Friday. Mr.. Bruce offered
resolution asking the Ohio members O
| congress 10 NOte Tor the Brewer Dill, remOV
ing the tax on commercial travellers, i'm
posed by the District of Columbia and SOM
States. Referred The following bill
were passed: Making it felony to breal
into building in the day time with intent t.
: commit burglary Making it felony to breal
!, into any building in the night season.
Mi.crIianeeu. Items.
SUIT was commenced by eight colore,
citizens of Mt. Vernon against Messrs
| Cunningham Bros, proprietors of tn
roller skating rink, for damages on accoun
of being refused admission to the rink
HENRY FIERTAG was knockedEdown b.
the horses attached to a furniture car, il
Cincinnati, and was run over by the heavi
ly loaded wagon and crushed to death
! GOVERNOR HoADLEY has ordered thre
companies of militia to be in readiness t
move to the Hooking Valley. The situatio
is reported to be full of impending dangers
ANNIE Won VAssEN, the young woma
| accused of poisoning the Won Vassen an
Mcbride families, at East Liverpool
waived preliminary hearing and pleade
not guilty and was remanded to jail on tn
charge of murder in the first degree. N
other deaths have occurred and the victim
are all in fair way to recover.
> THERE is a two-ye ear -old child in Cleye
land that has two tongues.
: MARTIN F. CHEEvER, a brakeman on tn
N. Y, P. & o. Railroad, was run over an
killed at Mansfield.
) DAVID OBERLrN, living near FindlaJ
went coon hunting thes other night an
climbed a tree after coon. He fell dis
tance of fifty feet, breaking his thigh h-bor
a in two places, dislocating his hip, breakin
, his arm and receiving serious internal il
q iuries. His recovery is doubtful.
S THE Governor has ordered the transf,
: of Elizabeth Allen from the penitentiary
: the Girls Industrial Home. She was sci
t up in December last, from W Warren Count,
In eerve two wears for GRAND larcenv