Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

EN-PrrSident Arthur's damaged digestion
j. improving.
The Payne Investigating Committee is
holding SESSIONS al Toledo.
Some one claims a patent for 80 mixing
ali with natural gas aS Ia prevent explosion
by the latter.
Brad>treet'S Agency reports over fifty
thousand men idle east Of the Rock Noun
talu~. on account Of strikes.
The Ohio state insurance commissioner i
making war on the graveyard companies.
Arrests have been made.
Hon. Leroy d. Brown. of Hamilton. o.
,demncratl. state commission of common
schools, declines second candidacy.
The Bohemian oats >windling cases at
Tittin. a.. have been continued until April.
The operators are reported as very anX
inulS.
Loveland camp meeting will begin July
81 and continue one month. Revs Jones
and Small have been engaged for revival
work.
Less business failures were reported for
the last week than for each of the two pre-
redinE weeks. They appear Ia he on the
decline.
A company has been organized at New
York for the transmission of telegraphic
messages in printed form. 1t is an ohio
invention.
Chicago reports good business in almost
all staple lines at thirty per cent. more than
last year at like period in dry goods alone.
But this report is exceptional.
LieutenBnt Colonel James v Caldwell
/. ). infantry tretiredl. died at Carthage,
q. He participated in the Florida Mexican
and great civil wars. He was born in
Franklin. Warren county. o.
LaureuS \. MeekS of Clerm0nt county.
has been sentenced To- the Cincinnati work
house for chicken stealing. He was justice
of the peace of Stonelick township when
the hen-rOOStS were robbed.
\ Cincinnatian states positively to a cor
respondent that John Mclean was in Co
lumhus when the in the POS was changed
to a ). in the Thirteenth ward raScallty in
that city. Mclean is said TO have inspected
the work and pronounced ii good. He went
Ia Columbus i'll the night on a special Mid
land train. in company with Lew Bernard,
remained in the car i'll the depot had a con
ference with representatives 0i the gang.
and was Immediately pulled out for Cincin-
natl. The visit was made nn Sunday night.
the return 10 Cincinnati being before day
light Monday morning.
Congress.
SENATE March l2- Debate on the Ed
mundS resolution was continued by Mr..
ktnna. Senator CullOm was recognized
for Monday at 4:30 p. M. and the senate
went into executive session at p. III. Ad-
iourned.
In the house the invitation of the senate
Ia attend the funeral SrrNi Is for the late
Senator Miller Was accepted. A resolution
calling for a statement from the secretary
nt the treasury OF the war tax account was
presented and referred. A resolution against
Cranko OF chronic ObjeCtOrs to the con
>ldrratiun of bills was objected Ia a. diSre-
~ptrtful to the house. \ pension bill grant
ing the widow of General Hancock ~. 900 (
year was reported and placed on the pri- !
vatr calendar. The house al p. III. took
up the private calendar and passed few I
bills. The speaker announced the com
mlttee Ia accompany the remains of Stna-
tor Miller Ia California. and at i:3O p. III. a
recess was taken until 30 =. III. the even /
ing session being fU thr consideration of
pension bills.
, hio Legislature.
SENATE. March l2.-BnS passed Re
QuulhS second -llallu articles Ia be- Kept III 4
Junk shops twenty-fOur hours after pur-
chase: dispensing with the publication of /
notice Of proposed street improvements
Bills introduced: Repeating the act pre-
hibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquor,
within two miles of fair grounds requir-
ing railroads to give notice AT sta
tiUHS whether trains are on time or
not: amending the insurance laws 81
a. to require definite statements tu the state
superintendent and to policy holders. A
resolution was offered looking 10 the print .
ing of school books at the deaf and dumb
Sylum OF 81 d eIs' orphans home
Hot ~E.-The greater part of the day was
spent in considering the general appropria-
ton bill
Daniel J. Dalton. clerk of Hamilton
county. appeared before the bar Of the
house and produced the returns from pre-
cinct A, fourth ward, Cincinnati. after .
which he was discharged from the custo d,
of the sergeant-at-arms
John r. Cough is said to have had what
i called strong presentiment that he
" uld not survive the present wear. He
( equently told his friends that he would
never see 20, which he would have been in
August, 1887.