The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.


Legislative Proceedings.
COLUMBUS, April n.-SEEATE.-Bills intro
duced; Amending the lottery law SO as to
taken place; prohibiting State oficers from
becoming trustees of public Institutions.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: Making appro-
cases; repeating the law allowing township
trustees to let out care of the sick to physt
CLANS; reorganizing the city of Gin innati;
cities; providing that term of county audit
ors shall commence the second Monday in
March. A resolution was offered asking Con-
gress to oppose the Morrison tariff bill, which
went to the table.
COLUMBUS, April 19.-SENATt-A bill was
introduced providing that terms of county
suditors shall begin on the second Monday in
September.
HousE.-Bflls introduced: Fixing the salary
Of members of the Legislature at $3.50 ret
tRss sr o to
number of local bills were passed.
COLUMBUS, April 20-SEkATE.-A number
of local bills were passed. A resolution was
the war Of Isis Bills Introduced: Prevent
ing bankers and insurance agents from sit
ting on boards of equalization; amending
regulating water rents.
~HoUsE.-Bills. passed.: Regulating the re-
pair Of county line roads; to punish and pre-
also passed.
COLUMBUS. April Bills passed: :
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to the State; empowering hafi1lets to regulate
auctioneers and peddlers; allowing superin.
tendents of public institutions to employ rel
a,iyes as matrons. Bills introduced: Pro.
viding that where more than one house is
supplied with water from one hydrat1t
the ownet of the property shall pay the remit
prohibiting county school examiners tfrom
being teachers in private schools OF candi.
the
for the election of Senators and Represents
tives by districts.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Prohibiting the ad.
0h at
Incorporated for mutual relief and protec-
ton only shall pay q fee of 81 for the privi'
was adopted asking Congress to grant pen.
sions to ex-prisoners of war.
COLUMBUS, April il22-SENArE-Bi1ls "a passed.
Ssany tS
venue in Justices courts; fixing jurors fees
In justices courts at fifty cents per day;
authorizing boards Of education to discharge
for cause teachers holding State certificates;
amending the health laws so that violators
may be punished by hne; providing that the
term of Office of county auditors shall begin
the second Monday ih September.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: 10 define the rights
and liabilities of husband and wife. The tes.
Committee was ordered printed A number
of local bills were passed.
COLUMBUS, April l23.-SENATE.-A number
Of local bills were passed and others intro.
duced. The members of the State Board OF
Health, with one exception, were confirmed
Adjourned to p. m. Monday.
HousE.-Bills passed: Authorizing quaran.
tine against diseased cattle; prohibiting mi
| ing of mines and screening coal A resolu-
ton was offered and referred providing for q
commission to revise the tax laws OF the
State.
THE 4,200 veterans at Dayton Soldiers
Home partook of an Easter breakfast, in
| Guiding in the bill of fare a ton of fried
ham, 1,05O dozen eggs, 1900 gallons of cof-
fee and other things.
The police department of Cincinnati is
$40, 900 in arrears in funds.
late Hon. L. D. Campbell, died at Franklin.
She celebrated her hundredth birthday on
the Goth of last March.
| A POLAND CHINA pig with two snouts and
three eyes has been added to the worldly
possessions of Samuel Small, an employs
at the c., A. & c. shops, Mt. Vernon.
GEORGE CARLINa fell against a circular
saw, near Navarro, and was fatally cut.
FREDERICK H1LLERMAN, his wife and two
little children, composing fishing party
were drowned at Defiance.
Mr. FLoRIs B. PL1MPToN, for many year.
a leading editorial writer on the Cincin
natl Commercial and the Commercial Ga.
zette, died the other evening.
A YOUNG woman named Alice Rossup ha.
been found to have been Systematically
which she occupied rooms.
The District Telegraph messenger boys al
Springfield struck and secured and advanc'
from eight to ten dollars a month. Th'
leader of the strike who secured the ad
vance for the other boys was discharged.
A SON, aged four, of Robert Heater, II
Coitsville Township, Mahoning County
was fatally burned, his clothing taking fir
from an open stove. The mother, who ha
been quite ill, was too weak to leave he
bed and rescue the child.
Four little girls, at Lindenville, wer
badly mangled the other day by three bul
dogs, supposed to be rabid. Physician
have been summoned to the village fror
adjacent cities, and there is much excite
ment among the people there over the sa
event.
A NINETEEN-MoNTHs-oLD son of Georg
Stoner, a prominent farmer living tw
miles west of Massillon, got hold of a bo
tie of corrosive sublimate and drank PAL
of it. Three doctors labored to save tn
child's life, bat he died in great agony.
THE warm weather is having its effect O
the Ohio Legislature, and members ar
thinking of closing up business and goin
home soon.
SAMUEL SATCHELLE, of Maiden Mill
, while engaged on long trestle, at Mo
gan's, was SO severely hurt by the fall {
! part of the structure that his recovery
doubtful.
! CHARLES F. MARQUETTE has commence
suit in court, at Youngstown, against tt
| Pittsbul gh and Lake Erie railroad, clair
! | ing damages in the sum of $500 for il
.. juries received while in the roads emplo
CARPENTERS UNION No. 2, of Cincinnati
met the other day and resolved that
! and after May eight hours should cons
tute days work, but that they wou
= only ask the same rate per hour as tn,
3 are now getting.
JOHN LONG, colored, died few days a,
: near Milford, aged 119 years. Long w
3 born on the James river, Va, and at t
. siege of Yorktown, when he was boy
e fourteen, he attended his young mastt
! Major VIM. Byrd, jr., who was on Gener
Washington's staff.
The amount of the Cincinnati Infirma
frauds, definitely determined, is over IS
g 600, not including overcbarges of fro
= twenty to forty per cent. on groceries a,
dry goods purchased for the Institute
;, The board of revision will bring s,
:, against the bondsmed of swindling t
l. directors.
In quarrel in low resort in Cino
natl, James Flanagan was cut to piet
with dirk by an unknown Italian, W
g escaped. The affair happened at o'clo
o in the morning, and Flanagan died on
way to the hospital.
A PosT-oFFICE has been established
:. Acme, Medina County, and John Geisinl
commissioned postmaster.