The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-03-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.

WillistOn, Pavey, Gregg, Glazier and Dow.
cable@Hmening S seeton ssss of the Revised
statutes, to limit the appropriation of money
BY boards of education for the purchase Of
school books. By Mr. Cable-To punish and
prevent fraudulent gas bills.
HousE.-The House met at 4 O'Clock, and
was called to order by Speaker Entrekin.
call of the House was had and fifty members
quorum, the following bills were introduced:
By Mr.. Haley-Authorizing Cleveland to
tFsnfsr tEs funds By ME
contractors eighty per cent of the estimates.
By Mr.. Hartpence-Amending the militia
5y M the term Of three
Revising the banking laws Of the State.
CoLgMsys, March a-sESArr:;-Bills intro
duced; Creating q State Board Of Health;
for three years; preventing employment Of
relatives in public institutions by trustees;
providing for the transmission of public doc
olutions offered and referred: To erect a
monument at Marietta commemorating the
ment to the constitution licensing the liquor
traffic; renewing contract with the Toledo
House of Refuge for the keeping of incorrl-
gible boys.
HousE.-Bills passsd: Increasing the salary
Of the common pleas judge in Summit Coun--
ty; to pay the fees of school examiners and
treasury. The bill to provide for township
boards 9o OF s ed9cation was postponed tn next
Toedo House Of Rsfuss WAS
COLUMBUS, March 4.-SENArE.-B passed:
Of Public Works, fixing the term Of township
Protesting against the discharge of men be-
cause they belong to labor organizations;
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Bills introduced: Providing that junk-shops
and secondhand dealers shall retain pur-
chased articles FIVE days before selling the
same.
HoUsE.-A number of local bills were
passed, and the following introduced: Estab-
lishing home for INDECENT ex-soldiers and
panies to list property for taxation; regulat-
Ing the sale of pistols and other deadly weap-
in Cincinnati; allowing boards of health to
appoint inspectors of shops. factories and
other buildings in cities; providing for the
Of ex-soldiers; to prevent fraud In the pur-
ably discharged soldiers from two days, labor
Circuit coaSts ans The p9be
schools on holidays; re-establishing the State
account system at the penitentiary.
COLUMBUS, March 6.-SENArE- Bills passed:
must be residents Of the county in which
they are appointed; fixing the weight of a
troduced: Amending the election law SO as
to prevent persons from congregating in the
vicinity of voting places.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: Allowing judges
to fix the pay Of attorneys appointed to de-
fend persons in homicide and felony cases;
to infiict penalty on persons for voting for
supervisors outside Of their DISTRICTS; re-
for county jails and city prisons; amending
the law for struck juries SO as to give sheriffs
MOI more time for making returns; amending the
charged with crime he shall not, by refus ng
ns to TESTIFY 1T tbppf f the on fro from the
making appropriations for 1885 and the first
A STOCK company has been organized in
Mansfield to bore for natural gas, the last
of 400 shares of stock, at SO each, having
been subscribed.
BURGLARS and sneak-thieves are at work
in Cincinnati and the suburbs.
JOHN MAY, married, was caught under q
falling mass of clay and slate in a clay
bank near New Lisbon, and instantly
killed, his body being crushed into an un-
recognizable mass.
AT NEWARK, Judge Hunter has overruled
the motion for a new trial for D. J. Boiling,
found guilty of the murder of John Doug
lass, October 5, 1885, and sentenced him to
be hanged Friday, the 25th of June, at the
penitentiary at Columbus.
CATHARINE BENNETT, of Piqua, swallowed
a half-ounce vial of oil of tansy with sui
cidal intent. The drug brought on the
most frightful paroxysms, but vigorous
medical aid saved her life.
A MoNsrRosITY from Fitchville Town
saip, Huron County, was taken to Norwalk.
The body is of large well proportioned
colt with head and features of a dog. 1t
has only one eye, and that in the center of
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with face and dropping ears of a dog is re-
ported from the same township.
The County Commissioners of Logan
County paid out 81, ,060.O5 for sheep killed
and MANNED during the past year by dogs
MRS. CATHARINE MUssELMAN, of Licking
Township, Licking County, died suddenly
in her ninety-irst year. Her husband died
about four years ago aged ninety-si years
THE two-year-old son of Jasper Ross of
Navarro, strangled to death while eating
supper. The child had taken bite of hard
fried potatoes and a small particle lodged
in his windpipe. A physician was hastily
summoded, but before his arrival the boy
was dead.
The Champion Reaping Maching Works
at Springfield have discharged upwards of
a thousand men, including all Knights of
Labor employed The proprietors expect
to fill vacancies with men from other cities.
Other manufacturing firms in Springfield
may follow the Champion Company's ex-
ample. The Knights of Labor number
about 4, 800 members in the city.
ALBERT MENDEL, aged fifty-four, met in
a Cincinnati saloon young woman who
came in for pitcher of beer, and jokingly
proposed marriage. The offer was accept
ed, and they were Joined in matrimony.
Afterwards, learning that the woman had
another husband, and was the mother OF
three children, Mendel left her, brooded
over his cause of grief, and finally ended
his unhappy existence by hanging himself
in his room.
BILLS have been introduced in Congress
for public building at Youngstown, and g
Marine Hospital at Gallipolis.
PEOPLE living in the neighborhood Of
Macedonia, are greatly excited over the
appearance of a huge catamount in tina,
vicinity.
SPRINGFIELD glories in the possession o.
two boys named Spangenberger, one three
| and the other five years old, who smoke
cigars like veterans.
THE new Superintendent of the Cincin
udtl ICPoi 70 Oudo hO iOuhu Gh'
| institution in a deplorable condition, i
being filthy and unwholesome, short o
| food and fuel, and the clothing of the poo
inmates scanty.
The regular monthly stock sales at Lon
don few days ago were we'll attended
Four hundred and twenty head of cattl
were sold at prices ranging from 21s to ~
cents per pound. Twenty-seven head o
horses were sold at an average price O
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| THERE are seven hundred patients il
Longview Asylum at Carthage.
| ACCORDING to the report of the Audito
| of State the bonded debt Of the city of Gin
cinnati is $26, ,179, 72S.92.
! SUPERINTENDENT MAXWELL, Secretary o
the Pork-packers' Association, made hi
official report of the number of hogs packe
| at Cincinnati from November to March !
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