Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mt. Vernon, o., has gone into the nat
ural gas business.
President Cleveland will not attend the
| funeral of General Hancock.
| A State Sanitary Convention will be held
at Columbus, o., February "a and 25.
The Ohio Live stock Commissioners find
the vicinity of Cincinnati entirely free from
contagious cattle disease.
IL General Van Derveer is not soon APP
pointed postmaster at Hamilton, o., his
| friends will be greatly disappointed.
About a Thousand persons have recently
signed the temperance pledge at Medina D..
where Murphy revival is in progress.
Martin o. Van Fleet charged with embez-
Zling $50. 600 as treasurer of Huron county,
o., has been arrested at Brantford, Canada
A relief fund for the widow of General
Hancock has been started In Philadelphia,
| headed by A. j. DreNel and George w.
ChiIds with 81. 200 cash.
Tiffin. O.. seems to need the services of a
committee of one hundred, 10 discipline the
democratic town government, which Is
guilty of corrupt robbery.
Farmers in Champaign county, o., have
been taken in by fellow pretending to sell
a contrivance for sharpening reaping >ickleS
without taking them from the machinery.
A resolution has been offered in the Ohio
legislature earnestly favoring the restora-
ton by congress TO wool growers of the
| Same protection which they had prior to
| 1883, or as it WAS established by the act of
1867.
At Eaton. o.. Thursday morning. q girl
| infant was found on the doorstep of the
Catholic parsonage. Rev. Father Single
ton. upon discovering it, took il in and bap-
tized il, and will take steps toward procur-
| ing il home.
A pistol in the pocket OF Hon. T. A. Hi
| lizard. mayor of Chardon, o., was accident
ally discharged while he was drawing a
handkerchief from his pocket Wednesday
evening. The ball took effect in his thigh,
producing dangerous wound.
VIM. Lafieur, of Roseville, o., was robbed
last night of eighty dollars at the Arlington
| House, GAINESVILLE. The Eostler was &C.
cused of the crime. but. after examining
INTO the matter. Lafieur refused to file an
tffidavit against him, and he was discharged
| from arrest
Geo. Brecht and Nettie Andes. neither
of age, ran away together from FostOria,
o.. and took a train for Monroe, Mich.
| Nettie had previously told her parents that
she was going TO marry Brecht. The young
man is mechanic. and the girls father
| the proprietor Of a skating rink.
Congress.
SENATE. Feb 1.-THE Blair educational
bill occupied the attention of the senate.
Mr. Morgan addressing the senate on the
measure at great length, opposing it with
considerable warmth. Adjourned until
Monday.
HoUsE.-Bill introduced: Granting a
pension of 81. 600 per annum TO the widow
| of General W. 5. Hancock. The Fitz John
Porter bill was then taken up, and Mr..
| Haynes IN. II. took the floor.
| General Assembly.
SENATE, Feb. 1l.-BillS introduced
Authorizing payment of drafts and orders
in case of death of the drawer, and special
district in COlerain and Springfield town
ships. Hamilton county; repeating the act
requiring partnerships to be recorded; fix
ing time for bills of exceptions: appropriat-
ing SS2I. 7se. 50 for interest on state debt
HoUsE.-Dan Dalton arrested for con-
tempt and released on S.. 600 bail: proyid-
| ing quarantine against districts of the state
having cattle diseases; regulating steam
road wagons: creating free hospital al
Cleveland: for fuller taxation of property
held by guardians; making terms of consta-
| bles three years; suppreSsing immoral adj
vertising; applying telephone and telegraph
law to electric light poles; amending law for
property returns; providing for location OF
gaDsral offices of railroads.