The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.

recognize the services of soldiers and sail .
ors OF the late war in civil service ap-
estate with the Commissioner of Insurance.;
pro viding the manner Of appointing law II
byarians in cities of the first and second class.
that secret sessions OF Of the o. 5. Senate be
abolished relative to using thesurplus funds
in the Q: 8; Treasury; providing for adjourn
F. %fss iss7. Of the Legislature May 10 to January
COLUMBUS, April e6.-sENATE.-Bflls intro
duced: Providing that the law relative to the
ply to persons regularly engaged; authorfz-
ing the organization of companies to lay
pipes for heat and steam and steam power:
Bills passed: Authorizing the election of
years.
HousE.-Bills introduced: Requiring Of
nual inventories of supplies and Of receipts
and expenditures; extending the time for the
sSips. @e.olutiens Of oe9ed Asking Con-
gress to amend the copyright law; to pass |
law for the better defense Of the sea coast.
COLUMBUS, April 27.-sENATE.-Bills pas
prma facie evidence; providing that jurors
s1e ~ 1l the ene Of
Bills introduced: Providing that township |
trustees may levy a tax of three mills for |
ing private wharves % In cities and villages; es:
tabllshing trademark for slaves, logs and |
lumber on the Ohio river.
appropriation bill were considered in COM
mittee OF the whole; the bill providing for
township local option was considered and
tabled by adjournment.
COLUMBUS, April il2s-SENATE,-Bills passed:
Providing fine and imprisonment for hotel
and clearinghouse board bill Jumpers; re-
quiring the State to pay for criminal process
prosecutions. The Senate refused to recede
from its amendments to the general ap-
House.
HOUsE.-Bills passed: A number Of local
bills were passed, also one to make the war
den e, Of the psnitentiarSy act Ct as hangman.
ton of physicians. Resolution adopted:
Asking Congress to not pass the Morrison
Walhonding Canal appropriation was lost,
reconsidered and referred.
COLUMBUS, April 29.-SENATE-Bills passed:
municabie diseases Of domestic animals: es-
tablishing workshops for the blind; provid-
ing ing for ST, ,sse1SSsraRhis court reports In S9un:
wharfs in cities and towns. D. N. Kfnsman
Commission Two reports were submitted
| from the non-partisan committee investigat
| ing the Senatorial contest from Hamilton
County.
HoUsE-Amending the law relative to build
ing associations; providing against the adult.
OF sSat tat as
creating the ONCE Of State dairy commits
| s1oner.
COLUMBUS, April 30.-SnNATE.-Bills intro
duced: Authorizing the State Board Of Agri-
culture to issue second mortgage to cover
$4,000 worth Of bonds; for the relief Of Elias
Marysville to construct gas works. Ad-
journed to p. m. Tuesday.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: Authorizing
guardians to improve the real estate of their
wards;. providing for township local option;
authorizing commissioners to furnish Offices
truetion of ieVees to protect land from over Se
now. Adjourned to p. m. Tuesday.
ED. WIDEMER, q young farmer near Mil
ford, Clermont County, killed himself while
alone at home. He had had difficulty
with Jacob Primer, his sfather-in-law, whom
he attempted to kill
, FRED. OBENDERFER, German living at
, Bloomville, near Tiffin, tried to fool around
a stallion on exhibition, and the animal
J bit the thumb and finger entirely off his
r hand, pulling the cords out six inches long
3 1t is terrible wound.
! JUDGE FITzJERALD, of the Cincinnati po
, lice court, declares that hereafter he will
: : send every minor who gets drunk to the
: work-house or house of refuge
. The other morning at Ottoville, Putnam
J, County, the dead body of Joseph Rekart, Z
resident of Ottoville, was found floating il
the canal. Rekart has been laboring under
|. fit of dependency for some time and i
e is supposed he committed suicide by throw
e ing himself into the canal. Deceased wa
+ sixty-ive years of age, and leaves a larg
p family.
GEO. EsKEY, who has been on trial a
z Steubenville for the murder of Chas. Hall
I of Mingo, was found guilty of murder il
u the second degree, the jury being out onl
l. thirty minutes. Brown and Higgins, VIII
e were jointly indicted with Eskey for tn
# # murder, turned States evidence and test
n fed that Eskey did the shooting and wer
!s discharged from custody.
AN old soldier named Collins, of McPhel
s. sontown Montgomery County, was mul
dered for his n oney Che being heavy per
q, sioner), and his cabin was burned to Civ
r. the impression that he was burned in it.
'e A VETERINARY surgeon of Tifin, report
A. the case of horse that was fatally po
j. soned by eating the bark of a locust tree t
s; which it was tied
is COLONEL A. L. CoNGER, Akron, wa
a elected Commander-in-Chief of the D.
. partment of Ohio, G. A. R.
ARBoR DAY was celebrated throughor
Ohio pretty generally. The Cincinna
ID school children were given a holiday, an
IN to the number of twenty thousand visite
Eden Park, where memorial trees wei
TX planted and addresses delivered by disti
guished citizens.
). JAMES LovERIDGE, of Bellaire, died fro
40 a dose of laudanum taken to commit su
In eide. He was aged sixty-five years. Wes
from sickness, unaLle to get work he cou
| .,+l, s.,
Mt drinking, and, half crazed, ended his lif
Us THE Cincinnati Master Plumbers Ass
citation has decided that nine hours shs
& constitute days work for first five da
ne of the week, and eight hours or Saturda
OF with no reduction from present wage
$3.50 per day.
eo JOHN WIDDECoMBE, a well known citiz
ne of Clarke County, was killed by a train
ua Plattsburg.
a SEVEN members of the Salvation Arm
I'd we're arrested at Newark for creating
disturbance in the streets.
THE other night Mrs. Hart, living at t
tn corner of canal and Baymiller street, G.
es cinnati, discovered a woman, well dress,
Id sitting on her doorstep with little ba
OF about two weeks old in her arms. NJ
es Hart opened the door, and thereupon.t
he woman walked with the babe to the cal
and jumped in. They were both rescued
three men. The woman was taken to
at city hospital, and soon afterward expir
MT The babe was taken charge of by Mrs. Ha
ed The woman has been identified by her b
d. band, John Scollans. Suffering from
~ incurable disease is supposed to be
or cause of the act.
The Exchange Bank, of Bluffton, v
robbed by professional burglars Of s.,
v. or $4,000.
~, ~ THE employees of the Sandusky Regis
~ struck when the proprietors attempted
~ put the eight-hou law in force.