The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


legislative Procesdings.
Cruxpus. April 7.-sErArn.- Bills passed;
Providing that material for township r0ads
may be taken from one township 70 anotner:
providing for the punishment OF arson @ ,T wnefe
the building 10 of less value than 80; pr0vio-
Ing that candidates for school board shall be
voted for ona separate ticket. Bills intro
duced authorizing local oosras s'S,u OF srtn. ens
Gates for immoral conduct; extending tne
term of the city solicitor in Cleveland ana
Cincinnati to four years.
of $500 for assessors failing to assess property
according to its true value IN money; author-
izing the commissioners OF Hamilton Couny
morFue in Cincinnati. Bills defeated: Al
lowing husband and wife to testify for or
ms each ches IL n
OF local bills were passed.
COLUMBUS, April s.-sENATE-Bills passed:
Regulating the management and operation
OF building ess0ciations; providne sns.
providing that the statute Of limitations shall
not. run against q married woman; 9ving
persons who feed stray live stock lien upon
bersof Der boards Of equsilzation for appraislne
property at less than its true value IN money;
ss school e
theatrical or other exhibitions on Sunday.
SSarsed f. and g. or ~ elected to
nll the vacancy.
Housx.-Bills passed: Providing for a State
board of health; authorizing boards Of educa-
ton to secure rights Of way to schOOl-housess
providing for the construction Of bitches for
necessary drainage within municipal corpo-
ceSton o sae of as
solution was adopted asking Congress to in
crease the pensions of soldiers who have lost
leg or arm.
COLUMBUS, April s.-sHNArE.-The Senate
mt lvHnu and al
to p. m. Tuesday.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: Providing for .
revaluation of real estate; revising the laws
reanrnS 70 that al FOODS made "a
bor shall be SO labeled; changing the name
of the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
Quirjng the railroad commissioner to inquire
into and report on railroad strikes; compel
ling township trustees to make itemised ac.
counts and make oath to the same. Ad-
journed to p. NJ. Tuesday.
COLUMBUS, April 13.-SENATE.-Billsi intro
duced: Providing that whoever kills another
while attempting to commit felony shall
thorizing probate courts to hear and decide
cases of commitment to the Boys Industrial
School; better regulating the sale of poisons;
In the % county unit where The pro properly is listed.
for taxation.
HoysE.-Bills introduced: Giving persons
who dig private ditches . lien on the same;
miles of q powder mill; authorizing corpora
tons to license peddlers and auctiOneers; au-
fhori1ing township trustees to furnish 9tiices
employees to call the names of stations In
clear and distinct manner.
THE city council of Urbana has passed an
ordinance closing saloons from o'clock p.
m. to 9 o'clock a. IN. The pre- sent evening
closing hour is II O'Clock.
A PIG brought in from the country was
the wonder of Greenville, the other day.
1t has eight we'll developed legs, two tails,
and all else cons tituting two pigs, except
ing that it has but one head, the bodies
being Joined together at the breast, the
fore legs protruding on either side. 1t is in
alcohol.
JACOB TwADDLE, Of Steubenville, blind
!, from birth, can tell the color Of a horse by
the sense of touch.
GEORGE GREEN, colored, who attempted
to murder his employer, d. ]. Begges, at
Canton, has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for twenty-one years.
The Cincinnati Police Commissioners
will not strictly carry out the rule requir-
ing patrolmen to be under forty years of
age. But the medical examination of
| applicants will be more severe than here
tofore.
TIE Murphy meetings at THIN amount
to . temperance boom. Two thousand
six hundred persons have signed the
pledge.
| AN expert has been employed to investi.
gate the affairs of the Hamilton County In.
firmary.
WHILE crossing the Fifth-street Bridge
! GAINESVILLE, the other afternoon, Colonel
Charles c. Goddard, q prominent lawyer
! and United States Commissioner, leaned
over the hand-rail too far and fell into the
river. Some men saw him fall, and pro
curing skiR rescued him alive, though un
conscious.
| Two HUNDRED and sixty citizens of Zanes
Vile have agreed to pay ten dollars eact
annually for the maintenance Of board o.
trade, which will be organized soon.
j. p. SEAMAN, . jeweler carrying ON bust
ness at st. Paris for several years, took al
overdose Of chloral the other morning, and
died very suddenly before medical attend
ance could reach him. It is not thought
that he took 1t with suicidal intent
Mrs. J. A. WEST, of Bloomfield last Jan
uary broke twig from Siberian cral
tree which stands In their yard, and placed
1t In an earthen crock to support gerani
um plant which had grown quite tall. Tn
twig from the crab tree 10 now In full
bloom, perfectly formed, and is snow white
It Is rare curiosity.
C. LITMER & Co.'s lard-oil factory, Gin
cinnati, was damaged by fire to the exten
of $4,000
s. G. CARR was arrested at Defiance OF
the charge Of mailing and sending througl
the mails obscene matter.
BURGLARS entered Charles Spears furni
ture rooms, Wooster, wheeled a six-hun
dred pound safe into the back yard, blew i
open and got S1.25 for their trouble.
EpHRAIM HARPER, aged sixty five, wealth,
and highly respected, living about fiv
miles west of Orrville, suicided by hangin
himself in his barn.
FRANCIS BAUsHER was taken to the peni
tentiary from Circleville, TO serve a sen
tence of eight years for cruelty to animals
THE large barn of George Anger,
wealthy farmer living in Washingto
Township, Holmes County, was struck b!
lightning the other night, and taking fir
was burned to the ground. Also Q larg
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