The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


iars: changing the time or the meeting Of the
Circuit Court Judges TO Ak the time FOR hold
ing Court on the third Tuesday 40 September;
COdifying the laws relative 10 the regulation
powers of municipal corporal onsi authOriz-
ing Adams County to cons Tuct free turn
pike Bills introduced: Providing for @
general election laws appropriatng slOUW
for a wOrking-hOuge for the blind providing
that ballots shall be placed i'm envelopes pc
fore voting; further providing for the main
tenanCc Of soldiers orphans; to prevent
purchasing Of the time of labOrer at lusg
than eight per cent; increasing the pay Of
Assessors from two dollars to three dOlaFsi
authorizing guardians OF heirs TO consent 10
COLUMBUS, Jan. 28-SENArB-The Senate
convened at no o'clock this mOrniny. Prayer
was offered BY Rev. Mr.. Craft Of Wesley NJ.
=. Church. Mr Wiliston submitted report
from the Committee on Enrolment. On mo-
tiOn Of NJ Van Ceaf the Senate adjourned
until 10 O clock a. m. tomorrow.
HOUsE-Bills passpd Extending the time
for which children In ohildrrns homes may
be indentured until they become Of age, TO
whoever unlawfuly Furnishes or deprvee
children Of food and shelter. Authorizing
fI.,nsrer f,11s AWt6orizing tbe COTInssIoy,-
ers of Brown County to Law out and improve q
road from Brownstown TO New Hope. Divid-
ing TusCarawBs Township, COshOctOn County
into two election precincts. Bills introduced;
Authorizing the County Commissioners OF
Hamilton County to borrow Sl25,OlU for the
purpose Of building an addition to LOnEview
Asylum. To allow Miss Kate COnnOr S802 for
clothing destroyed at the limb Cile Asylum fire
urer Of Ames Township, Athens County who
had $1,000 stolen Of the funds from his safe.
Authorizing Village Council of Clvde, San
dusky County to transfer certain funds. To
authorize he City Council of Delaware TO
transfer $4,000 from the bridge To the fire de-
partment fund. Amending Section $50 Of Re
vised Statutes so rs to provide that where
! bridges are wholly or par ly i'm cities or
villages, who receive part Of the bridge
fund, the municipal government shall keep
the same i'm repair.
COLUMBUS. Jan. 20.-SENATE.-A few enroll
ed bills were signed, and the Senate adjourn
cd until tomorrow
HOUsE-A resolution was offered and tas
bled for the observance of the centennial an
nivprs, ny of the first settlement iu the State.
Bills passcd--Requring Deputy SheriTs to be
electors and reside, rs OF cOun'les where ap-
pOinted granting Boards of Education pow
er to expel members for cause. Bills intro.
duCed--FOr the better protection of hotel
keepers; enarging ground of challenge in
the selection of iuries; to abandon the Co
lumbus feeder of the Ohio canal for sewer
| mediate p nitentiary and sell the grOundss
| r duCing the per diem of the Ppulte t0ry
Managers from ten 70 N.Y. dollars per day
/ allowing quail to be killed between NOvem-
/ Der and November 80; preventing County
/ Commissioners from allowing swine to run
/ at large. Adjourned to p. m, Monday.
| COLUMBUS, Jan. 3O.---SENATE.--Tne Senate
| met this morning, and. without doing any
/ business, adjourned until Tuesday.
! HOUsE.-Not i'm session.
COLUMBUs.-Feb. 1.-SENATE. Not in ses.
] HousB.-Bns introduoed To make eIec.
tiOn days legal holidays. Making II a misde-
meanOr TO burn a bridge, building water
/ craft under fifty dollars valu Repeating the
act authorizing the Commissioners Of Butler
/ County to buy additional grounds and pay
/ the debt OF the Agricultural Society, and
ditch it. To prevent swindling in the pur-
/ chase Of prOmssOry notes, Aut OrlZing
| Justices of the Peace to sentence prisoners
/ for misdemeanOr when plea of guilty is en-
tered without it being ueCpssar for the com
painant to appear MIR. Washburu offered
81 fR hfr1HT 1HnH na nj
the Report of the Auditor of state Adopted,
/ A number of bills were read the second time
( and referred.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2-SENATE.-A bill was in
| troduced providing for Election Boards in
Cincinnati Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and
HoUsE-Bnls passed: To enqble plaintiff
I to recover costs in certain cases ia Common
Pleas Court where Judgment is less than
, SlOO; providing that when a defendant ia ar
| rested and brought before the Probate Court
| he shall have reasonable time to examine the
| charges preferred before being requiC q to
plead; to prevent the superintendent of in
hTmaTies from receiving extra compensation
for taking care of the insane; giving the Pro-
bate Courts Of Morrow, Logan and Butler
Counties jurisdiction in minor criminal cases; /;
allowing the statute of limitation tO run
against married women; requiring persons
driving vehicles on public ads 10 turn to the
right on meeting. Bills in PRODUCED: Regu-
lAting the treatment of iuCurable insane In
intirmaries; preventing the adultoratiOn Of
weight of bushel Of turnips at sixty pounds
to prevent par les TESTIFY ng against deceased
ag 'nts unless the principal was present. A
resolution was ,siopted to investigate tho
Toledo House of Refuge.
MRS KATIE JENKINS, an insane woman,
was burned to death at Gable, Champaign
County, the other morning. She arose
early and in some way set fire to her cloth
ing. When found she was half a mile from
home lying in a snow drift. All her cloth
ing had been burned off and hor flesh
burned to a crisp.
THE Ohio Governors Guard will organize
a battery with Gattling guns.
CHARLES SANDERS, carpente at work
on Schuman & Co.'s brewery, Tiffin, fell
from a window to the ground, a distance OF
twenty feet, and sustained injuries which
are expected to prove fatal
A HOMEOPATHIC hospital is in cOntempla.
tion at Dayton.
The Knox County Bar Association has
be n organized.
} LIMA has q new gas we'll that yields
when not furnishing gas, about hundred
, barrels of oil a day. A number Of Other
) wells are be ng pumped for from fifty to q
, hundred barrels a day.
E. o. KERsHNER, Springfield, fOrgor got
year
SHAWNEE shipped 2,2OO cars Of coal il
January.
AN $1,000 panorama Of Gettysburg, wa
burned with West avenue rink, Columbus
: TIE Attorney Generals recent decision
- brings thirty penitentiary conviots insid
. the parole law. Therefore, look for severa
!, more discharges
l. AN estimable farme. 4 Canton, name,
:, Jacob Niesz, recently .,urchased finely
a bred but savage bull Niesz was attending
\ to the beast in the barn the other evening
}; when the animal gOred and Urampled hin
is beneath his feet A friend, who was present
s. managed to beat the bull off, but not be
% fore Niesz had sustained injuries which rg
,f suited in bis death. The breast Of the dea
" man was crushed to a jelly and almos
E. every rib broken.
~ The Cincinnati Municipal Reform ARsC
,e citation has disbanded and turned over it
IA cash balance TO the Committee Of One Hur
y dred
A MAN named John Flannery, aged siEtl
four, employed as a laborer on the CinciI
d matt Southern Railroad while engaged O
u the trestle work that connects tho ahoy
road with the C., W q b, at Cincinnati
u was run over by switch engine No. an
~ terribly mangled in his lower limbs. q
l- died in O short time,
II o. o. HALL, founder Of the Cincinna
lt | WeekV GrdDhiC has been arrested /