The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
legislative Proceedin<s.

&c gsE.-Ths petition of the"League of Right
and % Liberty" of Hamilton County, against
ton, was presented. Bills were introduced
TO require local agents of express companies
to list property for taxation; to increase the
Governor; to provide for the holding of PR.
mary elections in Cincinnati; to authorize
municiPa! corporations to grant the use of
streets Tor pipes to supply light and heat; to
denne the duties of superintendents and di
rectors Of infirmaries; to provide for the pay
audited and allowed. The Senate % joint TaEs Tssc.
luton asking Congress to make an appropri-
alton TO erect monument at Marietta, COM
memorating the first settlement of the North.
west Territory, was reported back ard
COLUMBUS, March 29.-SENATE.-A number
proved.
HoUsE-BilIs introduced: Allowing the is
sue OF summons upon the filing of a pre-
cipe In actions against tnon-residents; enabling
villages to regulate the blowing of steam
whistles; providing for the better collection
OF personal taxes and of trust and safe de-
post companies. A resolution was adopted
to investigate the cause of the typhoid-fever
epidemic at the penitehtiary.
COLUMBUS, March h3O-SENATE.-Biils intro.
be filed within one year; amending the ditch
law so as to allow Commissioners to retain 20
per cent. until the work is completed. "A res.
oiut1on was adopted to allow battle flags OF
ONO regiments to be takeh to Cleveland En-
campment of the G. A. r.
HousE.-Bills passed: Enlarging the pow
burn q building of less than fifty dollars
value; increasing the pay Of jurors before
justices to one dollar; extending the time for
Survey.
COLUMBUS, March 81 SENATE. Billa
passed: Prescribing the manner of selling
phR pro1ns pnns of
Commissioner; making appropriation for
ing the laws relating to the National guard,
Z recess Of five minutes was taken to receive
Ex-Governor Foster
HoUsE-Bill passed: Providing home for
INDECENT ex-soldiers. A resolution was
adopted to pay A: P. Butterfeld salary for
on the bill fixing the time when County Aud.
itors shall go into office was disagreed to.
COLUMBUS, April 1.-SENATE.-Bills passed.
Allowing defendants in replevin suits to give
February legal holiday for the public
for the collection Of delinquent county taxes.
we'll as cities, shah be responsible for losses
sustained on account of riots and mobs; re-
contestants to open and close the case; au.
thorizing gas fuel companies to appropriate
land and lay pipes.
House;-Bills passed; Allowing clerks of
time than twenty-four hours: providing the
manner of infiicting penalty on insurance
eS heat
appropriations for the Legislature. Bills in
troduced: Authorizing the State to issue
memberships to become Incorporated; secure
payment of wages to employees twice month;
providing offices for Justices of the peace;
ness on the assessment plan.
COLUMBUS, April 2.-SENArE.-Bills passed:
Requiring railroad companies to give notice
Providing that examiners ofcounty treasur.
les shall consist of three persons and shall
be sworn. Adjourned to p. m. Tuesday.
HoUsE-Two local bills were introduced,
and the House adjourned to 4 p. m. Tuesday
FRANK B. JONES, embezzling book-keeper
of the Champion Malleable Iron Company,
Springfield, has been sentenced to the PEN
itentiary for ten years.
JEROME STEVENS, prominent farmer of
North Fairfield, was shot and fatally
wounded by grain thief.
THE body of Henry Roberts, missing
Singer Sewing Machine Company collector,
was found in the Ohio River, Cincinnati,
the other day. The cause of his death is a
mystery.
The post-office at McClung, on the Cincin-
natl, and Muskingum Valley railroad, was
burglarized the other night, ,$95 in cash being
taken. The safe in VIII ch the money was
kept was drilled and blown open. No
clew.
THE Speaker of the Ohio House has ap-
pointed committee to investigate the
State institutions.
A SPECIAL grand jury has been selected
by the common pleas judges of Hamilton
County.
AT Conneaut, the other night, Joseph
I'm -
Wayne James. The men had quarreled,
and James claims that the shooting was
in self-defense. He is under arrest Burke
was a tramp who came from the East last
| fall, and it is thought his right name was
Joseph Basker.
FIVE hundred limestone quarrymen
| about Carbon, have struck for an increase
| of two cents ton.
| PETER HILTY, the insane man who had
| been missing from his home at Orrville
for some days and who was supposed to
F., have been drowned, has returned home
| again.
| NATURAL gas was struck at Leipsic the
other morning at depth of fifteen hundred
| feet in paying quantities. Excitement runs
high and everybody is happy.
The q. 8. House Elections Committees
| report can not find enough of the votes
claimed by Mr.. Frank Hurd in the Toledo
District to give him the seat of Jacob Ro-
meis, and the latter will remain in Con.
gress.
| A DECISION has been rendered at Tifiin in
| the Circuit Court which will be of interest
to township trustees all over the State. II
was in the case of the trustees of Clinton
| nj ir,a dor
NJ. Campbell, defendant in error. The
Court held that physician, in order to
charge the trustees for services rendered q
pauper, must give written notice to them
or one of them, and that verbal notice i.
not sufficient, even though they acted upol
! it, and furnish relief to the pauper. Th,
| provisions of Section 1894 of the Revised
Statutes are imperative, and can not b.
waived, and must be strictly compiled
with in all respects.
THE molders at the Medina hollowwar,
works, one of the largest establishments o
the kind in the country, have been given al
advance of ten per cent. in wages.
PROSPECTS are good for the early con
struction of the Cincinnati, Hooking Val
ley and Huntington railroad.
THE will of the late John n. Devereux
president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnati & Indianapolis railroad, was pro
bated at Cleveland, few days ago. Al
his estate is left to Mrs. Devereux, to b
divided at her death between the four chi
dren. The estate is estimated at S15OO0(
THE heaviest alimony ever granted in
divorce suit at the Cuyahoga bar wa
granted the other day. Mrs. Ellen Law
renee, wife of the proprietor of the Obi
Farmer, was granted divorce from he
husband, with alimony to the extent o
1000.
THE Sunday question mas become a polit
ical issue at Cleveland, with the Sunda
closers apparently on top.
A MAN supposed to be Frank Engler wa
instantly killed by a passenger train on th
Wheeling and Lake Erie road, near tn
Lake Erie and Western crossing at Ere