The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-03-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.


ton shall not employ teachers for the ensu-
ing year before the second Monday in April. |
Mr.. Codding's Senate bill relative to appeals |
In probate courts was indefinitely postponed. |
lion Ae6S so that provisions for selecting |
judges of elections at township elections |
ment providing that township trustees hold
labor law; amending and snppIe%entins Sec
cinnati and cleveland; amending Section ssO5,
making the statute of limitations in civil and
criminal actions, growing out Of mfsdemean-
tax levy from 40 to 30 mills: Authoris::
under the statutes as village districts, to re-
duce members of board Of education from
six to three. For the protection of birds,
or to xiii birds other than game, or destroy
their nests or eggs. Further defining the du-
ties Of executors and administrators with the
ton authorizing the commissioner of labor
statistics to inquire into and report on the
con condition Of labor in the State, and report at
tie offered q resolution to Investigate the In
dustrial School for Boys at Lancaster.
COLUMBUS, March 9.-SENATE.-Bills intro
Cation from selecting ss teachers 0 for Incoming CO
boards. Mr.. Fassett's resolution relative to
discharged employees was discussed and In
ing for the distribution of public documents;
amending Section 44l8 relative to the opening
Of township roads.
HoUsE.-The Anti-script law was defeated,
local bills were passed, and the following In
troduced: Fixing the term OF constables at
three years; reducing the pay OF county
cases.
COLUMBUS, March 10-SENATE.-A number
of bills of local nature were passed. The
vote by which the bill was lost prohibiting
10 ne into o1
day was r reconsidered. The here resolution Tor a
centennial celebration in Columbus in 1888
was adopted.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: Repeating the act
providing for separate schools for colored
children; providing that the terms of county
auditors shall begin on the fret Monday Of
ty-seats and towns Of three thousand inhab-
fCants.
COLUMBUS, March 1.-SENATE.-The bill
Resuiate the M practice oi = surgery Was % iost
relative to Justices costs: increasing the pay
and Dumb. Bills introduced: Giving police
clerks authority to issue warrants, and ex-
tending the time Of bail forfeiture;
be recorded; providing for the appoint,
ment of judges and clerks for primary
ELECTIONS; providing for the appointment OF
q Dairy and Food Commissioner; providing
that where married woman has been an in
durable inmate of an asylum for five years
the same shall be cause for divorce.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: Attaching a salary
to the office of Commiss oner in Cuyah0ga
and Franklin Counties; apprOprfating money
to purchase land and erect monuments
where Ohio regiments fought in the battle Of
Gettysburg.
COLUMBUS, March 12-SENATE.-Bills pass
ed: Requiring secondhand articles to be
kept in junk shops twenty-four hours after
of sret
Bills introduced: Repeating the act prohibit
ing the sale of intoxicating liquors within
to give notice at Stations whether trains are
on time or not; amending the insurance laws
so as to require definite statements to the State
luton was offered looking to the printing Of
school books at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
or Soldiers Orphans Home.
spent in considering the general appropria.
ton bill. Daniel ]. Dalton, clerk of Hamilton
County, appeared before the bar of the
cinct A, Fourth ward, Cincinnati, after which
he was discharged from the custody Of the
Sergeantat-arns.
FRANK UNDERWOOD, was crushed to death
under falling tree, near Delphos.
THE continued investigation of the man
agement of the Toledo House of Refuge
shows inhuman treatment of inmates by
the Superintendent and assistants.
THE Toledo, Cincinnati and st. Loui.
Narrow-gauge railroad will not be con
verted into standard gauge this year. Tht
new owners have taken possession of tn,
road.
NEAR Warren, Trumbull County, twt
rivals for young lady's hand met in al
open field at midnight to fight duel
| Seven shots were fred in the darkness
| without effect, when the duelists fell I,
with their fists, and settled the question il
three rounds.
A YOUNG boy by the name Of Heinel q
Lima was seriously injured by the explo
sion of a cannon, which he and another bo,
by the name of Buckley had fixed up out o
an old piece of iron pipe, one end of whicl
they plugged up with a wooden plug, whic
blew out when the powder was discharged
lodging the entire charge in Heinel'
stomach.
No more cigar smoking in the hall Of tn
Ohio House.
THERE is prospect of organizing tw
&. militia companies at Dayton.
OHIO Prohibition leaders have issued OF
ders for organization in the Congressions
districts this year.
| LoyELAND ,CAMP-MEETING will begin Jul
81 and continue one month. Revs. Jone
and Small have been engaged for revivs
work.
THE Ohio State Insurance Commissions
is making war on the graveyard companies
Arrests have been made.
WIN. PHILLIPS, son of a farmer, hvin
near Mt Vernon, fatally shot himself
accident in Rice County, Kas.
CLEVELAND street railway companie
have advanced conductors and drivers
pay to $1.75 per day of twelve hours.
WARREN COUNTY reports a number {
failures recently among the farmers.
A NATURAL gas association has been O
ganized at Green Spring, Seneca Count.
and boring will soon begin.
GAS has been struck at the village
Portage, north of Findlay, at a depth
1,OS6 feet. Flow about 1900, 900 feet p,
diem.
A ANuMBER of capitalists have been exam
lining the malleable iron plant at Young
town with the intention, if found practic
BILE, of turning it into pipe and tube mil
VIM RUHL, a workman in Roth, Meyer
Co.'s pork-house Cincinnati, fell throue
| GQ6 el6VdGOT Sudlt, a Va UullpJ 1Cc
and died two hours later.
| THE Cincinnati street-car drivers ar
conductors struck at noon on the 18th Il
twelve hours work and 50 per day. II
street car company is sticking out Fl
twelve hours work and $1.s5 per day.
cars are running on the Consolidated Col
pany's lines.
Francis MURPHY is drawing three tho
sand people to hear him every night
GAINESVILLE. About four hundred ha'
signed the pledge.
FARMER near Leipsic, who don't take t
papers, gave his note for $500 worth of B
hemian oats.
HELEN STARK, Cincinnati hired girl, he
a baby few minutes for strange wom'
| and the g. W. has not returned.
SUITS have begun at TifaD to recover
bonds IN what are known as Bohemia
oats operations. These are test cases al