The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-03-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Lelrislative Proceedines,

T.
TO amend section 5762, authorizing guar
clude imbetiles. Mr.. McBride-Relaftve R af We to to
the moving Of 9 cam engines along public
highways; p limit contracts between em-
adopted. Adjourned until the sd
CoLuMBps, Feb. s3.-SENATB.-Mr. Fsssetts
on Memorial Day was referred to the Com
mittee on sanitary Laws and Regulations.
NJ. Fassett,g schoolbook bill was referred TO
paw the exptnses of legislative investit ating
ms Of
on one-mile turnpikes from hve TO ten years:
IT, ststsss etsspa the Of the Revised
year. Senate bin appropristing about s7z5.-
the State debt and the expenses Of the Sinking
Fund Commission, was passed. Mr. Critics Of
fered joint. resolution which was referred to
sion, consisting Of the Governor, AdJutant
General and Auditor of State, who shall adj
roster Of W oSio % soldiers si In 9hs SeSicsn was a
and in the war Of the rebellion. Mr. C<bIe,
from the committee of conference. reported
tive to the matters of dffference between the
two houses on the partial appropriation bill.
senate Bill creating a State Board Of H Medical
Examiners IND Lfcensers, which was the spo-
sbs Ss ..%s order for, for Il oelocs vas Possponsd M
the State Hoard of Public WORM. BiIiss
sioners Of Belmont County to transfer funds;
House bill making deficiency appropriations
for for legislative leg expenses; Houss 81. authoris.
Countyi to borrow $4,000 70 complete high
Authorizing: Elyria. Lorsnn County, to trans-
fer funds; making eight hours constitute
days work; authorizing the Commissioners
government; Of the work-house; allowing
fees for witnesses to claims for sheep killed
by dogs; dividing Richland Township Clin-
ton County, into two election precincts;
regulating the manner in which Incorporated
% sas Of 70
hundred enrolled school children the benefit
challenging. juror Il he is = related % 70 the The
fourth degree to either party In the suit;
County. to transfer funds. n'n 1ss'ss
COLUMBUS, Feb. 24.-SENArE.-A number
Of local bills were passed. Bills introduced:
Dividing Cleveland into twenty wards for
Ditch law IS that ditches shall not not Be located Gated
until an outlet has been secur d appropri-
vestssns resolution me was
rins hospital ,sf Gsiiipoiis. -.
visions of the Scott liquor tax; appropriating
money TO pay the expenses Of the Senate In
reconsidered TO established q Working % home ONE
for the blind; resolution was adopted ask
ing Congress to establish Marine Hospital
at GaltpoHs; resolution was offered and
tabled proposing license amendment to the
constitution, to be voted on in 1857.
COLUMBUg, Feb. 25.-Bills were introduced:
Abolishing the Office Of coroner; authorizing
ishing the Court-house; amending the act
relative to collateral loan associations; re-
for the Sc ss fo
gas. A number of local bills were passed.
HoUsE.-Bills were passed: increasing the
Deaf and Dumb; providing that in cities Of
the second class members of School Boards
shall be voted for on q separate ballot. Bills
lands belonging to the public works; author.
izinR Pauldrng County to build q new court
house: prohibiting theatrical performances
and other shows and exhibitions on Sunday;
holding securities for costs in criminal cases
liable in case Indictment fs not found: amend
bef aM 80 ns % a0 win
COLUMBUS, Feb. 26.-There was nothing of
consequence in the Legislature to-day, both
Houses adjourning early until Tuesday.
MISS MARY IRISH, youngest daughter of
Prof. Anna B. Irish, recently deceased, died
at the age Of eighteen in Wooster Scarlet
fever was the fatal illness, and makes the
third death in the family in a few months.
WHILE playing about the stove little
child of g. Schwartzby, a carpenter resid-
ing in TiffiIl, upset vessel of hot lard with
which the little one was covered, burning
it in a horrible manner. Though serious,
its injuries are not considered necessarily
fatal.
MILTON COCHRAN, thirty-one years old,
was drowned the other evening in the canal
at GAINESVILLE. The family parrot flew into
the water, when Cochran SWAN after it,
took the cramps and sunk.
JAMES DIXON, highly-respected citizen
of New Philadelphia, is dead, aged eighty
two years.
MRS. SHAwLsTAFF, wife of one of the men
employed ct drilling gas wells at Fremont,
attempted to commit suicide by taking ten
grains of morphine. The attempt was
caused by family troubles.
A VERY peculiar disease, affecting the
throat, lungs and head of people, has be-
come epidemic in Akron, Fully three hum
dred children are kept out of school by this
very unpleasant but SO Tar not fatal trouble
TIE little five-year-old son Of Theodore
Lanning, at Gilmore, near Port Washing
ton, was set upon by vicious dog, thrown
down and his face shockingly mangled.
The dog belonged to a farmer named Gal
breath and was Immediately killed. The
boy was taken to Cleveland for treatment.
MRS. G. IoNGBRoKE, of fHouckstown, Han
cock County, was conversing with q neigh
bor, when she suddenly complained of a
pain in her head. She reached her hand to
her head and at once fell dead. Richard
Rhamey, OF Allen Township, was taken i'll
and died in a few minutes. He was aged
seventy years.
| of the recently established post-office in
Athens County, named after him, has been
changed to Sugar Creek.
WHILE men were putting ore into a
| crusher at the blast-furnace of the Cleve-
land Rolling-mill Company, the other
night, the ore, which was frozen on top,
caved in and caught three men before they
| could get away. William Smith, of Ver-
mont street, and John Sabot, of Brooklyn
Village, were killed, and John Rosa terri
| bly, injured.
| NEWS has just reached here of a rich oil
strike in jackson Township, Noble County,
| on the lands of Messrs. Wickens and Ges-
sell, at a depth of eight hundred feet. The
well on the, former place is flowing about
sixty barrels per day, and the latter about
| fifty. The wells are outside the Macks-
| burgh district, and the largest find in Noble
| County. The people are greatly excited in
the neighborhood, and more wells will be
put down.
By a decision of Judge Robertson, judges
| and clerks of the last Cincinnati election
will receive but two dollars a day.
Mr. Il. F. DIEHL, of Cincinnati, veteran