The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


COLUMBUS, Feb. 13.-SENATE-Not IL
HoUsn-Bflls introduced: Supplemental to
thorize cities Of the second class and third /
grade having q population at the last census |
ne IN to ssS sSa g1ssf oce
convict labor on county roads. Repeating |
tributing members Of military and active |
members of fire companies from jury service. |
COLUMBUS, Feb. 1h-sENArE.-The Senate
B., amending the Weitzel bill Of 1883 relating |
to street railways, was referred to the Com
mittee on Corporations other than Municipal:
education of New Richmond, Clermont
County, to borrow money to repair school
cilitate the coIiection Of taxes Z, ON s personal
property.
HoUss..A message was received from the
Ohio for the came. A call of the House was
their names-one less than . Quorum. Bfils
introduced: Allowing fishing in the Lewis
town ressryGir . st. the d sane time as in other
cincts; requiring railroads to put gates and
the bastardy act so as to allow justices to
discharge defendants; providing for the
burning of hogs dying from cholera; repeal
Commissioner Of Auelaise County to trans.
fer funds authorizing guardians to part-
tion the real estate Of their wards.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 16.-SENArE.-Bills passed:
Changing the manner of selecting judges Of
election; providing for an additional judge
The county to ss
fer material from one county to another in
the Improvement Of township roads.
HousE-Bnl passed: Prohibiting munich
persons selling articles Of their % own raising
or manufacture. Bills introduced: Restrain
INA ,s. from selling liquor from booths
railroads to stop trains at all towns Of three
thousand and upward; providing that coun,
examiners. Resolutions adopted: looking
to the reduction of fees OF county officers;
1867.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 1a-SENATE.-Bills passed:
fruit and vegetables. Making partial appro-
tain sections Of the Statutes. Authorizing the
Sinking Fund Commissioners of Cleveland to
expend $4,000 In building and equipping
Sontsfne certain S tsles 9 Seresofore ret % eoilecfed. Of
County to construct free turnpike. 10 au-
thorize the Board OF Education OF West Lib
erty; Logan County to issue Dopds is,i for ,, the
duced: To abolish the salaries OF the Board
OF Managers Of the Intermediate Penitentiary.
HousE;-Bills passed: To compel Ross
bridge: To authorize the Commissioners of
Hamilton County to issue bonds and levy
al s Sase 70
prohibit the interment OF the dead in certain
cases. ,sllr,z
COLUMBUS. Feb: I..sErATs.Bills ..!s as5 intro;
| Statutes requiring the official examiners OF
| county commissioners' reports to be sworn;
allowing husbands and wives to testify in
| criminal cases, except confidential communi-
cations made to each other during marriage;
to allow cities of the fourth grade second class
| to appropriate grounds for cemetery pur>
| poses; giving county commissioners control
Of free turnpikes, now in the hands of town
| HC UsE-Bills passed: Changing the time of
election of various State officers from the first
Tuesday in October to the first Tuesday after
form to the constitutional amendments
| adopted in 1885; amending sections 32l2 and
IN sse T.
on which liens hold for feed furnished; to
=. amend section 5041 Of the Revised Statutes 80
stock-holders OF joint stock companies by al
lowing plaintiff to serve summons by persons
ss 1ps pans sns weight 6nsh OF
Lake Erie as cIsvsisnd; looking. to t5e en-:
to amend the Constitution so as to provide fol
local option was offered and ordered printed.
in counties and townships; changing the time
Of sheriffs taking their ofice from January tc
April; to punish persons who make contracts
| with intent to obtain labor or material under
false pretenses; amending the insurance laws
so as to make officers of mutual companies
bodies corporate; allowing creditors to begin
tracted; providing for local option in town
ships or municipalities; providing that a wit
be served with a summons from another
court; making the presentation of scrip il
court prina-facie evidence of guilt of viola
| ton of the law.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 19.-SENATE.-Bils passed
the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern ran
and not as individuals; to repeal an act re
quiring individual and partnership traders tt
record their names; to amend Section 6S42 O
Revised Statutes, as amended April II, 1885
relative to the punishment Of embezzlement
SO as to include trustees or assignees in in
vised Statutes, pertaining to town plats, an
amend Section e459 of the Revised Statutes T.
Bills introduced: Prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors on memorial day; proyid
Resolution adopted: Asking the Governmen
to establish naval training school on LAX
Erie.
gether with the Pugsley bill providing for tn
| appointment by the Governor of Boards II
select judges and clerks of election in the fou
. largest cities of the State Bills introduced
Permitting boards of education to transfe
pupils when the enumeration falls beloV
divorce laws, and prohibiting divorced pei
sons from marrying within three years.
, resolution was adopted to print the testimon
taken in Cincinnati by the Committee o
Privileges and Elections.
, AT Sand Run, Hooking County, Ji1
, Nixon went to the saloon of Tom West an
!, raised a disturbance with Ben Easterlint
: against whom he had an old grudge. Nixo
IL
!, saloon, and West went out to quiet hin
} | when Nixon struck him. West then er
, tered the saloon and closed the dool
Nixon commenced kicking and banging th
: door. West opened the door slightly, ant
placing revolver in the opening, fired on
|. shot, which missed Nixon and struck a ma
3 named Spencer, who was passing, in th
: heart killing him instantly. West we
then taken home by some of his friends. ]
short time Easterling went to West
i, house to inform him of Spencer's dealt
and when he got to the house he saw Nixo
in front of the residence, who made at hin
| SO Easterling says, with an open knit
Easterling, thinking it was either his Lii
or Nixon's, opened fire, shooting him for
times, from the effects of which it
thought Nixon will die.
THE other morning Mrs. Sam Harris, O
Cedarville, a small village two miles belo,
Belpre, was missing from her home. He
husband and friends, after searching fc
| her for some time, at last found her cloth,
, onthe bank of the river, but as yethay
been unable to find her body. 1t is SUI
l posed she has suicided, domestic intellect
[ being the cause.
THEODORE HENsEL, young man frol
: the village of Sugar Grove, was killed tt
other night at Hocker's Station, on the G.
, | lumbus and Hooking Valley railroad, whi
endeavoring to board coal train.
3 COMMISSIONERS of Champaign, Dark
3 Miami and Shelby counties are debatir
4 propositions for joint work-house.