The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Proceedings Of the General Assembly.
COLUMBUS, Jan. ss-SENATE.-Adjourne to
4 p, m. Monday without transacting any busi-
ness
HousE-A tangle occurred on the report on
rules, and the House adjourned to o'clock
Monday afternoon.
COLUMBUS. JAM 3O-SENArE.-Bills intro
duced: Increasing the exemption Of personal
property to $500; requiring reports Of school
enumerators TO be made in ten days to the
State Commissioner. Reports Of committees
were made and petitions presented.
DEMONSTRATIONS for hygiene teaching and
two-ccnt railroad fare were presented. Bills
introduced: Providing for State Fish War
den ut $1,000: establishing non.partsan police
and fire boards for Columbus; excepting judi
cial sales from publication in German news
papers preventing coal and breadstuf combin-
ations; empowering women 10 act as notaries
public.
COLUMBUS, jan. 31-SeNATE.-Bills passed:
Providing for taking the census Of municipal
tiles whenever desired; regulating contested
elections for Preside ntial electors; admitting
felons to bail. Bills inti oduced: Providing for
blue book; requiring saloons to close between
midnight and 6 q. m.; dropping the prosecuting
attorney an examiner Of the reports Of COM
missioners; extending the registration law to
all towns and cities having population Of five
thousand and upward. Resolutions adopted:
Asking the General Government to return to
the various States the war loan; asking Con-
gress to pension all soldiers confined in rebel
prisons. ..
HOUsE.-Considerable time was spent in dis.
cussing the payment of wages every Two weeks.
Bills introduced: Making appropriations for
the common schools; defining the manner in
which U. S. prisoners shall be kept in the Ohio
penitentiary; amending the game law SO as to
prevent the sale or shipment Of Quails. Several
local bills were passed. Resolution offered and
tabled: TO adjourn March 12
COLUMBUS, Feb. 1.-SENATE.-Bills passed:
Requiring banks and other institutions to keep
q record Of unknown depositors; giving mayors
and justices Of the peace jurisdiction In food
adulterations; distributing the Ohio Roster;
suppressing houses of i'll repute. Bills intro
duced: Requiring penitentiary made goods to
be branded; for the relief OF Thomas Gibson, OF
Hamilton County; creating new township for
| the city of Akron. Resolutions adopted: Rel
ative to the control of funds for the agricul.
tural experiment station; to ascertain the prac-
| ticability Of a ship canal.
HOUSE.-Bills passed. Collecting infOr-
| nation Of accidents in workshops and factor
les; authorizing affidavits instead Of witnesses
| in cases of sheep killed by dogs; fixing the
| salary Of the Director OF the Agricultural Ex-
| pertinent Station; requiring clerks Of courts
| to make prompt returns Of certificates Of
| election; amending the act relative to cases
before Justices; making appropriations for
| the support Of the common schools. Bills in
troduced: Requiring penitentiary made goods
| to be branded.
| COLUMBUS, Feb. 2.-SENATE.-A number of
local bills were passed. Bills introduced:
Making February gS and 90 one day for legal
| purposes; providing against usurlous interest
on chattel mortgages; allowing municipalities
| to own and operate natural gas plants; con-
STRUNG the word gas to mean natural or artt.
ficial or both grading teachers certificates.
Bills passed: Amending the oleomargarne law
relative to notices; preventing monopolies
in this sale of grain, breadstuffs, coal or pro.
| duce.
HOUsE.-Bills passed: Amending the act rel
ative to the assignment of dover; allowing q
tounty for killing ground hogs Bills intro
duced: Allowing auditors eight cents fol
special ditch certificates; allowing county com
missioners to employ persons to look aftel
property not listed for taxation; for the protec
tion Of Grand Army buildings and property;
giving gas companies power to condemn land
for pipe lines; prohibiting the killing of fish
with dynamite; to prohibit the killing Of mead
ow larks and turtle doves; preventing discrimi
nations against colored persons by life insur
ance companies.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 3.-SENATE.-The Senate
met ut eight o'clock, but did not transact any
| business.
HoUsE.-Petitions were presented, and tier
adjourned until Tuesday afternoon.
News Items.
A sAw-MILL explosion occurred neal
GAINESVILLE, resulting in the death of John
Arnold and Charles Sullivan.
NEW BREMEN claims a gas well with
capacity of ten million cubic feet per day
Mrs. ALICE COBB, wife of manager Cobb
of the Peoples Theater, Toledo, has suet
the Detroit Evening Nescs for 100000 dam
ages for libel.
The following is the report of the worl
done in the Northwestern Ohio oil tielt
during the month of January as furnished
by the Standard Oil Company: WE'LL
completed Lima District, 5; North Balti
more Distr ct, IS; F.ndlay District 2; total
25. Wells drilling: North Baltimore Dis
trict, II; Lima District, 4; Findlay Dis
trict, 8; total 20. Rigs up: North Balti
more District, 81; Lima District, %; Find
lay District, 10; total, 81. January's worl
compared with December shows falIin,
on in numbers of wells completed, an in
crease of wells drilling and a decrease il
rigs up.
The Seneca County Bar gave banque
to retiring Judge Dodge, the other night
FIRE COMMISSIONER MEGRUE, of Cincin
natl, has sued County Commissioner Goes
ling to recover $780, which he claims wa.
embezzled by book-keeper and lost q
gambling in Mr.. Goesling's place.
JOHN SAUNNE, aged one hundred years
was buried at Delphos, few days ago
He was born in Alsace, and was one of tn,
''old guard of Napoleon" during the Littl,
Corporal's campaigns in the early part O.
the present century. Mr. Saunne's mint
was clear to the last, and his recital of thu
events Of these stirring times was like
history.
CHARLES FUNK, in his fourteenth year
adopted son Of Captain Fred Bertsch, O.
Cincinnati, committed suicide by taking
'rough on rats"
THE following dates for holding fair,
during the coming season were decided
upon by the southern Ohio Fair Circuit
Association: Hillsboro-August I, g. 9 ant