The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-01-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Prooeedises Of the General Assembly.
COLUMBUS, jan fT.-snNATr.-Biils intro |
auced. Requiring magistrates 10 include testi- |
mony In transcripts to> common pleas courts; |
amending the Dow law BY increasing the tax |
10 600 on oil liquors, and providing that one |
third Of the tax be paid into the general reve- |
nue. fund Of the State; amending the law relat-
ing 10 the adulteration Of dairy products; joint
resolution was offered requesting Senstors and
In Congress to vote for Nc.
Cullom's bill TO reimburse States for interest
paid on war loans. Bills passed: Authorizing
the commissioners Of Portage County to issue
bonds and borrow tc0OC0 to pay expenses Of
prosecuting "Blinlry" Morgan and others; pro- i
viding for the publication of vol. O. Geology Of
Ohio
HoUsE-Bills introduced; Amending Section
1855 Of the Revised Statutes 30 a. TO pay asses
sors three dollars per day, instead Of two dol
lars. Amending Sections CO.'S, o029 and 6000by
providing that when deceased person leaves
property in another county from that In which
he resided, appraisers may be appointed by
probate judges or justices Of the peace in the
county where the property 10 situated; also.
providing that probate judges may al Va
cancy in appraisers % we'll a. justices Of the
peace. Providing for uniformity Of system for
the control OF common. schools. Providing
township trcasurers Of school districts shall
receive only one per cent for all the money
handled BY them. Making appropriations for,
the last quarter Of the year 1857, and the quar-.
ter ending February Is, 1883. Providing that
when partition Of estate is asked for, which
comes by descent or desire, the partition shall
not be granted within year unless the petition
ntains an averment that oil the debts Of de-
ceased have been paid or secured to be paid.
Amending the present roster law so that each
command Of the Veterans Union shall have
copy Of the soldiers roster; also the State de-
partment Of the same to have copy
COLUMBUS, Jan. 1s-SENATE.-The standing
committees were reported and agreed to. Sew
eral local bills were passed; also bill amend
ing the INDECENT soldiers relief act Bills in
troduced: Repeating the act for the restora-
ion ofthe surveyors records in Hamilton Coun-
~; giving circuit courts jurisdiction in election
contests; providing for attendant for women
being conveyed to an insane asylum; extending
the terms Of township oflcers to three years;
providing for the study Of hygiene; making in.
durable insanity o cause for divorce; empower
ing the school board Of Cincinnati to employ .
solicitor; regulating the heating and lighting Of
railroad cars; permitting the care for outside
poor; relative to the maintenance Of paupers;
prescribing the oath for military organizations;
amendment relating TO judgment debtors; reso-
luton condemning employment Of Democratic
clerk lost on adoption.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: Providing for teach
ing hygiene; increasing pay Of guards at the
penitentiary; extending the term Of clerks Of
court; providing for reciprocity in insurance
matters; requiring automatic couplers to be
used on freight cars preventing the offering Of
gifts or prizes in any business; amending the
justices act relative to counter claims etc.;
making the election in November legal holi.
day; preventing the consolidation of corpora
tions, associations or partnerships engaged in
the same line Of business; requiring banks to
make returns in April Several local bills were
passed.
duced: Admitting criminals to bail In petitions
in error; to suppress bucket-shops and gam.
bling in produce; creating State board Of cleo
tions; preventing certain foreign corporations
from doing business in Ohio; giving mayors and
| justices power to enforce the penalty for the
adulterntion Of fcod preventing payments Of
dividends without surplus profits. Anumber Of
| local bills were passed.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Taxing express
| and telegraph companies; changing the time Of
| meeting of road viewers; amending the build
| ing and plumbing inspection law Of Cincin-
nsSi; allowing Hamilton County commission
ers 1000 for travelling expenses; providing for
| payment of war claims; allowing jurors before
| justices one dollar per day; making term Of
| once Of constables three years; providing .
1 penalty for unauthorized persons TO wear g..
A. II. DaOgos increasing the Ioclltiob Oh tn0 Yin.
cinnati Fire Department; preventing judgments
being taken on cognovit notes except where de-
fendant resides; to further prevent swindling
| in notes.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 2O-SENATE.-Biils passed:
| Repeating the act for restoring the Surveyor
| records in Hamilton County; giving the Hamil.
| ton County Court Of Common Pleas an addition
| oil term; authorizing circuit courts to appoint
| constables; making 1t o misdemeanor to rent
| property as o resort for thieves Bills intro
duced: Restricting municipal corporations in
the condemnation Of property; requiring execu.
tors to givo bond; prohibiting the deposit Of
waste and ofal in rivers.
HousE.-Bills passed: Providing for the sale
Of Avondale Cemetery; to erect soldiers me.
mortal building in Van Vert; allowing cities q
| the second class to issue teachers certificates
| from one to ten years. Bills introduced: Re.
/ pealing Section 8s5S; requiring villages to ap.
| point boards OF health; to improve Buxton
road, Hamilton County; fixing salary Of direc-
tor Of Agricultural Experiment Stations at
ts250; to avoid delay In issuing commissions to
elective ofhcers; providing additional fees for
fling certificates Of incorporation.
| News items.
NATURAL gas has been struck near Mari
ON at depth Of little more than one hun.
dred feet.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have selected
GAINESVILLE as the place for holding their
State Convention.
FRED SHOOK, railroad hand ct Lima,
slipped ON the ice and fell in front Of an