The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-04-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Proceedings of IN. GENERA, A...n.

Proceedings Of the General Assembly.
COLUMBUS April il.-sHNArr. Tho follow.
ing bills were passed: 10 provide for uniform
water rates; to prevent deposits Of refuse in
rivers; giving boards Of election control Of
primary elections; amending Section 90 20 -
70 authorize Justice Of the peace TO hold In.
quests in the absence Of the coroner. num-
Der OF appointments were confirmed. The fol-
lowing bill was introduced: To increase the tax
on dogs to H.s0 for one dog and q per head for
oil in excess Of that number Tho bill assesses
tax on female dogs Of . per head.
HousE.-Bills introduced: Giving the Cincin-
nnti board Of control salary Of o. 900 per year;
providing that county commissioners may en-
ploy surveyors to do county surveying. Bills
were passed: Authorizing the State Board Of
Agriculture to issue bonds to tho amount Of
eS0, ,00) TO aid the Columbus Centennial; incress-
ing the pay Of the clerk Of the penitentiary from
$1,000 TO $3.50 and the pny Of tho chaplin from
eeS0 to q, 600; 70 prevent the spread Of glanders
and foot rot in sheep; requiring that mortgages
that have been assigned 70 bs recorded; author.
izing the State School Commissioners 70 visit
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Blind Asylum,
the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home, and
providing that they shall be deemed educational
and not charitable institutions; requiring coun.
ty commissioners 70 fence abandoned burial
grounds; providing that quail may be killed
between the 10th Of November and 18th Of DE-
cember,
CoLukBus April l16-sRxATs.-Bills passed:
Amending the game laws. Ths usual number
OF local bills were passed. Appointments Of
the Governor were confirmed. Adjourned un.
I'll January g. 1889, at t4p. m.
Housn.-Blls passed: Providing that sala-
ries shalt not be allowed secretaries Of the
board Of trustees Of benevolent institutions;
giving final jurisdiction to justiers mayors and
police judges In the enforcement Of the nsh and
game laws. A number Of committees were ap-
pointed by the chair. Adjourned TO January g
1889.
A sIx-YEAR.oLD boy, while stealing ride
on heavy lumber wagon, at Norwalk,
fell In front Of the wheels and was terribly
manglod.
GEo. W. sHuLrz, shoe merchant at Nor
walk, who was missed for four weeks, has
turned up in Pen nsylvania.
MRS. SAMUEL WEsrsNovER, despondent
widow of Logan, tried to shuttle of with
cold poison.
A DRUNKEN husband at Berea shot his
wife because she would not 60 for beer
for him.
E. NJ BRADFORD, . curbstone broker at
Springfield, made unsuccessful attempts
at suicide.
AN indictment was found against Hem
son Willis at Pomeroy, for murder In the
the first degree.
L. W. MERRIAM, travelling salesman for
GAINESVILLE music house, was Jailed for
forgery.
j. M. SIXTH was renominated at Dayton
for Circuit Judge Of the First Judicial Dis
trict.
DIR. W. r. WooD, prominent physician
Of Sidney. was fatally injured by run
away, few days since.
THE Lagrange rolling mills, st Findlay,
have been sold to New York company.
Llzzrr MEYERS, ascd ten, by mistake,
took laudanum at Mt Vernon.
sAM TrNMoNs, appointment business man
OF Portsmouth, was severely injured In .
runaway.
J. H. W1NN has been indicted ct Colum-
bus for procuring an abortion.
AT Zanesville, Charles Stone was run
over and killed by cars.
Two boys were arrested and fined ct
New Brennan for mistreatinR their mother.
In in . ht Of dependency Louis Lieg.
fried committed suicide at Norton Center.
REV. L W. ANDERSON, president Of the
Marietta College, died . few days ago at
Hartford, Ct
A sELEcf committee Of the Legislature
will inquire into the matter Of removing
the Ohio penitentiary from Columbus 70
Mansfield.
The fourth annual report Of the Chief In.
spector Of Workshops and Factories makes
an excellent showing lfor Ohio msnufac-
turing industries.
FRuIris not seriously injured In the Lit
tie Miami Valley.
Mrs. SARAH SKINNER died at Coshocton
aged seventy-six years. She was the
daughter Of John Hull, who was famous
in the early history Of Ohio a. an Indian
fighter. Mrs. Skinner was born at the
time whom her father was serving his
county - . soldier In the war Of 1874 She
WAS the mother Of thirtsen children, nine
Of whom are married.
JACOB HosTETTER, Q wealthy resident Of
Marshallville, Wayne County, 10 credited
with distributing a, 500 among his trends,
In order to reduce his taxes.
FAIRyIBLD TOWNSHIP Madison County.
voted ON local option, the result being 176
ballots for and II against
A wlNDow-oLAss works at Findlay,
burned to the ground, aud 11b men were
thrown out Of employment.
TIE Democratic State COMMITTEES have
opened their rooms for the campaign ct
No. 1S1i East State street. Columbus.
TIE authorities at Cincinnati will on.
force the Sunday closing law.
W. W. Brown, . Democrat, II Just be-
ginning his aft 9th year 90 school direc-
tor In Clinton Township Wayne County.
A NAN named House worth, working In
. saw-mill north Of Van Vert, by coming
in contact with saw, had his right arm
split from wrist to elbow and then severed
from the body.
A MAN named Brown, living with W. ].
Scott Of Buck Township, Hardin County,
was found dead with q bullst-hole In hie
head. Foul play u suspected.
THERE u deadlock In the Logan city
council
GEo. MlcKITRoTR fell from Q roof 1t
New Bremen and was seriously hurt
DoRA DRAYsR, . Columbus orphan, fails
heir to $500 BY tho death Of an uncle.
WoRK on the zsnesville Belt Line was
stopped BY injunction proceedings at
GAINESVILLE.
An unpaid board bill results In tho sus-
pension Of K. Of r. lodge at Galiipolia
CHAlLss LoRSNz, in . at Of Jealousy,
commits suicide at Coshooton.
THEME 10 On epidemic Of measles ct Nor
walk.
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