The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-02-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Legislative Proceedings

Enabling veteran soldiers to collect bounties
nom the townships TO which they were accred- |
tied; changing the time Of holding court IN
Shelby and Allen Counties; authorizing Ben.
ton Township, Geauga County, to transfer
FUNDS; authorizing Jefferson County to opon
and construct q road.
H0UsB.-A joint resolution was offered ask
Dill Tho following bills were introduced: Ap-
propriating $4,000 to protect the vault and in.
closure at the grave Of William H. Harrison,
ex-President, at North Bend, Hamilton County;
TO license undertakers; TO authorize Paulding
County commissioners TO issue bonds in e15,0O0
for bridge Acress Maumee river Passed Pro-
vfding for local option in the matter OF town.
ship supervision Of common schools; prohibit
ing school boards from hiring teachers for next
year until after the spring election.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 12.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Authorizing city councils to regulate electric
light charges; repeating the road laws for Clin-
ton, Greene, Warren and Madison counties; pro-
viding for the appointment OF Official liquidators
OF insolvent corporations; regulating the kill
ing Of fur bearing animals; preventing the con-
Eliminating association Of prisoners in county
jails. w. 8. Cappeller was confirmed rs Com
missioner OF Railroads and Tclegraphs. Bills
introduced Prohibiting the heating Of cars by
stoves; providing for the enumeration Of ex'
+, W. Thornhill was confirmed as trustees Of
the Girls Industrial Home.
HousE-Bills passed: Providing that mem
bers Of military companies and contributing
members Of any age shall be exempt from work
on roads and services as jurors allowing city of
Warren, Trumbull County, to go in debt to con-
struct sewer; repeating the section fining
township Officers who do not serve after being
elected; authorizing land owners to improve
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namentation and the construction Of sidewalks;
giving claims for labor precedence in cases
where an assignment has been made.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb 13.-SENATE.-A mum.
Der Of petitions were presented asking for the
passage of q law in favor Of electoral reform.
Bills passed: Providing for minority judges
and clerks Of all elections; providing for re.
building the laboratory at the Ohio State Uni
versity; amending the county ditch law; re-
lating to tho payment Of veteran bounty;
making assessors terms three years: requiring
bondsmen and holding bondsmen for failure of
performance Of duty; adding one hundred per
cent. to amount Of value for failure to make re.
turns to assessors; authorizing city councils to
require building permits Resolutions adopted:
To investigate rumors against the railroad
commissioner.
HousE-The House met OF 10 o'clock and was
called to order by the Speaker. The following
bills were passed: H. b. by Mr.. Owen-Em.
powering road supervisors to widen roads to
their fence width; H. B. by Mr. Albaugh-
Providing for tho election Of the agricultural
board Of Miami County by the people-two
members from each township; H. b. by Mr..
Poorman-Providing for commission to select
and secure bids for furnishing school books;
s. B. by Mr.. Cow owgill-Appropriating 5000 for
the chemical laboratory ut the Ohio State Uni.
versity.
COLUMBUS, Feb. A-SENATE-Variou bills
were read the second time and referred The
bill prohibiting relatives OF directors or man.
ayers Of State or County institutions to be EN-.
ployed as superintendents was lost on passage.
Bills passed: Requiring guard rails to be
placed on bridges and approaches; authorizing
resppointment Of viewers where o report has
been set aside; allowing female employees to
occupy seats when not interfering with duties;
TO employ female physician in insane asylums;
extending the supervision Of the Cincinnati
Election Board over elections in Hamilton
County, making appropriations to pay interest:
providing for publication Of the names of ex.
soldiers, sailors and marines. Bills introduced:
Providing yearly fee Of one dollar per mile for
railroads; fixing costs where cases carried from
Justices to common pleas courts ore reversed;
providing for the appointment of comission to
select police'court jurors In Cincinnati
HOUSE. Three local bills were introduced
Bill passed: To expend ease. 900 for the Lick
Run sewer in Cincinnati. The bill providing
that boys under fourteen years shall not be
employed in shops and factories, was lost on
passage. Mr.. Whittlesey's wire.fence bill wss
reconsidered and postponed until next week.
Bills introduced: Amending the dover law so
as TO allow wtdowers to elect under the will or
the law; providing that mortgages that have
been on record twenty-one years shall be can.
n ho trpn oS
c'nnat streets occupied by railroads.; making
landowners. agents or tenants special consta-
bles to arrest trespassers; giving the Cincinnati
Board OF Public Affairs power to clean side.
walks and pavements and repair the same;
to improve Crosby and Morgan roads.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 16.-Both branches of the
General Assembly met this morning and
adjourned until Tuesday afternoon. No bust.
ness was transacted in either house. A num-
Der OF legislators started on tunketing tour to
Birmingham, Ala.
JOE AIDT was sentenced at Bucyrus, to
twenty years. Imprisonment In the peni.
tentiary for murder.
Brooks BooARD. of Wyandot County,
was fatally injured, while hunting by the
accidental discharge Of . gun.
WILL B. DALE. aged fifteen, a bell.boy
In hotel at Springfield, attempted to
commit suicide. He was love.sick.
AAINH.YEAR-oLD boy was drowned In
the Ohio river at Marietta.
Two editors at Akron have been arrested
on charge Of malicious libel
AN unknown man ommitted suicide by
jumping into the river at Cincinnati
EXPERT tax nntsrs have been employ.
cd in Licking County to look up omitted
taxes.
The wife Of Gsneral A.v. Rice was seri.
ously injured In runaway accident near
Ottawa.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on the Lake
Erie and Western railroad, near Kansas
station. A dozon cars were demolished.
Two young sons of Eli Carpenter. Of
Bucyrus, were shooting at a mark against
a woodshed, when one of the bullets pene-
trated the siding and struck their mother,
who had ented the shed, in the side, in
ficting fatal wound.
GOVERNOR FORAKER says that an addi-
ional levy for the general revenue fund Is
not necessary, and that the finances Of the
State will be all right IL the Legislature