The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.

| COLUMBUS, Feb. 11.--SENATF.-A resolution
| by Mr. Zimmerman was adopted authorizing
| an Investigation OF compulsory attendance
upon chapel exercises Mt the Ohio State Unit
versity. The following bills we're introduced:
Enabling veteran soldiers to collect bountes
from 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 open
and construct u rond.
HoUsE.-A joint resolution was offered ask
| ing Congress to pass general service pension
bill The following bills were introduced. APP
| propriating $4,000 TO protect the vault and in
closure at the grave OF William II, Harrison,
ex-President, at North Bend, Hamilton County;
| to license undertakcrs; to authorize Paulding
| County commissioners TO issue bonds in $4,000
for bridge across Maumee river. Passed. Pro-
viding 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. t2.-SENATE-Bills passed:
! Authorizing city councils to regulate electric
| light chnrges repeating the road laws for Clin-
ton, Greene, Warren and Madison counties; pro-
vidng for the appointment OF official liquidntors
of insolvent corporations; regulating the kill
| ing OF fur bearing animals; preventing the con-
Eliminating association Of prisoners In county
1 W.
missioner of Railroads and Telegraphs Bills
introduced: Prohibiting the heating OF cars by
| stoves; providing for the enumeration OF ex-
| soldiers facilitating the giving OF bonds. Hon.
| f. w. Thornhill was confirmed as trustees of
| the Girls Industrial Home.
| HoUsE-Bills passed: Providing that men,
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 n sewer; repeating the section filming
| township officers who do not serve after being
elected; authorizing land owners to improve
their lands with lines of public highways by or
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 num-
ber Of petitions were presented asking for the
| passage of law in favor of electoral reform.
| Bills passed: Providing for minority judges
| and clerks of all elections; providing for re-
| building the laboratory ut the Ohio State Uni
versity; amending the county ditch law; re-
| lating to the payment of veteran bounty;
making asst ssor's 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 at 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; II. B. by Mr.. Albaugh-
! Providing for the election of the agricultural
board of Miami County by the people-two
members from each township; II. B. by Mr..
Poorman-Providing for commission to select
and secure bids for furnishing school books;
| rs,,tst for
the chemical laboratory at the Ohio State Uni
versity.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 14.-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 superntendents was lost on passage.
Bills passed: Requiring guard rails to be
placed on bridges and approaches; authorizing
| reappoiniment OF viewers where n report has
been set aside allowing female employees to
occupy seats when not interfering with duties;
| to employ a 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 are reversed;
providing for the appointment OF n comission to
select police court jurors in Cincinnati.
HoUsE.-Three local bills were introduced.
Bill passed: To expcnd s350,0O0 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 was
reconsidercd and postponed until next week.
Bills introduced: Amending the dover law
| as to allow widowers to elect under the will or
the law; providing that mortgages that have
been on record twenty-one years shall be can
celed; providing for the improvement of Gin
| cnnnti 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. 15.-Both branches OF the
General Assembly met this morning and
adjourned until Tuesday afternoon. No busi-
ness was transacted in either house. num-
ber of Legislators started on junketing tour to
Birmingham, Ala.
JOE AIDT was sentenced at Bucyrus, to
twenty years. Imprisonment in the peni-
tertiary for murder
Brooks BoGARD. of Wyandot County,
was fatally injured, while hunting, by the
accidental discharge of gun. :"
WILL B. DALE. aged fifteen, bell-boy
in q hotel at Springfield, attempted to
commit suicide. He was love-sick.
"A NINE-YEAR-oLD boy was drowned in
the Ohio river at Marietta.
Two editors at Akron have been arrested
on a charge of malicious libel
AN unknown man ommitted suicide by
jumping into the river at Cincinnati.
EXPERT tax x-hnnters have been employ
cd in Licking County to look up omitted
taxes.
The wife of General 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 dozen cars were demolished.
Two young sons of Ell Carpenter, Of
Bucyrus, were shooting at 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
dieting a 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
keeps down appropriations to last years
| figures.
AHREN KLEINHAUs, OF ST. Rosa, was
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