The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-03-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative Proceedings.

CObUMbus' Marcn 16-SBNATB.-Mf. Alex.
Ander introduced bill making IL two.years'
penitentiary offense and q fne OF 81 900 to give
any money, property or reward OF any kind to
influence ary person for or against candidate
The law Is also made TO apply TO delegates
and one-hnlf Of the penalty is to be raid to the
ihformer. number OF loca, 3flls were intro.
duced, and some passed
HOUSE "A scare was given tho members
Saturday by the announcement that the
Speaker would hereafter enforce the law dock.
Ing every member Go per day for the time alb
sent. As result the first thing when the
House went Into session this afternoon was to
grant leave OF absence to several who asked for
It on good grounds. A large number OF local
bills were introduced.
COLUMBUS, March 19-SENATE-Bills intro
duced: Requiring preference to ex. Union sol.
cfers In appointments by the State; prescribing
. form OF application for civil and other soci-
eties for articles Of Incorporation; exempting
building and loan association shares from tar.
stion; offering q reward for capturing horse
thieves Bills passed: Requiring auditors Of
Hamilton and Cuyahoga Counties to make re.
ports Of semiannual settlements; for better
protection against fire in Cincinnati; requiring
boards Of education to purchase school books
Of publishers at cost
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Amending the act
relative to the appointment Of road viewers;
concerning the right Of dover Of the wife of an
insane person; increasing the pay OF members
Of the Legislature to e1, 500 per year; providing
the manner and time Of paying unclaimed
costs and moneys into the county treasury;
closing barber shops on Sunday. Bill passed !:
Requiring assessors to have persons listing
property for taxation to make oath to the
same. A large number Of local bills were also
passed.
COLUMBUS, March 90. O.-sESArE--Bills passed:
Empowering Municipalities to proceed with
improvements by giving bond to parties bring.
ing suit TO prevent the improvement; to license
and regulate the snle Of produce from canal.
boats; requiring the division OF precincts hav-
ing 7D0 voters. A Joint resolution was adopted,
authorizing the Canal Commission to secure
the release Of abandoned and neglected water
leases along the canal. number Of local bills
we're passed Bills introduced: Abolishing
the general term Of the Superior Court in Gin.
cinnati; exempting Seneca County from the
prohibition against fishing with hook and fine
between May and June l5; substitute for the
Australian election system bill; authorizing
Columbus to provide against the obstruction of
highways.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Dividing Truro Town
ship Franklin County, into two election pre-
cincts; authorizing Niles, Trumbull County to
levy an additional tax; authorizing Tuscarawas
Township Coshocton County, to transfer funds;
authorizing Navarro Stark County to transfer
funds; to pay liabilities authorizing the sale OF
public lands in Jefferson, Ashtabula County;
providing that oleomargarine shall be sold as
such, and not pamed of as butter, was passed.
Mr.. Bramann's bill, to tax the commissions Of
State, county and township officers, was do.
feated.
COLUMBUS, March 81. = SENATE. - Bills
passed: Requiring life insurance companies
TO report dividends to all shareholders; ex
tending the force Of liens on buildings and i'm.
provements to the advantage Of material and
laboring men; providing for the return Of re.
leased convfcts to the counties where con.
victed; providing for taxation of telegraph and
express companies; increasing the number Of
Judges Of the Supreme Court to oght to com
plete the Cincinnati City Hail. Bills intro
duced: Making the law to attach property for
debt before due apply in cases Of absconding
debtors; providing for the removal Of railroads
from canal property where consent has not
been given.
doUsE.-Bills passed: Requiring that mar
shals OF hamlets, acting as supervisors shall be
paid out Of the hamlet fund; relating to the dis.
tribution OF receipts from ministerial land
Resolution adopted: Proposing an amendment
to the constitution providing for single legisla-
tive districts The bill to abolish the board OF
aldermen Of Cleveland was lost on passage
The greater part Of the afternoon was spent In
discussing Mr. Bramm's bill providing for the
,fnspe ction OF beef cattle. A number of local
bills were introduced and passed.
COLUMBUS, March 22. = SENATE - Bills
passed: Authorizing the State Auditor to in.
vestigate tho offices OF county auditors; reQuir.
Ing county treasurers to honor proper requisi.
tions; defining and Furnishing "White Caps;"
forbidding determinations by life insurance
companies against persons OF color; giving
miners o lien on the owners or operators for the
obligations due them; preventing division of
the public works of the State into sections;
giving the State Board of Health quarantine
powers; providing for the admission OF disabled
members OF the o. N. G. into the Soldiers
Homo. A resolution of respect to the memory
of Justice Stanley Matthews was adopted.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: providing for the inspec.
ton OF beef cattle on foot; providing for the
use OF adhesive slips on ballots; providing for
securing new guns for the battalion at tho Sol.
diers' Orphans Home; providing that private
roads which have been used as such for twenty.
one years shall be declared public highways
Mr.. Doran offered q joint resolution providing
for the publication Of seven thousand copies Of
railroad maps Laid over. Mr. Coates offered
o resolution Of respect to the memory Of Jus.
tice Stanley Matthews; adopted by rising
vote, and the House adjourned
MossGRovE's United States Hotel, at
Steubenville, was completely Quilted by
fire the other morning Loss, 5000
A LITTLE daughter of John D. Axline,
near Newark, ate pieoe Of poisoned meat,
prepared for the determination Of rats,
and died few minutes afterward.
Ar Springfield, VIM. Green and Richard
Hayes, who recently burglarized the Cole
man residence, were sentenced to four
years In the penitentiary.
The Ohio Legislature will adjou IN about
the first week in April
NATURAL gas Is to be piped to Colum.
bus.
THERE is a small-pox excitement at Co
darville.
A. G. WHIrMoRE, 9. w. & b brake
man, fell from the top OF freight car at
Chillicothe, and was seriously injured.
WHILE Will J. Fisher was standing un-
der a gaslight on street in Lima, piece
of glass fell and struck him In the eye,