The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-03-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
I,er,elatlxe Preesed edine,.

ity Of holding session tonight Six members
were present Mr.. Davis introduced bill au-
thorixing washington County to levy IN addi-
tional tax for tine poor FUND. Adjourned until
10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
HOUsE.-Twelve members were present at
p. m, and went through the formality Of hold
ing o session, the presiding oficers being ab-
sent. Clerk Reynolds called the House 70 or
der, and Doc worthinston was made Speaker
pro tenn. No business was transacted. A du-
plicate session Of the House was held tonight. |
The members Of the House who had been to |
Washington arrived in the hall Of the House at |
II o'clock tonight and the Speaker called the
House together ignoring the session that was |
held at9 o'clock. The reading Of the journal |
was dispensed with and the House again ad- |
journed 10 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
COLUMBUS, March 7.--SENATE. BILLS intro. |
duced: Providing for division Of poor fund |
from Dow tax between children's homes and
infrmaries in counties where there are chill
dren's homes; authorizing the use Of town halls
for sunday.schools; providing for the estab-
lishment Of one or more inebriate asylums;
compelling the division Of wards in cities con-
tanning over seven hundred voters into pre-
cincts; authorizing courts to discriminate in
favor OF suits for wages in the making up Of
docketS; adding circuit judges to tho oficers
who are to receive certificates OF election
through clerks Of common pleas courts from
the Secretary Of State; authorizing court
stenographers to take dispositions in writ.
| ing; requiring six days notice
| by principal petitioner or county auditor in o
proposed road extension; limiting the num-
Der Of witnesses that may be subpen@d In
criminal cases at public expense TO testify upon
the question Of character or reputation; au-
| thorizing the holding Of elections for municipal
officers in towns where they have failed to elect
for one or more years. The bill providing for
the levying Of a charge Of one dollar per mile
| yearly upon all railroads in Ohio was lost when
put upon Its passage, and the vote was then re-
considered and postponed to Thursday
| march, H.
HoUsE.-Mr. GrfHn's House bill fixing the
pay for switching cars was lost on passage. 8.
B.-Increasing the bonds and fines Of Assessors
was lost on passage: Bills passed: g. B.-Per-
mitting benevolent and secret society assooia-
tions to submit reports to the Superintendent
Of Insurance. II. B.-Authorzing the issuing
OF an additional $4,000 for the Cincinnati City
Hall.
COLUMBUS, March 8.-SENArs.-A number Of
bills were passed, mostly Of o local nature. The
following bills OF general interest were passed:
Making the compensation Of township trustees
not to exceed $3.50 In townships having popula-
ton OF 2i.175; authorizing the State Inspector
Of Shops and Factories to inspect shops in State
institutions; authorizing constables to levy On
|
ing for establishment and regulation OF live
stock Insurance companies; providing for cum
ulative punishment for those guilty Of repeated
misdemeanors; providing for the appointment
OF guardians for the habitually intemperate and
those dependent upon them. Bills introduced: !:
Making terms Of assessors In cities three years,
and fixing bonds us in townships; regulating
construction OF railroad bridges over public
highw ays, SO as to protect travellers on the lat
ter.
HousE-Bills passed: Permitting bids to be
received for street improvement Of different
kinds Of material under the same resolution;
giving Justice OF the peace jurisdiction In
. cases which have been brought before him in
any part Of the county; providing for the re-
admission Of girls into the Girls Industrial
Home; amending Section 1885, relating to build
ing and loan companies. SO as to authorize
them to provide In their constitution for the
time and terms OF dissolution, consolidation
and to dispose or transfer their mortgage secu
rites; providing that birds, game and fish shall
be the property Of the person on whose lands
they may be; giving township trustees who
: have charge Of cemeteries power to appoint
! police.
COLUMBUS, March 9.-SENATE.-The Senate
met at 10 a. m. Prayer was offered by Rev
John Coleman Various bills were read sec
ond time and referred, after which the Senat,
, There were just fivo Senators present, and th'
( session lasted twenty minntes.
, HOUsE.-No session.
LOGAN COUNTY has paid out $4, SO5 dur
: ing the past few days for sheep killed by
dogs
: The whole number of hogs packet
In Cincinnati for the winter season from
a November 1, 1888, to March /, 1889, wa
= 8O0,0S2
ALEXANDER GALLAGHER, B. and o
|, freight conductor, had his right han,
cut of while making q coupling at Bell
> aire.
" JOHN w. SHowALTER was arrested a
Newark on q charge Of embezzement.
, WARREN WILLIAMS, alias Ragen,
a professional burglar, escaped from Jail a
= Tifan.
= THos. AaGUs, sR, aged sixty years, wa
4 arrested at Norwalk, for hiring boys +
steal.
A CoNorroN Valley train was wreoks,
near Coshocton, and several persons wer
seriously injured
. NEAR Mount Vernon q farmer name
h James Phillips made . brutal assault o.
/. the SON Of neighbor, named Wyant be
cause the boy had displeased him. Tn
lad 10 believed to be fatally injured. Phil
lips could not be found by the officer wh
went to arrest him.
WILLIAM KELso, . wealthy drover Q
Sabina, has been miss ing for several days
and 10 supposed to have met with foul play
He was last seen ct the East Libert
stock. k.yards, and had over $1,000 In hl
possession. Kelso was forty years Of az
and married.
;. JOE NOBLE and Henry Fritz, two Va
q Vert gamblers were arraigned befor
" Mayor May, Of Celina, on the oharg
of robbing one James Moore Of $14Q The
were bound over to the court in the sum
800.
NICK DuaAN was fatally injured at Linn,
while trying to break Texas pony hitche
to cart
FRED STRICKLAND, who was shot thre
times by Balm Cunningham, Mt Kentol
v several weeks ago, died ON the 4th frol
his wounds.
|" DAYTON has adopted standard time.
Ar Cambridge, VIM. Jones and Thomt