The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


COLUMBUS, April I-SENATE Bills intro
duced Providing that school board vacancies
shall be filled by the board within ten days after
the vacancy occurs, except in township dis.
trois; providing that the Attorney General
shall advise prosecuting attorneys in criminal
matters. Aaron +. Perry. Thomas Sherlock,
| Theodore Cook John F. Follett, Lewis Season
| good, Isaac NJ. Jordan, NJ B Hagans j. Il.
| Stevenson, Frank T. Jones, Richard Smith and
| William z. Anderson nominated as trustees Ohio
| Medical college, Cincinnati, for ten years from
January I, 1891; George w. Woodbridge, oil
Washington County, nominated trustee Ohio
university, vice his father, resigned. joint
resolution was offered by Mr.. Van Cleaf, pro-
| viding for the purchase of twelve hundred vol
umes of Henry Howes' History OF Ohio, TO be
distributed to public libraries throughout the
State.
HOUSE journal read and recess taken
COLUMBUS, April s-SE NATE Bills passed:
II. b. for school bonds at Waynesfeld, Auglaize
| County; transferring to st. Mary's Village,
| Auglaize County certain school territory;
school bonds at Archibold, Fulton County;
constituting Corning and vicinity, Perry Coun
ty, q special school district; school bonds at
South Ridge, Henry County; to prevent excess
of expenditures over receipts in Cleveland
| S. Il increasing from 500 to 5000 the annual
compensation of the superintendent Of instruc
tion at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
| Home; TO authorize the board Of education to
order flags displayed over school buildings; in
creasing the board OF trustees OF Wilberforce
University to eight; TO require life insurance
companies TO make statements to Insurance
| Commissioner and policy-holders; to refund to
| inlrmary directors amount paid to township
trustees for burial OF unknown poor.
HoUSE.-Bills passed: S. B. to limit burdens
hauled on macadam2ed and toll roads to fifteen
hundred pounds, except when ground is frozen;
to make eligible to parole convicts imprisoned
on several counts after penalty for one count is
served; to authorize the Treasurer OF Clinton
| County to refund pro rata excess OF road tax; to
authorize municipalities to purchase private
water-works; allowing soldier organizations to
form insurance companies; giving probate
courts concurrent jurisdiction with common
pleas courts in criminal cases in Noble County;
! to authorize commissioners TO furnish bedding,
etc, to prisoners in county jails II. B. TO allow
incorporated societies to sue or be sued by their
name; to give liverymen a lien for keep of
animal, whether left by owner person en-
titled to possession
COLUMBUS April 9.-SENATE.-Bills istro-
duced: Authorizing the use OF school-house
| at West Union, Adams County, for private
school. Bills passed: II. b. for school bonds
at West Unity Williams County; 100000 arm
| ory bonds at Columbus; s. b. defining the du.
ties of county commissioners in regard to pub
lie contracts; $4,000 town hall bonds ut Fern
bank. Hamilton County; to require guarantee
fund in case of street contracts Oren school
book bill.
| Is.
| sorry education Law so rs to require children TO
begin school with the school year; deficiency
| bill to require county commissioners to inclose
abandoned burial grounds. The resolution for
a Commission to investigate and report on mu-
ncipal reform was lost The owen law amend
ment was postponed to next Wednesday.
COLUMBUS, April 10.-SENATE. Bills passed:
| II. B. fixing the compensation OF county, city
and State Boards of Equalization OF appraise
| ment of real estate at same as was paid ten
years ago; to detach lands from Findlny
HoUSE.-Bns passed. II. b. supplementing
| Section 1888 so as to provide that county com
missioners may locate joint bitches, and in case
of failure to agree upon apportioning assess
ment, probate judge may appoint three per
sons, non resident of counties affected, to ad-
| Just same; to amend Section zoos so as to pre-
| vent prosecuting for cruelty TO animals of per-
sons shooting dogs and failing to kill: to author
ize probate courts to arbitrate disputes between
street railway companies whose cars run over
| the same tracks increasing TO eight members
| board OF trustees, Wilberforce University; Civ
| ing Cleveland mayor veto power in certain
cases; one-fourth mill taxes for expenses of the
| celebration of the settlement of the Northwest
| Territory at Gaipolis.
COLUMBUS. April 1l.--SENATE.-Bills intro
duced Authorizing the Cincinnati and Cleve-
| land Boards OF Election to appoint their own
| clerks; providing for reissue of lost or de-
stroyed certificates of stock in corporations;
!
estate OF decedents in certain cases. Bills pass
| ed: ii. b. for q special tax in Gallia County to
pay expenses of the celebration of the settle
ment OF the Northwest Territory; for SG) 900
| bridge at Federal street, Youngstown; rcquir-
| ing saving banks to list deposits for taxation;
| $50, 900 road bonds, Lucas County; road levy in
Gorham Township, Fulton County; TO prevent
road supervisors from working out tax other
than their own; to make members OF the
| Legislature ineligible 10 be trustees Of State
institutions; special road tax in Belmont Coun
| ty; S. b. for two and half cent railroad
| fare.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To give justices
jurisdiction in truant cases; to abandon the
Miami and Erie Canal in Cincinnati; TO provide
that trainmen shall not go on duty after being
employed for twenty-four consecutive hours
without eight hours rest; to allow petitioners
| for road to appeal TO the probate court TO
| make costs abide the decision of trial court
| in cases on error from justices courts; TO make
| the first Monday in September legal holiday
known as Labor Day. to provide that in the
absence of q contract eight hours shall consti-
tute days work; to authorize the Governor
| to deed lands in Union County; TO consolidate
| the management of State institutions under
one board OF trustees; TO provide for the cleo
tion of school boards in village districts divided
| into wards; to authorize the trustees of the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home to con-
tract for water supply. Bills passed: S. b. TO
authorize Toledo to issue bonds for sewer i'm
provements, to be paid by special assessments;
authorizing the commissioners OF Hamilton
County to refund taxes enormously collected;
S. 3. for 100000 bonds for bridge at Federal
street Youngstown; $4,000 natural gas bonds
at Ottawa, Putnam County; transfer 500 from
the corporation to the school fund at Attica
Seneca County; give the Shelby County COM
missioners control OF roads; $1,000 soldiers
monument bonds, Center Township, Wood
| County; to provide for Il resident physician at
the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at
| $1,000. Adjourned to Monday at p. m.
APRIL was Marietta's day. 1t was
two years more than a century since the
Northwest was occupied there by the
Ohio Company. Pioneer day was most
appropriately celebrated in honor of the
event. A large gathering met at City
Hall. Addresses were made by General
Warner, Rev. NJ. Dickinson, Hon. r. NJ
Stimson and Beman Gates, who also
read poem written one hundred years
ago, descriptive of foot-race between
Colonel Sproat and Rev. Daniel Stone.
Over five hundred sat down to bounti-
full pioneer dinner.
JAMES C. YOUNG, formerly prosecut,
ing attorney of Montgomery County.
was found dead in his bed at Dayton.
A TERRIFIC storm swept the outskirts
of Norwalk on the night of the Sth,
completely demolishing houses, barns
nd In 4.