The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Legislative procccdings.

COtUMnuS April 20. HO.-SENATE. .--Bills passcW
II. Bs providing penalties for negligence r
opening and closing swinging brldgcs author
izing Cleveland to issue bonds for street i'm
provcments; authorizing trustees OF Washing
ton Township, Richand County, TO trnnfes
funds; changing manner OF distribution OF Dow
liquor tax: providing for tir observance OF
first Monday in September OF each year as le-
gal holiday to be known as Labor Days" cor
recting error In the enrolment cf the oppropri
ton bill: constituting Attors cNGencrai ana
Adjutant General commission to Xix terms OF
right OF way through State stone'quarry; au.
thorizng transfer OF funds from bureau OF
Statistics OF Labor to Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics; providing for the payment OF claims
awarded by Arbitration Commission for dam
nges resulting from overflow OF tho canal at
Cincinnati.
HOUSE Not in session.
COLUMBUS. April sS SENATE. Tho nomina-
tion of Peter II. Brady us trustee Of the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Home ut Snndusky was
confirmed Lioutenaut.G Governor Marquis de-
livcred farewell address, returning ihunks TO
the Senators und officers. and then declared the
Senate adjourned until Tuesday, January 0,
1891 at p IN. Senator Adams then presented
Mr.. Marquis with II Eold.hcadcd caro- on behalf
OF the page boys. Mr. Marquis responded grace.
fully. MIR. Adams also presented Scrgcant-at-
Arms Morllcn with n cane from the page boys.
The boys also guve fine umbrella to Sergeant
alarms Trevitt.
HoUsE-Scvcral local bills were passed. Tho
resolution to allow the Sergeant Arms, page
boys and House employees ten days extra pay,
which was defeated Saturday, went through
without any trouble, and all Of them were made
happy. resolution authorizing the ruyment
OF 800 for supplies was adopted. Speaker
Hysel was presented with an oil painting of
himself Colonel BlenlSner was presented with
fine gold headed cane. Adjourned until Tues
day, January O. 1891.
ROBERT WIlx.IAMs, member of the
Ohio House from Prcble County, has re-
signed.
The validity of the Toledo natural
gas act will be tested.
MADAME LYDIA DEvEIE was convict
ed of forgery at Toledo.
CHAs. T. FREEMAN has been appointed,
chief of police at Dayton.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has accepted the
resignation of Insurance Commissioner
Kemp.
DIR. j. A. MORTON, the newly-ap-
pointed Railroad Commissioner will
also draw q salary as auditor of Seneca
County.
THE Governor has appointed James A.
Henshall, of Hamilton County, as q
member of the Fish and Game Commits
sion, and Secretary of State Ryan and
Adjutant General Hawkins as members
of the board of visitors to the College
Hill Military Institute.
JOHN j. HEATING, alias Charles Clark,
aged II years, received from Hamilton
County, April, 1889, on n three years.
sentence for grand larceny, was trans
ferred from the penitentiary to the Boys
Industrial School, a few days ago, by or
der of the Governor.
An English syndicate has bought an
iron mill at Martins Ferry, and is nego-
tiating for another.
DAVID NJ. JONES was nominated to be
postmaster at Napoleon.
MRS. FITZsIMMoNs, an aged lady of
Newark, was perhaps fatally injured,
the other day, by falling backward down
a stairway from chair while cleaning
woodwork.
RAILROAD Commissioner James A.
Norton has taken charge of his depart
ment.
GENERAL JOHN G. MITCHELL has as
sumed charge of the Pension Agency at
Columbus.
A CoLoRED woman ninety-two years
Tenn, to Cleveland, in search of her,
son.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has appointed
Charles Il. Brown and M. S. Forbus to
succeed Messrs Dodds and Boyle as po-
lice commissioners for Cincinnati.
A TRAIN on the Pittsburgh. Akron
and Western road was run into by one
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton at Lima. An engineer and two
tramps were killed.
WM. DowELL, of Muskingum Town
ship, Muskingum County, has pure
albino raccoon, captured alive by his
son. Its fur is as white as snow and it's
eyes are pink.
ADJUTANT GENERAL HAWKINS has ac-
cepted the resignation of Patrick X.
Otis, First Lieutenant of Company d,
First regiment, Cincinnati, and dis
banded for incfiiciency and lack of dis
cipline Companies C and G, of tho Sixth
regiment, located at Manchester and
Macarthur, respectively.
. The constitutionality OF the law Gre
ating the Columbus board of public
works will be tested
THE ten-year-old son of John Brewer,
prominent farmer of Clifton, Clarke
County, while playing on tho top of
high fence, jumped off and jammed a
portion of shingle squarely into his
mouth, tearing the palate and vocal
cords frightfully. His recovery is very
doubtful.
OVER $50, 900 worth of damage suits
will be brought soon against the city of
Springfield by victims of the recent
bridge disaster. One
attorneys firm alone has seventeen petit
tions in preparation, four of which are
for $4,000 apiece and the others rangingk
from So, 500 up.
WIN. H. SIMoNToN has been appointed
clerk Of the Franklin County courts, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Theodore Beck.
CoLoNELJ. NJ. CRAWFORD has declined
the superintendency of the Girls Indus
trial Home on account Of ill-health.
ANDREw FISHER, farm hand, age 90
years, was found dead in his bed at
farm house near Piqua a few days ago
AT GAINESVILLE, the siX-year-old daugh-
ter OF A. Il. Amer was badly burned the
other evening by upsetting a coffee-pot.
HARRY Work, aged six years, was ia
tally injured, near Millersburg, by the
accidental discharge Of a revolver.
HERCULES CARTEL, president OF the
(ipripnati nry nnolr H1,na,nv I;nd ~