The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-11
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

money IN tA1 treasury Win Whlch 10 pay IOf
the same; toprovide that the portion OF the
compensation Of q contractor on public i'm
provement reserved by the municipality OF
Columbus rs O guarantee for the quality Of the
work shall be invested in interost-bearing bonds
by the city sinking fund commissioners. Bills
introduced; TO fsThish the state house with
electric lights; authorizing administrators
executors, ETC., to BRING suit against the
estates Of their predecessors for any violations
OF the trust by the latter; TO fix the method Of
making the return and announcing the vote on
the constitutional amendments 20 be submitted
At the next state election. Read the second
time and referred to the committee on printing;
to authorize insurance companies to insure
against loss by explosion; 10 prohibit foreign
insurance companies from placing Ohio nsur.
ance policies in agencies outside tho state for
the purpose Of avoiding taxation; to authorize
the commissioners or any other proper officers
OF any county In Ohio lying along the state
boundary line 10 join with the commissioners
OF the adjoining county TO keep up or construct
bitches or drains
COLUMBUS, March 3f.-SENATE Bills passed:
To authorize the commissioners of Ciermont
county TO build q free turnpike road to provide
that the owner OF lands containing q stone
quarry or other mine, except natural gas or
petroleum, and not having an outlet into q
public highway, shall have the right OF way
through other private lands TO public high
way; 10 organize the intermediate penten-
tiary; 10 authorize the city of Sandusky to
lease wharves and docks; to authorize the city
of Cincinnati to purchase or condemn property
abuttng on the corporation line for the
purpose of making q street. Bills in
troduced: To authorize joint stock
companies 20 declare per cent dividends on
all their stock; to appropriate $1,000 for clean
ing out and eQual2ing the grade OF the Kirk
ersville feeder OF the Licking canal; to prohibit
insurance companies from placing policies taken
In Wi al Of ha etat for
the purpose Of avoiding taxation; to make II o
penitentiary Offense 10 seduce under promise
OF marriage, q woman OF any age.
HoUsE-Bills passed Regulating and reduc-
ing fees and salaries OF county officers; provid-
ing for the underground drainage of land.
COLUMBUS, April l.-SENhTE-Bills passed:
To authorize the electors OF a certain district in
Columbia and Sycamore townships, Hamilton
county, to vote a proposition to create o
special school district; to permit the school
board OF Goshen township, Champaign county
to contract with each other for the admission OF
pupils into ench others district; to give county
auditors the right to enter court and take action
TO secure an adjustment OF debts owing on
school lands disposed of to private individuals.
Bills introduced: To set aside October IL 1892
as q day OF celebration in the schools, II being
the four hundredth anniversary of the discov.
cry OF America; to provide that where a judg-
ment In suit for foreclosure of a mortgage has
defendant shall not retain both land and mon
ey; 10 provide for the purchase OF one thou
sand acres Of land and the erection OF buildings
at cost OF $40 900 for the custodial care OF i'm
beetles.
HoUsE-Bills passed: Authorizing the com.
missioners OF Hamilton county TO expend S60,-
600 In the construction of ''strong ward" ad-
dition to LonRview asylum; providing that
stepfather may adopt and thereby make heirs
Of minor children by the former husband OF his
wife; authorizing Sanduslty 10 lease wharves
and docks upon the navigable water; authoriz-
ing the construction OF n bridge over the Little
Miami river ut Milford, Clermont county.
COLUMBUS April 1.-SENATE. Bills passed:
To give tombstone makers the right to replevin
tombstones not paid for; to codify the building
and loan association laws and provide for the
inspection OF building and loan associations;
to refund certain taxes in Adams county col
lected by mistake; to give to the commissioner
of labor statistics authority to require manu-.
facturers, etc, to furnish data for the annual
| report OF tho department; to require telephone
companies to make annual reports to the state
| commissioner OF railroads and telegraph.
HOUsE,-Provding that q majority OF the
stockholders of corporation may order the
books to be opened for subscriptions; providing
that vicious and untaxed dogs should be killed
| providing for the reissue OF lost or destroyed
certificates OF stock in corporations; amending
section 40T7 r. s., as TO provide that school ex
nmners in cities should be required to hav
had only two instead OF five years experience
| az practical teachers; amending section 1886 X
| s., SO that ten days notice before trial shall b.
| sufficient to secure the return OF prisoners whit
have been removed from one county 10 anoihe
for saie-keeping; providing for tho repair o
| leyees built jointly by two or more land owners
further providing for the repairing and improve
ment OF 5ointcounty bitches; increasing the
| salary by six dollars week Of teachers at the
1t.,I
COLUMBUS, April 9.-SENATE.-Bnls passed:
| To make II an offense, punishable with fine
| from SO to $780, and imprisonment for sixty
| days to deduct from an employees pay any sum
| for the destruction or damage of tools; TO give
county auditors the right to correct the returns
| OF banks for taxation, and TO impose penalties
| on banks for false returns to authorize the city
| council OF Columbus to issue $4,000 bonds for
| the establishment OF hay markets; to limit the
regular rate Of taxation in Franklin county, eX-
| elusive of levies under special acts, to three
| mills; to provide that father aud mother, when
| living apart or divorced, shall be held as equal
| before the law in the custody Of children. Bill
| introduced: To make it offense for life in
surance companies to discriminate between
policy holders of the same class. Adjourned
| until Monday
HousE-Bills passed: Supplementing section
932, r. S. relating TO Children's homes, so as to
| provide for the keeping Of a record OF children
| who are indentured out; providing that chill
dren's aid societies may secure homes for or
| phans; revising the laws relating TO the publi-
cation OF executive documents and reports of
| state Institutions; giving the Toledo and Co
| lumbus railroad the right Of way through the
state university grounds; continuing for three
years from date the granite street Improvement
| law in Cincinnati; authorizing the Cincinnati
| board OF public improvements TO issue $50, OO(
bonds for park purposes; making the com
missioners of Belmont county party defend
ants in all suits arising under the act authoriz
ing the construction of pixies In Pultney town
ship.
CHARLES CRAIG, the Cincinnati col
ored murderer, sentenced to be eXecut.
ed in the pen annex on the morning o1
the 8rd, has been granted a new lease
of life to May7 Z.
JOHN BOWERS, of West Lodi, loaded
his gun for rabbits and shot himself.
A DEED that made the prince of dark.
ness blush for his followers, was the
blowing up of John Aulleny's house and
family with dynamite at Sycamore
Mr.. Aukeny is probably fatally hurt
but his wife and child escaped unin
jured.
A. E. Roth, of Tuscarawas, Tusca
rawas county, suicided by hanging him
self in the barn of his brother-in-law
John Kaderby, in New Philadelphia
Financial embarrassment is the cause
assigned. Mr.. Roth was democrat
and ex-postmaster of Tuscarawas. He
was Al years of age and leaves a widow
and two children.
S. BEEGHLEY has been appointed post
master at Scipio Siding, Seneca county