The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-23

per year; providing tndt insurance companies
shall not place In agencies outside Of Ohio poll
ces taken in this state; limiting to six feet the
width Of sidewalks constructed outside OF mu.
nicipal corporations; authorizing landowners
to Improve lands within the highway by con-
struction Of sidewalks when abutting on their
property.
HousE-Bills passed: Authorizing South
the police, 500 from the town hall and 500 from
the general fund to the street fund. Authorizing
the mayor, instead Of the council, Of Cleveland
to appoint members of the board Of equaliza-
tion. Amending the law relating to street i'm
provements in Toledo, by permitting assess
ments to be made on other than abutting prop
erty. Extending the time two weeks in which
She annual board Of equalization Of Portsmouth
must complete its work. Authorizing county
commissioners 10 provide an armory for compa-
MES OF the national guard and to pay for same
out OF the county fund. Repeating IN act pro.
viding for separate duplicate for taxes In Lu.
cas- county. Authorizing the trustees Of Syca-
more township, Wyandot county to issue $4,000
in bonds for improvements
CoLuMBus April Is l5-sENArE-Bills passed:
Providing that the commissioners of each ooun-
ty shall appoint an advisory board, consisting
of three ladies, to assist in the supervision OF
the county ohildrens home; to permit Texas
cattle to be unloaded In Ohio for immediate
slaughter, to require the isolation of the stock.
infection of cars in which they arc shipped, and
to require county prosecutors to prosecute vio.
laters of the law; to provide that physicians and
surgeons, answering urgent calls, may ride on
freight trains az their own risk and on paying
the regular fore; to provide that every insur.
ance company doing business in Ohio must pub
lish in each county the certificate
lowing to do business in the
state; 10 provide that township clerks shall pub
lish the annual financial statements OF the town.
ships at the same time and place
with the publication of the spring
election notice; TO permit the use of school
houses as meeting places for farmers and other
lubor organizations; to provide that In crimi.
nal cases the state may prosecute proceedings
in error; TO prov de that county commissioners
must find refuge outside OF infrmaries for pau
per children; to mako II misdemeanor TO
tap telegraph or telephone line and steal mes
sages.
HousE-A large number Of bills Of local
nature were passed. Bills introduced: To fix
the compensation Of county oficials; to make
the giving or taking OF money at primary
election or county convention, for the pur-
pose of influencing votes an offense punisha-
BILE with e3OO fine aud three months imprison.
ment.
COLUMBUS, April l16.-S1NATE BILLS passed,
To make 1t an onense TO break into hon house,
theft; 10 provide that railroad train man shaA
not bs required to work more than twenty -four
hours at . stretch and TO make ton hours q
working day on railroads; 70 provide that .
guardian or executor, when filing his statement
with the probate court must report funds on
hand, and rate OF interest paid on investments;
TO give the court discretion to omit or order sp-
praisement of household furniture when . tes-
tator requests that the appraisement be omit
ted; 10 provide that when road which has
been petitioned for 10 granted the township
shall pay for the survey; to provide that more
thnn fifty per cent. Of the creditors OF assigned
debtor may ask for the removal Of an assignee
with whom they are dissatisfied, and elect
another assignee.
Houss-The question of providing . more
economical method Of furnishing relief TO the
poor, occupied the attention OF tho house dur
ing the forenoon. The bill sbolishes tho once
OF infrmRry director and transfers their duties
to the county commits sioners, and o supertn-
tendent TO be elected by the commissioners for
any period not exceeding three years. Tue
bill was defeated The house this afternoon
by vote Of IS to 18 passed Senator Corcoran's
bill authorizing the construction Of sub.ways
and underground oonduits In Cincinnati tn
which to place electric wires cables and other
electrical conductors
COLUMBUS, April N.-SxNATI-Bnls passed,
To provide that land owner may :hsve the
IiBut OI way tuIOu8u ouJOiuluS Ibuu IOt uuV0G
ground drama provided the drains donot injure
crops, the township trustees being required "a
prescribe the route; to provide that the record
ing Of the release Of . mortgage shall be Z
discharge Of the mortgage; TO provide thai
suits In bastardy must be entered within two
years after the commission OF the ofiense; u
permit corporations to guarantee the payment
Of eight per cent dividends each year; 70 pro
vide that the owner OF . majority OF stock OF {
corporation may at any time call . meeting and
elect officers to take tho places OF the ofacera
elected at the hrst OF the yesr; 10 authorise
villages In Hamilton county TO loan 70 theil
credit for the construction Of sidewalkA Ad
tourned 70 4p. m. Aoadsy.
HoUsA bills passed: Providing for lsvy
for street lighting in Toledo; amending ssettou
6e58. r. g., 20 - to require foreign MUTUAL dre
insurance companies TO como under tbe same
restrictions % home oompanies and 70 require
them TO give security in Ohio whom they have
to do 50 In their homo state, and to express the
same In their policies; providing for tho CON
struction OF levees on lake fronts In Lucas and
Ottawa counties; suthonxing the imposition n
brafy ct the Cincinnati hospital; authorship
surveyor OF Hamilton county 70 replace seotior
corners; providing that the auditor OF Cuyaho
60 county may call together, whenever deemed
best the county or city board Of sQualizstios
for purpose Of taking into consideration prop
erty that had been Destroyed BY nYe. Mr.. Hun
intreducsd bill providing that in counties o
. population between %, 00o and $1,000 the com
missionsrs shall be paid . salary Of s70o and q
other county officers $1,000.
A PORTABLE saw-mill boiler on tn
T. W. Dobbins farm, about mile wesN
of Lima, exploded with terrific force
scalding man named Sigler to destl
and injuring several others.
KocH's lymph has cured three case
Of consumption and one OF lupus q
l. Hamilton.
AT Urbana, Rivers Piatt, who cut
| slice Of the nose of Russell Williamson
last October, was sentenced to eighteel
months in the penitentiary.
In the Toledo police court four keer
ers of gambling houses, raided the 9th
er night, pleaded guilty and were fine
500 and costs each. Two pleaded no
guilty and will be tried. Forty gam
blers forfeited bail, S16 each, and sew
| enteen will stand trial
GEORGE WEBER, yard conductor @
the New York, Pennsylvania and Obi