The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


authorize the village council OF LeesburR, Ross
county TO issue q, 800 bonds for street Improve
ment purposes and tho payment OF debts; TO
require surety companies, organized in other
states and doing business in Ohio TO make an
nuAl reports 70 the state insurance commits
sioner, and to place with him each 5000 900 In
United States, state or municipal bonds; to
transfer TO the Portsmouth public library fund
tho proceeds OF a tax levy Of two-tenths OF n
mill by clerical error credited TO the building
fund OF the board OF education.
HoUsE-Bils passed: Authorizing the ap-
pointment OF arbitrators to determine the value
Of abstract of restored records destroyed by the
Cincinnati courthouse FIRE; taking of the 30
per cent. penalty assessed against property
owners in cities OF the second grade, fourth
class, VIII fail TO construct sidewalks; TO con-
sent TO the purchase by the u. s. government
Of a site in Canton for government building
Bills introduced: Amending Sections 10, IL and
i8 OF the compulsory education law so as to
authorize boards OF education to supply cloth
ing to INDECENT pupils; providing that county
commissioners shall pay expenses Of opening
up q road; to admit defendants to bail in bas.
tardy proceedings when an appeal is taken; to
require owners OF stock in corporations organ
lied in other states to return their stock for
taxation in this state.
COLUMBUS March l7.-SENATE BILLS passed:
To permit defendants In replevin suits TO give
bond and retain possession Of property, the
plaintiff II he wins the suit to have ground for
an action for damages for the retention OF the
property; making 1t an offense to tamper with
the pipes or other works OF gas companies;
abolishing the fee system of paying the mayor
OF Hamilton, and providing that he shall be
paid annual salary OF 81, 500 to authorize the
commissi oners OF Mahoning county to
issue $4,000 bonds to meet deflcien-
| cies; to increase to fifteen the
number OF aids on the governors military staff
IlilIa Introduced. IN M hn in nf
static nary engines and the licensing Of station
ary engineers in all cities and villages; to pro-
vide for the appointment by the probate court
Of Seneca county of nonpartisan boards OF re-
vision in Tiffin and Fostoria-
HoUsE.-The following bills were passed
Dividing Middleton township, Columbana
county, into two election precincts; providing
for the payment OF 81 ,97O to Drs. c. NJ. Gallo
way and S. S. Wilson for medical services rem
dered in the diphtheria epidemic at the sol
diers' and sailors orphans home.
COLUMBUS, March IS. SENATE. Bills passed:
| TO require abstracters OF titles to give bond in
$1,000 each; providing that If property-owner
refuse to accept the amount offered by mum
| Cipal council for the condemnation OF land and
going to law, lose the case he shall pay the costs
OF the trial. to change the ratio OF interest which
bonds issued by Toledo in loaning the city =
credit for street improvements, may bear from
four and half to Ave per cent. per annum; TO
provide that when real estate, which is the
joint property OF heirs is sold at legal sale, the
mortgage securing deferred payment shall be
filed with the sheriff OF the county in which
the land is situated. 10 authorize the trustees
| OF Union township, Brown county, to trans
| fer funds; to authorize the commissioners of
| Brown county to transfer funds; to empower
the governor to deed cetain land in Butler
county to o. V. Parrish, on condition agreed
upon by Parrish and the canal commission.
Bills introduced: To appropriate 81 600 for the
erection of monuments at Fort Amanda and
| Fort Barbee, Auglaize county, to soldiers OF
the war Of 1912 buried there; to make it In of.
tense, punishable with 900 fine and three
| years imprisonment in the penitentiary, to tap
telegraph or telephone wires for the purpose OF
stealing kilograms
| HoUsE--The contested elections bill was under
discussion in the house, but no definite action
was taken. The democratic caucus decided to
pass the Cincinnati charter bill without amend
| ment.
COLUMBUS, March Is. .-SENArE--Bi passed
| To require winners to label wines as pure, COM
pound or adulterated; to appropriate 500 ,0OC
for the arrangement and display of the products
| OF Ohio at the Worlds Columbian exposition OF
| 1898; to include county inflrmary directors in
| those officials whose bondsmen may, on appli-
cation, be relensed to levy tax OF one-twen-
tieth Of u mill on the property OF the
state for the support of Ohio state
| university, 10 TeRuluLe foreign DulluluB
| and loan associations doing business in Ohio; to
authorize the commissioners of Rchland coun-
| ty to levy an additional tax for macadamizing
nnd improving the road from Mansfield to the
intermediate Penitentiary; to authorize the
village councilW Carrollton Carroll county, tc
issue IS. 900 bonds for general improvement pur.
poses
HoUsE.-The house passed the bills to pre-
vent railroad companies hiring inexperienced
. ! conductors and the Cincinnati charter hill
COLUMBUS, March h20.-SENATE-Bnls passed
To authorize the trustees of Pleasant town
ship Hardin county, to transfer funds; to au
thorize the village council OF Edison, Morrow
county, to issue bonds for the completion OF
| town hall; to authorize the board Of education
OF Portsmouth to issue bonds for the purpose
of purchasing a site and erecting schoolhouse
The senate adjourned TO p. m. Monday.
HOUSE. - The following bills were passed
to-day Providing that when village schoo
district becomes too large, more territory car
be taken in and the district divided withou
action by the Legislature; providing for the lay
ing Of natural gas pipes in Toledo; authorizing
the commissioners Of Hamilton to improve tn,
Mill road, in Hamilton county; authorizing tn,
commissioners of Hamilton county to improv,
Montgomery road; authorizing the commission
ers OF Hamilton county to improve Edward
road; transferring certain money in Portsmouth
from the school building fund TO the librar
fund; transferring certain funds in Leesburg
Highland county; authorizing Toledo to issu
$4,000 bonds for new patrol house. Represen
tative Davis introduced bill to authorize tn
commissioners of Mahoning county to issu
$50, 600 in bonds for the improvement of tn
Market street bridge in Youngstown. 1t wa
referred to the two members from Mahoning.
FIRE in Cincinnati damaged the Bied
niger Paper Co., and Sherman ii. Gere
dealer in chemicals, to the extent o
$40, 600.
A JOINT resolution of Mr.. McKelve,
} providing for an investigation by tn
state board of health of impurities il
the water of the Ohio river, was adopte,
by the house.
DANIEL WIssINGER, a prominent cit
zen of Springfield, was paralyzed ol
the entire right side while at dinner tn
other day.
= LA GRIPPE is raging to an alarming
extent throughout Fayette county. Il
number of the rural districts the pub
| lie schools have been closed on accoun
of majority of the pupils being i'll. 1,
Washington, G. II. entire families ar
down with the malady, and even tn
physicians are affected.
The Cincinnati woman's Christian as
sociation is 22 years old.
: A LITTLE boy named Martin, year
old, died at jackson, few days age
under distressing circumstances Iii
father, John Martin, stable-keeper a
Huron Furnace, while working with
i pitchfork accidentally struck the boy