The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-23
Pop ton Representation.
DISTRICTS
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The foregoing is the plan submitted
" Secretary of State Ryan and agreed

Totals. s.e7a sie 81 81 al 81 81 81 @I SO 81 81
The foregoing is the plan submitted
by Secretary Of State Ryan and agreed
to by his vote and that of
Auditor of State Poe, Gov. Camp
bell voting in tho negative. When
Ryan's proposition was submit
ted the governor moved TO amend 1t rs
follows: That the Ninth and Fifteenth
senatorial districts be added to the list
Of districts, each and severally to be en-
titled to one senator in each session Of
the decennial period; that the following
joint senatorial districts provided for in
said motion be ahrogated, to wit: The
Ninth and Fourteenth, the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth, the Seventeenth and
Twenty-eighth, and the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth, and that in lieu thereof the
following joint senatorial districts be
created, to-wit: The Fourteenth and
Nineteenth senatorial districts shall
form one district, and such district so
constituted shall be entitled to one SEN
ator in cash session, and one additional
senator in the fifth session of the decen-
nial period. The Sixteenth and Seven
teenth senatorial districts shall form
one district, and such district SO
constituted shall be entitled to one SEN
ator IN each session Of the decennial
period. The Eighteenth and Twenty
eighth districts shall form one district
and such district 80 constituted shall be
entitled to one senator during each ses-
sion and one additional senator In the
fifth session of the decennial period.
The said amendment is offered for the
reason that the apportionmentp proposed
BY Mr.. Ryan does not take into consider
alton the fact that the joint senatorial
districts, as apportioned in 1881, are
now segregated and each senatorial
district restored to it's separate charac-
ter by the constitution; and for the fur
ther reason in that said apportionment
does not follow either universal or geo
graphical order in creating joint sem
atorial districts, and destroys, unneces-
sarily, the autonomy Of the Ninth and
Fifteenth senatorial districts. This
amendment was voted down by Ryan
and Poe and the original proposition
agreed to, after which the commission
adjourned sine die.
AT Kenton, Judge A. B. johnson gave
his charge to the grand jury regarding
the lynching Of William Bales, the muir
derer of Policeman Ed Harper, on the
9th inst. In his charge, after recount
ing the facts regarding the tragedy, the
Judge held that there was no excuse, no
palliation, no extenuation. II was q
deed Of violence and blood, IN act of
willful, deliberate, malicious murder;
It was the act Of cowards; II was an act
OF slander upon each member Of the
grand jury, in that 1t says they would
have violated their oaths, and on evi-
dence presented would have refused to
iudict He closes with pointing out the
duty Of the jury to indict oil as to whom
the testimony Is sufficient to show their
guilt, without fear, favor or affection.
Tho charge is the subject of widespread
comment both for and against.
AFTER short debate the senate the
other afternoon adopted the bill, pro-
viding for the distribution Of the direct
war tax. It provides that the money
e1, Ss4, o0b. .s8-shall be distributed as
follows: To the sinking fund, 81 ,O00,-
600; TO the general reserve fund, $685.
cases. The amount transferred to the
sinking fund shall be appropriated only
10 pay the funded debt of the state as
such debts or instalments thereof be-
come due, or can be redeemed, and in
case such debts can not be paid or re-
deemed before the same become due
the amount transferred, or any surplus,
shall be invested by the sinking fund
trustees as shall be directed by law.
KENroN grand jury failed TO indict
tho Bales lynchers. a,.,.
GEO. NEWMAN, of Miami county, has
been elected secretary 10 the board of
managers Of the penitentiary, Vice Dr.
J. B. McClain, resigned.
THE Schultz FIRE department bill
passed the senate and IL . law. It
raises the salaries of all members Of the
FIRE department except the chief. The
hremen are to receive 900 per month.
captains from Sl05 to Sis per month
snd telegraph operators are TO have
their pay increased $40 per month.
Gov. CAMPBELL has pardoned John
G Harter, who was received at the pen
itentiary from Jefferson county in 1852
on life-sentence for murder.
w. j. ELLIOTT win be tried at Colum.
bus, May II, for killing Osborne
DIR. B. w. DAVIS, an old physician OF
Marion, died Of pneumonia, aged rs.
COUNTY TREASURER BROOKS at Co.
lumbVs paid into the state treasury
eS14, ,92S.9s, and drew out for school
purposes $s7, 729 40.
The body of Mrs. JOHN Creagan,
buried in Rose Hill cemetery, Youngs.
town, three years ago, is found com.
pletely petrified
| JOHN LAIR, who was forced 10 mar
y Miss Mary @ Shafer, at Springfield,
4eserted his bride immediately after
She nsuhse eeremny.