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OHIO. 



$23,941,133. The taxes for the fiscal year 1891 

 levied upon the foregoing basis of valuation 

 were as follow : For general revenue fund, $2,- 

 487,468.53 ; sinking fund, $533,028.39 ; common- 

 school fund, $1,778,138.72 ; total for State pur- 

 poses (2-7 mills) $4,798,635.64. The aggregate 

 taxes for county purposes were $9,083,946,74 ; for 

 township, city,' school, and special taxes. $21,- 

 061,378.63. The total levies made in 1890 for all 

 purposes, including per capita tax on dogs and 

 delinquincies, were $37,862,362.53. 

 . Live-Stock Statistics. According to the as- 

 sessors' returns for 1890, there were in the State, 

 owned and listed for taxation : Horses, 846,789 ; 

 cattle, 1,486,881; mules, 23,936; sheep, 3,594,- 

 800; hogs, 1,891,769. 



Railroads. The State Board of Equalization 

 makes Ihe following return of mileage and val- 

 uation of railroads in the State in 1890 : Miles 

 of main track, 7,131 ; second track, 616 ; branches.- 

 456; side track, 2,302; total mileage, 10,505; 

 grand total of value of taxable railroad property 

 of all kinds, $101,551,609. 



Banks. There were reported to the State 

 Auditor 228 national banks, with an aggregate 

 capital stock of $39,592,719, surplus $9,135,902, 

 and undivided profits $2,431,235 ; 61 savings and 

 other banks organized under State laws, with 

 a total capital stock of $3,761,610, surplus $532,- 

 948, undivided profits $311,543. There are 4 

 savings associations incorporated with no capital 

 stock, with an aggregate of deposits and un- 

 divided profits of $23,759,340.71. 



Personal Statistics. The number of youth 

 of school age (between six and twenty-one years), 

 as reported to the State Auditor from the several 

 counties, was 1,123,895; of deaf and dumb persons, 

 1,236 ; blind, 1,099 ; insane, 1,441 ; idiotic, 1 ? 345. 



Agricultural. The agricultural statistics 

 for the year ending on the second Monday in 

 April, 1890, show the following totals : 



Wheat : Acres sowed, 3,165,933 ; bushels produced, 

 31,663,448; number of acres sowed for harvest of 1890, 

 2,557,917 ; cost of commercial fertilizer bought for 

 crop of 1890, $1,682,645. Lands : Acres cultivated, 

 9,741,467 : number of acres in pasture, 6,205,297 ; 

 wood land, 3,767,338 ; acres lying in waste, 439,466 ; 

 total number of acres owned, 20,153,568. Wool: 

 Pounds *horn in 1889, 18,287,869; sheep killed by 

 dogs, 27,862, valued at $100,536 ; number injured by 

 dogs, 21,823, valued at $42,857. Domestic animals 

 died from disease : Hogs, 193,477, valued at $804,507 ; 

 sheep, 85,371, valued at $212,745 ; cattle, 19,375, val- 

 ued at $358,589 ; horses, 14.806, valued at $1,034,272. 

 Losses by floods : Live stock, $25,531 ; grain, $51,483; 

 houses, $14,457 ; fences, $27,745. 



Criminal Statistics. The sheriffs' returns 

 show the total number of prisoners confined dur- 

 ing the year ending June 30, 1890, in the jails of 

 the 88 counties to have been 9,402, of whom 

 7,184 were native born. Of these, 4,982 were na- 

 tives of Ohio and 2,490 were from other States. 

 The foreign countries are represented as follow : 

 British America, 78 ; England and Wales, 186 ; 

 France, 32 ; Germany, 491 ; Holland and Bel- 

 gium, 65; Ireland, 589; Italy, 61; Russia, 17; 

 Scotland, 48 ; Sweden and Norway, 21 ; Switzer- 

 land, 14 ; other countries, 63 ; unknown, 241. Of 

 the total number of prisoners, 7,414 were white 

 and 931 colored ; 8,154 were males and 769 fe- 

 males, and 1,114 were under age. There were 

 among the number 439 wholly illiterate, 3,992 



able to read and write, while 384 had received a 

 higher education. The total cost of maintenance 

 was $106,234.06, the daily average being $48.66. 



Legislative. The sixty-ninth General As- 

 sembly organized Jan. 6, with 19 Democrats 

 and 17 Republicans in the Senate, and 62 Demo- 

 crats and 52 Republicans in the House. The 

 new Governor and Lieutenant-Governor took 

 their respective offices Jan. 13. In his inaug- 

 ural address, Gov. Campbell recommended in- 

 vestigation into the subject of municipal re- 

 form, with the object of restoring to them 

 home rule where any of the cities had been de- 

 prived of it by subjecting them to gubernatorial 

 control. He urged at length the adoption of the 

 Australian ballot and other reforms in election 

 matters ; suggested various improvements in the 

 conduct of the benevolent institutions of the 

 State ; legislation in the direction of cheaper 

 school books; more liberal appropriations for 

 agricultural institutes ; more efficient methods 

 in forestry work ; the establishment of a perma- 

 nent camp for the State militia ; and the co-op- 

 eration by the Legislature in the work of estab- 

 lishing uniform commercial law. 



The election of a United States Senator to 

 succeed Hon. H. B. Payne was held Jan. 14. In 

 the Senate, Calvin S. Brice, of Allen County, re- 

 ceived 19 votes ; Charles Foster, of Seneca Coun- 

 ty, 14 ; and Murat Halstead, of Hamilton Coun- 

 ty, 1. In the House, Calvin S. Brice received 57 

 votes ; Charles Foster, 52 ; and Lawrence T. Neal, 

 1. In joint convention next day, the election of 

 Calvin S. Brice to be Senator for the term be- 

 ginning March 4, 1891, was declared. 



Notice of contest had been served upon Lieut.- 

 Gov. Elbert L. Lampson by his Democratic 

 opponent William V. Marquis, and the case 

 was decided by the Senate Jan. 30. Lamp- 

 son's plurality on the face of the returns 

 was 23, but Marquis claimed 505 illegal votes 

 had been cast for the Republican nominee. The 

 Senate, by a strictly partisan vote of 18 to 16, 

 decided that Lampson was not legally elected, 

 and that Marquis was. Mr. Lampson protested 

 and threatened to bring the case before the Su- 

 preme Court, but in a few days abandoned the 

 contest and left Mr. Marquis in undisturbed 

 possession of the presidency of the Senate. 



Among the bills of a general nature passed at 

 the first regular session of the Legislature, the 

 most important were the following : 



To prevent deception in the sale of dairy products, 

 and to preserve public health. 



To redistrict the State for congressional purposes. 



To amend the act providing for paying wages twice 

 a month. 



To provide against accidents on railroads and limit 

 the hours of service. 



To amend the compulsory education law. 



For the protection and relief of railroad employe's: 

 forbidding certain rules, regulations, contracts, and 

 agreements, and declaring them unlawful ; declaring 

 it unlawful to use cars or locomotives that are defect- 

 tive or defective machinery or attachments thereto 

 belonging, and declaring such corporation liable, in 

 certain cases, for injuries received by its servants and 

 employe's on account of the carelessness or negligence 

 of a fellow servant or employe". 



To prevent the engagement of children at any em- 

 ployment whereby their lives and limbs may be en- 

 dangered, or their health injured, or their morals are 

 likely to be impaired. 



