OHIO. 



The report of the Commissioner of Schools shows 

 also 27,327 students in private schools and 7,990 

 in universities and colleges. 



Military. The total strength of the Ohio Na- 

 tional Guard is 5,302, organized in 2 military bri- 

 gades, comprising 6 regiments of infantry, 4 bat- 

 talions of infantry, 1 battalion of engineers, 6 

 batteries of light artillery, and a cavalry troop. 

 There is also a naval brigade of 2 battalions, 

 with headquarters at Cleveland and Toledo. 



State Institutions. The State educational, 

 benevolent, and penal institutions include the 

 Ohio State I'niversity at Columbus, Ohio Univer- 

 sity at Athens, Miami University at Oxford, com- 

 bined normal and industrial department of Wil- 

 berforce University, Ohio Institution for the Blind 

 at Columbus, Ohio Institution for the Educa- 

 tion of the Deaf and Dumb at Columbus, Ohio 

 Institution for the Education of Feeble-minded 

 Youth at Columbus, Girls' Industrial Home at 

 Kai h bone. Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at 

 Sandusky, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' 

 Home at Xenia, Boys' Industrial School near 

 Lancaster, Athens State Hospital, Cleveland State 

 Hospital, Columbus State Hospital, Dayton State 

 Hospital, Longview Hospital at Carthage, Mas- 

 Mi N .n State Hospital, Ohio Hospital for Epileptics 

 at Gallipolis, Toledo State Hospital, Ohio Peni- 

 tentiary at Columbus, Ohio State Reformatory at 

 Mansfield. 



Railroads. The railroad mileage in 1900 was 

 8,691, of which 8,132 miles were main line and 

 559 miles branches and spurs. The earnings, as 

 reported to the Commissioner of Railroads and 

 Telegraphs, were $86,049,117.88, being an increase 

 of $13,679,269.20 on the previous year. The Ohio 

 dividends reported aggregated $6,367,746.04, an in- 

 crease of $983,417.39. There were 512 fatal acci- 

 dents, an increase of 122 over 1899. Of the whole 

 number killed 11 were passengers, 164 employees, 

 258 trespassers, and 79 travelers on the highway. 



Live Stock. The report of the Auditor, show- 

 ing the number of domestic stock animals in the 

 State, as returned by the several county auditors, 

 with the changes from the returns of the preced- 

 ing year, gives these figures: Horses, 711,146, in- 

 crease 5,949; cattle, 1,427,661, increase 75,943; 

 mules, 14.521, decrease 148; sheep, 2,544,070, in- 

 crease 26,710; swine, 1,489,518, decrease 60,596. 



Legislative Session. The seventy-fourth Gen- 

 eral Assembly organized Monday, Jan. 1. and ad- 

 journed Monday, April 16, after enacting into 

 laws 556 bills. Among those of general interest 

 were the following. 



Putting foreign stockholders in Ohio concerns 

 under the double-liability law. 



Relieving Ohio holders of stock in foreign cor- 

 porations from double taxation. 



Permitting the consolidation of lighting com- 

 panies. 



Requiring all private banking institutions to 

 list their property for taxation in the same man- 

 ner as incorporated and national banks. 



Requiring all insurance companies formed on 

 the stock plan to have a capital stock of not less 

 than $100.000. 



Providing that no part of a fire risk shall be 

 renewed in a company not authorized to do busi- 

 ness in Ohio. 



Supplementing the anti-compact law so as to 

 prevent insurance companies combining for the 

 purpose of controlling agents' rates. 



Requiring steam railways to construct suitable 

 waiting rooms at all stations. 



Providing for an eight-hour working day. 



Creating a State Board of Examiners "of En- 

 gineers. 



Requiring that music be taught in all public 

 schools. 



Providing that instruction in the evils of alcohol 

 be given in the public schools. 



Providing for the centralization of township 

 schools. 



Permitting controlling political committees to 

 purchase voting machines when a majority of the 

 electors voting are in favor. 



Granting two hours to factory and mill hands 

 on Election Day to go to the polls. 



Regulating the practice of medicine. 



Amending the game laws so as to make the 

 open season from Nov. 10 to Dec. 1, and requir- 

 ing a written permission from the owner of the 

 property. 



Providing for the appointment of county game 

 __ wardens, vested with police powers. 



The political complexion of the Legislature was: 

 Senate Republicans 19, Democrats 11, Independ- 

 ent Republican 1 ; House Republicans 62, Demo- 

 crats 48. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held at Columbus, April 24 and 25, and the 

 following ticket was nominated: For Secretary of 

 State, Lewis C. Laylin; Supreme Court Judge, 

 John A. Shauck; Member of Board of Public 

 Works, Charles A. Goddard; School Commis- 

 sioner, Lewis D. Bonebrake; Dairy and Food 

 Commissioner, Joseph E. Blackburn. With the 

 exception of the head of the ticket all these were 

 renominations. The convention also named for 

 State presidential electors Myron T. Herrick and 

 W. P. Orr, and for delegates-at-large to the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention, Joseph B. Foraker, 

 Charles Dick, George K. Nash, Charles H. Gros- 

 venor. The platform commended the administra- 

 tion of President McKinley. and declared that : 



" It has met an unavoidable war for humanity 

 with unequaled vigor and success, has crowned 

 the matchless triumph of our arms on sea and 

 land with the courageous acceptance of its high 

 and solemn obligations, has faithfully studied 

 and sought equally the true honor of the nation 

 and the greatest good of the peoples who have 

 come under our flag, and has, through the wise 

 use of expanded opportunity, led our country on 

 pathways of greatness and renown. 



" We reaffirm the principles in which the Repub- . 

 lican party had its birth and on which Abraham 

 Lincoln was elected President, that the repre>en- 

 tatives of the people have full power over territory 

 belonging to the United States, in harmony with 

 and subject to the fundamental safeguards of our 

 free institutions for liberty, justice, and personal 

 rights. We sustain the President and Con_ 

 in exercising this power with due regard for the 

 sa fety and welfare of the Union, and with the most 

 just, generous, humane, and fraternal consideration 

 for those over whom the authority of the nation 

 is extended. We advocate for them free schools 

 full security for life, liberty, and property, tin 

 most liberal measures for the development of their 

 agriculture and industry, and the largest decree 

 of local self-rule for which they are fitted. 



"We recoi_mi/e in (Jcorge K. Nash a Governor 

 worthy of our highest confidence and unqualiliei 

 support. The administration of our State atl'air' 

 liy liim and his official associates lias been clean. 

 efficient, and commendable, and its policy tcndiiur 

 to good government, economy, and wisdom." 



The Democratic State Convention was held a; 

 Columbus. June 12 and 13, and the following 

 ticket was nominated: For Secretary of Stati, 

 Henry II. McKadden: Supreme Court Judge, Allen 

 Smaliey: Member of Board of Public Works, Peter 

 W. Brown; School Commissioner, Joshua I). Simp 





