860 



OHIO. 



"inn, and tlu-u fr two years at It. rim in the 



T, where her success in the dramas 



nofLaube,by 



whom in 1882 she was engaged for the 

 Thea- which the helped greatly to 



maintain in iU leading place among the theaters 

 of German lands during thirty-six yean tha 

 VM eooaected with it. I! figure, carriage, 



and features were adapted to the representat : 

 a great variety of heroic parts, and she possessed a 

 viing all kinds and degrees of 

 rfpertoirt contained a large in. 

 of tin prim-iiia! iniNlem dramas, but she was great- 

 cWic roles of Plunlra. Lady Ma 

 ..i. r,. mi teas Orsina. 



-:ipj.ho. Messaliim. Antigone, and Maria 

 Stuart. At the beginning of I , an -r -In- 



inarr:.-i Count o'Sullivan de Grass, secretary of the 

 Belgian legal i 



ton I .Imond ( li.i ~ t, l..,rn in 



h ::i. isu ; died ti 



!! U-^'aii his career l.y unking wood 

 and etchings very ably treated for .iitT.T.-nt illus- 

 trated publications. Later he devoted himself ex- 

 velv to landscape painting, exploring M<>m 

 mart re before its rural beauties vanish ed. am 1 after- 

 ward pain' '.inks .f tin* Seine. Mann-, ami 

 Oise, rendering with great delicacy the trun-j ,. 

 of grass and reed-. He made interesting lan-i- 

 also of Holland and the south <: For thirty 

 years he exhibited regularly in the salons of tin- 

 Palais d'lndustry ami in the exhibitions of the 

 aquarellists and pa-trllMs. 



oil |o. ' trai West ra State; admitted to the 

 l"nion in 1SK{ ; )K)jnlation according to the last 

 census (1890) 3,666,719, it being the fourth in rank 

 of the States; area, according to the 1'nitcd > 

 Geological Survey, 41,000 square miles, of which 

 40,700 is land surface and 300 water surface. < 

 tal, Columbus. 



i. a eminent The State officers during 

 were: Govern, r ; i-lmell ; Lieutenant Gov- 



ernor, Asahel W.-Fones : Secretary of State. Charles 

 Kinney; Audit t I>. (JuillM-rt : 



Treasurer .mud 1',. Campbell ; Attorney- 



.il. Frank S. .M.nnett : .Indies of the Sunrerae 

 Court. William T. - r>hall .1. Williams, 



Joseph B. Braill.ury. John A. Shauck. Tliadd.-u- A. 

 mil, Jacob F. Hurkett : Clerk of the Suj-n-me 

 Court, Josiah B. Allen : Commissioner of Common 

 Schools, Oscar T. Corson ; Dairy and Food Com- 

 missioner, Joseph E. Blackburn; l^anl ..f Public 

 Works, Charles K. Groce, ?xlwin L. Lybarger, 

 Frank A. Huffman all Kepul.l 



rinancpH. At the opening ..f the fiscal year 

 endii, Balances in the treasury 



aggregat^i , ifl. The receipts durin- 



uue fund. $4.. 



,' fund, $530.381.86: school fund. $1 

 M.^2:,898.39; total, $7. 



1"1 -" "inents were: General revenue 



fund. $4,438,044.48; sinking fund, $,> 

 school fund, f! i. university fund, x 



iaiO: total. $fi.JKV rhe aggregated I...1 



anee in the treaM.n 1897, was $764 



96. Of thccenernl fund receipts during th. 



'9 was from general tax. 



from taxes on liquor truffle, $i::..Vjj.4-j from taxes 

 on cigarntto traffic. $24.K*.;.-ji f r<(m taxes on 



* r. " m exdM tana, 

 $267,:W6.34 from Ohio Penitentiary, and the re- 

 mainder from miscellaneous sources^ The ba 

 to the credit of the general revenue fund. Nov. 15, 

 1897, was $435;:: 



On .Inly 1. 1*96. lit UK- maturity of the $500.000 

 temporary loan, which w in 1X94. $350.- 



000 was paid from the sinking fund revenues, and 



the remaining $250.000 was refunded at 



-inlil July 1. 1MU7. at which time it was paid. 



lide.l illdelitedness of Ohio ! 



$1.891,665, which will IK- discharged at the rate of 





$250,000 annually. The so-calle<l irreducil.le d.-l-t. 

 which is not a debt, luit a trust created ly the sale 

 of school lands, for which due account is'given an- 

 nually l.y intrre-t j.aid to the school fund, will re- 

 main undi-tui! 



Loral Taxes. -Thr Auditor, in }\\< annual re- 

 alls attention to the increase in local taxes 

 during the past seven year-. For Is'.'Oth. 

 levied for county, township, school, and municipal 

 purposes amounted t.. th- sum of $30.1 1:..: 

 The taxes levied for l^'.'T f.-r the same pu: 

 amount to $35.551,53447. l'"r the same ( 



is a decrease of $80,860.14 in the amount 

 levied for State purposes, exclusive ,,f J,.\ y f..r uni- 

 ver-ity purj)08cs. 



Charities. The whole numLcrof inmat.- main- 

 ; in the sixteen benevolent and educational 

 institutions of the State f,,r ls'.7 wa- 1!.77'J. an in- 

 crease over the piwji ui- year of 1.1 1 7. In ISJH; tin- 

 amount expendi'd for current expenses and f 

 pairs and improvements was $2.220,88. r >.'> 



'he expenditures for tin- -am. purpo-.- 

 $2,458,869.83. The increase is lar-.-ly <lu.- lo the 

 n of new huildinps. The total net current 

 iicludiiitf salaries, and crediting each in- 

 stitution with the amount of its ,-ar: $1,- 

 in 1896: in 181>7 they were ^l.TCT.lll.- 

 ineroase in 1H!<7 of $x."i.077.xx. At th- 

 ui nn ing of the year there were 14,384 persons 

 maintained in t 



of the year there w. The whole nunioer 



of persr'.iis fin i .'. vas 1,989. 



Penal Institutions. The average number of 

 |.ri<oners in the Penitentiary : ', 1. an 



increase of 100 - /////7 ear : 



f tlie prisoners in 1897 were $119.04. and the per 



i expense $134.85. The total earn 

 $272.068.26. and the including 



salaries of manager ,rds were 



$306,650.22. Near the beginning of the fiscal year 



