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expedition as commander of a company, and 

 afterward served as staff officer with Col. Mc- 

 Leod, who commanded the advanced guard, was 

 present in several engagements, and was severely 

 wounded at Ordahsu. As a captain he served with 

 the battalion of the Black Watch that fought in 

 the Egyptian campaign of 1882, was present at 

 Tel el Ivebir, served as deputy assistant adju- 

 tant and quartermaster general on Sir Gerald 

 Graham's staff in the Soudan, and was again 

 severely wounded at El Teb, winning by his bril- 

 liant services the brevet rank of lieutenant colo- 

 nel. He served with his regiment in the Nile ex- 

 pedition of 1885, accompanying Gen. Earle's river 

 column, and at Kirbekan he was badly wounded 

 for the third time. He was promoted to the rank 

 of colonel, and commanded a battalion of the 

 Black Watch from 1894 till he was appointed a 

 brigadier general in the Soudan expeditionary 

 force in 1898. For gallant and distinguished serv- 

 ices at the battle of Omdurman he was made a 

 major general. Succeeding in 1882 to the family 

 estate on the death of his brother, he contested 

 Midlothian with Mr. Gladstone in 1892. He com- 

 manded the Highland brigade that was sent to 

 re-enforce Lord Methuen's column in the South 

 African campaign of 1899, and was killed in the 

 attack on Magersfontein. 



Welti, Emil, Swiss statesman, born in 1825; 

 died in Bern, February, 1899. He entered the 

 Federal Council in 1800, and proved himself a 

 sagacious politician of large views who exerted a 

 great influence on the progress of affairs in the 

 Swiss Confederation, of which he was elected 

 president four times. He retired from the Fed- 

 eral Council in 1891 because his project for the 

 purchase of the railroads by the state received 

 a check. His leisure time he gave to the study 

 of classic authors, and he won considerable repu- 

 tation as a Hellenist. 



OHIO, a Central Western State, admitted to 

 the Union in 1803; population, according to the 

 last census (1890), 3,000,719, it being the fourth 

 in rank of the States; area, according to the 

 United States Geological Survey, 41,000 square 

 miles, of which 40,700 is land surface and 300 

 water surface. Capital, Columbus. 



Government. The State officers during 1899 

 were: Governor, Asa S. Bushnell; Lieutenant 

 Governor, Asahel W. Jones; Secretary of State, 

 Charles Kinney; Auditor of State, Walter D. 

 Guilbert; Treasurer of State, Samuel B. Camp- 

 bell; Attorney-General, Frank S. Monnett; Board 

 of Public Works, Edwin L. Lybarger, Frank A. 

 Huffman, Charles A. Goddard; Commissioner of 

 Common Schools, Lewis D. Bonebrake; Judges 

 of Supreme Court, Joseph P. Bradbury, John A. 

 Shauck, Thad A. Minshall, Marshall J. Williams, 

 Jacob F. Burket, William T. Spear; Clerk of Su- 

 preme Court, Josiah B. Allen; Dairy and Food 

 Commissioner, Joseph E. Blackburn. All these 

 officials were Republican. 



Finances. At the close of the fiscal year, 

 Nov. 15, 1899, after a total disbursement from 

 the treasury of $7,290,092.47, there was a balance 

 in the general revenue fund of $1,033,032.35; in 

 the sinking fund, $77,547.23; in the State common- 

 school fund, $39,004.15; in the university fund 

 $40,733.35. 



The funded debt of Ohio, all bearing 3 per cent, 

 interest, was at the close of the year $1,001,005, 

 and of that amount $1,105 represents a lost canal 

 bond, upon which interest has long since ceased. 

 Of the payable portion of the debt ($1,000,000), 

 $300,000 will fall due July 1, 1900; $250.000 on 

 July 1, 1901; $250,000 on July 1, 1902; and $200- 

 000 (the war loan) on July 1, 1903. 



GEORGE K. NAfttf, 

 GOVERNOR OK OHIO. 



The aggregate municipal debt of Ohio was $75,- 

 000,012.02. 



Military. With the return of the Ohio vol- 

 unteers from the war it became apparent that 

 the National Gftiard of the State would have to 

 be completely reorganized. This was done, and 

 at the close of the 

 year the strength 

 of the Ohio Nation- 

 al Guard was about 

 4,850 officers and 

 men in infantry, ar- 

 tillery, cavalry, en- 

 gineers, and naval 

 brigade, this organ- 

 ization being com- 

 posed of 8 regi- 

 ments (in whole or 

 in part) and 1 bat- 

 talion of infantry, 

 1 battalion of en- 

 gineers. 4 batteries 

 of artillery, 1 troop 

 of cavalry, and 2 

 battalions of the 

 naval brigade. Two 

 brigades and 1 di- 

 vision have been 

 formed. The infan- 

 try is armed with Springfield rifles of the 

 model. 3 batteries of artillery have Gatling gun-. 

 and Battery A, of Cleveland, has modern Held 

 rifles and equipment. 



Canals. The report of the Board of Public 

 Works shows that for the year ending Nv. r>, 

 1899, on the canal systems of the State in opera- 

 tion the total receipts were $90.sii'.i.] appor- 

 tioned as follow: Land sales, $3,098; tolN. s-ju.- 

 812.24: rents. $00.208.25. Of the tolls, tin- Miami 

 and Erie Canal contributed $13.430.98; the north- 

 ern division of the Ohio Canal, $0,358.57; and 

 the southern division, $1,010.09. Of the nut-. 

 $53,005.40 is credited to the Miami and l.ii.. 

 $8.440.98 to the northern division of the Ohio 

 Canal, and $4,785.87 to the southern divi-ion. 



Penal and Benevolent Institutions. The 

 penal and reformatory institutions of the *- 

 are: The Ohio Penitentiary: the Ohio Reforma- 

 tory, at Mansfield; the Boys' Industrial School. 

 at Lancaster; and the Girls' Industrial Home, at 

 Delaware. They were maintained during the year 

 at an expense of $738,553.75. The State benevo- 

 lent institutions include one for the blind, one 

 for the deaf and dumb, one for feeble-minded 

 youth, seven hospitals for the insane, and one 

 for epileptics. During the year ending on the 

 15th of November, 1899, $394,081.20 \\a- expended 

 for additions and improvements to the buildings 

 and $1,942.080.07 for the support of these benevo 

 lent institutions. There are al-o a >oldiei> and 

 sailors' home at Sandusky, and a home for sol- 

 diers' and sailors' orphans at Xenia. In 1899 

 there was expended upon these the sum of >4o].- 

 892.70. The total number of inmate-, fur 1 1n- 

 fiscal year ending Nov. 15, 1899. was: Peniten- 

 tiary, *3.133: reformatory, 534; Boys' Industrial 

 School, 1,232; Girls' Industrial Home. 408: seven 

 hospitals for the insane. 9.144: Hospital for I'.pi 

 leptics, 1,115; Institution for Feeble-minded 

 Youth, 1,137; Institution for Deaf and Dumb. 

 552; Institution for Blind. 378: Soldier*' ami 

 Sailors' Home, 2,014; Soldiers' and Sailors' < M- 

 phans' Home, 1,020. 



Educational. The report of the State s, hool 

 Commissioner shows that where in Iv"i4 only 

 8,051 pupils were enrolled in the high schools of 

 the State, now there is an enrollment of 57.' >'!!. 



