The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-12

THE total amount of taxables on the
grand duplicate of the state of Ohio as
show last year was as follows: Value Of
lands, $725, ,254 of real estate in
cities, towns and villages, $500, ,66S, ,O5s;
of chattel property, S545, 1888, 165; total
81, IT'S, 1888, AT. On this sum taxes were
collected as follows: For state debt and
sinking fund, 3 of mill, S533, O2s 80;
general revenue fund, Ia mills, So, 4s7,-
468 So; common schools, mill, 81, u.s.
137,72; total state taxes, $4,79s, 635 "a.
The foregoing were for state purposes
only. Local taxes levied and col
lected were: County tax, SO, 457,-
523 22; poor, $S97,691 10; bridge,
81, ,623, 400 81; building, $406, $40 ~;
INDECENT soldiers fund, S425, ,629. 40; road,
81, ,845, 500. SO; all debts, 1927, ,SSS. .07; town
ship tax, $1,217, ,721.95; school, $s,771,-
2bs.94; special, S1,723, 2os. 81; city, town
and village, $9,1os, 743.16; delinquent
real estate and forfcitures, 81, 75s, 9S4. IS;
delinquent chattel, 1884, ,O45.27; per cap
tia ON dogs, male, S2O1 91O; female, $23,-
512; Dow law tax, 81, ass, ,654 1s; grand
total from oil sources, $40, $40, ,91e.71.
The amount Of taxes collected, state,
local, special and for all other purposes,
was 2.3 per cent of the entire grand du-
plicate. The per capita taxation
throughout the state was S11.01. Ham
lton county paid the greatest amount
Of taxes, S8,367, ,203.98, being but
small fraction less than one
sixth of the entire taxation for
all purposes in the state, being
S17 per capita. Hamilton county PAID
into the state treasury, including its
proportion of the Dow tax, $936, 559. SO,
or one-fifth of the entire revenues Of
the State. It is represented in the
house of representatives by one four
teenth of the membership and in the
senate by one-ninth. Vinton pays the
least amount of taxes, $94, ,S19.22, or
$5.95 per capita, Of which SIC, Ats. 10 goes
into the state treasury. Paulding
county, however, which collects for
state and local purposes $1s2, ,S97. "a,
pays less than Vinton into the state
treasury, the sum being $15, 121.71.
GEN. JACOB AMMoN. Of Lockland, is
the Oldest general Of the late war, be.
ing born in 1908.
ED CARNEs, Of Otsego, Muskingum
county, while bedding his horses, was
kicked in the head by one of them, frac.
turing his skull and crushing his jaw
bone.
HENRY GRALFE, of Erie county, was
appointed by the governor a member Of
the state fish and game commission.
OHIO agricultural report advises the
spraying of grapevines before blossom.
ing with Eau Celeste solution to pre-
vent mildew.
Al Lima, Edward Shrouf, the boy
convicted Of the Williams diamond rob
berry, was sentenced to three years ir
the penitentiary.
JACOB KANzLEB, Sandusky business
man, woke up one morning recently
unable to speak or communicate ever
by motions. In all other respects he l,
well.
THE other morning when Mrs. Johr
Pugh, of Lima, 'awoke she was Mortified
TO find their four-month-old baby frozeI
to death by her side. The family live
east Of Lima in exceedingly poor cir
cumstances, and during the night the
little child by some means got out from
under the covers and was frozen x
death. YT
N. G. FLEMING, q Licking county
farmer, owning one thousand acres o.
land, has made an assignment, owing
$24, 4,0CO; assest, $4,000.
WELLsToN was visited by fire tina
destroyed a business square, causing ,
loss Of nearly $50, 700.
GEO. ATEs, living near Atlanta, killet
An eagle measuring seven feet foul
inches from tip to tip of wings.
MARION county commissioners hav'
Just allowed the largest sheep claims il
the history of the county, the two heav
lest being Enoch Hoch, $124 So ant
Jacob Linn, S1O9 80, and the grand tota
Of all e625 so.
ISAAC Crooks, of Reeds Station, nea
Zanesville, was burned to death by hi
clothes cathing fire from an open CRATE
His body was found burned to an IN
recognizable masa