Other posts would be established up the Ohio and Wabash to protect communication with Canada.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced yesterday it would reduce the total amount of its payroll by 10 per cent through salary cuts and lay-offs effective at 12:01 A.M. next Saturday.

-- New York Central Railroad president Alfred E. Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the threat of bankruptcy if the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads merge.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Between Congressional sessions he toured Kentucky and Ohio, trying in vain to convince any Union commander who would listen to conduct an operation into East Tennessee.

Knowing that the federal government would pay " top dollar ", the employees of a contractor in the Indiana Territory reportedly named Robert Hoosier asked their boss if they could go work for this higher wage in the neighboring state of Ohio.

The Willys version of the car would become the standardized jeep design, designated the model MB and was built at their plant in Toledo, Ohio.

" Growing up in Ohio ", he would later remark, " was just planning to get out ".

* 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.

After reaching the mouth of the Ohio, settlers would travel north on the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri.

This meant that the entire shoreline of Lake Erie west of Pennsylvania would have belonged to the state that was to become Ohio.

Thus, it was possible that an east-west line extending east from Lake Michigan's southern tip may have intersected Lake Erie somewhere east of Maumee Bay, or worse, may not have intersected the lake at all ; the farther south that Lake Michigan actually extended, the more land Ohio would lose, perhaps even the entire Lake Erie shoreline west of Pennsylvania.

Addressing this contingency, the Ohio delegates included a provision in the draft Ohio constitution that if the trapper's report about Lake Michigan's position were in fact correct, the state boundary line would be angled slightly northeast so as to intersect Lake Erie at the " most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

" This provision would guarantee that most of the Maumee River watershed and all of the southern shore of Lake Erie west of Pennsylvania would fall in Ohio.

Residents of the Port of Miami — which would later become Toledo — urged the Ohio government to resolve the border issue.

Also, during this period, Ohio attempted to use its power in Congress to revive a previously rejected boundary bill that would formally set the state border to be the Harris Line.

Ohio was a crucial swing state in presidential elections, and it would have been devastating to the fledgling Democratic Party to lose Ohio's electoral votes.

Therefore, Jackson calculated that his party's best interest would be served by keeping the Toledo Strip a part of Ohio.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;

An Ohio soldier who, from a comrade just returned from leave, received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister, took pen in hand and delivered himself thus: `` dear Sis.

At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.

Ohio asserted that the boundary was firmly established in its constitution and thus Michigan's citizens were simply intruders ; the state government refused to negotiate the issue with the Michigan Territory.

Warren did not believe in coddling criminals ; thus in Terry v. Ohio ( 1968 ) he gave police officers leeway to stop and frisk those they had reason to believe held weapons.

Even within the swing state of Ohio, Stark County is regarded as a quintessential bellwether, and thus presidential candidates have typically made multiple visits to the region.

Peters, one of the European-American founders, for his hometown of Columbus, Ohio ; the name thus indirectly honors Christopher Columbus, the explorer.

Powell is officially a city and is thus authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio to form a city school district.

Center Benwood used to be hit very hard by the devastating floods of the Ohio River, but a flood wall was constructed along Water Street ( the street that runs along the banks of the Ohio River ) in 1982, thus protecting that section of Benwood from the river floods seen in the last three decades ( 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005 and 2011 ).

It is worth noting that Eastern capitalists had invested heavily in Port Lawrence real estate mistakenly guessing that the area would enjoy commercial success due to the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal hoping that it would terminate in Toledo instead of Maumee thus keeping their holdings in wealthy and established Ohio.

The region thus defined included most of the Southern United States, including most of Texas and Oklahoma in the southwest, and in the states south of the Ohio River, and extending east to include central West Virginia, Virginia south of Northern Virginia, and parts of Maryland.

The 2003 Rose Bowl couldn't select Big Ten co-champion and automatic qualifier Ohio State, who finished # 2 in the BCS and thus received a bid to the Fiesta Bowl to play for the national championship.

The American government thus fought a war over the possession of the Ohio area Indian land under the direction of Secretary of War Henry Knox.

The Ohio Politics Almanac by Michael F. Curtin ( Kent State University Press ) described apportionment thus:

Sebelius is the daughter of former Democratic Ohio Governor and thus they became the first father / daughter governor pair in the United States after her election.

In March 2005, the men's basketball team reached the Mid-American Conference Championship game, but suffered a harrowing 79-80 loss to the Ohio Bobcats, thus missing a chance for their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.

" Just days later, prompted by Confederate occupation of Columbus, Kentucky, on the Mississippi River, Grant led a small force to seize Paducah, Kentucky, where the Tennessee River joins the Ohio River ; Grant thus forestalled a Confederate effort to occupy the strategically important town.

Many of these individuals came into Harding's personal orbit during his tenure as a state-level politician in Ohio, thus the name.

Rhodes sued, and the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the limitation was on consecutive terms, thus freeing him to return to office by narrowly defeating incumbent John Gilligan in an upset in the 1974 election.

It connected two canal divisions of the Main Line of Public Works of the Pennsylvania Canal from Johnstown on the west to Hollidaysburg on the east, thus allowing continuous barge traffic between the Ohio and the Susquehanna rivers.

Ohio historian Walter Havighurst described Brough as being " a big bull of a man with driving energy ," and Richard H. Abbott wrote that he " had a reputation for rough and ready politics with a temperament to match ... was a blunt, outspoken, rude man who loved to chew tobacco thus presented quite a contrast with his two handsome and dignified predecessors, William Dennison and David Tod.

The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was projected to run from Sandusky on Lake Erie south to a proposed interchange at Springfield, where trains could be handed over to the Little Miami to proceed to Cincinnati -- thus providing the Great Lakes region and its products with year-round access to the rest of the nation, as access to any of the ships then sailing on the Great Lakes meant access to the proposed railroad link to the Ohio River.