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fiscal year, Oct. 31, 1886, there were 1,588 

 patients at the institution, 696 being men and 

 892 women. To this number were added dur- 

 ing the year 697. There were discharged in 

 the same period 387 men and 301 women, a 

 total of 688, and there were 84 deaths, leaving 

 1,513 patients at the end of the year. The suit 

 brought in 1887 by the State to oust Directors 

 Harrison and Gapen from the governing board 

 of the institution, failed in its object. This 

 hospital has long been inadequate to the needs 

 of the State, many insane persons being sup- 

 ported at ill-equipped county institutions. An 

 act was passed in 1883 providing for the con- 

 struction of three additional hospitals ; but the 

 failure of the last Legislature to make appro- 

 priations delayed their completion. One of 

 these, however, the Northern Hospital at Lo- 

 gansport, was completed and equipped during 

 the year, being opened for patients on June 26. 

 It was rapidly filled from county poor-houses 

 and jails, and contained at the end of the year 

 188 men and 140 women; in all 328 persons. 

 The estimated capacity of the hospital is 366 

 inmates. 



The Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at 

 Knightstown contains accommodations for only 

 300 children, but at the end of the fiscal year 

 in 1888 there were 340 in the institution and 

 100 additional on the rolls as applicants for ad- 

 mission. During the year, 195 applicants were 

 admitted and 21 inmates discharged. The re- 

 ceipts from the State treasury for the year were 

 55,530, and the disbursements $54,447.85. 



The School for the Feeble-Minded, being sepa- 

 rated from the Orphans' Home by act of the 

 last Legislature has been temporarily domiciled 

 at the Eastern Insane Asylum at Eichmond, 

 now in process of erection, until permanent 

 quarters at Fort Wayne can be completed. 

 Land has been purchased at the latter place, 

 and buildings are in process of erection. On 

 October 31 there were 239 pupils, an increase 

 of 179 from the time of the passage of the law, 

 and of 134 from Oct. 31, 1887. 



The State institution for the deaf and dumb 

 had at the close of the fiscal year an attendance 

 of 318, and the institution for the blind 144. 



Prisons. The number of prisoners at the 

 Northern Prison at the close of the fiscal year 

 was 702, and at the Southern Prison 539. At 

 the reformatory for boys there were 462 per- 

 sons. 



The Women's Reformatory contained in its 

 penal department on October 31, 55 convicts, 

 and in the girls' reformatory 153 inmates. The 

 receipts from industries carried on at the insti- 

 tution last year were $3,827.50, and the man- 

 agers claim that the inmates are nearly self- 

 supporting. 



Normal Schools. The State Normal School at 

 Terre Haute suffered the entire loss of its build- 

 ing and library by a fire on April 9. At that 

 time there were 6*24 students at the institution, 

 representing eighty of the ninety-two counties 

 of the State. The Centenary Methodist Epis- 



copal Church, of Terre Haute, offered its build- 

 ing, and this and a portion of the Terre Haute 

 High-School, which was also offered, enabled 

 the work of the schools to go on without in- 

 terruption. The city of Terre Haute also gave 

 $50,000 toward the erection of a new building, 

 which has been completed so far as the walls, 

 iron, and stonework are concerned. 



The Capitol. On October 22 the State Capi- 

 tol building, which had been in course of con- 

 struction since 1879, was completed. Later in 

 the year the Capitol Commission rendered its 

 final report, showing the following yearly ex- 

 penditures: 1879, $132,085.69; 1880, $193,- 

 760.47; 1881, $201,631.67; 1882, $187,066.03 ; 

 1883, $52,891.72; 1884, $286,178.97; 1885, 

 $424,825.65; 1886, $313,510.88; 1887, $169,- 

 082.91 ; 1888, $178,333.72. These amounts, 

 with the sum of $50,491.68 expended by the 

 commission from May 24, 1877, when it was 

 organized, to Dec. 31, 1878, make the total 

 expenditure $2.191,859.42. Of this amount, 

 $1,560,658.82 were raised by taxation, $507,- 

 500 by issuing ten-year bonds, maturing in 

 1895, and $200,000 by appropriation from the 

 general fund. 



Railroads. The assessment for 1888 upon 

 railroads in the State amounted to $64,211,717. 



Live-Stock. The following returns for 1888 

 are given by the Bureau of Statistics: Num- 

 ber of horses, 587,709; mules, 60,188; cattle 

 (including milch cows), 1,843,473; sheep, 1,- 

 266,109. These figures show an increase over 

 1887, except in the sheep industry. The wool- 

 product has also decreased, being 3,634,159 

 pounds against 4,197,000 pounds in 1887. 



County Statistics. The total expenditures of 

 ninety of the ninety-two counties of the State 

 for 1887 was $6,110,302, and for 1888 $7,093,- 

 645. Sixty-nine county asylums support 2,572 

 needy inmates, and forty-five county jails con- 

 tain 7,467 convicts. 



Coal and Natural Gas. One of the most im- 

 portant resources of the State is its coal-de- 

 posits, which cover about 7,000 square miles. 

 These coal-beds are found in the follow- 

 ing counties: Warren, Fountain, Vermilion, 

 Parke, Vigo, Clay, Sullivan, Green, Davis, 

 Dubois, Pike, Perry, Spencer, Knox, Gibson, 

 Vanderburg, and Posey. Clay County is the 

 largest coal-producing county, having thirty- 

 eight mines; Gibson County the smallest, hav- 

 ing only three mines. During 1887 the prod- 

 uct of 220 mines was 3.217,711 tons; during 

 1886 the product of 208 mines was about 

 3,000,000 tons. Natural gas, which has only 

 recently been known to exist in the State, has 

 been discovered in twenty-two counties. There 

 are now in operation abcut 125 gas-wells, pro- 

 ducing 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. 



Election Frauds. Early in the year the Gov- 

 ernment succeeded in securing a new trial of 

 the persons charged with forging tally-sheets 

 showing false returns of the congressional 

 election in 1886 at Indianapolis, an acquittal 

 having been obtained in the former trial. The 



