UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KKNTI;CKV.) 



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insane asylums, and other institutions, $729,078.- 

 36, showing a total of $1,449,191.74. This ex- 

 penditure exceeds the expenditure fund under the 

 present law for this purpose by $44,720.11. The 

 expenses incurred during the past two fiscal years 

 for criminal prosecutions and jury expenses and 

 that incurred in the support of pauper idiots 

 show enormous increases. 



The Auditor calls attention to the enormous 

 bank deposits which are permitted under the 

 present law to go untaxed. Only 13 per cent, of 

 deposits was taxed in 1901. The amount of 

 omitted taxes from this source alone in two years 

 was $578,584.04. 



The amount of military appropriation expended 

 since the last session was $29,572.73, and the At- 

 torney-General has been directed to sue for money 

 illegally appropriated under the Taylor adminis- 

 tration. 



The expenditures on account of the peniten- 

 tiaries from July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1901, were 

 $180,391.11, while the receipts for the same time 

 were $151,262.54. 



Education. Estimates of the resources of the 

 school fund, given by the Auditor in July, are for 

 the year ending June 30, 1902 : Balance on hand, 

 $40,235.46; interest on bonds, $138,755.80; divi- 

 dend of Kentucky banks, $6,000; licenses, $136,- 

 510.53; sheriff's revenue, 1901, $1,200,000; rail- 

 roads, $147,928; State banks, $33,176; miscella- 

 neous corporations, $85,000; fines and forfeitures, 

 $7,250; distilled spirits, $41,680.50; miscellaneous 

 receipts, $13,000; total, $1,858,536.29. 



The number of school-children is 728,799, and 

 the total estimate of the school fund enables the 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction to declare 

 a per capita of $2.50. 



It was announced on July 16 that the consoli- 

 dation of the Presbyterian theological seminaries 

 at Louisville and Danville, Ky., into one institu- 

 tion at Louisville, and the consolidation of Center 

 College, at Danville, and Central University, at 

 Richmond, Ky., into one university, at Danville, 

 was completed. 



Railroads. The total earnings of the Louis- 

 ville and Nashville Railroad Company for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30 were $28,022,206, an 

 increase of $279,828 over the preceding year. The 

 total operating expenses were $18,233,033, a de- 

 crease of $70,373. The net earnings from all 

 sources were $10,493,861, an increase of $704,844. 



On July 20 a decision was given in the State 

 fiscal court, refusing an injunction to restrain the 

 Auditor from certifying to the local taxing au- 

 thorities for county and municipal purposes the 

 amount of franchise taxes assessed against the 

 railroads by the Board of Valuation and Assess- 

 ments. The railroads have not paid this tax since 

 the adoption of the new revenue law of 1893 and 

 the tax bills will amount to more than $500,000. 



Insurance. The Auditor has ruled that life 

 insurance companies doing business in Kentucky 

 are liable for franchise taxes under the franchise 

 revenue law of 1893. 



Banks. Complaints have been made by Thanks 

 in the State of the strict enforcement of the law 

 requiring reports which heretofore, as it appears, 

 has been neglected. The law requires that every 

 bank shall make quarterly reports, and that every 

 other report shall be published in the paper of 

 its county having the largest circulation, and 

 imposes a fine of $200 for failure so to publish. 



A most flagrant case of bank-wrecking was dis- 

 covered in November, 1900, in the German Na- 

 tional Bank of Newport. Frank M. Brown, the 

 individual bookkeeper and assistant cashier, was 

 missing, leaving a shortage of about $195,000. 



The cashier was sirn !<! in .l;uiu;irv on a charge 

 that he knew in Apul, I'.HMI, t.l.ui,' IH.S a.isinUul 

 wan short. 



Militia. Under tin: allot m ,-nt. liv the Secre- 

 tary of War, the State receive* .y/r.(il I for iU 

 militia. 



Products and Industries. The |ieliniinary 

 census report on the manufacturing imhi-iiics of 

 Kentucky shows the capital invcn \t t \,. 



030,791, an increase of 30 per cent. ,, : , |.s!)()'- 

 9,559 establishments, 63,200 wage; -e;u -IH-, - -<-l'- 

 430,958 total wages, $19,577,809 miscellaneous ~-~\- 

 penses, cost of material used $82,708.!).')."), ,ui.l 

 value of products $154,590,009, an increase of z 

 per cent. 



The cotton product of 1900-1901, as estimated, 

 was smaller than that of the preceding year; the 

 consumption in mills was 23,985 bales, a decrease 

 of 3,554. 



The coal output of 1900 was 5,181,917 short 

 tons, valued at $4,730,098. The increase was 575,- 

 000 tons. 



The product of oil is increasing rapidly. New 

 fields are being investigated, and companies are 

 forming for their development. 



A new and rich district for the production of 

 lead, zinc, and fluorspar is reported in Livingston 

 and Crittenden Counties. 



Under a plan agreed upon by the Kentucky 

 distillers in July the production for the ensuing 

 year was limited to 25,000,000 gallons. It is as- 

 sessed for taxation at $10 a barrel, an increase of 

 $2. In 48 of the 119 counties liquor is not al- 

 lowed to be sold; of these, 31 are mountain coun- 

 ties. 



Labor. Hopkins County was kept in a state 

 of turmoil during a large part of the year, in con- 

 sequence of a strike of the United Mine Workers 

 and their attempts to drive non-union workmen 

 from the mines. The strikers were armed, and 

 many of them were gathered in camps. Violent 

 attacks were made on dwellings of officers and 

 workmen, and they were forced away from the 

 mines by strikers armed with rifles. The sheriff 

 organized a posse to resist them, and the militia 

 was finally called upon. On Oct. 23 the Governor 

 recalled the militia, believing that the danger 

 was over; but they were sent again on the recom- 

 mendation of the adjutant-general, Nov. 14. On 

 Nov. 18 3 men were killed and others wounded in 

 a mine fight at Providence, and riots at other 

 mines followed. The county judge ordered the 

 camps broken up, and many of the men dispersed. 

 About 25 who remained in one of the camps were 

 arrested. Earlier in the year 9 men were arrested 

 and taken to West Virginia, charged with ter- 

 rorizing the miners on the West Virginia side of 

 the river by shooting at all who could not give 

 the proper strikers' sign as they passed and re- 

 passed along the railroad. On Dec. 30 James D. 

 Wood, president of the United Mine Workers of 

 the twenty-third district, was arrested at Evans- 

 ville on the charge of being accessory before the 

 fact in the murder of Morton Bush, a colored 

 non-union miner. Bush was shot from ambush. 



The Goebel Murder Trials. The Court of 

 Appeals, March 27, granted new trials to Caleb 

 Powers and -James Howard, convicted in 1900 

 and sentenced, the former to life imprisonment, 

 the latter to death, in connection with the murder 

 of Gov. Goebel. The court held that Judge Can- 

 trill's instructions to the jury were not what 

 they should have been. 



In the case of Howard, the entire court con- 

 curred; but in the Powers decision Judges Hob- 

 son, White, and Paynter dissented. 



The trial of Caleb Powers began Oct. S. The 



