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boys and 135 girls. The total expenditures for 

 the year were $57,998.60, and the per capita ex- 

 penditure, $196.93. The value of real and per- 

 sonal property belonging to the institution Oct. 

 31, 1890, was $540,582.62. At the School for 

 Feeble-minded Youth there were 262 pupils on 

 the rolls Nov. 1, 1889. During the year 77 were 

 admitted and 24 discharged, leaving 315 on Oct. 

 31, 1890. The sum of $59,346 was expended for 

 maintenance. The Central Hospital for the In- 

 sane had 1,487 inmates on Nov. 1, 1889; 664 

 were admitted during the year ensuing, and 568 

 discharged, leaving 1,583 on Oct. 31, 1890. The 

 expenditures for the year were $251,037.44. At 

 the Northern Hospital there were 327 inmates on 

 Oct. 31, 1890. 



The attendance of children at the Soldiers and 

 Sailors' Orphans' Home on Oct. 31, 1890, was 574. 

 The school chapel and main building were 

 planned and built with a capacity for 350 pupils, 

 and although the last Legislature passed an act 

 authorizing the building of six cottages, the lat- 

 ter are all full and applications for over 100 sol- 

 diers' orphans have already been passed upon, 

 many of whom are now in county asylums. The 

 present indebtedness of the institution is $13,- 

 511.60, brought about by a lack of appropriation 

 to cover actual expenses. The Treasurer's report 

 shows the total disbursements for the year to 

 have been $72,520.52. 



The number of pupils at the Institution for 

 the Blind on Oct. 31, 1889, was 143. The value 

 of real estate belonging to the institution is esti- 

 mated at $353.638, and personal property at 

 $15,364.82, making a total valuation of $368,- 

 202.82. Out of the $28,000 appropriation for 

 the maintenance fund, $25,835.45 was expended 

 during the fiscal year 1889. 



Prisons. The annual report of the Woman's 

 Prison and Reform School for Girls for the year 

 ending Oct. 31 shows the following figures : For 

 the prison convicts on Oct. 31, 1889, 59; re- 

 ceived during the year, 23 ; discharged, 25 ; re- 

 maining on Oct. 31, 1890, 57; for the Reform 

 School pupils on Oct. 31, 1889, 144 ; received, 

 53 ; discharged, 46 ; pupils on Oct. 31, 1890, 151. 

 At the Reform School for Boys there were 516 

 pupils on Oct. 31, 1890. 



The daily average number of convicts in the 

 Southern State Prison for the year was 569, and 

 the average per capita cost $121.40. In the 

 Northern State Prison the daily average for the 

 year was 751 prisoners. 



Agriculture. The State Bureau of Statistics 

 reports the following for 1890 : 



Wheat Number acres sowed, 2,821,129 ; product in 

 bushels, 28,352,346 ; total value of crop, $26,084,158. 



Corn Number acres planted, 3,446,439 ; product 

 in buahels, 87,092,513 ; total value of crop, $43,546,- 

 256. 



Oats Number acres sowed, 1,019,398; product m 

 bushels, 15 556,207 ; total value of crop, $7,31 6,117. % 



Barley Number acres sowed, 22,745; product in 

 bushels, 387,805; total value of crop, $232,681. 



Rye Number acres sowed, 58,785; product m 

 bushels, 784,191 ; total value of crop, $470,575. 



Buckwheat Number acres sowed, 6,388 ; product 

 in bushels, 86,916 ; total value of crop, $47,804. 



Flaxseed Number acres sowed, 1^,097 ; product in 

 bushels, 89,839 ; total value of crop, $112,299. 



Clover hay Number acres sowed, 1,196,040 ; prod- 

 uct in tons, 2,057,188; total value of crop, $16,457,- 

 504. 



Timothy hay Number acres sowed, 1,242,627; 

 product in tons, 2,112,457 ; total value of crop. $23,- 

 287,0i7. 



Irish potatoes Number acres planted, 80,747; 

 product m bushels, 2,688,875 ; total value of crop, 

 $2,285,544. 



Sweet potatoes Number acres planted, 2,645; 

 product iu bushels, 158,700 ; total value of crop, $190,- 

 440. 



Clover seed Product in bushels, 265,924; total 

 value of crop, $997,215. 



Timothy seed Product in bushels, 39,081 ; total 

 value of crop, $48,851. 



For 1889 the figures of the Bureau were as 

 follow : 



Wheat, 41,541,570 bushels, raised upon 2,773,888 

 acres ; corn, 106,542,161 bushels ; oats, 28,710,935 

 bushels ; barley, 416,325 bushels : rye, 871,216 bush- 

 els ; buckwheat, 89,754 bushels ; clover seed, 253,728 

 bushels ; timothy seed, 33,449 bushels ; clover hay, 

 2,349,528 tons ; timothy hay, 1,823,047 tons ; Irish 

 potatoes, 7,783,267 bushels, raised on 79,213 acres ; 

 sweet potatoes, 194,040 bushels, raised on 2,772 acres. 



Coal. The output of coal in the State during 

 1890 exceeded that of 1888 by 573,500 tons. 

 There were seven fatal and fifteen serious acci- 

 dents in the Indiana mines during the year. 

 The total number of men employed in the 77 

 Amines was 6,550. The estimated capital em- 

 'ployed was $2,081,000, and the estimated output 

 8,676,000 tons. 



Decision. On Nov. 15 the State Supreme 

 Court rendered a decision in the case of State vs. 

 Klein, declaring the unconstitutionally of the 

 law requiring all meat sold in the State to be in- 

 spected in the State before being butchered. 

 The court regarded such an act as a plain inter- 

 ference with interstate commerce. 



Political. A convention of the Prohibition 

 party met at Indianapolis on Feb. 20 and nom- 

 inated the .following State ticket : For Secretary 

 of State, Barzillai M. Blount ; for Auditor, Abra- 

 ham Hintzinger ; for Treasurer, John E. Bran- 

 son ; for Attorney-General, Sunmer Haynes ; for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. Leander 

 M. Christ; for Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles L. Jessup; for Judge of the Supreme 

 Court, S. J. North. The platform contains the 

 usiial resolutions against the sale . and use of 

 liquor, favors woman suffrage, a tariff f6r reve- 

 nue only, the passage of a service pension bill, 

 the suppression of trusts, the apportionment of 

 the public-school revenue on the basis of attend- 

 ance rather than school population, and the let- 

 ting of public printing to the highest bidder. 



The Democratic Convention met at Indianap- 

 olis on Aug. 28. Its nominees were : For Secre- 

 tary of State, Claude Matthews ; for Auditor, J. 

 O. Henderson; for Treasurer, Albert Gall; for 

 Attorney-General, Alonzo G. Smith ; for Judge 

 of the Supreme Court, Joseph A. S. Mitchell ; 

 for Clerk of the Supreme Court, Andrew M. 

 Sweeney ; for Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Harvey D. Vories; for State Geologist, 

 Sylvester S. Gorby ; for Chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics, William A. Peelle, Jr. A platform 

 was adopted. 



The platform demands free coinage, of silver, 

 favors the election of United States Senators by 

 the people, and contains the following on local 

 questions : 



We denounce the conspiracy of certain Kepublican 

 State officials and newspapers to destroy the State 



