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State funds. The amount apportioned in January 

 was $1,110,110.28, and in June $1,086,000.80. The 

 State Normal School received $15,000 at eacli ap- 

 portionment. 



The State Normal School, at Terre Haute, opened 

 the year with an attendance of 500, the largest 

 number ever registered for the winter term with 

 one exception, and this notwithstanding the fact 

 that the standard of admission has been raised. A 

 class of 94 was graduated in June. 



The building of the Ohio Valley Normal School, 

 at Corydon, was dedicated April 9. It was built by 

 popular subscription at a cost of $5,000. The 

 school began with 125 pupils. 



In 1895 the Grand Army of the Republic of In- 

 diana appointed a committee to confer with the 

 State Board of Education concerning the United 

 States histories in use in the public schools. The 

 part devoted to the civil war they regarded as un- 

 fair to the national cause and army, untrue, and 

 misleading. As the term of the contract had 

 nearly expired, the time was favorable for secur- 

 ing changes in the text-books or replacing them by 

 others. The committee presented charges against 

 the books to the State board and the publishers re- 

 plied. The board then appointed 3 of its members 

 to consider the revision, and they recommended 14 

 very essential changes in the account of the war. 

 The publishers consented to most of them, but the 

 board insisted on complete revision of the objec- 

 tionable paragraphs. 



At the seventy-sixth annual commencement of 

 the State University, at Bloomington, in June, a 

 class of 94 was graduated. At its fifty-seventh 

 commencement I)e Pauw University sent out a 

 class of about 56. The graduating class at Purdue 

 University numbered 82, degrees having been con- 

 ferred earlier in the year on 26 graduates in phar- 

 macy and 11 on pharmaceutical chemists. More 

 than 40 were graduated at Earlham College, and 22 

 at Hanover. Wabash College graduated 24. 



Indianapolis has now a university which has been 

 formed by the union of institutions already existing 

 Butler College and the schools of law, medicine, 

 and dentistry. The first class graduated under the 

 auspices of the university was that of the law school 

 of this year, consisting of 56 young men and 2 young 

 ladies. 



State Institutions. From the figures furnished 

 to the State Board of Charities, the secretary com- 

 piled the following statement, published in March : 



" In the last fiscal year the cost to the State of 

 caring for the insane in the hospitals was $609,- 

 889.66. In addition to this the counties expended 

 for clothing, transportation, inquests, and other 

 items of expense connected with declaring persons 

 insane and sending them to the hospitals, $76,364.66, 

 making a total for insane in the hospitals of $686,- 

 254.32. The cost of maintaining the other benevo- 

 lent institutions of the State during the same period 

 amounted to $307,035.63. To this add $25,000 (es- 

 timated), expended by counties in providing cloth- 

 ing, transportation, and other expenses of sending 

 persons to the institutions, and we have a total of 

 $332,035.63. The cost of conducting the reform 

 schools and prisons, with the added cost of prose- 

 cution of criminals, support of prisoners in the 

 county jails, maintenance of courts, etc., amounted 

 to $1,075,481.13. 



" The cost of relief given to the poor by counties 

 for maintaining pour asylums and orphan asylums, 

 and $630,168.79 in the form of relief given by" town- 

 ship trustees and pauper medical attendance, make 

 a total of $1.020,535.!)!). 



" The total number of patients in the four insane 

 hospitals of the State on Jan. 31, 1896, was 2,861. 

 The number of children in the Soldiers' and Sailors' 



Orphans' Home was 632; in the Institution for the 

 Deaf, 304 ; in the Institute for the Blind, 126 ; in 

 the School for Feeble-Minded, 491 ; total in all the 

 State charitable institution.*, 4,414. On the same 

 day the number of convicts in the Northern Prison 

 was 847; in the Southern Prison, 841 ; in the Wom- 

 an's Prison, 37. The number of inmates in the Re- 

 form School for Girls was 181, and in the Reform 

 School for Boys 517. Total in all the State correc- 

 tional institutions, 2,423. The whole number of 

 persons in the State charitable and correctional in- 

 stitutions on Jan. 31, therefore, was 6,837. 



" The cost of a day's board for each patient in the 

 insane hospitals during the quarter ending Jan. 31, 

 1896, was 12-4 cents. At the Soldiers' and Sailors' 

 Orphans' Home each day's board cost 14 - 5 cents; 

 the Institution for the Deaf. 11'7 cents; the Insti- 

 tute for the Blind, 11*3 cents; the School for Fee- 

 ble-Minded, 11'9 cents: the State Prison, North, 

 8'7 cents; the State Prison, South, 9'5 cents; the 

 Reform School for Girls and Woman's Prison, 15'9 

 cents; the Reform School for Boys, 5'5 cents." 



On Aug. 1 3,174 patients were being cared for at 

 the 4 State institutions for the insane, an increase of 

 149 over last year. In the correctional institutions 

 2.51!) were imprisoned. 



The fifteenth annual report of the trustees of the 

 Institute for the Blind, filed in November, shows 

 that the management has kept the expenses within 

 the appropriation of $27,000 for the maintenance 

 and has a balance of $135.25. 



The State Soldiers' Home, 3J miles from Lafay- 

 ette, was dedicated July 4. The Legislature of 1895 

 appropriated $75,000 for the buildings and $126 a 

 year for the maintenance of each inmate. The 

 Government gives $100 a year for each inmate in 

 addition. The land for the home had already been 

 presented to the Grand Army of the Republic of 

 the State by Tippecanoe County and citizens of 

 Lafayette. Tippecanoe County also gave $5,632.50 

 in cash. More than half of the inmates will be 

 cared for in cottages to be erected by Grand Army 

 posts, counties, and citixens. 



Only the main buildings were provided for by 

 the State appropriation. In March there were 105 

 regular inmates and 7 irregular, with 25 more ap- 

 plications approved. 



Banks. The changes made at the last session of 

 the Legislature in the State banking law have 

 made possible more effective supervision. The 

 fixed fees for examinations have proved more satis- 

 factory to the banks than the old method. There 

 are 97 banks of discount and deposit, 5 savings 

 banks, and 4 trust companies under the supervision 

 of the Auditor's department. A comparison of the 

 business of the State banks for 1896 with that for 

 1895 shows a decrease of nearly $1,000,000. the re- 

 sources amounting to $14,711,472.25. The resources 

 of the 5 savings banks amount to $4,534,196.13. 



A decision handed down by the Supreme Court 

 in May upholds the State law that makes it a crimi- 

 nal offense for an officer of a bank to receive de- 

 posits when he knows the bank is insolvent, and 

 makes the failure of the bank within thirty days 

 after the receipt of such deposit prima facie evi- 

 dence of such knowledge and intent to defraud. 



Products. Within the past three years the pro- 

 duction of crude petroleum has grown to large pro- 

 portions. The area in which the oil is found has 

 steadily increased, and comprises parts of Adams, 

 Wells, Huntington, Grant, Blackt'ord, Jay, Ran- 

 dolph. Delaware, Pulaski, and Allen Counties. In 

 addition a few producing wells are in operation in 

 Terre Haute. The production of oil in the State 

 has increased from 33.375 barrels, of 42 gallons, in 

 1889 to 3,688,666 in 1894, and 4,380,000 in 1895. 



The average initial or rock pressure of natural 



