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from 320 pounds in 1889 to 230 

 pounds in isHO. 



From the coal fluids 4.202.0S4 tons were mined in 

 1895. 



Figures given in a crop bulletin of the Board of 

 Statistics were compiled from reports received from 

 574 thrashers, repr very county in the 



State. The acreage t'>r 1M"'. isfyt > in- 



crease over last year of 144.047 acres. The total 

 number of bushels is 24.074.S>5. This takes no ac- 

 count of abandoned or uncut acreage. 



Another bulletin gives statistics of 4 industries 

 namely, iron, glass, farm, and flour machinery. 

 There are in 47 cities and towns 166 iron plants, 

 devoted to 46 different branches of production. 

 The number of people employed in these factories 

 is 16,073, of whom 13.051 are men. In the glass 

 industry 9.728 persons find employment, of whom 

 7.229 are men. 2.000 are boys, and 443 are girls. In 

 21 cities there are 36 establishments for the manu- 

 facture of farm implements and machinery. In 

 these factories 3,622 people are employed, of whom 

 3.228 are men. There are 4 plants in Indiana de- 

 voted to flour-mill machinery, in which are em- 

 ployed 026 people, of whom 470 are men. 



There are bicycle factories in 9 cities of the State, 



Indianapolis having 9. The entire investment is 



placed at 640.107. with the cost of material for the 



year at 1.072.270. The gross value of product is 



35,877, with wages paid amounting to $636,094. 



For the manufacture of furniture there are 116 

 factories. The value of grounds, buildings, and 

 machinery is 2.734.980 : the value of material used 

 the past year was 3.243.333 : and the gross value 

 of the manufactured product was s6.600.818. 



The bureau has reports from 14 woolen mills, 

 representing 13 localities. There is invested in 

 buildings, grounds, and machinery, $935.182; cost 

 of material used past year. $891,197; gross value of 

 manufactured product, $1,415.298 : amount paid in 

 . 298.546. 



Among the industries are 6 cotton mills located 

 in 5 cities, in which are manufactured yarn. warp, 

 sheeting, and batting. There is invested in these 

 6 plants $1,155,000. The cost of material used the 

 past year was 936.910: the gross value of the 

 manufactured goods was 1.392,980; the amount 

 paid in wages was 328.440. 



The State Boundary. The Indiana-Kentucky 

 Boundary Commission met at Evansville Feb. 3. 

 and decided on the dividing line between the two 

 States at Green River island. By a decision of the 

 United States Supreme Court the island was given 

 to Kentucky. 



Miners' Interests. A strike began May 1 

 among the coal miners in parts of the State: they 

 demanded 60 cents a ton, while the operators were 

 willing to give only 55 cents. Xov. 23. when the 

 strike was still unsettled, but many miners had 

 gone back to work, the president of the operators' 

 association furnished a statement showing that 

 miners at mines which have 580,000 tons of the 

 annual output of 1.700.000 tons in the State were 

 at work at 60 cents. Working at less than 60 cents 

 were the men at mines with 410.000 tons output, 

 leaving mines representing 710,000 tons idle, the 

 operators insisting on the 55-cent price. 



A case was brought before the Supreme Court, 

 involving the so-called miners' screen law. The 

 decision given in February does not touch the con- 

 stitutionality of the law. but is against the miners 

 on account of ambiguous wording of the statute. 



The Nicholson Law. Statistic- showing the re- 

 sults of the operation of this law for controlling the 

 liquor trade (see "Annual Cyclopaedia" for IMiO. 

 pa ire 366) for the first nine months after it went 

 into effect were given out in April. From reports 



vcd from 03 of the !'V . it appears that 



in June. 1-. s. jnid in April, 



l*!iO. there. were l.!i:!:i. This did not include what 

 was done at the March term of the comnii-H 

 court. Out of the (;s4 town>hips reported. 207 now 

 have saloons and 417 have none. Many piae 

 port fewer cases in police court : in some of them 

 the number is reduced one half, mainly due to the 

 removal of games from the saloons. 



The Roby Kare^. To avoid liability under the 

 law passed by the Legislature to break up the ra- 

 cing at Roby. three tracks were used in the vicinity, 

 so that after fifteen days at one. the racing could 

 be transferred to the second, and after fifteen days 

 there to the third for the same length of time. The 

 thirty days having then elapsed since the first had 

 been used, it could be used again, and so on through 

 the season. The Governor, in order to stop the 

 continuous racing, had a suit filed for an injunc- 

 tion, alleging that the associations were practically 

 one and the same. The case was decided against 

 the Governor in the lower court, but the Supreme 

 Court declared the method of continuous racing by 

 means of the three tracks to be as unlawful as the 

 use of one alone would be. 



The Apportionment Law. In February the 

 Supreme Court declared the legislative apportion- 

 ment acts of 1893 and 1895 to be unconstitutional. 

 This made it necessary to fall back on the appor- 

 tionment of 1885, unless a special session of the 

 Legislature should be called and a new act passed ; 

 the acts of 1879 and 1891 had been previously pro- 

 nounced unconstitutional. As the law of 1885 was 

 not only rendered unfair by the changes of popula- 

 tion since its enactment, but was deemed by the 

 Republicans grossly unfair to them at the time, the 

 State committee presented a memorial to the Gov- 

 ernor. Feb. 24. asking him to call an extra session, 

 and setting forth that the act of 1885 was open to 

 the same objections that had caused the other acts 

 to be declared invalid. , 



The Governor made a formal reply, refusing to 

 call a special session, on the grounds that it would 

 cause unnecessary expense ; that it did not seem to 

 be demanded by the people : that he could not as- 

 sume the law of 1885 to be invalid until it should 

 have been so declared by the Supreme Court ; and 

 that there was no certainty that the Legislature, if 

 called in extra session, would do any better than it 

 had done in 1895. 



After receiving the Governor's answer, the Re- 

 publican committee filed a complaint and brought 

 suit to enjoin officers from conducting an election 

 under the law of 1885, on the ground that it wa 

 unconstitutional according to the decisions against 

 the other laws. When the case reached the Su- 

 preme Court in May, the decision of the lower 

 court which had granted the injunction was re- 

 versed, and the act of 1885 was declared in force. 



Political. The Prohibitionists met in State 

 convention Feb. 27. with 400 to 500 delegates. 

 The Xational or ' broad-gauge '' wing of the party 

 was in control. The platform demanded prohibi- 

 tion of the manufacture and sale of intoxicants as 

 a beverage, and Government and Stale control, 

 without profit, for other purposes: declared in fa- 

 vor of woman suffrage, and free coinage of silver 

 and gold in the ratio~of 16 to 1 without reference 

 to the action of other nations ; favored Government 

 ownership of natural monopolies, restrictive immi- 

 gration laws, Sunday observance laws, arbitration 

 of domestic and foreign difficulties, election of 

 President, Yice-Presideht. and Senators by direct 

 vote of the people, and liberal pensions: and de- 

 nounced ' the policy of the Government in issuing 

 bonds in time of peace for the purpose of maintain- 

 ing the gold standard whereby our national indebt- 



