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Military. At the State encampment of the 

 Grand Army at Lafayette, in April, the Sol- 

 diers' Home, which is to be near Lafayette, was 

 made the special object of the next year's work. 

 The site of 242 acres, and $7,000,' have been 

 given by Tippecanoe County and the city of 

 Lafayette. The total number of members in 

 good standing Dec. 31, 1893. was 24,215. The 

 number of comrades relieved was 236 : the 

 amount spent in relief, $4,608.49. The total 

 amount of property, exclusive of relief funds 

 held by State posts,' amounts to $46,572.82. 



Ten commissioners have been appointed to 

 mark the location of Indiana regiments on the 

 battlefield of Chickamauga, now converted into 

 a Federal park. This State had the second lar- 

 gest number of soldiers in that battle of any State 

 in the Union. 



The State encampment of militia was given 

 up for this year on account of the troops having 

 been in service in quelling the riots. 



State Institutions. The report made in 

 June by the State Board of Charities, covering 

 six months, shows the number of inmates of the 

 insane hospitals to be 2,881, and of the correc- 

 tional institutions 2,419. The increase in the 

 daily average enrollment at the insane hospitals 

 over that of the year before was 76'79. The 

 total salaries paid to officers and employees of 

 the charitable institutions for the six months 

 amounted to $150,678.45, and those of the cor- 

 rectional institutions to $48,647,50. The total 

 expenditure for maintenance and construction 

 at all the charitable institutions was $433,002.09, 

 while the receipts and earnings were $3,955,58. 

 The total expenditures for correctional institu- 

 tions were $165,860.86, and the receipts and 

 earnings ^ $71, 735.12. The grand net expenses 

 for all th"e institutions of the State, both chari- 

 table and correctional, were during this period 

 $523,172.25, against $454,081.51 for the same 

 time last year. 



The Reform School for Boys had 624 inmates. 

 The cost of maintenance and instruction for 

 each boy is $120. The counties sending bear 

 half the expense ; 135 were released during the 

 year and 181 received. 



In the Reform School for Girls and the 

 Women's Prison the expense per capita was 

 $168. The net cost to the State was $30,509.91. 

 Since the school was opened, in 1873, girls to 

 the number of 988 have been received. During 

 the past year there were 36 received, 6 returned 

 who were" out on tickets of leave, and 14 sent out 

 on tickets of leave, making a total of 62 now so 

 at liberty. Oct. 31 there were 152 girls in the 

 school. In the Woman's Prison there were 25 

 received during the year, making a total of 46. 



The Knightstown Soldiers' and Sailors' Or- 

 phans' Home had 644 children at last report, and 

 90 employees. 



Natural Gas. The annual report of the State 

 Gas Inspector, filed in August, shows that over 

 $300,000,000 has been invested in manufactories 

 along the gas belt in the State. The gas terri- 

 tory, he says, has nearly all been developed, and 

 the fact that the pressure has fallen from 320 

 pounds to an average of 240 pounds shows how 

 rapidly the supply is diminishing. The report says 

 the waste of gas during the first four years of 

 its use in Indiana amounted to $20,000,000. On 



the other hand, it is denied that the exhaustion 

 is proceeding so rapidly as is represented. 



A well was drilled in October near Muncie, 

 with a pressure of at least 300 pounds to the 

 foot, and is emitting 7,000,000 cubic feet every 

 twenty-four hours. The drill went down 1,000 

 feet, and the diggers were becoming discouraged, 

 when it suddenly dropped into a pocket and the 

 heavy tools needed no pulling on the rope to get 

 them out of the hole. 



Products and Industries. The coal pro- 

 duced in 1893 amounted to 3,681,751 tons, of the 

 value of $3,937,425. 



The reports of the Department of Agriculture 

 on the corn yield for ten years 1884 to 1894 

 shows the per cent, of a full crop of corn in the 

 various States on July 1 in those years. Indiana 

 stands fifth in the list, with a percentage of 92'8. 

 The State stands fifth also in the production of 

 butter, the product by the last reports being 48,- 

 477,766 pounds, from 579,287 cows. 



The flouring mills of Indianapolis turned out 

 75,532 barrels of flour in October, against 72,170 

 in October, 1893, and 80.779 in 1892. On Dec. 

 1 the Indianapolis elevators contained 254,889 

 bushels of wheat, against 172,427 bushels on the 

 corresponding date in 1893; 90,290 bushels of 

 corn, against 88,100 bushels in 1893; 121,000 

 bushels of oats, against 76,000 bushels last year. 



Indianapolis has become one of the principal 

 distributing points in the West for sugar and 

 coffee. 



From the census bulletin issued this year, giv- 

 ing statistics of manufactures in 1890, it is found 

 that Indiana reported 12,354 factories, with an 

 aggregate capital invested of $132,405,366. There 

 were employed in the factories 124,349 persons, 

 and their annual wages were $51,749,976. The 

 annual cost of the materials used was $130,119,- 

 106, and the value of the products $226,825,082. 

 The largest number of establishments was of 

 those for lumber and other mill products from 

 logs or bolts, 1,603, and the second largest, flour- 

 and grist-mill products, 723. The value of the 

 lumber products was $19,964,293, and of the grist- 

 mill products $31,239,627. The gain over 1880 

 in average persons employed was 78*89 per cent. ; 

 in aggregate wages paid, 136'6 per cent. 



Laws on Liquor Selling. The legality of 

 liquor selling on Memorial Day came before the 

 Supreme Court on appeal. The court held that 

 the law does not constitute the day one on which 

 the sale of liquor is prohibited. 



Another decision of the same court declared 

 saloons a nuisance, and liable for all damages to 

 property owners. The appellate court decided 

 that a saloon keeper was responsible in damages 

 for the drowning of a young man who fell from 

 a bridge on his way home from the saloon, which 

 he left in a maudlin condition. It has also been 

 decided that a license can not be granted to 

 a woman to sell liquor, because the statute speci- 

 fies that a license for liquor selling shall issue 

 only to a " male inhabitant over the age of 

 twenty-one years " who can give proof of his fit- 

 ness, although the fact that the statute requir- 

 ing candidates for admission to the bar to be 

 voters is not held to exclude women. 



The Kankakee. The State made a rock cut 

 in this river in 1893. and a conference of those 

 interested met in May to take measures for 



