INDIANA. 



-According to a sum- 

 mart -f the nmml n-|H,ri.H ,,f the building and 

 loan* A*<>ciaUons of the State, they hare loaned 

 Mvunty $11.552.616.89; on stock 

 and ifl>book secnr 1 on 



r,t*Uibt, They hold real es- 

 tate to the value of $2?5.3fc?<i The amount of 

 installment stork vd dmdcnds due t<> 



iid-up stock 

 i dmdends *:UM:>, 125.09. The on- 



*537,687.61. The as- 

 Delations have toned 881,881 shares of install- 

 mem stock and 45^07 shares of paid-up took, 

 There are 50,205 shareholders that have not bor- 

 rowed fr..m the associations, nn.l 1JI.176 that 

 have. The authored capital is $94,620,000, of 

 which $38,821.220 has been subscrib 



Railroad*. During the past six years mr< 

 than hnlf the track mileage of main lines has 

 been laid with heavy steel mils, and 7:, ,,,. r cent. 

 of thewiMNleii bridges have boon replaced wiih 



. lire* retting OB itOM abutments. and 



.-liter rails taken up have been used for 



,i ks. thus greatly increasing the business 



s have been reduced and curves 



many of the roads. 



Eefcatlo. The amount of St.it.- money for 



schools was reported as $1,436.852.04. all <>f 



e \eept a balance of $15,222.90, was dis- 



tributed. $15,000 going to the State Normal 



The number of children of school age 



was 804*61. 



Since the founding of the Northern Indiana 

 N< rtniil School twenty-three years ago more than 

 100.000 names have been entered on its rolls. The 

 average attendance for the year ending in Au- 

 gust was over 2,500, while more than 6,00<> M u- 

 dents have been in attendance during the \.-ar. 

 and 800 more were graduated than in any previ- 

 ous v -al miiiilxT being 1,307. 



The Slate Normal School at Tern- Haute sent 

 out this year a class of 101. the largest in the 

 . ' ' - : .. The total attendance at 

 the spring term was 1 



A coarse in journalism has been added to the 

 curriculum of the State University. Ii includes 

 studies in Knglish, general history, political 

 theory, conrtitutin.il history, and economics. 

 There were 87 graduates in the various depart- 

 ments in June. Wabash College, at Crawfords- 

 vttle, graduated 28, and Franklin College 16. 



The North Manchester College, which has 

 been conducted by the United Brethren Church, 

 hat been U >ught by the citizens, to be given, to- 

 grther with $5.000. to the Dunkard Church, 

 which will establish an institution there. 



The Medical College at Indianapolis gradu- 

 ated 50 at it* twenty-fifth commence! 



Butler University sent out 19 graduates in 

 June, and Purdue, which has entered its twenty- 

 eoond year, graduated 76. 



Karlham College, at Richmond, which is con- 

 dMtod bv the Society of Friends, has beet, MB- 

 barraw*! for want of funds, but received at the 

 time of the ^ early Meeting an additional endow- 

 " of about $30.000. The whole number of 

 s enrolled during the year was 236 ; pro- 

 I*: teachers in other departmeof 

 A large disparity on the wrong side between 

 the income and etpennes of De Pauw University 

 has led to a change in its management. The 



president retired, and his place has beet 



:lv filled. The liilinbi-r Of -ra.luatcv 



The ,,11, 



.' Indianapolis, m March, declined t- i 

 resolutions passed in the ptv\i<>u> l> 

 tually abolishing foot hall. Thc\ \\. 

 to reconsitler. i>ut \\cre of opinion that tl 

 should be prohibited until the nil. 



Miatcnally changed and p: 

 tirely taken ( ,iit. Tin- year ili.\ 

 further and passed a resolution mak 

 forbidding the playing of football v 

 siimal teams applicable to all 



>lilit..r> Mi.lters. \ 

 regiments on the field of Chickamauga^ 

 deicrniined early in the year. It 

 that the monuments should be built 



. and they were dedi 

 the State did not have s.. man\ 

 battle at some States. Indiana'lost j 

 killed and wounded than any other, 

 lature appropriated $40.000 for the purj 



.M.iiv . -..ntr.ivcrsy has arisen in i 

 the Soldiers 1 Monument at India: 

 "Annual Cydopa-dia " f..r 1- 

 consequence of criticisms on the ., 

 art and other matters connectc.l 

 management, one of the thr.e men 

 commission resigned in Kebruan. 

 P n !, - '.x ere app. anted in M;i\ und< r .. :. . 



;. Krcd. K 

 Major (J. V. Mamies, all <>f wh- 



lied in <(.] 



the rejection by the other regent > oi 

 ohitions which he offered, the signifl* 

 of which were these: 



That the iiinniiiiii !'t be .l.-vted t.t! 

 iliann \.-lu.-ively. 



That the teuiale figure at pr 

 of tin- monument le taken ili\vn, aii-1 a 

 in bronze of (J.v. Oliver I'. M.rti.i. 

 plaei-. Tliut the four ]x><\> 

 the ninmiment ! reserve.l 



. rnt-irv an-1 State of Indiai. 



bllttli- <r liV hand ll(tile t tile rejilll.lie. 



The State encampment of 1 1 

 the Republic was held at Muncie in 

 of tlie i)iie-ti'.ns discussed was t)i< 

 and unfairness of the treatment of i 

 in the I'nited States histories in uw 

 public schools of the State. A pro) 

 them, signed by the Indianapolis posts, 

 ferred to a committee, and a men 



the objections- to the b.-oks was pi 

 at ion t< the State I'oanl of K 1 

 I'rodurls. During the fiscal yei 

 re manufactured in Indi.-. 



fli-lilleries were . , 



distilleries, consuming 1.500,000 bu^h. 

 969.478 gallons of spirits \\, 

 cattle and ?.l'J."i hogs \vcre fed. an-: 

 taxable gallons of distilled spir 

 The pn.diiction of fermented liqu- 



The corn crop, as reported in 

 i:: 1.1 (.-..!!! bushels, from an acreat- 

 146. The acreage in wheat has be* 

 decreasing in recent years, lur. 



MM in 1882 to 2.540,424 in 1894. 

 ar was estimated at 20.o<>" 

 The apple crop was unusually 



