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banks of Chicago, Sept. 21, 1898, was $18,379,653 ; 

 United States bonds, $1,444,175.95 : total resources, 

 $124,90(5,207.39; capital stock, $11,173,000: surplus 

 fund, $5,606,500: total liabilities, $124,906,207.39. 



Railroads. The total railroad mileage in the 

 Suite, Dec. 30, 1897, was 10.625 of main track and 

 1 .."-70 of second, third, and fourth tracks, an increase 

 of 213.77 over 1896 ; new road built, 40.04 ; operat- 

 ing expenses of all roads in the State, $50,245,338 ; 

 other expenditures, $74,224,390; total earnings and 

 income of railroads in State, $81,108,123 ; total in- 

 come of lilies operating through the State, $121,- 

 211.76I5; capital of roads in State, $2,725,415,138 ; 

 taxes paid l>\ railroads of State during the year, 

 $4,5.1 }.o:,(i.77'; number of miles of steel rails, 10,- 

 050.09; of iron rails. 3-.22.77; tons of new rails laid 

 during the year, 07,515.08; number of ties laid, 

 4,700,910 : number of stations in the State, 2,729. 



The Illinois Central Railroad paid into the treas- 

 ury of the State, out of the gross receipts from 

 .March ','4. 1855, to April 30, 1898, the sum of $16,- 

 980,666.23. The excess of receipts from traffic 

 over operating expenses for the five months ending 

 Nov. 30, 1898, was $3.597,918, an increase over the 

 corresponding months in 1897 of $955,224. 



Education. The number of pupils enrolled in 

 the public schools, for the year ending June 30, 1897, 

 was 920.42.') : average attendance, 705,481; average 

 duration of public schools, 157.9 days: per cent, of 

 daily attendance, 76.5; average number of days 

 for each pupil, 120.8; average number of. months 

 of school, 7.5; number of schoolhouses in State, 

 12,683; number built during the year, 200; number 

 of public-school teachers, 25,541, an increase of 125 ; 

 number of volumes in district libraries, 329,652; 

 number of volumes bought during the year, 27,568; 

 number of private schools, 864, a decrease of 192 ; 

 number of pupils in private schools, 138,542, a de- 

 crease of 1,427; number of teachers in private 

 schools, 4,615, a decrease of 19. 



Insurance. The report of the insurance super- 

 intendent, issued March 15, 1898, showed that the 

 total number of fire and marine insurance com- 

 panies doing business in the State was 206, a gain 

 of 13 over the last report ; assets, $293,598,016.39, 

 an increase of $19,676,501.57 over 1896; total lia- 

 bilities, $130,261,820.52 ;cash surplus, $95,489,172.33, 

 a gain of $16,767,394.87 over 1896; cash income, 

 $153,926,093.16; disbursements, $130,026,665.99; 

 fire risks written, $1,060,706,623.30 ; marine and in- 

 land risks written, $170,461,553.48; total risks writ- 

 ten, $1,231,168,176.78, an increase of $221,730,280.78 

 over 1896: premiums received, $13,126,233.24, a 

 gain of $317,432.92 over 1896; losses paid, $6,450,- 

 465.66; losses incurred, $7,279,759.07, an increase 

 of $1,197,497.18 over ls!l(i; average premium rate 

 on each $100 insured in 196, $1.26; in 1897, $1.07; 

 amount of losses incurred in each $100 insured, 

 59 cents in 1897, being 1 cent less than in 1896 ; risks 

 in congested districts of Chicago, $149,300,619.81. 



The aggregate number of life insurance com- 

 panies reported was 204; whole number of policies 

 issued in IN!)?. ,>!l.6!)5, an increase of 7,212 over 1896 ; 

 amount issued, $66,036,141.58, being $11,082,517.60 

 more than in 1896; premiums. $10,628,688.18, 

 an increase of s.V>i.:;i;i..->(> over 1896; losses paid, 

 $4,491,276.11, being $271,252.89 less than in 1896. 



The 41 legal-reserve insurance companies admit- 

 ted assets of $1,351,661,287.07. an increase of $105,- 

 460.046.30 over 1896: total liabilities, $1,163.628,- 

 263.67; total income, $304,107,014.16, a gain of 

 $21.945,906.47 ; number of policies in force Dec. 31, 

 1897, 2,199.098; amount thereof, $5,352,788,310.54. 



In the 4 industrial companies the number of pol- 

 icies in force Dec. 31, 1897, was 7,612,134; amount 

 thereof, $958,449.297; total premiums received, $1,- 

 345,093.22 ; total losses paid, $344,493.09. 



The 33 fidelity, surety, and casualty companies, 

 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1897, reported their 

 assets as $96,582,958.73 ; liabilities, $80,933,626.31 ; 

 net surplus, $15,649,332.42 ; total income, $20,692,- 

 703.32; total expenditures, $17,895,526.56; risks in 

 force Dec. 31, 1897, $3,315,565,290.70 ; per cent, of 

 losses paid to premiums received, 45. 



The 44 life associations showed total assets for 

 1897 to be $17,394,108.63 ; liabilities, $5,133,644.46 ; 

 total income, $20,731,676.40; disbursements, $19,- 

 208,658.60. 



In the 17 accident associations the number of 

 certificates in force. Dec. 31, 1897, was 67,643; 

 amount, $257,573,175 ; written during the year, 

 $151,789,300. 



The 69 fraternal beneficiary societies reported the 

 number of policies in force in 1897, as 1,553,220; 

 total liabilities, $3,441,208.90; total income, $29,- 

 173,682.53 ; total disbursements, $27,609,704.89. 



Military. The Fifth Illinois Regiment was the 

 first volunteer regiment mustered into the service 

 of the United States for the Spanish war. Illinois 

 filled her quota of 7 regiments of infantry and 1 

 regiment of cavalry. 



Charities. The State Commissioners of Public 

 Charities have rearranged the districts from which 

 patients are committed to the State insane asylums, 

 so that now each county will be entitled to k'eep in 

 the hospital for the insane of the district to which 

 it belongs one patient for each 183 votes cast in 

 the election of 1898. In the 4 State hospitals for 

 . the insane there were about 5,500 patients, June 30, 

 1898, maintained at an annual expense to the State 

 of $800,000. 



In the Central Hospital for the Insane the num- 

 ber of patients admitted from July 1, 1896, to June 

 30, 1898, was 2,699 ; discharged, 1,035 ; general ex- 

 pense fund, from July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897, 

 $246,557.56; balance July 1, 1897, $19,037.55; gen- 

 eral expense from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1898, 

 $186,458.97; balance July 1, 1898, $10,937.88; cost 

 per capita, about $35.94; received from products 

 of farm and garden for year ending June 30, 1898, 

 $17,522.83. 



In the Eastern Hospital for the Insane the total 

 number of patients admitted from 1896 to 1898 was 

 3,539; discharged, 1,323; ordinary expense fund 

 for the year ending June 30, 1897, $382,847.90; 

 deficit existing July 1, 1897, $8,587.73 ; ordinary ex- 

 pense fund for the year ending June 30, 1898, $355,- 

 978.53 ; deficit on July 1, 1898, $5,775.22 ; unreported 

 debt inherited from 1897, $22,839.25 ; paid on this 

 debt since March 31, 1897, $1,916.95. 



In the Southern Hospital for the Insane the num- 

 ber of patients treated from June 30, 1896, to July 

 1, 1898, was 1,432; discharged, 308; average net 

 cost per capita, $145.49 ; ordinary expense fund for 

 the year ending June 60, 1897, $172,304.99; balance 

 on hand July 1, 1897, $23,796.24; ordinary expense 

 fund for the year ending June 30, 1898, $178,764.03 ; 

 balance July 1, 1898, $42,296.45. 



In the Asylum for Feeble-minded Children the 

 number admitted in the two years from July 1, 1896, 

 to June 30, 1898, was 798; number discharged, 46; 

 died, 34 ; expenses from July 1, 1896, to June 30, 



1897, $101,822.84 ; expenses from July 1, 1897, to 

 June 30, 1898, $123,621.25; net balance July 1, 



1898, $49.45. 



Agriculture. The August report stated that 

 the number of acres of wheat harvested was 1,911,- 

 852, of which 82,939 acres were raised in northern, 

 949,929 in central, and 881,984 in southern Illinois: 

 yield of the State in bushels, 18,383,943; avera.uy 

 price, 62 cents; total value of wheat crop, $11,4?:'>.- 

 216; acres of winter wheat seeded for 1898, 1,483,- 

 000. against 1,897.000 in 1897. 



The average yield of oats per acre in the northern 



