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a a a a a a a a 14 in 1 FIVE TRAIN HOLD-UP SUSPECTS DETAINED In Biggest Drag Net Ever Thrown Out by Police Arrests Considered Important Are Made. THREE OF MEN SAID TO FIGURE IN RECENT CRIMES Assistant Chief Schnettler Professes to Curious Coincidence in Red Bandanna Masks Worn by Prisoners and Train Bandits. Scouring the city and county in every direction, the police have thrown out the biggest "drag ever attempted by the department in an effort to capture the train robbers who held up the special on the Illinois Central railway within the very shadow of Chicago. Clew after clew has been run down and in two police stations are half dozen dangerous men who are noted as being "handy with a gun" and who have been partly identified as "looking like" the bandits by the conductor of the train robbed. The persons have the nerve and daring to commit a robbery of the magnitude of the train hold-up at Mattison, the police say.

Besides the bonor that will come to the man who will capture the thieves there is a substantial reward in the shape of $4.000 and every officer in the chase is willing to risk his life in the hopes of gaining this reward and of obtaining a promotion which would be almost sure to follow capture of any one of the gang of train robbers. Five Men Held Suspects. Five men are now under arrest who may turn out to be connected with the train against the prisoners, and that it is his perrobbers, although so far 1 Assistant Chief Schuettler admits that. he has no evidence sonal opinion that the men under arrest, while well known as -up men, did not commit the train robbery. "They may, however, know the criminals who did the deed and we may get something out of them after we have subjected them to a sweatbox examination for a couple of days," says the assistant chief.

The men under arrest are Joseph and Harry Feinberg, brothers; John O'Connor, George Smith, and Daniel Maguire. Harry Feinberg is well known in Chicago as a pugilist. He fights under the name of "Kid" Farmer, and is well known to ring patrons in all parts of has the bad United States. His brother Joseph a reputation with the police, who say that he has been implicated in a number of hold-ups. His picture is in the rogues' gallery, and he is said to have taken part in a street car hold up in Lawndale several years ago in which the conductor of the car was shot and severely wounded.

Seek Fourth Member of Gang. O'Connor, the police say, also has a criminal record. A search is being made for one other member of the alleged gang. His is Frank Gagin, and the police have learned that for the past few months he has been frequently seen with the Feinberg brothers and O'Connor. men are locked up at the Central police station, and yesterday afternoon Flagman F.

W. Birch of the "Diamond" special was sent for to take a look at the prisoners. Birch looked over the scowling countenances of the suspects, and then sald doubtfully: "They look like the men, but 1 cannot say for sure. That pointing to Joe Feinberg, "looks very much like the man who led the train robbers, but I cannot say for sure that he is the man." With -this Birch left and he will return today to inspect the prisoners again' and see If he cannot, in some way, connect them with the robbery. Today he will be accompanted by a number of the other members of the train crew, and they will all be given the chance to identify the bandite.

Two West Side Suspects Held. George Smith and Daniel Maguire were arrested on the West Side by Detectives Norton and Fagan of the Desplaines street police. They are known to the police as desperate characters and the detectives were given information that they were of Chicago on the night of the train holdup. The men were found asleep in a lodging-house at Center avenue and West Harrison street and were armed. Flagman Birch attempted to identify them late in the afternoon but he was unable to do so.

All of the men under arrest strenuously deny that they had anything to do with the holdup of the Illinois Central train. While the police were busy in Chicago and making systematic raids on saloons and other places which are as the "hangouts' of criminals of all classes, the sheriffs and town marshals in surrounding towns and counties were all on the lookout for the robbers. in the afternoon Chief Special O'Keefe of the Illinois Central railway received messages from Homewood and Chicago Heights that three men had been arrested at each place. Several special agents of the railroad were sent to the two towns to look the suspects over. The men under arrest in these towns made no admissions, but they will be held until the crew of the train which was held up have a chance to look at them.

Think Three Captures Important. "The reason we arrested the Feinberg brothers and O'Connor, said Assistant Chief Schuettler, "was because we heard that the three, in company with Gagin, whom we are looking for, have been traveling together and have been committing a number of desperate hold-ups on the South Side. The Illinois Central train was held up by four men, and it is astonishing to note the number of South Side hold-ups that have been committed by a gang of four in the last few months. "Besides, the men who held up the train all wore, with the exception of the leader, masks made out of bandana handkerchiefs. According to reports, the Feinberg boys and O'Connor have been wearing masks of the same description.

This is a curious colneldence and may lead to a discovery of importance. We have already three charges of robbery against the men. They are charged with robbing the saloon of Charles Racine, 5900 Hasted street. Joe Feinberg is said to have shot Racine. Racine and his bartender both identify the men.

They are also charged with holding up J. F. Rodgers in his saloon at 357 West Forty-Seventh street on July 31. The third robbery charged to them is that of Robert Ganer's saloon, 2901 Westworth avenue. The identification by the victims in all the cases is complete and the capture we have made is Groce Will See Suspects Today.

Superintendent Groce of the Illinois Central telegraph department, who was one of the men robbed on the "Diamond" special, will visit the police stations today and take a look at the men under arrest. Mr. Groce believes he can identify the leader of the gang if he is arrested. "I am confident that the robbers will be captured," said Chief O'Neill. "I feel sure that the robbers started from Harvey, and the deep ravines and woods near Matteson make it easy for any one to escape.

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Ticket offices, 212 and 193 Clark street (Tel. Cent. 721). 1 a from the stock yards station were waiting for a Seventh street car. Three cars passed them, the motormen refusing to stop when the officers gave the signal.

The numbers of the cars were taken by Sergeant Miller. The first car was No. 1,454, the second 1,429, and the third 1,431. As the third car passed them the officers walked to Center avenue and waited for the return of the car. The motorman motioned for the police to get off the track, but Patrolman Hassett threw the switch at Center avenue and forced the man to stop the car.

Sergeant Miller boarded the car and asked the motorman, who gave his name as Frank N. Larson, why he did not stop the car when given the signal by the officers. He replied that he "did not have to," and was arrested by the sergeant and taken to the police station, while the car was left standing on the tracks. Inspector Hunt declared that the motormen were doing more in strike than the strikers themselves, and said that he would arrest any motorman who refused to stop his car for the police. Other Teamsters Aid Strikers.

Market wagon drivers and ice teamsters are to take up the strike of butcher men in earnest today and shut off supplies of markets where meat killed in the plants of the big packers is handled. butchers on the South Side were notified by the ice teamsters yesterday that they would not deliver ice to them today, because they were handling meat from the packers against whom the strike is being waged. At the same time the market wagon drivers have received orders to deliver no more meat from cold storage houses. The reason for the orders issued yesterday to the teamsters is that pickets have discovered that the big packers were having their meat delivered by a clever subterfuge. Carloads of meat were run rail to the cold storage warehouse Booth Co.

on Kinzie street, and to the Union Cold Storage company at Sixteenth and State streets. The meat was taken into the warehouses, and then the market drivers handled it, believing it had been in storage for some time, and consigned to the markets before the strike was called. Subterfuge, Is Discovered. Yesterday L. J.

Curran and J. M. Lynch of the Freight Handlers' union reported to the packing house teamsters that the meat being delivered by union teamsters had merely passed through the cold storage warehouses for purpose deceiving pickets. Lynch declared that he had watched a car being run up to the doors of the Booth warehouse and the meat carried through 1 the house and loaded on to wagons driven by union teamsters at another door. The drivers behauling beef that had been lieved they were in storage since before the strike was called.

As soon as the true state of affairs was learned orders were Issued to the market drivers to haul no more meat from storage houses and dealers will find harder to secure supplies today than at any time since the strike began. A number of on the South Side took their meat yesterday by their own wagons from the wholesale houses of the packers at Bowen and Cottage Grove avenues. These markets are reached by so that the strike of packing-house teamsters has not materially affected them. Butchers' lee Supply Cut off. The following butchers were notified that their would be cut off this morning, according to the statement given out at the headquarters of the Packing- House Teamsters' union: David B.

Watson, 486 East Forty-Seventh street. Horowitz market 505 East Forty-Third street. Weiss. 3001 Dearborn street. Beckman, Fifty- First street and Indiana aveM.

Merk. Forty- street and Langley aveE nue. Fred J. Ptelffer, 424 East Forty- street. Joseph Smith, 2525 Armour avenue.

A. Newman, 1104 East Fifty-Eighth street. Fashion Market and Grocery company. 3265 Cottage Grove avenue. Joseph Cohen.

175 East Twenty-Second street. Karisberg 1255 Wabash avenue. H. J. Vehstedt, 516 East Forty-Seventh street.

The action of the teamsters in pushing the strike issue is in a measure due to the enthusiastic indorsement of the strike given by the convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters now being held in Cincinnati. The teamsters feel that since they took part in the strike at all they are equally interested with the butcher workmen in seeing that it is carried to a suecessful termination, and they propose to inject new life into It. 'Nonunionists Desert Packers. There was a reaction in conditions at the stock yards yesterday, and some of the packers admitted that it was the worst day for them that they have experienced in a week. The desertions yesterday were larger than the supply of nonunion men, so that the Working force was materially reduced at the end of the day.

It was pay day at a number of the plants and as soon as the nonunion men received their checks many of them quit. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon a Lake Shore train of three coaches carried 250 deserters from the Hammond plant out of the yards. It was said 100 more left by street cars. The train was guarded by Sergeant Ryan from the Fiftieth street station and six policemen, but there was no interference on the part of the pickets, although a number stood around the platform and saw the nonunion men The greater number of the men were negroes, although a' fair portion were white men and said to be skilled, packing-house workers. "We have left for said one of the white men.

"They off tin plates, and It was more than we could stand for." Some of them looked as if they had not been ted off any kind of plates for some time. Fifty Men Leave Armour Plant. left the Armour plant at 3:30 Fifty men o'clock yesterday afternoon under the escort of Maurice O'Donnell, one of the union business agents, sent from headquarters to see that no violence was offered the deserters. A request for protection for fifty men from the Hammond plant was received at the union headquarters last night. The men into leave this if they are assured they will not molested.

The strike leaders promised to have union men meet them this morning and conduct them outside the yards. A Nickel Plate train brought about 165 men from New York into the yards, yesterday morning at 1:35 o'clock. About 100 of them went to the Armour plant and nearly onehalf quit at noon. Two men came out of the Schwarzschild Sulzberger plant yesterday afternoon and tried to cash their checks in the saloons along Ashland avenue near the plant. Every saloon-keeper refused, although the men declared they did not intend to return to work.

The men complained that they had received only $3.46 for five day's work. They said they were under contract to work for thirty days, and if they quit before that time a deduction of 50 cents a day was made from the wages they had been promised and, besides, they were charged up for their meals. Packers Have Poor Day. R. C.

McManus, speaking for Swift said that it was the lightest day since the strike, and he believed that applied to all the plants. The killing was less than on the past four or five days. Mr. McManus explained with a great deal of merriment yesterday the reason for the apparent rush of men into the yards each morning, without the total working force, being materially increased. According to the number of men checked up coming off trains each morning, the packers would now have almost a normal working force.

But they have not anything like it, and the reason is that the men go out of the yards at night and are cheeked up as new arrivals when they return in the morning. "You fellows did not get on to that." said, Mr. McManus, "but you have counted men at least half a dozen times. At that, we have a fairly good working force." 7,000 Men and Women at Work. careful estimate made by going through the various plants yesterday shows that 7,000 men and women, all told, is a liberal of the working force, although the packers claim double that number.

At the Libby, McNeill Libby plant, for Instance, it was said that 300 new men and women were hired yesterday, By Saturday it was said the firm would be cutting 500 cattle a day, while 800 a day is the normal output. In the face of this claim an actual count of the cots in the plant yesterday showed 102, although the superintendent said that the cots did not represent the full working force, as about 250 men and women were going home each night. Under normal conditions the firm employs more than 2,000 men and women. KUROPATKIN PLANS STAND AT HARBIN including many of eight inch caliber, but the naval artillerymen are alleged to have inflicted the heaviest loss on the da Japanese. Among prisoners captured during the engagement on Wolf's mountain was a Japanese Lieutenant carrying a freshly writletter stating that the fighting had been severe and that the Japanese losses were heavy.

Czar Receives Alarming News. Emperor Nicholas has just received a telegram at Peterhot containing alarming news. It is also reported that Viceroy Alexieff, who had gone to Harbin on his way to Vladivostok, returned to Liao Yang yesterday and conferred with General Kuropatkin regarding the situation. (Continued from First Page.) MRS. MAYBRICK A MENTAL WRECK (Continued from First Page.) interest in her surroundings.

She has been burjed from the world so long that she has forgotten all about it, and looks around as one in dream. May Never Come to America. All of the American plans are upset. There is no hope of the unfortunate woman being taken across the ocean at this time, or indeed, in the near future, it ever. The complete mental collapse came on Monday and since that time the poor woman has not aroused from her apathy in the least degree.

Yesterday she ate nothing at all. Her desire for food seems to have left her completely. She is really being kept alive by artificial means, and unless there is a radical change in her condition it is firmly believed she will not survive the shock. The home of the de Roqueg is surrounded by representatives of the press. They watch the house from all angles day and night.

This espionage is extremely trying to the Baroness. She desires to keep daughter from all annoyance, though as a fact Mrs. Maybrick might today receive a thousand reporters without changing, her condition in the least. know who they were or what they wanted; persons and conditions pass before her noticed. Sacrifices All for Daughter.

There is a pen picture in the home of the Baroness de Roques fit for a Zola to draw. The tiny home, with its simplicity and the life within; the Baroness, proud, dignified, motherly to idealism, wrecked in fortune, shattered in herself, still nursing watching the bit of humanity that years ago she held upon her knee and later saw develop into the most beautiful womanhood. STEPMOTHER HELD ON POISON CHARGE (Continued from First Page.) was at once sent for to, make a post mortem examination, which resulted in verdict of, strychnine poisoning being found by the jury. Woman Produces Strange Note. During the examination, Mrs.

Krauss produced a vial containing a white powder and a note which she claims to have found in the dead girl's bed, although the coroner, physicians, undertaker, and two neighbors, who had previously made a thorough search of the bed, say that they had been unable to find any trace of a last The note reads as follows: papa; I cannot live without the Jim referred to being youthful lover whom her father had forbidden to pay her attention. Lloyd Summerville, the milk boy who figures in the case, testified that Monday evening Mrs. Krauss sent him to the Logan drug store with an order signed "Mrs. Shewalter," asking for 15 cents' worth of strychnine with which to kill rats. As Mr.

Krause, the husband of the accused woman, is a druggist, her action in sending the boy to another store and signing another's name' is in itself a circumstance held to be fraught with the strongest suspicion. was certainly Mrs. Krause," the boy avers. "I have delivered milk to the Krauss house for a long time, and I ought to know her when I see her. She gave me 5 cents for doing the errand," he added.

The letter to the druggist is now in the possession of Coroner Hollis, who says that the handwriting is identical with that of the note which the prisoner asserts she found in Crystal's bed, and which she would have appear to have been written by the dead girl. Neighbor Denies Writing Note. The coroner has also in his possession several letters written by Crystal about the genuineness of which there is little doubt. The writing of these, he states, bears no resemblance to that of the notes, and to his mind Indicates that the note was not written by the girl, but by the writer of the note to the druggist. Two Mrs.

Shewalters, neighbors of the Krauss family, from one of which the note purported to have come, deny emphatically having written the letter. The contents of the vial which Mrs. Krauss claims to have found beside the dead girl have been tasted by the coroner and by the father of Crystal, both of whom say it is a tasteless powder, wholly unlike strychnine or any other poison of which they know. They have expressed the opinion that it might be talcum powder. Of the strychntne which the boy states he bought for Mrs.

Krauss there is not the slightest trace to be found, unless the strychnine which the coroner found at the post mortem examination- be it. Crystal was 18 years old in June and at that time it is understood came into the possession of the property on North High street occupied by the family, and which was left her by her mother. It Is said In this connection that at the time of her marriage Mrs. Krauss signed a paper agreeing to take as her full share of the estate of her husband when he should die $2,000, leaving all the rest to Crystal. Community In Aroused.

Despite the strong accusations that have been made against her. Mrs. Krauss maintains her innocence. am not guilty," she said, with a composed air, when accused of the crime, and it was with a calm mien that she entered the county jail. Nevertheless, public opinion is strongly in favor of the supposition that she is responsible for her daughter's death.

A strong guard is being kept over her as she sits in her cell, for it is feared that if evidences of her guilt should appear to be too strong she may attempt to commit slucide. Krauss, with his daughter lying dead, and his wife in the jail accused of being responsible for the murder, is a nervous wreck. He was unable to accompany his wife to the coroner's examination, and it 1s feared In case the coroner's jury brings in a verdict charging Mrs. Krauss with the murder he will lose his mind. He professes himself to be convinced, however, of his wife's innocence.

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Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. TIE-UP IS COMPLETE DONNELLY ASSERTS Strike Leader Tells Kansas City Union. Members That Packers Will Be Defeated in the End. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean.

KANSAS CITY. Aug. Striking packing house employes were addressed today in Shawnee park by President Michael Donnelly, who arrived in the city at midnight. Previous to the mass meeting, which was a attended by several thousand persons, the strike leader was met at the state line by over 2,000 union men of different crafts, who paraded to the park. President Donnelly reiterated the statement that the strikers would win in the end.

He expressed satistaction with the situation as he had found it in other cities, and said that it was a case of tie-up everywhere. "And we propose to have it remain a he added. The morning he spent in conferring with local labor leaders. Says Deserte Are Few. Mr.

Donnelly said to a reporter: "I have visited Sioux City, South Omaha, St. Joseph, and East St. In Chicago we have the packers tied up completely. In some other places there have been a tew deserters from our ranks, mostly negroes, who were never really union men at heart. In some of the plants killing is' going on under the care of branch house managers who have grown up in the bustness.

But the packers, we know, cannot begin to take the cattle that are offered here. There' was a heavy run of cattle in Chicago Monday, about 25,000, think, shipped, presumably, in the belief that the strike would be settled. But today look at the Chicago yards. They have 6,500 cattle and they should have "Is there any hope for a settlement?" was asked. "Not from me.

It's up to the conference committee now. That committee includes representatives of all the allied trades involved or likely to be involved in the strike. "I wish I could settle honor he added. Strike General in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. Crouch of the St. Louis Dressed Beef company, declares his plant is being operated successfully, notwithstanding it is short handed. The allied trades have gone out on a sympathetic strike, involving all the trades of the packing house industry in St.

Louis. In this last walk cut all the drivers and the boiler-house men to the number of forty stopped work at the plant of the St. Louis Dressed Beef company. The strikers claim that the meat cutters engaged in the various city markets have laid down their cleavers, and that the owners are forced to wait on customers. The drivers of all the branch houses of the Chicago packers in the city, numbering several hundred, are also out.

President Donnelly of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers' association, who was here a short time, addressed a meeting of strikers, and has returned to Kansas City. Stockmen to Discuss Strike. DENVER, Aug. Western stockmen to the number of about sixty met here today to confer with the Federal land commission to formulate some general plan for the settlement of the grazing land question. The conference also will take some steps to bring about an end to the packing house strike, either by the appointment of a committee to intercede between the unions and packers, offering Its services as a board of abitration, or by adopting a strong resolution asking President Roosevelt to intervene.

Sluggers Held at St. Joseph. ST JOSEPH, Aug. 3. -More union men deserted the ranks of the strikers today and returned to their old jobs at the packing plants.

This number is said by the packers to be 150. There were more than 700 men at work in the plant of Swift Co. today. Nelson Morris Co. and the Hammond Packing company run on halt forces.

The management tonight say that by the end of the week they will have all of the skilled labor they need. The first violation of the Federal court injunction occured late today when Thomas Fleece, a nonunionist, was assaulted and dangerously injured. Albert Baker, James Butler, Anthony Moran, Mike Cox, Frank Keenan, and Fred Lee are in jail and have been identified by Fleece as his assailants. Injunction Suit Abandoned. SIOUIX CITY, Iowa, Aug.

The Cudahy Packing company has abandoned its attempt to secure an injunction against the packing-house strikers in the Federal court. The company decided it was not needed. The strikers had made preparations to fight the application. CASTORIA. For Infants and Children.

The Klid You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of to (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the UNITED STATES BRANCH THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY of Liverpool, England, on the 31at day of December, 1903, made to the insurance superintendent of the state of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL Amount of deposit capital paid up in cash $200,000.00 LEDGER ASSETS Book value of real estate owned by the company $1.827,751.08 Mortgage loans on real 3,498,750.00 Book value of bonds and stocks. 8.706,738.50 Cash on hand and in 1.317.133.34 Agents debit Total ledger 50 NONLEDGER ASSETS. Interest and rents due and accrued. Market value of real estate bonds and stocks over book 98.929.58 Other nonledger 2,343.02 Gross assets.

$12,075,522.14 Deduct assets not admitted: Agents' balances over three months $18,603.04 Special deposits to secure liablitties in Ohio, Oregon, and New Mexico 212,006.25 230,600.89 Total admitted $11,814.912.25 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $24.10 Losses in process of adJustment or In susLosses pense 1,123,772.43 57,250.00 Total $1,181,046.53 Deduct reinsurance due or accrued 429,835.89 $751.210.64 Net amount of unpaid 751.210.64 Total unearned premiums. 5,274,438.14 Amount recisimable on perpetual polIcies 278,323.80 Net premium reserve and all other abilities under any special department Commissions and 223.560.28 Return and reinsurance 287.122.53 All other 20,000.00 Total Habilittes. $6,896,376.15 Less labilities secured by special deposits 168,545.87 Balance $6,727,830.28 INCOME Premiums received during the $6.857,553.74 Deposit premiums received on petual 4.829.02 Interests, rents, and 882,100.88 Profits from sale or ledger assets over book value. 85,890.80 Amount received from all other sources 1,891.30 Remittance from home 5,817.58 Total $7,286,572.90 EXPENDITURES.

Losses paid during the $3,476,815.10 Deposit premiums returned on 17.472.82 Remitted to home 619.593.87 Commissions or 1,129,875.76 Salaries, fees, and all other charge of officers, clerks, agents, and other employes 377.131.05 Rents Taxes, paid during the year. 57,757.88 repairs, and expenses on real estate 30,880.17 All other taxes. licenses, and Insurance department 143.329.57 Loss on sales, or maturity of ledger Amount assets 8.611.45 of all other expenditures. 387,780.91 Total $6,249,248.54 MISCELLANEOUS. Total risks taken during the year in Total premiums received during the year in Total losses incurred during the year in 129,547.12 Subscribed WM.

S. WARREN, Resident Secretary. and before me this 28th day of January, 1904. MARK A. FOOTE.

(Seal.) Notary Public. (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE LAW UNION AND CROWN INSURANCE cOMPANY of London, England, on the 31st day, of December, of 1903, made to the insurance superintendent the state of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of deposit capital paid up in cash $200,000.00 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of bonds and $793.302.50 Cash on hand and in 26.079.86 Agents' debit 62,285.33 Total ledger assets.

$881.667.69 Interest NONLEDGER ASSETS. and rents due and accrued. $8.181.19 Gross $889.845.88 Deduct assets not admitted: Depreciation from book values: of real estate, bonds, and $35.600.00 Agents' balances over three months 47.00 Special deposits to. secure labilities in and 121.075.00 156.722.00 Total admitted $733,126.88 LIABILITIES: Losses Losses in adjusted and adjust- $8,364.23 process of Losses ment or In 13.379.29 Total $33,124.77 Deduct reinsurance due or accrued 3.473.50 Net unearned amount of unpaid $29.651.27 Return reinsurance 7,612.77 Total liabilities $271,515.28 Less labilittes secured by special deposits 12,135.75 Balance. INCOME.

$259,379.53 Premiums received daring the $369.800.65 Profits from sale or maturity of ledger Interests. rents. and 19,659.24 assets over book 3.450.00 Remittance from home 168,563.27 Total $561.473.16 EXPENDITURES. Losses paid, during the $170.715.11 Remitted Commissions or home office. 100.787.77 73.516.06 18 Salaries, fees, and other charges of officers, clerks, agents, and other employes 6.936.35 Rents paid during the 1,249.92 All other taxes, licenses, and insurance department 9.942.64 Amount of all other 10.569.37 Total expenditures $375,717.22 MISCELLANEOUS.

Total risks taken during the year In Total premiums received during the year in 36.287.49 Total losses incurred during the year in Illinois 14.982.32 HENRY H. HALL, U. S. Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1904.

(Seal.) BALDWIN C. CHITTENDEN, Notary Public. (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the MANCHESTER UNITED STATES BRANCH THE ASSURANCE COMPANY of ber. Manchester, 1903, made to England, the on insurance the 81st day of Decemthe state of Illinots, pursuant to law. superintendent of CAPITAL Amount of deposit capital paid up in cash LEDGER $200.000.00 ASSETS.

Book value of real estate owned by the company value of bonds and $1.200.00 Book Cash on hand and in 104.802.13 Bills receivable 841.42 Agents' debit 210.256.20 Total ledger assets. $1.726.048.10 NONLEDGER Interest and rents due and $13,454.17 Market value of bonds and stocks over book 800.00 Other nonledger assets 67.98 Gross assets Deduct assets not admitted: oz bonds and Depreciation from book values $1,688.35 balances over three months due 4,459.98 Special deposits to secure Itabilities in Oregon, Ohio. and Virginia Total 222.648.33 Total admitted LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpald. $25,881.68 Losses, ment, or in process 69.502.29 in of adjustLosses resisted 22.742.00 Total $118.125.95 Deduct reinsurance due or 13.177.05 accrued Net amount of unpaid $104.918.90 Total Reinsurance premiums.

unearned 20,780.87 Total Less Habilities secured by special deposits 82.124.97 Balance INCOME. Premiums received during the year. $1,381,385.18 Interests. received rents, and 56,830.72 Amount from all other sources 086.97 Total Income EXPENDITURE Losses paid during the $748.904.56 Remitted to home office. 169.928.80 Commissions or 337.882.84 Salaries, fees, clerks, and all other charges other of officers, agents, and employes 110,069.62 Rents paid during licenses, the and 18.062.76 All other taxes, fees insurance department or 41,892.84 Loss on sales, maturity of ledger assets 301.67 Amount of all other 258.487.03 Total expenditures.

Total risks taken during the year In Illinois $0,712.925.00 Total, in premiums received during the 129.319.99 Total losses Incurred during the year in Illinois 62,140.98 T. W. Manager. Subscribed sworn to before me this 28th day of January, 1904, CHAS. F.

GEISL. (Seal.) Notary Public, (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the COMPANY UNITED of STATES FIRE INSURANCE York. on the 31st New York, state of New day of December, 1908, made the insurance superintendent the state of Illinols, pursuant to law. CAPITAL Amount of capital stock paid up In cash $250,000.00 Book value of real estate owned LEDGER ASSETS. company by the Book Mortgage value of loans on real estate.

810.200.00 Cash on hand bonds and 307.203.00 Agenta' debit and in bank. 20.919.50 balances Other ledger assets 17,802.53 Total ledger assets $764,440.75 NONLEDGER ASSETS. Market Interest due value and $3,706.44 of real estate bonds and Other stocks over nonledger book value 7,804.79 assets 754.72 Gross $776,502.70 Deduct assets not admitted: gents' balances over three months due $1,053.85 Total admitted $775,449.35 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid. $15.289.62 Losses, in process of ment or in Losses resisted 6,451.54 Total $56,149.91 Deduct reinsurance due or accrued 8.861.10 Net amount of unpaid 47.288.81 Total unearned premiums.

Salaries, rents, bille, 1,833.83 Commissions and brokerage. 3.474.71 Return and reinsurance premiums 1,902.44 Total $414,878.33 INCOME. Premiums received during the $512.775.53 Interests, rents, and 24.084.45 Total Income. $536,839.08 EXPENDITURES. Losses paid during the year $229,478.95 Dividends paid during the yea 10,000.00 Commissions or brokerage 135,007.92 Salaries, fees, and all other charges officers, clerks, agents, and other employes.

Rents paid during the 7,500.00 Taxes, repairs, and expenses on real estate 2.126.16 All other taxes, licenses, and Insurance department 8,280.81 Amount of all other 58.087.86 Total expenditures $512,589.61 MISCELLANEOUS. Total risks taken during the year in Illinois. Total received during the year In Illinois 28,735.10 Total losses incurred during the year in Illinois. 12,347.25 W. W.

President. ALLEN H. CRAFT. Asst. Secretary.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of January, 1904. GEORGE H. COTEY. (Seal.) Commissioner. (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the ORIENT INSURANCE COMPANY of Hartford, in the state of Connecticut, on the 31st day of December, 1903.

made to the insurance superintendent of the state of Illinois. pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital up in cask $500.000.00 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate owned by the company $63.333.04 Mortgage loans on real 41.158.00 Book value of bonds and 1.769.051.14 Cash on hand and in 136.703.99 Bills receivable 123.75 Agents' debit balances 157,988.01 Total ledger assets NONLEDGER ASSETS.

Interest and rents due and $30.425.87 Market value of bonds and stocks over book value 12.866.24 Other nonledger assets 993.57 Gross assets Deduct assets not admitted: Rents' balances over three months due $5.157.94 Special to secure in Virginia, Oregon, and New 98.228.33 103,386.27 Total admitted assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $41,948.42 Losses, in process of adjustment. or in suspense. 90.353.35 Losses resisted 33.149.99 Total Deduct reinsurance due. or accrued 20.333.09 Net amount of unpaid $145,118.67 Total unearned premiums.

858.715.31 Return and reinsurance premiums. 3,437.21 Total liabilittes Less liabilities secured by special deposits 25.579.50 Balance $981.694.69 INCOME. Premtums received during the year. Intereste, rents, and dividends. 65.118.04 Profits from sale or maturity of ledger assets over book value 2.212.14 Total income EXPENDITURES Losses paid during the year $503.604.60 Dividends paid during the 50.060.00 Commissions or brokerage Salaries.

fees, and all other charges of officers, clerks. agents, and other Rents employes 65.693.01 paid during the year 4,379.50 Taxes. repairs. and expenses on real estate 1,665.02 All other taxes, licenses, and insurance department fees 25.184.30 Amount of all other expenditures. 56.939.57 Total expenditures $976.641.49 MISCELLANEOUS Total risks taken during the year in Illinois $6.692.042.00 Total premiums received during the Total year in losses Illinois 90,970.68 incurred during the year in Illinots G.

President. Subscribed JAS. and sworn WYPER. Secretary. of 1904.

to before me this 20th day (Seal.) January, LEON B. HUMPHREY. Notary Public. (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of PANY the of VIRGINIA STATE INSURANCE COMRichmond, in the state of Virginia, on the 31st day of December. 1903, made to the insurance superintendent of the state of Illinois.

pursuant law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid in cash. $200.000.00 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate owned by the company $68.939.82 Mortgage loans on real estate.

Book Loans value on collateral bonds security. 2.813.66 Cash on hand in and 297.812.35 Bills Other Agents' ledger debit assets. 83,024.65 13,890.28 Total ledger $535.268.14 NONLEDGER ASSETS. Market Interest value accrued $5.685.33 stocks over book estate and 53.599.50 of real bonds Gross $594.552.97 Other Deduct assets not admitted: unadmitted 1.500.00 Total admitted LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and Losses, ment.

In in process of adjustor 83,429.91 Deduct Total $54.058.43 reinsurance due or accrued 8,820,69 Net Total amount unearned of unpald 45,237.74 Unpaid 221.193.96 241.25 Reinsurance 10,608.00 Total labilities. $277,281.04 INCOME. Interests, Premtams received during the rents, and dividends 18,547.31 Total Losses Dividends paid paid during the EXPENDITURES during the $1.980.50 Commissions or 86.189.59 fees. and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents, and other emRents ployes paid during 25.057.14 the 2,137.50 tate repairs, and expenses on real esTaxes, All other taxes. licenses.

and insurance 2,507.49 Lose department 5,081.00 on sales, or maturity of ledger assets Amount of ail other 2,674.63 expenditu Total $350.930.46 Total risks during the year in MISCELLANEOUS. Total Illinois premiums received during the year in Illinols. 5,542.17 Total losses incurred during the year in 1,517.15 GEO. L. CHRISTIAN, President.

ROBT. LECKY. Secretary, of Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day January, 1904. W. A.

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(Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT: of the NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY of Allegheny, in the State of Pentaylvania, on the to Bist day of December, 1003, made insurance superintendent of the state of Illinots, to law. CAPITAL Amount of capital stock paid up in cash 8200.000.00 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate owned by the company $8.629.39 Mortgage loans on real Loans on collateral Book value of Cash on hand and in bank. Bills receivable. Agents' debit 38.981.76 Total ledger as $673,753.73 NONLEDGER ASSETS.

Interest due and $10,861.20 Market value of bonds and stocks over book value. 375.00 Gross assets. $686,989.99 Deduct assets not admitted: Agents' balances over three months $4,601.34 Collateral loan. Insumcient security 307.00 4.908.34 Total admitted assets. LIABILITIES.

Losses Losses adjusted and unpaid. $3,466.15 process of adjustLosses ment or in 5,257.78 resisted 1.250.00 Total $9,973.93 Deduct reinsurance due or accrued 842.74 Net amount of unpaid 9.631.10 Total unearned Unpaid 1.120.50 Counter premiums 679.50 All other 3,780.88 Total labilities. $204,864.83 INCOME. received during the $201.264.04 Interest, rents, and 26.042.21 Amount received. from all other sources 1,228.68 Total $228.534.93 EXPENDITURES.

Losses paid during the year. $62.890.87 Dividends paid during the year. 17.710.00 Commissions or brokerag 53,818.89 Salaries, fees, and all other charges of officers. clerks, agents, and other employes 10.720.08 Rents paid during the 800.00 Taxes, repairs, and expenses on real estate 348.07 All other taxes, licenses, and insurance department 4.526.63 Amount of all other 15,059.59 Total expenditures. $165.873.63 MISCELLANEOUS.

Total risks taken during the year in Illinois $2.583.885.00 Total premiums received during the year in Illinois. 41.231.00 Total losses incurred during the year in Illinois 16..743.00 JOHN THOMPSON. President. Subscribed and H. M.

sworn to SCHMITT, before me Secretary 2fth day of January. 1904. (Seal.) L. H. Notary M'CABE.

Public. (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of Pittsburg, in the state of Pennsyl- vania, on the 31st day of December, 1903, made to the Insurance departinent of the state of Illnois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash $750.000.00 NEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate owned by the company $4.000.00 Mortgage loans on real 291.822.00 Loans on collateral 50,000.00 Book value of bonds and 1,098.356.00 Cash on hand and in 88.648.28 Agents' debit balances 91.982.58 ledger assets 1.080.58 Total ledger NONLEDGER ASSETS.

Interest accrued 4,779:11 Market value of bonds and stocks over book value 2.775.00 Gross assets Deduct assets not admitted: Agents' balances over three months due 635.73 Total admitted assets. $1,632, 756.77 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpald. $20,212.63 Losses in process of adjustment or in 28.546.84 Losses resisted 3.350.00 Total $52,000.47 Deduct reinsurance due or accrued 1,208.62 Net amount of unpaid 50.800.83 Total unearned premiums 496.680.25 All other liabilities, 10.000.00 Total liabilities $557.481.10 INCOME Premiums received during the $713.214.00 Interests, rents, and dividends. 67.130.08 Profits from sale or maturity of ledger assets over book value 1,200.00 Amount received from all other sources.

101 1,200.42 Total Income EXPENDITURES. 10 $782.753.59 Losses paid during the year. $288.887.12 Decrease in value of securities. 44.936.33 Commissions or 162,430.23 Salaries, fees, and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents, and other employes 44.030.51 Rents paid during the ye 5.400.00 Taxes, repairs, and expenses on real estate 447.92 AlL other taxes, licenses, and insurance department fees 31,864.73 Loss on sales, or maturity of ledger assets, general expense 13.407.10 Amount of all other expenditures. 18,280.31 Total expenditures $584.033.24 MISCELLANEOUS.

Total risks taken during the year in Illinois 796.00 Total premiums received during the year in Illinois. 54,250.33 Total losses incurred during the year in Illinois 25.085.20 JAS. H. WILLOCK. President.

E. E. COLE. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of January, 1904.

WALTER MORRIS. Commissioner for tilinois in Pennsylvania. (Seal.) (Official Publication.) ANNUAL STATEMENT of the NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY of New York, in the state of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1903, made to the insurance superintendent of the state of Illinois, pursuant to CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash $200.000.00 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of bonds and $661.200.30 Cash on hand and in 19.335.33 Agents' debit 15.431.94 Cther ledger 123.54 Total ledger $606,091.31 NONLEDGER ASSETS.

Interest $755.00 Gross $696.846.31 Deduct assets not admitted: Depreciation from book values of bonds and stocks. $33,570.30 Agents' balances over three months due. 692.19 34.162.49 Total admitted assets. $662.683.83 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid.

$77.68 Losses In process of adjustment or in 13.239.47 Losses resisted 1,500.00 Total Deduct reinsurance due or accrued. 9.009.57 Net amount of unpaid 5.807.58 Total unearned premiums 100,198.49 Total labilities. $106,006.07 INCOME. Premiums received during the $142.260.76 Interests and 22.473.98 Total income. $164.734.72 EXPENDITURES.

Losses Commissions paid during the $30.655.60 and brokerage Dividends paid during the 20.000.00 Commissions or brokerage. 30.687.83 Salaries, fees, and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents, and other employes 4,792.01 Rents paid during the year 1,800.00 All other taxes. licenses, and insurance department 4.046.61 Proft and loss. 21.60 Amount of all other 5.381.13 Total $101.141.40 MISCELLANEOUS Total risks taken during the year In Illinois $1.074.136.00 Total premiums recalved during the year in Illinois. 9,934.01 Total losses incurred during the year In Illinois 542.35 RICHARDS, President.

F. HASTINGS, Secretary, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d day of January, 1904. GEO. H. COREY.

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