Illinois Railway Statistics

SpRixoFiKi.n, 111., .Tan. 5.- Illinois now has the greatest railway mileage of any State in the Union, 14,017 miles. The gross earnings of all the roads in the State the past year were $262,091,753.14. There were 182,flS0 employés, whoee yi-arly compensution was 107,705,205.49. l'ivi' hiniclreil and sixtyeight persons were killed; only twentyseven of this number were passengere.