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Business Failures. Indianapolis, Nov. 11.-Receiver Failey, of the Order of the Iron Hall, today made his report. He says he is chargeable since October 17, 1894, with $1,025,463. and that he has paid out $838,860. The cash balance is $178,219. There are outstanding claims amounting to $154,763, and the receiver says the balance after paying all claims will be $10,000. Manchester, N. H., Nov. 1.-Late Saturday night the state bank commissioners made application to the supreme court for a receiver for the New Hampshire Trust Company for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are put at $4,882,632 in the trust department and $272,187 in the savings department. The company holds mortgages and liens on 1,000 parcels of land in the two Dakotas and Minnesota, on which it cannot now realize, and also owns a large amount of valuable real estate in this state and in Maine. On one block in this city it earns 3 net income of $33,000 a year. The last published statement of its assets put them at $402,526. President H. D. Upton, in speaking of the matter, said: "The bank commissioners examined into the condition of the company during the past week, and we had no reason to believe they would act as they did. The only notice we received that a petition was to be filed was after it had been done. I think they were extremely discourteous, and I resent their methods. A meeting of the directors is called for Tuesday, at which time some action will he taken on the application for a receivership. We are not disposed to fight the proceedings If It does not seem best. As It is now. I am strongly in favor of doing so. The commissioners seem to know it all. Their pisition, as I understand it. is that the company cannot get on its feet again. and that its affairs should be wound up." No detailed statement of the condition of the company is obtainable. New York, Nov. 11.-Judge Lacombe, in the United States circuit court, today granted the petition of the receivers for the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company to sell all the assets held by them. The amount of assets. exclusive of cash, is, acording to the books, $3,798,030, but the receivers say this is a largely prospective value. The receivers also hold much real estate in the Western and Southern states, representing an expenditure of $1,900,000. The sale will take place on December 11.