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BUSINESS FAILURES. Four Manufacturing Concerns DownThird Bank Crash in Faulkton, S. D. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. -Amos Heilborn & Co., manufacturers and importers of furniture, have assigned. The liabilities will be large. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 3.-A special to the Tribune from Faulkton, S. D., says: The Faulk County bank failure of December 23 is a bad break. It is the third bank failure at this place within three months, and is much the worst of the three. Over $13,000 of county money was on de posit, and fears are entertained that the county will lose it. NEW YORK, Jan. 2-Charles Metzger, manufacturer of fancy plush and leather boxes, has failed, with $50,000 liabilities. Hawthorn & Finn, manufacturers of machinery and steam fittings, assigned today without preferences. Their liabilities are about $70,000. The assets are not known. John M. Reamer, wholesale lumber dealer, assigned today. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. -Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency reports twenty-four failures in the Pacific coast states and territories for the week ending January 2, as compared with twenty-two for the previous week, and twelve for the correspouding week of 1889. WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 3.-The Worcester Steel Works were petitioned into insolvency today by the Shoe and Leather bank, of Boston, on a promissory note for $5,000, indorsed by George M. Rice, president of the company. A second petition was filed against George M. Rice personally.
