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BUSINESS FAILURES. Larger Commercial Concerns Involving Liabilities of $500,000 or More. Jan. 10-Port of Chalmette, near New Orleans, La., $2,000,000. 17-At New York, Wertheimer & Co., glove manufacturers, $800,000. Feb. -At Providence, R.J. locomotive works, $616,700. 23 Sawyer, Manning & Co., dry goods, New York and Boston, $1,000,000. Apr. 11-At Dolgeville, N. Y., Alfred Dolge & Son, piano supplies, $1,250,000. 27-At Boston E. Howard Clock & Watch Co., $500,000. Jun. 10-At Bangor, Me., L. B. Clark & Co., tanners, $550,000. 13-At Chicago, Joseph Leiter, gigantie wheat speculator. 16-At Boston, Woven Hose & Rubber Co., $1,200,000. Jul. 14-At Providence, R. I, John H. Mason & Sons, cotton manufacturers, $810,000 26-At Bridgeton, N. Y., Cumberland Nail & Iron Co. 27-Denver, Col., Paper Co. 30-At Boston, Hosmer, Codding & Co., boot & shoe dealers, $500,000. Sep. 26-New England Loan & Trust Co., at Des Moines, Ia., into receiver's hands. Oct. 1.-U. A. & J. Sawyer, woolen manufacturers, in Manchester, N. H., $1,000,000. 6-Bankers' & Merchants' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., at Liberty, Mo., assigned. 25-John Stephenson & Co., of N. Y., car builders, failed for $700,000. Nov. 3-T. B. Rayl, president of . 3 Rayl Hardware Co., of Detroit, fails for $1,500,000. 14-Turney & Jones Coal Co., and Penn. & O. Fuel Co., of St. Paul Minn., go into receiver's hands. Liabilities, $1,200,000. 17-Seidenberg, Steifel & Co., eigar dealers in New York, fail for $500,000. 25-At Woodbine, Kan., Grant C. Gillett, extensive cattle dealer, failsfor$1,000,000 29 George Jenkins, New York builder, fails for $710,388.