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Business Failures. Topeka, Kan., March 29.-Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has received notice of the suspension of the Bank of Canton, McPherson counts. the property of two brothers named Grey. Its capital is $6,000, and its deposits at its last report were about $17,000. Bristol, Tenn., March 29.-The Bristol Bank and Trust Company has gone to the wall the second time. The bank, it is said, has been doing business largely by the assistance of a concern in New York that has refused to lend further aid. All the money deposited yesterday will be recovered by depositors. Beside that not more than $100,000 was on deposit.. Chicago, March 29-Hagenback's wild animal show has come to grief, and the animals will be sold at auction within a few days. The trouble came through a confession of judgment for $4,700 in favor of Edward Deverling, one of Hagenback's trainers. The sheriff has attached the animals, and they are now locked up in a barn on Adams street. Hagenback in turn brought against M. Hofheimer, manager of the show, for $5,000, claiming that he has failed to meet the necessary expenses as manager of the company in operating the show. The Nevada & California Stage Company has confessed judgment in the circuit court for $108,660 in favor of Charles Newhall. The judgment was obtained on two notes aggregating the above amount, executed February 6 and payable on demand. The attorneys for the plaintiffs said that the concern is a corporation organized under the laws of Utah, which is not in active existence. It was in bustness as a mail contractor under the United States government. The commission firm of Malcolm & Waterbury, which suspended Wednesday, has made an assignment. Assets and liabilities are believed to be in the neighborhood of $50,000. The firm had branch offices in a number of Western cities, and did a large business. They were bears in the pork market, and the rise of the product forced the assignment.
