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HIS LIABILITIES $226,947 AND ASSETS $700 Boston, Feb. 21.-Alexander S. Porter, a broker of this city today filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, in the United States district court giving his liabilities as $226,947 and assets only $700. The unsecured claims amount to $160,950. The largest secured creditor is the Union Trust company of Boston which has a claim for $25,000. Among the heaviest unsecured creditors are the estate of the late William E. Barrett $15,000; Henry A. Burnham, Gloucester $13,000; Henry M. Whitney, Boston $16,000; Lee Higginson Company, Boston $10,000; F. L. McGowan, Boston $14,000; Samuel A. McCall and Charles F. Choate, Jr. receivers of the Union Trust company $35,000; International Trust company, Boston $8000; Georgetown National Bank, Georgetown, Mass., $3000; R. S. Sulliere of New York has a disputed claim of about $25,000. The petitioner also is liable as endorser on several notes. Nearly all the unsecured credits are for notes,