The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-09-05
Failures, Assignment.. &c.

The following failures, assignments, sus-
pensions, &C., are chronicled by the Eastern
press:
Ira Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, gone
into insolvency.
N. II. Wolfe & Co., Produce merchants,
New York City, suspended.
Henry E. Thomas, New York city, sus-
pended in Consequence Of the decease of Mr..
T., with liabilities of about $4OO, 900, but
state they will have a large surplus, and will
only require little time.
Griggs Lathrop, bankers and stock bro
kers, New York, suspended.
James I. Derrickson, New York, suspen-
ded, liabilities about 100000.
Slime 4 Mendel, Fancy Goods dealers,
New York city, assigned.
Albert Salters, Clothing Merchant, New
York city, assigned.
Francis Davis, Troy, New York, failed and
assigned
SIP: s G. II. Ely, Rochester, New York,
suspended. =
failed, offer 3S per cent.
York, reported last week, should have read
Gloversville, assigned; liabilities over $780,
900.
Harvey Pearce, Westport, New York,
assigned.
Ransom Deshon, Oakfcld, New York,
assigned.
John 5. Graham, Mount Pleasant, Penn.
suspended.
John Taylor, & Co., Cincinnati. assigned,
liabilities said to be about S400, 900.
Frederick Bleyle, Charlestown, Indiana,
failed and assigned.
Thompson Bissell, Valparaiso, Indiana,
assigned.
A. Childs, Altoona, Illinois, failed.
Omar Tousey, Fort Des Moines, Iowa,
failed.
G. G. Dennis, Princetown, Iowa, failed.
II. R. Paul, GAINESVILLE, Iowa, assigned.
Miller & Curtis, Publishers, New York
city, reported suspended last week, have
Indebtedness of about 100000; assets
nominally sufficient to pay in full. An in
junction has been served upon them to pre-
vent disposal of their property. Creditors
expect full payments, as they believe that
MIR. Shaw, their special partner. is liable for
all the debts-the copartnership, not having
been duly advertised. .
Messrs. Edward G. Bates & Co, merchants
of Boston, are reported as suspended, with
liabilities to the amount of $500. 900, and
assets for nearly the same amount. They
have been largely interested in the sugar
trade.
Messrs. Delany, Iseline & Clark Bankers,
n. Y. City, have failed.
John Thompson, Banker, Broker, and
publisher of the Counterfeit Detector, n.
Y. City, has failed.
The Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Com.
pany has failed. The liabilities Of this COM
pany are estimated at from SIS 900 900 to
81 100000. About 500, 900 Of checks paid
out by the New York agency on Saturday
and Monday, are unpaid.
Messrs. Brown Bros. g. Co., and others
have placed an attachment upon the assets
of the company in foreign corporation,
and the sheriff and his deputies are in charge
OF the Office and property. The immediate
embarrassment OF this company arose, we
understand, from its inability to meet loans
made by it of some banking house in the
street.
The proceeds of these loans had been used
in sustaining Western Railroad Companies.
ono of which was to have received an ad.
vance exceeding half million dollars, The
President states in a card, that the canital
OF the company $2,000,000 is sound and
reliable, exclusive Of such losses AZ NAV
arise from the insuficiency Of securities for
loans made by the company.
Attachments to the amount of ST. SOC. Oo0
against tho Ohio Life Insurance & Trust
Company, have been issued to-day. The
Branch Office Of the company in Cincinnati
is now in possession of the Sheriff. Some
of the principal attachments are on behalf
of the American Exchange Bank, SAT 900:
Ocean Bank, $4,000 Brown Bros. & Co.
100000. There are a large number OF
others for smaller amounts. The advance,
to the Cleveland and Pittsburgh r. r., are
mentioned as among the most important
made by tho company.