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Show A PIG LEAD FIRM FAILS. It Was Olio ol' the Latest ill tliJVhiile Country. CutrAQo, Jan. 23. Kverett & Post, one of largest pit: lead and spelter commission j houses of the country, lias assigned. Their headquarters are at SI. Louis, and the assignment, as-signment, it is said, was made there yesterday. yester-day. This afternoon a deed covering tho properly here was tiled. The Chicago branch alone did a business aggregating f3,UO0,0OJ last year, and at the St. Louis house nearly double those figures. At the oilice of the company in this city nothing could he learned as to the assets and liabilities TIiom-familiar TIiom-familiar with the husiuess say the tirm was caught by the serious drop in the market, and it has been uuable lo meet all of its contracts. con-tracts. The firm was not incorporated ami Kiehard Everett and Henry I'ost arc said to In' the only ones interested or tinaucially responsible. responsi-ble. Post, the resident member of the tlrin. said the liabilities of the firm will not be large, us they merely did u commission bii-ine--. St. Lul ls, San. SI. The assets of Kverett A i'ost, dealers in pig li on and spelter, am fTJ.UHI. The liabilities arc not stated, but they are believed to be small. . . a . -- - |