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Show Failures of the I'ast Month. New York, May 7. It. O. Dun & Co., In their weekly review yesterday sayi Tho failures In April were the smallest In any month since records by months began, 38 per ceut smaller than in April of last year, not ft third of iho amount of 1897, and not half the amount of April of any prevloui year. Doth in manufacturing und In trading they wero tho smallest ever known In that month and In trading the smallest ever known In any month. Prosperity Is In evidence |