Show I A San Francisco Flrlu AMiigIi SAN FRANCISCO Sept 10Hoffman Co fanoy dry goods importers 19 Battery street made an assignment for the benefit of creditors today Liabilities about half a million dollars The assets are stated to be nominally the same as the liabilities and consist of merchandise mer-chandise in stock and 100000 in bank accounts ac-counts The assets cannot be ascertained The assignees are M Meyer Geo H Frederick Freder-ick Arnold Stahl and G Gump all of this city The principal creditors are Daniel Mover of the London and California Bank I Cohen of this city and others in New York Cincinnati and Syraousewhoso names could not be learned The firm attribute the failure to the general business depression depres-sion The immediate cause of their assignment as-signment was the inability to pay a draft of 10000 presented by E Cohen The latter threatened to attach and to protect the remainder re-mainder of the creditors the firm made an i I assignment I |