BUSINESS TROUBLES
The schedules of Charles L. Webster & Co., book publishers at 67 Fifth
Avenue, in which firm Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain") and Frederick
J. Hall are the partners, were filed yesterday. They show liabilities of $94,191,
nominal assets of $122,657, actual assets of $69,164, less $15,000 hypothecated
to the United States National Bank, and net actual assets of $54,164. There
are more than 200 creditors scattered all over the United States. Among the
creditors are: Mount Morris Bank, $29,500; United States National Bank, $15,000;
George Barrow, Skaneateles, N. Y., $15,420; S. D. Warren & Co., Boston,
$6,332; Jenkins & McCowan, $5,363; Thomas Russell & Son, $4,623. There
is due for royalties: Estate of U. S. Grant, $2,216; Col. F. D. Grant, $727;
estate of Gen. P. H. Sheridan, St. Paul, Minn., $374; Mrs. E. B. Custer, London,
$1,825.
