Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — BIG BOSTON FAILURE. [ARTICLE]

BIG BOSTON FAILURE.

Squire & Sons, Pork Packers, Forced to Suspend. The firm of John P. Squire & Sons t Boston, the largest i»ork-packing establishment in New England, has failed. The liabilities are $3,000,000, and the assets $5,000,000. The firm’s paper is mostly held by Boston banks. H. W. Caplin, the firm’s attorney, is assignee. It is said that the firm was connected to a great extent with the affairs of the Globe National Bank, recently in difficulty, and this fact had much to do with the failure.