Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 60, Number 51, 19 October 1888 — A •'IJUSTI!:i>" TRUST. [ARTICLE]

A •'IJUSTI!:i>" TRUST.

S-i.iUI.-i, Collnpse or ii firi-at Pig-Lead Firm in the West. Chicago, October Mth— XatbaaCorvrith&Co., the greal pic-lead firm and promoters o: the gigantic pig-lead trust, or corner, have failed The immediate cause of the collapse was the refusal ol the rnion National Bank of Chteag > to extend the time on overdrafts to the amount of ;■' '. 'ibis sum will represent a very small portion of the firm's indebtedness to the bank, and is only the climax to a long series of overdrafts to pay margins which were to sustain the pig-lead trust. Their liabilities run mtu the millions, and their n>scsts cannot now be approximated.