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Show A UINNOMIK. Tim Fidelity NnrliiKS HiiuU, lilt'iiuo, ia ii No ShiIi Tuiufc, Iim Dnorn nre Uloned and n Receiver Appoluled. Tho Third hlcugo NuiUNh 11 ithiu w Few iiuy. Chicago, 24 Early c.tllors at the Fidelity havings bank this morning louud its doors closed and a hastily-penned hastily-penned card thereon, iuforming depositors de-positors ilmt a petition for a receiver would be filed in the superior court to-day. The bank would . remain clobed pending the decision of that question. In the court the motion was made, aud us the officers of the bank made uo opposition Judge Moore decided to appoint a receiver Ibis afternoon, by which time he hoped the officers and depositors would nave agreed upou the mau The petition alleges mat the office buve been sacrificing valuable securities securi-ties iu order to realize cash upon them; ttiat the bank ia iueolveut. It is believed the a f sets will be much larger in proportion than those of the State savings bank. Tho last qurr terly statement gives aa resources: cash and exchange, $341,222; government govern-ment hoods, $279,432; other bonds, $50,061; demand loans eecurtd by illAlrulii ''i:-t S4.S- I ma In.ma secured, $438,749; first mortgage loans on re.il estate, $606,342: bank and depository building, $So,878; real estate, $102,000; property account, ac-count, $18,454; Bafe depository vaults, $121,520. Other small items make the total resources, $2,280,511. The liabilities were: capital, $200,000: surphiM, $100,000; profit and loss, $3 447; due depositors, $1,977,064; total, $2,280,511. The grand jury has indicted Spencer, Spen-cer, Guild and Bulkly, officers of the State savings bank, tor embezzlement ol $700,000. None of them are in the city nor is their present whereabouts where-abouts kuown. |