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AMERICAN RESERVE CLAIMS PILE UP. Receiver Appointed in Missouri to Keep Assets in That State. Chicago, May 3.-Fifty more complainants entered to-day into the attack on the American Reserve Bond Company in the United States Circuit Court. Judge Bethea allowed them to file an intervening petition. Their claims against the company aggregate $20,000. After granting the filing of the petition, the court ordered that the bond of the Western Trust and Savings Bank, which is acting as receiver, be increased from $20,000 to $250,000. The increase in the bond was ordered because of the discovery that the bond company had $35,000 on deposit in a local bank, and securities valued at $300,000 in a safety deposit vault in this city. It was declared in court to-day by the receiver that in addition to the assets held in this city the company had $230,000 deposited with state officials in Kentucky and $1,200,000 in Missouri. St. Louis, May 3.-Application was made in the Circuit Court last night for the appointment of a receiver for the American Reserve Bond Company. in Missouri, to prevent the Missouri assets of the company from falling into the hands of the Western Trust and Savings Bank, of Chicago, yesterday appointed receiver for the company by the Federal Court in Chicago. Circuit Judge Fisher to-day appointed the Mississippi Valley Trust Company receiver and issued an injunction to prevent the bond company from interfering with the receiver. The bond of the recelver was fixed at $1,200,000.