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Show PLOT OF FOLD 'I FOILED BAITS BY I AN Several Villages Utterly Destroyed and tiie Death List Will Exceed Five Hundred. Hundred Dodies Have Been Taken From the Ruins of the Homes of the Victims Floods Follow the Earthquake Shock. Seiio a Satchel Containing $5,000, Out Doth the Men and Money Are Captured by the Officers. 500. Two hundred holies have already been taken from the ruins. Many of the villages are ::ill cut off from communication with Rome by the floods and the destruction of the telegraph lines and roads, and no word from them can he had. The first shock of the earthquake fortunately brought, most of the population of the villages into the open, many succeeding in making their escape to the hills or open places, or the list of fatalities would have been larger. To add to the desolation caused by the earthquake, it was raining in torrents, which greatly increased the suffering among the homeless people. Half the houses at Ferruzamo and Brancaleone collapsed and many persons were buried in the ruins; and at Sinopoli and St. Ilario more lives are said to have been lost. Panic prevailed everywhere. Half the houses of the village of Gerace are in ruins, and similar conditions prevail in a number of other points in Calabria. During the confusion caused by the first earthquake the prisoners in the jail at Catazaro mutinied, and were only subdued with great difficulty. The female prisoners were particularly alarmed, screaming, shouting and beating the doors until the whole place was in a terrible uproar. The prison officials did everything possible to calm the inmates, but they broke out afresh every time another earth shock was experienced. FRENCHMEN NERVOUS. Think the Whole Fabric of American Credit Has Been Endangered. in Wall Paris. The street is having a sentimental rather than a practical effect here. The papers are devoting much space to the Wall street crash, and the slaughter of American millionaires, and opera tors on the bourse are closely watching the situation. They consider that financial conditions are American sound at the base, and regard the New York crisis as being the inevitable culmination of an era of intense commercial activities and over speculation, helped along by the revelations of improper methods of finance and the position assumed by the authorities at Washington.' Some of the bankers think President French. Roosevelt has gone too far and that the whole fabric of American credit has been endangered. house-cleanin- g Governor Sparks Comes to the Rescue of Financial Institutions. Nev. A bank holiday Goldfield, was declared by Nevada throughout Governor Sparks on Thursday, to last five days. All the banks of Goldfield were closed on Thursday in consequence. The proclamation came as a great relief to local banks. The State Bank & Trust company had already closed its doors. At noon Wednesday, a big run was in .progress at the Nye & Ormsby bank, when banking hours closed, and the run probably would have continued had the bank opened. ABUNDANCE OF FOOD THE PRODIGAL SONS. FOR no attention to low ljt:u1o Jewely or Watches, hut exercise care in keeping prices low. Arabs and Moors Eat Carcbs Cyprus Exports Them as Food fer Cattle ta a Very Large Extent. Philadelphia. One of the Loldt-sattempts at robbery in a long time occurred Friday, win n two men tried to get away with $ir.ou whhh they had seized from a bank runner in the United States Both were arrested and all the money was recovt sub-treasur- ered. The two men had been hanging around the for several days and were being watched by bank detectives and watchmen. P. J. Cronin, a runner for the Franklin National bank, was handed several large bundles of money by a paying Ho placed teller In the in a $1,000 satchel and walked to a bench mar by with the remainder, amounting to $15.o'M. He laid the money on the bench, intending to open, the satchel and place it with the other money. At t.ie same moment one of the men being watched, and who was standing in front of one of the subtreasury watchmen, raised a newspaper as if lie were looking for something and obstructed the view of the watchmen. Then the other grabbed the $5,000 lying on the bench and started out of t.ie front door. The bank runner instantly gave chase, raising the alarm as he dki so. The The runner was close to the thief when the man who held 'the newspaper stuck out his foot and tripped him and tried to escape. He had only gone a few feet, however, when the watchman captured him. Others in the started after the man with the money and he was soon captured. sub-treasur- y sub-treasur- Home. Details of the earthquake In Calabria on Wednesday, just received here, show that the damage was much more extensive than at flr.--t reported, while the death list is estimated at still DETECTIVES EDS PERISH Two husks grown WE PAY y sub-treasur- sub-treasur- y NEW YORK'S BLACK FRIDAY. Several Trust Companies and One National Bank Suspend. New York. Friday was another day, but the financial institutions of New York have shown extraordinary power of resistance to the pressure put upon them. While it is true that several minor institutions have been forced to close their doors, yet two things should be said about them. First, that the amount involved was not so great as to exert any marked influence on the general situation, as these banks were located in residential quarters and did not come into touch with the larger financial institutions of the metropolis; and, second, there is every reason to believe t;iat these banks and trust companies are entirely solvent, and their difficulties will prove to be only temporary. The institutions which closed their doors on Friday, with the sums due depositors, were: The United States Exchange bank, Harlem, $000,000; InTrust company, about ternational $100,000; the Borough Bank of Brook-- , bank, lyn, $4,000,000; the Brooklyn nerve-wreckin- g $1,300,000; Williamsburg Trust com- pany, Brooklyn. $7,500,000, and the First National bank of Brooklyn, FLING OF LONDON Views of Leading Weeklies on the American Financial Situation. London. All the leading weekly newspapers, discussing the American financial situation, generally take their customary attitude that it is due to ican bubble. considerable quantity of tins cattle food is exported from Great Britain to the United States. If proper steaming facilities existed between the United States and Levant, carobs would probably be carried direct to the United States to be prepared there Into cattle food. Carobs are also used in considerable quantities especially In France, for distillation, and the spirits obtained are deemed choice. Carobs are also employed for the prosubstance, duction of a resembling molasses, largely used in the manufacture of oriental sweets. semi-liqui- I i CUILD1NG OF A WITICISM. Point of Joke the Came Though Under Changed Conditions. The Bohemian had nn article entitled. "How a Joke Is Made.'' In It Marshall 1. Wilder, the well known humorist, cites this story as an IllusHero is a tration of one method. story with a joke In it about Labou-cherthe genial editor of London Truth. When he was standing for the borough of Northampton for the English parliament a little girl came up to her father and said: Papa, who made Mr. Labouchere? 'Why, Providence, my dear,' answered the somewhat astonished parent. And what for, papa? inquires the child. Now that isn't a had joke. It was natural, anyway. But listen to one of mine, which really has the same point, (hough It is brought out In a different way. A child and her mother are on the cars. Opposite them sits a young man dressed in the height of fashion. Says the child: 'Mamma, what is I hat? as she asks the question, and, she points to the young man opposite. 'Hush, my dear, answers the mother. 'But, mother, I want to know.' To juiet the cln.d the mother whispers in tier ear; 'lie is what we call a dude, dear. The child persists as usual in And paining some more information. R'ho made him, mamma? 'Why, Providence, dear, of con.-s-e, replies the mother sotto voice, whereat the child exclaims: Oh, mother, doesnt Providence like to have fun sometimes? You see, the stories are realAt all events, the point is ly alike. the same. e. d GIRL KILLED A HAWK. Bird Had Attacked Her When Driven The carob tree, which is quite disFrom Pigeons. tinct from the locust tree of America, of climate mild to seems prefer the A large hen hawk, weighing nearly the southern sea coasts and islands fourteen pounds, attacked Miss Eloise of the Mediterranean. It is, however, found in the Lebanon, for instance, M. Shields, 18, of Milton, Mass., while by and its introduction into the north of the young woman, accompanied India has been recommended on the some friends, was spending the aftersupposition that it would prove an noon at the Blue Hills reservation. party had just had their lunchimportant addition to the resources of The the country and a valuable safeguard eon and were feeding some pigeons against famine. The produce is ex- when the hawk swooped down and started to carry off one of the pigeons ceeding abundant, some trees yieldIn its talons. Miss Shields quickly ing as much as 900 pounds of pods. The wood is hard and much valued, picked up a stone, and throwing it at and the bark and leaves are used for the bird made it drop its prey. The tanning. The carob tree propagates tiawk then attacked the girl and nestfreely. The cultivated trees have all ling on one of her shoulders started to beat her with its wing. After been grafted. knocking off the bird with her hands Miss Shields picked up one of the Copper in Japan. tonic bottles, which the party had Copper, with a value of $12,000,000, been using, and hitting the hawk a stands first cn the list of. metals of hard blow on its head, killed it. Except Gold follows Japanese production. for a few scratches the young woman with $2,000,000; then silver with and iron with $1,300,000. Lead was not injured. shows $1 GO, 000; antimony, $45,000, Hurry. and manganese, $40,000. The value of To our own age belongs the credit of the sulphur output was $287,000, and having raised hurry from the degraded the value of other mine products is position of a disease to that of a commercial process. Formerly hurry simtrifling. The future of Japans minof with the exception ing industry, ply brought people to an early grave, is with the with nothing to show for it, whereas coal, entirely speculative, chances against its important develnow it Is become the means of transopment in any line. Yet probably as forming pedee of mind, which is a long as there are indications of metals solecism, to say the best of it, into there will be hope and holes in the rea!y money. Hurry has grown to te a great fact In life. Even the fashions ground. take account of It, until women are Doing Venice. found doing up their hair in such a Fair American (hearing musicians way that they may go the speed limit II from airs without fear of its coming down. And singing Trovatore) These Italians aint vurry orig- the best of hurry is that it is its own Say! inal. Guess Ive heard that tune on sufficient justification. Nobody exour street organs in New York sine to have pects hurry any particular I was a guri. Punch. reason behind it any more. Life. 0, PFESS. the unsoundness of commercial methods. The Statist says; The lesson of the crisis is not that American commercial honesty is less than that of other countries, but that the opportunities for successful dishonesty are more abundant and more' tempting. The Saturday Review describes the situation as the bursting of the Amer- The 'hllsks,, of the pat able of the prodigal son are still extant in tin countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Consul Gencial G. B. Ravn-da- l writes from Beirut as follows concerning this food: Arabs and Moors eat them, in the south of Europe carobs are employed as food for horses, cattle and swine. In Cyprus, next to barley, they constitute the principal at tide fer export. The total yield of tlm Island of carobs or locust beans inot to be confounded with St. John's bread), in 190C, amounted to O'J.OOO tons. In August the caroli tree is semi hearing both flowers and ripe fruit. The latter is a pod, brown and h atheiy, tour to eight inches long, a little curved, and containing a lit shy and at last mealy pulp, of an agreeable sweet taste, in which lie a number of shining brown seeds; these are bitter and of no use. On account of the abundant sugar contained in carobs, the latter form a nutritious and fattening food tor horses and cattle. England, for the feeding of caltle, imports large quantities of carobs, in the form of flour (that they may be more digestible) from Spain, Italy, Crete, Samos and Cyprus. Most of the Cyprus carobs however, are exported In bulk, and the grinding is done in England. A |