The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-27
Famine Threatens Several Whole
 Provinces Around Seville
100000 MEN OUT OF WORK
Men Commit Crimes so as to Be Put In Jail, Where They Can Get Food-Rloting Has AL
 ready Begun.

Seville, Spain, August 26.-Heart-rend- ing reports continue to reach the pro- vincial authorities from the outlying famine-stricken districts. The latest re- ports received are from osuna and AL mogla, the respective mayors of which notify the authorities that their re- sources are exhausted. and that they are unable to further assist the famished laborers and the women and children as the distress is too acute. At Eci1a the population has footed the baker stores.
 The mortality among infants and aged persons is attaining terrifying propor- tons. and in many localities the working people are living on roots. The govern ment has organized public works on a small scale, employing about six hum dred men, but this is a mere drop in the ocean of misery q moderate calcula- tion shows that 2OO.ooO are out of em- ployment.
 Charitable Funds Exhausted.
 Cardinal Sancha having exhausted the available charitable funds Is going from house to house in Seville begging for contributions, while the employees of sev- eral banks and commercial houses have decided to devote a portion of their wages toward the relief of the destitute.
 Count Romannones, minister of agri- culture, has just concluded personal inquiry in the depressed districts, follow ing on the relief of fund of $SOO000 voted by the government. His report creates the impression that heroic measures for relief are necessary The count journey ed from end to end of Andalusia, and everywhere In the four provinces com prised therein he was confronted with pictures of desolation.
 The territory most stricken forms a circle embracing Seville, Jerez, Cadiz, Ma laga and Cordova. where natural forces appear to have combined against the peoples welfare. The rivers for years past have been gradually filling with sand, hinderng navigation and commerce. The district always has been dry, .nt this year two months Grouth beginning in the spring destroyed all hopes for the reaping of crops, and rendered the and- seape practically a desert, resembling por- tions of Morocco.
 The population is almost entirely com posed of day laborers, who depend on i agricultural employment and when that falls, wh .h Is frequent occurrence, though more marked this year than eyer before, practically everybody is thrown into condition of indulgence.
 Most Robust Citizens Emlgrate. It Is calculated that a third of the population emigrated in recent years to South America. and these immigrants naturally included the most robust. The conditions of the interior were ameliorated thereby. The soil. owing to lack of ir- rlgation, Is becoming more and more un- productive. and the patience of the peo- pie is now nearly exhausted.
 The absence of the landlords and un- fclfiled electioneering promises, added to :. the fact that women and children are suf- fering the agonies of slow starvation. have led the people to listen to agtators who inclte them to violence. the result ot which Is seen in attacks on farms, the seizure and killing of hocks of sheep and the threat of armed invasion of the towns
 Murmurs of revolution have awakened apprehension and the farmers every where are taking refuge In the cities. while the police regard acts of pilage with indifference, refusing to arrest men who frequently accuse themselves in or der to obtain food.