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GREAT EXCITEMENT CREATED. PITTSBURG, May 26, 11 P. M.-When it was discovered that President Riddle, of the Pennsylvania Bank, had taken a narcotic there was great excitement and the Dequensne Club building, where he had been taken, was crowded by anxious inquirers after his condition. A stomachpump was brought into requisition and this evening he recovered consciousness. It was learned that he had been attacked with a severe headache this morning and had taken an overdose of the narcotic. All sorts of rumors are afloat. One is a renewal of the report that the bank lost heavily in oil speculation, and another that there has been a heavy defalcation, and that the doors were opened to allow certain depositors to withdraw their deposits. Bank officers are generally dumbfounded by the turn of affairs, and profess to be entirely ignorant of the cause of the suspension. Result of an Editor's Joke. BRIDGEPORT, CONN., May 26.-A Norwalk paper published Friday a lengthy article relative to the long and steady run on one of the oldest banks in that town, which was intended as a joke, the article referring to a gravel bank in the village. The article was headed "A Norwalk bank in trouble." Scores of excited depositors who read the article became scared about it, rushed to the Norwalk Savings Bank, the oldest in the vicinity, and drew their deposits. The run continued during the day, and between $25,000 and $30,000 was taken out before the character of the article became generally known.
