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Show Ants Plague English District. An extraordinary plague of ants is causing alarm in the Durham, England, Eng-land, colliery village of Ryhope. One hundred and twenty miners' houses are infested with myriads of the pests, which swarm in the living rooms, causing caus-ing serious discomfort and damage. The ants spread rapidly, and swarm about the cupboards and on the food in the houses. They are of a foreign species, and were brought to the village vill-age in consignments of Egyptian hay. The colliery owners have engaged experts ex-perts to exterminate the pests. The infested houses are dealt with in turn, '.he ants being dug out in colonies and Jieir nests des'j-oyed. |