THE 6'CHANTON- TBI BUNE-WEDNESDAY MORHIKO, JlTY 15, 1895. 9 .:FHn Malic a noi of it? Going away time is here for some people. You'll want stationery and books for the summer vacation. This is the place to get them. Latest pub licatlons await you; excellent quality of paper, pens, ink everything neces sary for your wauts iu our line at popular prices. At NORTON'S 322 Lacka. Ave. OUR OATS. Always in the past the Best in Scran ton Will be in the future as good as oats that can be made by the BEST GLEANING MACHINERY Which removes the foul seeds and dust.v Try our "CLEAN OATS." SCRANT01, OLYPHASIT, CSRB1NDALE. hue Of CHITS. THE GENUINE Have tlie Initial! j., B. A CO. Imprint ed in each cigar. GARNEY, BROWN & CO., (MNUFACTUOS, COURT HOUSE SQ. DR. C. D. S HUM WAY, Diseases of the Lower Bowel a Specialty. 30S Washington Avenue, opposite Tribune Cuildiug. OFFICE HOURS . . 9 TO 12, 2 TO 5. 1'EUSONAL. Miss Eliza J. Ohuse is upending the mm mer In Dalton. . .Mrs. William Oruig and ton, Jordon, are at Mount focono. illss Kate Kuane, of Uren Kldge, is visiting Carbowlule relatives. .Miss Anna E. Chase, of yulncy avenue, Is summering in Connecticut. Mrs. benjamin Davis, of Putnam street. Is vlsitiuc reiutlves In New York city. .Mrs. Arthur Pureell, of Spruce street, will leave Friday for a two weeks' visit at Atlantic City. Professor A. L. .Mi-Cloakey left yester day for Lock lluveu, where he will spend his summer vacation. II n. K. H. .Mitchell und daughters, He-g-lnu und .MaiKatct, have returned from u Visit with Carbunilule friends. Mrs. Kilt us J. Foster nnd .Master Tay lor Foster, of .Mudlfnn avenue, ur spend ing the week at Freehold, N. J. .Mrs. Thomas Lewis, of .Margaret ave nue. Is entertaining her granddaughter. Miss Annie Jenkins, of We.st (Mttston. Ex-Superintendent O. W. Phillips is at tending the- state teachers' convention at iJloomsburg and will return Friday next. Robert Watchorn, formerly state lac tory inspector, bus been in the city since yesterduy. He. will leave this afternoon. Xmring his stay he is the nut at of Sena tor J. c. VauKhan. Peter tilll, of Venn avenue, left last nmht fur New York ami toduy will sail on .tne Teutonic for '.Jiieeiistown. Mr. Cllli Intends to spend three months In Ireland visiting his parents. A party consisting of the Misses Mamie Connery, Durkin, Nellie Klrby, Johanna Kirby, Mrs. Klrby and John Klrby left this morning for a two weeks' stay at At lantic City. They are registered at the Osborne. Manager M. H. Burgunder, of the Academy of Music, was In the city yester day supervising changes and Improve ments that are being made on the Inte rior of the house. Mr. Burgunder said that he will open the house this year about September 1. JUST A FLYER FOR THIS WEEK. A Fine Russia Calf Bals, Needle Toe, all sizes and widths, Goodyear AO J" ft . welt, up to date, iPSauUt Cannot get any more to sell at that price. & 410 SPRUCE STREET. SCHANK rail DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF THE ARMY WORM Havoc It Is Creating la Grain Fields, Meadows and Grass Plots. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PESTS Contained ia a Pamphlet Issued by the Department of Agriculturela. struetions Issued by the Slate Zoo logist as to the Best Method of Dealing with the Troublesome Worm fader Different Conditions. No pest of recent years has done such a large amount of damage as the present invasion of the army worm. From all the agricultural districts of this part of the state come stories of the destruction of crops due the army worm hosts, millions of the little crawlers invading every promising grain Held and meadow. But It Is not necessary to go outside of the confines of Scranton to get evl denee of the destructive powers of the worm. Hundreds of pretty lawns have been utterly ruined, the grass, after the visit of the worms, resembling a Held parched and burned by a fierce sun and the absence of water. The division of entomology of the United States de partment of agriculture has Issued a pamphlet which elves the following In formation concerning the army worm and the best methods of exterminating It: "The army worm seems to be on In digenous North American Insect and on this continent Is most abundant in the United States east of the Rocky Moun tains. The adult Insect is a brown moth with a white spot on the centre of each forewing. The eggs are very minute and white in color, round and are laid In strings of from two or three to fifteen or twenty. They are pushed by the ovipositor of the female moth down Into the Inner base of tne ter inlnal leaf sheaths of grasses or grain. A strong effort Is apparently made by the female moth to conceal them. They are laid most abundantly in the thick est tufts of grass. The eggs are hatched In from eight to ten days and the young eutaplllars feed for a time In the fold of the leaf, growing rapidly and finally consuming entire leaves, FEED MAINLY AT NIGHT. "Under ordinary clrmustanees and when not present In great numbers the larvae feed mainly at night and In damp, cloudy weather, remaining hid den during sunshlney days. In this respect they resemble In habits the closely allied cut worms. They reach full growth In three or four weeks, bur row into the ground and transform into the brown pupal. In this condition thev remain in the summer time on an average about two weeks, when the moth again appears. The number of generations each year varies with the climate and the season. There are in the more northern stales two or three generations and perhaps six in the more siutliru stales. "With a favorable succession of sea sons the Insect multiplies In geomet rical ratio and at least becomes so num erous as to necessitate migration for food. It then travels and feeds both day und night and It is then that the Insect becomes very Injurious and that reports of great damage are heard. In general It may be said that the worms are more apt to make an injurious ap pturunce In a rainy spring or early summer following a season of compara tive drought. "There Is never any demand upon this office for remedies for the army worm until It is almost too late to do any im mediate good. There are certain old line meusureg which may be adopted to protect certain fields from advanc ing armies like the plowing of a furrow with Its perpendicular side towards the field to be protected and the subsequent dragging of a log through the furrow to keep the earth friable and kill the worms which have accumulated In the ditch und another Is the sprinkling of a strip of pasture or field crop In ad vance of an army with Paris green or London purple in solution. In fields which the caterpillars have already en tered there Is little which can be done for their destruction which does not also Involve the destruction of the crop. The fields may be sprinkled by meuns of a broadcast sprayer with an arsenical so lution or they may be rolled with a heavy roller where one Is at hand and the ground Is level, or a flock of heep may be sent In which will result In crushing most of the worms by tramp ling. WHERE IT IS NOT INJURIOUS. "There are many localities In which the army worm Is never seen, or rather. Is never known to be Injurious and these localities owe their exemption un doubtedly to the unconscious use of pre ventative methods. Clean cultivation, rotation of crops, cleaning up fence cor ners, close pasturage, the burning over of waste grass land in spring or fall are all preventative measures of great value, since where these methods ore in vogue the army worm will never be able to get a migratory start, or in other words, it never becomes so abundant as to necessitate migration. "There Is almost no prominent Injuri ous Insect In whose economy natural enemies play a more Important part than the army worm. We have said that In the great majority of cases ac tual destructive measures against army worms which have once taken full pos session of a grass field are hardly nec essary. This is because of the fact that generally not more than one worm out of a thousand escapes death from para sitic or predaceous insects. Where the army worm follows its normal habit and feeds only at night, remaining hidden during the day under the surface of the ground at the base of some tuft of rank growing grass, it is protected from these natural enemies, but when the migra tory Instinct draws It forth and pre vents its normal habit, causing It to march unprotected during the day, the swift-breeding tachina files attack It at once, multiply most rapidly and In con nection with Its other parasites and with the predatory ground beetles, re duce its numbers once more to the non injurious point. We have said this is generally the case; there may be excep tions, but we have never seen one. It Is Important, however, for the farmer to be able to recognize the appearance of a parasitized worm, as In this way his confidence In the future may be re stored. EOGS OP TACHINA PLY.' The eggs of the red-tailed tachina fly are white, oval, less than one-sixteenth of an inch long, and are glued fast to the skin of the caterpillar, usually on the back of the front segments. Prom half a dozen to fifty or more of these eggs may be attached to a single cater pillar and from each hatches a maggot which penetrates the body of the armY worm and ultimately destroys It, un less the caterpillar should happen to cast its skin so soon after the eggs are laid fhat they, do not nave time to I hatch. The adult tachina-fiy resem bles a rather large house-fly. Hun dreds and thousands of these files are usually seen buzzing about a field In tested by the army worm and their presence should be welcomed to the far mer. "The extent of the parasltison of the Injurious brood of the army worm may be indicated by two instances from our personal experience. In 1S80 we visited a large tract of land planted In timothy grass. In the vicinity of Ports mouth. Va. A search for hours during the hot part of the day failed to show a single worm which did not bear tachina eggs. In 1882 we visited wheat fields in the vicinity of Huntsvllle, Ala., which were then being overrun by this Insect. Here although a number of worms were noticed which did not bear tachina eggs, they were destroyed by ground beetles to Buch an extent that when we attempted to catch an adult moth a little later in the season by means of trap lanterns and sugar, we were unable to secure a single speci men. The entire army had been anni hilated and It Is worthy of remark that in neither of these localities has the army worm ever been seen since In injurious numbers, although fourteen years have elapsed in the one case and twelve In the other," Slate Zoologist Warren has sent out the following Instruction as the best way of dealing with the army worm: "The fully developed worm is a little over an inch long, of a gray or dingy black color, with black stripes and nar row lines of white on back. The under surface Is of a more or less greenish color. The head Is smooth and yellowish, with two black lines running from top to mouth. It has sixteen legs, and those from the middle of the body are each marked with a shining block or blnck ish band. The worms, when disturbed, curl themselves up like cut worms and drop to the ground. They complete their growth in about one month, at the end of which period they burrow into the ground and each caterpillar changes to a brown pupa, from which, in two or three weeks, the moth emerges. The female moth Is said to lay about 750 eggs, and these hatch in about six days. "To prevent their spread, the best au thorities recommend the mowing of a wide swath around the Invaded field, then plow a deep furrow yith the straight side toward the part to be pro tected and at intervals of a few feet make holes with a crow bar or dig small pits into which the worm entrapped In the ditch will fall. Where the number of worms Is very great and the ditch become partly filled, plow a second fur row, throwing the earth over into the first furivw, thus covering up the worms and providing a second line of defense. USE OP KEROSENE. "Some authorities recommend the use of kerosene sprinkled over the worms entrapped In the ditch and thereby de stroying them:others usea slight cover ing of straw which Is set on fire and ac complishes the same result. It Is also rec ommended that ordinary fence boards be set upon edge, end to end, across their path, and then apply a coating of tar or kerosene to this wooden bar rier, which checks their progfess. Som entomologists recommend spraying of the grass ahead of the worms with pol !on, thus poisoning the forage on which they subsist. Por thlB purpose onJ pound of poison to 150 to 250 gallons of water is a proper proportion. "The most effective method seems to be the constructing of a ditch with the plow as Htuted.cutting the side next to the part to be protected perpendicu lar, and then attending to the destruc tion of the worms us they are entrapped In the ditch." SHAVED ON SUNDAY. Six Barbers Arrested for the Offense and Compelled to Pay $9 Each to Alderman Wright. Six Scranton barbers were arrested yesterday fur shaving on Sunday and they paid tines and costs amounting to about $s each. A committee of three, .Robert Blackman, Louis Meyers, and John P. Volkenandt, of the Barbers' union, swore out the warrants before Alderman Wright. The six defendants were W. P. O'Brien and P. H. King, who works In Mr. O'Brien's shop In Hotel Jermyn; Philip Kinsland, who conducts the shop in Purcell's Turkish bath on Linden street; E. J. McDonald, whose shop is at the Wyoming House, and William Forn- wald, who works for him, and George Morris, whose shop Is next to the Hub on Spruce street. Last Sunday is the time the offense against the law of 1797 was committed. The warrant charges that the above de fendants performed worldly employ ment, the same not being work of chnr Ity or necessity, contrary to statute and against the dignity and peace of the commonwealth. Attorney D. L. Flckos represented the Barbers' union In the prosecution. The hearing was set down between the hours of 4 and 5 p. in., and at 4 o'clock Alder man Wright's office was crowded with persons curious to see the proceedings, many of them being witnesses. Mr. O'Brien led the pace. He walked forward to the alderman's desk and In quired what the fine and costs amounted to. He was informed that he was as sessed Ja and without waiting further pulled a roll of greenbacks out, paid the amount, took his receipt and left. The other defendant Imitated his example. The prosecuting committee of the union Informed a Tribune reporter af terward that the barbers who make a practice of shaving nn Sunday will either step or else submit to arrest every time they are caught. INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS. Those for Fiscal lenr 1800 Exceed the Preceding Year. The report of the internal revenue col lector of this district for the fiscal year ending June 30 has been transmitted to the treasury department. It shows that the total amount of revenue collected In this district during the year was $780,515.24, an Increase of 161,49.82 over the amount collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. The amount of money derived from the sale of beer stamps was $478,838.86; spirit stamps, )43.3G5.77; cigar and cigarette stamps, $90,819.29; tobacco stamps, $48,410.21; special tax stamps, $121,436.32. THE FANS WERE DOWN; Carriage was Stopped so Suddenly that Movie was Injured. Peter Movies, of Prnvldenco verely Injured In the Brlsbln mine Mon day. He was descendnir the shaft n t, carriage and at the first vein the "fans" were down which stnnnuit th. so suddenly that Mr. Aloyies was inrown aown anu had one of his legs badly injured. NORTH END FAMILY NEARLY SMOTHERED John O'Malley aid His Three Young Sons the Ones Affected. STOVE 0S FILLED THE HOUSE They Heat to Sleep and Would Never Have Awakened from It but for the Timely Advent of the Housekeeper. Mr. O'Malley's Wife Died a lew Mouths Ago. John O'Malley, a North End widower living at the corner of Perry avenue and Warren street, and his three sons. Prank, 5; Pete. 7; and John, 9 years old, were found unconscious and almost dead from stove gas yesterday morn ing at 7 o'clock by Miss Annie Hayes, who has been housekeeping for O'Mal ley since the death of his wife a few months ago. Mlas Hayes does not sleep in the house, but It Is her custom to come each morning at 7 o'clock, at which time she always found the door unlock ed, and O'Malley ready to go out to work. He is a miner. .Yesterday morning she found the door locked and the window blinds drawn down. She wrapied several times but no answer enn-e. and feeling that something must be wrong she raised a window and shouted, still receiving no response. Then she climbed through the window. STRONG SMELL OP GAS. The fumes of stove gas were so strong that she became dizzy and was almost unable to make her way to the children's bedroom, where she found O'Malley and his three sons stretched on the bed, apparently lifeless. She raised all the windows and opened the doors to let In pure air and then in formed the neighbors. It was Impossible to tell whether the four were dead or alive until Drs. Sul livan and McLaln arrived and set to work with restoratives. After much effort the physicians succeeded In sav ing the sleepers from death. The youngest son was brought about first, and the other boys were removed from danger In a few hours, but In the father's case It was extremely difficult to gay whether or not he would recover, until noon, when he regained conscious ness and his condition changed for the better. He is now recuperating satis factorily, but will not be hlmstWagaln for a few dayB. The boys are all right except headaches. O M ALLEY'S STORY. In conversation with a71 Tribune re porter. O'Malley stated that he retired to bed at 10 o'clock the night before. His sons slept In the next room to him, and In an hour or so he heard noises from their room. He went In and found Frank creeping about on his hands and knees, complaining of pains. He re mained up witli him until C.:!0 in the morning. Then the boy hud fallen asleep. The father during the nitrht had sat at the side of the bed watching the boy. When he tried to get up to go to his own room he tumid his strength gone from him, and was able only to lean over and stretch out on the bed where he was found by the housekeeper as de scribed. Prom the time he found that he could not rise until he recovered con sciousness at noon, he does not remem ber anything. WERE OVER THE KITCHEN. The rooms where they slept are di rectly over the kitchen In the basement, where the range Is. The chimney runs up through one of the rooms and an examination of it showed that the flue was blocked up and thut caused the stove to throw off a Volume of gas which Milled the house. REPAIRING DAMAGE BY STORM. Kept the Street Commissioner's Forces Very Busy. Evidences were seen in all parts of the city yesterday of the work of the storm of the preceding evening. Street Commissioner Kinsley was in despair. Tons of dirt had been torn from the streets running up the hills und carried by the floods to the Intersecting streets at the foot of the grade, where the earth was deposited. The street com missioner had all tho men at his com mand engaged yesterday In removing these large deposits, but at nightfall the task was far from completed. It will take several weeks for the depart ment to get the sewer basins cleaned and the visible signs ot the storm re moved. Early yesterday morning the Trac tion company succeeded In getting Its cars moving again along Capouse u ve nue and later In the day the Telephone company put a temporary cable In op eration which partially restored com munication by telephone with the North End of the city. Every effort was made Ladies' Suits, Shirt Waists, Wash Goods And Hosiery. WEARS 415, by the company to cause as little an noyance to the public as possible by the blowing down of I'3 Wires and poles and a large force of rneti was kept at work all Monday night clearing up the wreck age and getting tne temporary cable fastened to the few poles that remain standing along that thoroughfare. As soon as a temporary arrangement Is made that Win lrtv. a good service to the district cut off by Monday's storm the work of plating new poles and stringing new wN8 will be prosecuted with vigor. n THAT CHILDREN'S WARD. Lackawanna Hospital Officials Post poae Actio ,:util October. The question of bUildlng a two-story children's ward edition to the Lacka wanna hospital was considered at a stated meeting of i"e hospital directors yesterday morninP- It was decided owing to a lack of fl,tids to abandon the project until the October meeting. Plans for th ward have been pre pared and the architect's estimate Is for an expenditur of $4,500. The amount of money available for building purposes is less 'hat sum by about $2,000. It is hoped to procure this sum by personal subscriptions during the summer. The proposed ward will be built on the Mulberry street side of the structure. It will Contain ten cots on the ground lloor ind as many on the second floor. A douched wing at the end of the addition, towurd Franklin avenue and connected with each floor of the main additl',n- by a corridor will be used for closets and bath tubs. The fifty-six patents In the hospital are not the norrfla' number and It Is probable that accomodations for child patients can be found during the next two months. iHut at other seasons of the year the Institution Is crowded to the fullest capacity by adults and the hospital officials ar determined to exert every effort townf' bringing the pro. posed children'a ward to a successful issue. JUDGMENT AGAINST C0RAY. Held by John N.Jfiilup and Amounts to (33430.04. A Judgment of $33,420.64 was entered up In court yesterday against Elisha A. Corny. John S. Jenkins is the plaintiff, the judgment havln been assigned to him by David perkms, of Wilkes Barre. The judgment was entered In Luzerne "county first but was trans ferred to the record of this county on an exemplification- Kx-Sherlff John J. Fahey, who Is act ing deputy sheriff during the Illness of F. E. Ryan, levied ubon the right title and Interest of Mr. Coray In the capital stock of the Rushbrook Coal company and the Spring j)rook Railway com pany. In these tWo companies Mr. Corny has a holdl"S. The coal com pany is doing business n Peckvllle. and the railway company owns the branch running from Moolc to the lumber dis trict near the taneir. Mr. Coray's residence Is now inNew York. SLANDER IN ARCHBALD. Suit Uroniilil by a I'olixh Woman for Ucliiiuntiou of character. An action of trespass for slander was begun In court yesterday by Attorney M. A. McGinley, representing Mrs. Vic toria Schinnrosuhefski, against Andrew Kosmiskl. The ullJUnt of damages claimed Is $1,000. They live In Archhald. The plaintiff alleges that on the jath day of this month the defendant Went out Upon the street and In the presence of a large number of persons proclaimed that she Is unfaithful to net' husband, and had lived with other men, ttnd that she Is a nnn nu WEARS' BUILDING, COR. WISHIMTOI AVENUE AND SPRUCE. Are now selling their Tun and Summer Wvitf't Shoes at a Cash Cut Price Sale. Men's Regular $5.00 and $5.50 Tan Eal., now $3.90. Men's Regular $4.00 Tan Bal., now $2.90. Men's Regular $3.50 Tan Bal., now $2.60. Men's Regular 2.D0 Tan Bals., now $1.90. Ladles' Regular $3.30 Tan Bals., now $2.60. Ladles' Regular $2.5o Tan Oxfords, now $1.90. Misses' and Children's, Boys' and Youths' Tan Shoes t a very low price. WE ARE CLOSING OUT THIS SEASON'S 417 Lackawanna person of bad chraacter. PreYloas to the utterance of these defamatory words, she says, she was a woman of good repute among her neighbors. Deputy Sheriff T. J. Pjtee went up after Kosmiskl and brought him to court. He could not give bail In the sum or $i,ouo and la now in jail. BOTH SAY THEY MARRIED HIM. If So, Anthony F. O'llonnell Was Wedded Once Too Often. According to evidence before Alder men Wright and Howe. Anthony P. O Donnell. of Phelps street, has too many wives. A woman claiming to have been married to him by Alderman Fuller swore out a warrant yesterday before Alderman Howe charging him with criminal relations with Lizzie Holtham. He waived a hearing and entered bail in the sum of $500 for his apeparance at court A few hours before that Miss Holth am. who claims to be O'Donnell's wife, had Mrs. O'Donnell No, 1, whose maid en name was Mary Ann Dougher. ar rested before Alderman Wright for as sault and battery and threatening to kill. Ball was entered for her appear ance at court Mrs. O'Donnell No. 2 declares that she was married to 0'Don nell In Binghamton. They are living together as man and wife. In the evening Mrs. O'Donnell No. 2 was again arrested before Alderman Howe on the charge of unlawful con duct with O'Donnell. She waived a healing and entered hall in the sum of $300 before Alderman DeLacy for her upeparance at court. nilsbury Flour mills have a capac ity of 17,500 barrels a day. THE Knows that the decorations ot her dinner table will be regarded as re flecting her good taste and Judg ment. An artistic and handsome Dinner Set will add much to the ef fect. The recent productions In China of Havlland & Co. and Theo. Hav lland are remarkably beautiful and surprisingly low In price. We have a number of their new leading "Stock Patterns," from which we sell course sets or any pieces de sired. Whether you purchase or not we shall be glad to see you when you Walk in and look around. : . ... CHINA HALL, 311LLVU & PECK, 134 Wyoming Ave. The Fashion. It seems to be the fashion In some stores to charge as much as they enn for a thing, no matter what It Is worth. Now we don't do that. We ore not claiming any extraordinary merit for ourselves. We are simply honest. We sell furnish ings for everyone. We sell for the man who wants his tastes satisfied. Irresnec- tive of cost, and for the man who doesn't want to spend his last cent for a tie. We give satisfaction to each and all. M. P. M'CANN, Hatter sog WVUmiMQ AVENUE, Knox, Stetson, Sherniun Agency. HOSTESS ! BARGAINS I t A 0044 HAGE Avenue, Scranton, m x I OVBIH fsi Men Bflis li dim An elegant assortment at prices thai are very low considering the quality, make-up, etc., is being shows at our store. If you are thinking of buying a Spring Suit cat I ia and look at our stock it will do yon good, and us, too, of course. We are almost son you will buy cannot resist OUR HAT AND FURNISHING GOODS DEPT Is replete with everything that it new and stylish; all the latest styles and colors. Call in aod be convinced. Clofa. IMera& Furnishers We Have On Hand THE BEST STOCK IN THE CITY . Also the Newest Also the Cheapest. Also the Largest Porcelain, Onyx, Etc Silver Novelties In Infinite Varietjk Latest Importations. Jewelry, Watches, Diamond! fl. E. ROGERS, Jeweler and - watchmaker. 215 LacKawaiini Ave. PROPERLY DRESSED MEN Are always our most satisfied custom' ers. They know what they want and appreciate the stylish outfits we turn out for them. After all there is a great deal In being properly dressed, and we make a business ot seeing that you appear that way. PI UIIL 416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. DR. LOBB'S BOOK FREE To all sufferers of ERRORS OP YOUTH. LOST VIGOR and DISEASES OF MEN AMI WOMEN, 108 puge: cloth bound: eeonrely Mouli'd and mailed free. TreHtBiont by mall Ktrictly confidential, and a positive qnick cur un anreen. no mnit r now mnf standing, I will poiltiroly eura you. Write or call. 117 I P.RR 3-'u N- ,5th st- Philads.. Pa. JlW utiuu & years' continuous practice. ALL. ! N, Pa. 18 H