Show ONE MORK CLAIMANT Of the Honor of Being the Inventor of tho Telephone CHICAGO January The case of the United States again the Bell Telephone Tele-phone Company to test the validity of the Bell Telepbone patent is made the occasion of a publication here this ecen idg as to the source of the points which will be employed by government to combat Prof Boll claim to being tbe investor of the telephone The Evening Journal in outlining the evidence publishes pub-lishes an interview with ANTONIO MKDCCI an aged Italian who is here and has in his possession many certified papers from the patent office which give credence cre-dence to his claim to have invented the telephone and filed a caveat five years before Ben patent was obtained His discovery dates back to 1849 when be was a director of mechanisjn in Lacon Opera House Cuba During his leisure 1 hours he experimented on a plan tp I cure disease by tbe aid of electricity I In the course of these experiments his i assistant and himself being in different I differ-ent rooms L were connected by an eleotric circuit through the medium of I wire Meucci held ajwire in his teeth and by a welNknowB dental connection with the auditory nerve distinctly HEARD AN EXCLAMATIOS iiia assistant involuntarily made in experiencing ex-periencing a shock from the contact of the other end of the wire with his mouth This discovery resulted the construction pfji perfect working model similar to the instrument of Professor Bell His constant struggles with poverty interfered so in the perfection per-fection of his plans that it was not till 1871 that his caveat vas grated Documentary evidence now on file in the secret archives of the patent office is ajso published by the Journal showing show-ing that the claims of Meucci to inventing = invent-ing telegraphing sound was recognized by the Commissioner of Patents together with the acknowledgment of improvements in 1882 and 1883 and that these claims embody in a great partthe patent issued to Professor Bell |