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Show THE UlllMOPHOSi: Claimed lo he Hie lirrntrl .Souuil. I'roilnrliis- Mnrhlne In LxlMllicr. VASlllNttTo:c, Oct- 1. Hmlle Berliner, of this city, has er!ceUd his Invcutioii, the gramophone, and claims that it Is tho greatest soun-produclng soun-produclng machine in exlsteuev. Mr. Berliner is tlie .Inventor of tlie tran'mitteruted on the t-!ebo7 of the Bell company, and is si lit tc-talued tc-talued by the company as one of Its electriciaus. He first exbibiteel tlie gramophone, then not brought U perfection, In riiilidclj-lito, May M, 1SSS, before tbo Franklin Intitule. Since then ho has spctil a year at laboratories in Kuror--,wlierelioput tlie finishing touches on his Invention, Inven-tion, and its reproduction of the human voice is remarkable for lis clearness lu pronunciation. The process of reproduction Is solL A dhk urpolished zinc Is covered with a fatty film for an etching ground. It is placed on a turntable, and as one talks in the tube the disk is revolved, re-volved, and the vibrations cau'ed by tho sound are traced In tho film by a small pen. Thettihtd pbteU put in chromic acid and In fifteen minutes it Is ready tor use. Ills put on another turntable and revolved re-volved by the turning of a crank. There Is pravllcally no limit, Mr. Berliner says, to the number of productions pro-ductions that can be made from a plate, and any number of plates can bo made from one origins!. A fllrl l'rorn In Dentil. lUTOX, X. M.. Oct. 21. MonJay cveuinz William Nichols and his lG-year-oId daughter wire going from Folsoai to the ranch. Tlie girl was driving a team ahead, while her father came behind with another. an-other. They cite overtaken by a blizzard when about half wny bome. Tho father reached home in safety and was horrified to 11 ud that his dauRhbT had not yctanlved there. She had lost her way In the blindinj; storm. The bllzwrd continued con-tinued throughout tho night, so little lit-tle could be done In searching for the 1W child. She was found yesterday, yes-terday, about teu miles from her home, frozen to diatb. Sho had managed to unhitch the horses nnd turn tlicm loose before the became exhausted. A Xoled Border Cne. London, OcL 21. Interest In a cao which excited a great deal of attention at the lime of its oc-ciincnfe oc-ciincnfe was renewed today. Walter Lyons was charged at Old Bailey Session with tho wilful murdet of Quarter-Master Scrccaut John Stewart, Jtoyal Artillery, September 13th last at Plumstcad. It will bo reraemlcred that Lyons ctPcovcrcd his mother and Stewart uuder circumstances which admitted ad-mitted of no question of the fact lie had suspected and. rushing out of the house, he killed the. eergeanL Lyons is only 20 years old, of middle hlght and without b ard or mustache. mus-tache. He Is caJaverouslopklDg and ho has a sln&ularly.ibai od forehead fore-head and small, restiew fcrrc.'.Ike eyes. Thejury wasojtonlytwenty-rive wasojtonlytwenty-rive minutes and returned a verdict of manslaughter, coupling with U a recommendation of mercy. The Judge postponed passing senlenco until to-morrow. Insured Ills Lire and rlnlcltled Concordia, Kas., Oct. 21. This morning A. B. Bancroft, at one time sheriff, shot himself through the heart. Yesterday be took out two accident policies on bis Wo for 3000, gocd for twenty-four hours, |