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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-28
DURSrANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE

MENT notice hereby given that An Act has been
raised by both branches OF the Legislature entitled AN
ACT in relation to the term Of Office OF the Board Of
Electrical Conro. in and for the Ctty OF New York
Further notice Is hereby given Public Hearing upon
such bill will be held the ONCE Of the Mayor the
city Hail. the city Of New York. on Friday April 30th
1891 at GAS O'Clock /. NJ
Dated City Hall. New York. April 24th, 1897
". l., STRONG Mayor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-28

NEW YORK CENTRAL HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD
COMPANY.
Office Of the Treasurer, 100
New York. April 23rd. 1897 .
DOR THE PURPOSE Of special meeting OK
the stockholders this company be held at AL
bany the 26th day OF May next the transfer looks
will be closed 3 o'clock p NJ Friday the Both inst,
and reopened al 10 O'Clock A. NJ Thursday the 9th
day OF May next
z. " W. ROSTER.
Treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-28
pnblir Notices.
ll-llSIr NJ, 70 40 t,,rot.tr raniiiraJ

N OTICE.-Estimates for preparing for and
>" paving the newly made land In the vicinity Of Pier
H. North River with Staten Island syenits
blocks. laying crosswsIks and building the necessary
drains and appearances. under Contract NO.
ISL will be resolved iy the Department Docks at
Pier a. Battery Place ". r.. until ~ O'Clock May
9Th. 1857 For full particulars city Record Copies
for sale at No Cry Hall.
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COOKS SELECT TOURS TO EUROPE.

" Arrangements suited all. Best accommodation,
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Unblic Notices.
DURsUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE

L MENT. notice hereby given that An Act has been
passed by both branches Of the Legislature entitled AN
ACT authorize the alteration Of section seventeen Of
the final maps prohles OF the Twenty-thrd and
Twentyfourth Wards Of the city OF New York Further
hereby given that Public Hearing upon such
bill will be held the Office of the Mayor. in the city
Hall the City OF New York. Friday, April 3oth.
1897, a $3.50 O'Clock p VI.
Dated City Hail New York. April oath 1891.
" l.. STRONG Mayor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-28
once Of THE LAKE SHORE MICHIGAN SOUTHERN
RAILWAY CO..
ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. March 18th. 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given that q SCecia! Meet

NV = q,
ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. March 18th. 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given that Special Meet
~ ing OF the Stockholders Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Railway Company has been duly called
will be he'd the chief once OF the Company in the
State is at the station OF
the Company in the City of Erie, PENNSYLVANIA
-On Thursday. the Goth day of May, 1897. mt
O'Clock p M TO action and vote In approval or
dsapproya the proposal increase the Indebtedness Of
Company By an issue OF bonds for an aggregate pn
cipa sum not exceeding $50 900 payable June l. 1891
bearing the Of three and one half OF one
to be payable IN gold cola OF the United states
OF the presen. weight and ineness and
security for such bonds make de-
liver 10 Trust Company in the City OF New-York,
Trustee Trustees. be designated
by Board OF Directors, mortgage Of any or all OF
leasehod equipment and fran
chses and income o. the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway Company: and accordingly to increase
the Indebtedness Of Railway Company to the extent
that aggregate principal shah exceed the exist
ng bonded Indebtedness Of the Railway Company. and
TO consent and approve of any mortgage that may
presented said meeting for securing the said bonds
and TO proceedings Board OF Directors
authorizing such bonds and mortgage.
BY order OF the Board OF Directors.
ID d. WORCESTER, Secretary
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PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE

MENT notice is hereby given that An Act has been
passed by both branches Of the Legislature entitled AN
ACT TO authorize the alteration Of section sixteen OF the
final maps and prohes Of the Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth OF city OF New York by showing thereon
extension OF Clinton Place from Grand Avenue TO
Jerome the city OF New York Further notice
is hereby given Public Hearing upon such bill will
be held az the Mayor. the city Hall the
CITY OF York Friday April 3oh, 1897, at $50
O'Clock p NJ
Dated city Hall. New York. April oath. 1897
" l., STRONG Mayor.
Evening star., 1897-02-20

CONCERT BY THE RoSSINI CIRCLE, TYPO
graphic Hall. WEDNESDAY EVENING, February
"A. Piano. Miss Grady; soprano, Miss Murrar.
violin. Mr.. Hoskins; cello, Mr.. Oates
Tickets % cents, for sale at the hall. fe2O-Sts
The courier., 1897-12-18

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all cOlors pair slO
L. with black
with embroidery pair
French Reyn four
button twocasp black and
colnrs s15O
Reynes French kid
back black and all colOrs pair 81 CO.
back black and all coors sold elsewhere for g
Ladies silk and
Ladies' uten at sc
~-'
ldrens mttens at 25c
The courier., 1897-12-18
LADIES' KID GLOVES AND M|TIENS

Anyone wishing to purchase gloves for X
presents and not knowing the size, can
them exchanged and fitted after Xmas
gloves sold by us are fitted and guarant
The record-union., 1897-06-11
BLOODY RIOT LOOKED FOR.
A Determined Mob Marching on
Huntsville, Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM (Ala). June 10
Huntsville may be the scene of a bloody
riot before to-morrow's sun rises. A
mob from Decatur is bent on lynching
Louis Thompson and Walter Neville,
the two negroes who assaulted Nellie
I.awton, a twelve-year- old girl, at that
place. and who were taken to Hunts
vile for safe keeping last night. They
are now in Jail in Huntsville.
Early this morning a mob of 200
boarded a freight train at Decatur TO
ride to Huntsville for the purpose OF
lynching the negroes. Ten miles out
of Green Briar Station the conductor
side tracked the train and acquainted
the railroad officials with the situation
by wire The latter telegraphed back
to hold the train until the mob left it.
After two hours of parleying the mem
mers of the mob got off and walked
back to Decatur, but swore they would
go to Huntsville tonight and carry out
their purpose.
Tonight Governor Johnston wired
orders for fifty armed men to go from
Birmingham to Huntsville by special
train. Accordingly the Birmingham
rifles left here at $50 o'clock tonight
and will join the Huntsville militia
in guarding the Jail. If an attack oc-
ours much bloodshed will follow.
Decatur is greatly wrought up over
the crime of the two negroes, both Of
whom were identified by their victim.
on preliminary trial yesterday they
were bound over to the Grand Jury. To
prevent lynching the officers secreted
The record-union., 1897-06-11
POOLING BILL.
A Report Not Likely to be Made Until
the Regular Session.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-The Sem
ate Committee on Interstate Commerce
held a brief meeting and adjourned for
a week without transacting any busi-
ness beyond cursory discussion of the
advisability of reporting the pooling
bill. To this proposition objection was
made and it was no pressed.
A Senator, who is opposed to any
action on the bill, remarked that SO
long as the House Committees were not
appointed it was useless for the Senate
to work itself to death. The indica-
tions now are that if authority is not
given at the next meeting to report
the bill action will be postponed until
the beginning of the regular session,
or at least until the tariff bill is dis
posed of
The record-union., 1897-06-11
TWO TRAMPS WOUNDED.
Shot During Desperate Fight With
Police Officers.

WHITING Qnd.), June 10-A desper-
ate fight took place to-day between
eight tramps who had taken possession
of the Lake Shore and Michigan freight
house and two police officers, during
which two Of the tramps We're wounded
The tramps had refused to vacate the
building when requested to do so by the
yard watchman, and when the town
officers arrived a fight ensued. The Of
ficers were finally forced to use their re-
volvers, and succeeded in capturing all
of the tramps. The presence of a Lake
Shore train gave rise to rumors that a
hold-up had been attempted.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS.
A Short Session and an Adjournment
Until Monday.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-James t.
Lloyd, who was recently elected to sue
ceed the late Representative Giles of
the First Missouri District, took the
oath at the opening of the session of
the House to-day.
Hit (R.) of Illinois asked unanimous
consent for the consideration of a
joint resolution for the payment of
salaries of certain Consul-Generals,
the name of whose posts were changed
in the last consular and diplomatic
bill. He explained that unless imme-
date provision was made these Off
Gals could not draw salaries after July
1st. There was no objection and the
resolution was passed.
Payne CR.) of New York then moved
an adjournment, which was resisted by
the minority. The rising vote resulted
in a tie-S1 to 81. Speaker Reed saved
the motion by voting aye. Demands
for the yeas and nays came from both
sides and the roll was called. The mo-
ton was carried-101 to SO, present
eleven, and the Speaker at 1880 p. m.
declared the House adjourned until
Monday
The record-union., 1897-06-11
MADE FAST TIME.
A Special Trains Run From Denver
to Topeka.

DENVER, June 10.-De Wolf Hopper
and his opera company, travelling in
special train over the Union Pacific,
covered the distance of 513 miles from
Denver to Topeka in eleven hours and
two minutes.
The train consisted of an engine, one
sixty-foot baggage car, heavily loaded
with scenery and baggage, one coach,
two Pullman sleepers and one private
car.
This is probably the fastest long-dis-
tance run ever made by heavy train.
The average time for the entire dis
tance was 51.9 miles per hour. Elm
mating thirty-six minutes dead time
for stops, the actual running time was
$40 miles per hour. One stretch of
eleven miles was made in seven min
utes, or at a rate of 944 miles per
The record-union., 1897-06-11
JAMES HUGHES TAYLOR.
A Veteran Tragedian Dies at Down.
ihgton, Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA, June 10. - James
Hughes Taylor, a veteran tragedian of
wide reputation, is dead of dropsy at
Downingtown, Pa. He was 20 years
of age.
He made his debut in Portland, Me-
in 1880. Two years later he became
manager of the Richmond, Va, the
ater, going to Cincinnati in 1861. He
then went to the Pacific Coast and
came East in 1865 with Edwin Booth
Later in life he became owner of the
Empire Theater in Philadelphia, after
being the leading man for Nine. jan
auscheck for fifteen years.
He had a fine library and gave many
rare volumes and mementoes of the
stage to the Players Club of New York.
OF which he was member He was
also member of the Lambs Club.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
STOCKTON INSURANCE AGENTS.
The War Getting Bitter at the Slough
City

STOCKTON, June 10.-The war be-
tween insurance agents who refuse to
cut their commissions and the head
officer is bitter To-day the companies
gave local agents this day to sign the
offered agreement, threatening not to
recognize them if they failed to ac-
cept the terms. The local agents held
out under agreement with Sacramento
agents but it is said that two local
agents have accepted the inevitable.
The majority propose to do business
as brokers and write policies through
one agency here with outside COM
panies.
The local agents met tonight, and
after consultation with representatives
from Sacramento agreed to stand with
the agents from Los Angeles and San
Jose They appointed committee Of
five to meet committees from the cities
named in San Francisco next Monday,
when they will confer with the insur-
ance managers. AT this time the local
agents refuse to sign the agreement.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
CHRISTIANS MURDERED.
A 1OB OF FANATICS ATTACK A
CATHOLIC MISSION,
Killing Three of the Occupants Out
right, Wounding Eight and Cap
turing Four Others.

VANCOUVER (B. C.), June 10-An-
ti-Christian riots have taken place in
Lieu Ching, China. A mob of fanatics,
loudly proclaiming that Roman Catho-
lies have kidnapped their children,
rushed simultaneously into the mission
buildings. In the fierce fight that en-
sued three Christians were killed out
right, eight wounded and four cap
tured. Particulars are coming in very
meagerly The Rev. Father Mazelie is
among the Roman Catholics killed
The wildly yelling mob attacked the
rear and front of the priests residence
With the help of friendly natives he
barricaded the back and faced the mob
in front with a rife, but the barricades
were broken down. The priest was
shot and his body hacked to pieces.
Placards are being posted through
out many districts stating that for
eigners must be driven out of the coun-
try or China will be divided among
them and their homes destroyed and
their children stolen from them
1t is feared that more murders will
occur, as leagues are being formed in
some districts, thousands strong, with
the avowed intention of exterminating
the Roman Catholic missionaries. The
missionaries refuse to leave, saying
they will resist to the last, trusting
to Providence
The priests sent out from the Paris
headquarters are twenty-seven in num-
ber, the Bishop being Mgr Cullion
There are besides thirteen nuns. The
mission is divided into twenty-five
CT which ~ OF
15,UUO Chinese, or Manchurian Catho-
lies. The ecclesiastics state that the
missionaries are inclined to attribute
the atrocities which are reported from
Mongolia to robbers who infest the
country rather than to political or anti
religious agitators.
The fatality from famine and plague
in China is appalling. The famine
north and east of Szechuan is causing
many deaths. A traveller who has lust
returned from there reports having
seen numbers of dead bodies lying
about unattended In one large town
half the population had perished from
starvation and the fever that follows
in it's wake. The Government has sent
10000 piculs of rice by way of re-
lief, but grain cannot be got to the
sufferers beyond certain points, owing
to sections made impossible by swol-
len streams. Along the route to smaller
towns numbers of bodies lay decompos-
ing in the sun, while the sky was black
with vultures.
Smallpox is prevalent in Tochege, ten
or twelve cases being reported daily.
Smallpox and other epidemics are very
prevalent in Toxic while 300 more
cases of black plague are reported from
Taihoku and Taiwan, Formosa. There
are some $50 cases altogether.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
SOUND WAVES PHOTOGRAPHED.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF A
BROOKLYN MINISTER.
Pronounced an Invention of Nar-
velOus Interest and Pos
sibilities.

NEW YORK, June 10.-The Herald"
to-day says: The process of photo
graphing sound waves from the plates
reproducing the original sound has
been announced successfully carried
out by the Rev. A. S. Ferguson, a Bap-
tist minister, now living in Brooklyn.
The astonishing part of the discov-
cry, he says, is the simplicity of the
process by which this result has been
achieved. There is no ponderous or
complicated machinery. Only two
discs, each about seven inches in dia-
meter, revolved by ordinary cranks.
One of these, the recorder, is horizon
tai, the second, the reproducer, revolv-
ing perpendicularly.
Speaking of the invention, Mr.. Fer
guson says:
About six years ago it struck me
that it would be possible to photo
graph sound by manipulating a ray of
light and reproducing the sounds re-
corded by such manipulation upon a
sensitized plate. The 'Hghtphone,' as
1 call this instrument, [ have secured
by patent, both here and in England.
L am now working on a machine to
not only record sound but to reproduce
it in typewriting, and 1 am confident
that I can do SO.
Many scientific men here and in
Europe have written to me about it,
and in this city Professors Peekham
and Seldner of the Adelphi College,
have seen it and have pronounced it
an invention of marvellous interest and
possibilities.
There are now but two talking ma
chines-the gramaphone and the pho
nograph or graphophone-whic will
reproduce tone. The former is the
invention of Berliner, the latter being
the production of Edison. In both of
these the sound is recorded by a needle,
or a. stylus, upon wax. This requires
pressure as a result of friction, which
of necessity produces distortion.
The lightophone records upon a first
surface, and as there is no mechanical
device, needle or stylus used there can
be no distortion. Light produces no
pressure or friction and cannot produce
distortion. In the phonograph the wave
lines are perpendicular on the surface
upon which they are recorded; in the
lightophone they are parallel to the
surface of the glass plate upon which
they are produced. The horizontal
lines afford the best conditions neces-
sary to tone study. 1t is possible with
the photographs to throw upon large
screen pictures of the sound waves pro-
duced by speaking, singing, instru-
mental music or any other sound what
ever.
The possibility of using this instru-
ment in laboratory work is very great.
for comparing wave sounds, infections.
modulations, crescendoes and so on of
the human voice. l am now construct
ing diaphragm that will record per-
haps even a whisper
There is no electricity employed in
the production or recording of tones in
the lightphone. The sounds are pro-
duced by vibration, or more properly
pulSation"
The record-union., 1897-06-11
COMMISSIONER CALHOUN
PAYS ANOTHER VISIT TO THE
STATE DEPARTMENT..
Has Not Been Guilty of Indiscreet Ut
teranCes Attributed Him on His
Arrival at New York.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-Mr Cal
houn was at the State Department
again to-day and had another long con-
ference with Assistant Secretary Day.
This being diplomatic day, the Spanish
Minister Senor Dupuy de LONE, called
and had an opportunity to exchange
views with the special counsel in the
presence of Judge Day. !.
Mr.. Calhoun intends to go home to
Danville Illinois, tonight. He made it
clear to the Assistant Secretary that he
had not been guilty of any indiscreet
utterances attributed to him in some
newspapers upon his arrival at New
York.
DR.. Congosto, Spanish Consul at
Philadelphia who with Consul General
Lee formed the commission to inquire
into the facts connected with the death
of DR.. Ruiz, is expected in Washington
tomorrow He will bring the joint re-
ports of himself and General Lee and
an individual report such as General
Lee submitted to the State Department
through Mr.. Fishback though not by
any means reaching the same conclu-
SionS.
ual report will go to show that Dr. Ruiz
died in Jail from self-inflicted injuries
While suffering from temporary aberra-
ton of mind and that he was well
cared for during his confinement. 1t
also is probable that DIR. Congosto has
given some attention to the subject of
the naturalization of Ruiz, and he en-
deavored to show that there was at
least a reasonable doubt upon the point
which justified the treatment of the
case in fashion different from that
usually adopted.
The reports of the commission are il
lustrated with excellent photographs,
showing the interior of the jail at
DR.. Ruizs confinement that will admit
of Illustration.
Senor Dupuy De Lone will furnish
the State Department a copy of DR..
Congosto's report and will in turn be
furnished a copy of General Lees re-
port. but that is as far toward publi-
cation as the documents are likely to
go. according to the intentions of the
officials having the matter in charge
until Congress shall have the CORES
pondence. and all documents shall be
sent to Madrid from which Capital the
inquiry was originally ordered, and the
Spanish officials can properly claim due
opportunity to consider them, so that
not be expected to be attained, if the
usual methods and courtesy of diplom-
acy are followed, for some time to come.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
MAHER AND SHARKEY.
The Charge Against Them for Prize
Fighting Dismissed.

NEW YORK, June 10-Peter Maher
and Thomas Sharkey, the heavyweight
pugilists who were arrested last night
after their fight at the Palace Athletic
Club. were discharged by Magistrate
Cornell in the Harlem Police Court to-
day The Magistrate admitted that
the conduct of the men in the seventh
round might have been disorderly and
said he was glad they had been locked
up. but that, nevertheless, as far as he
could see there had been no violation
of the law
The record-union., 1897-06-11
international Cricket Match.

MANCHESTER (Eng), June 10.-The
cricket match between the visiting
Philadelphia team and an eleven from
Lancashire, began here to-day. The
Americans won the toss and went to
the bat. They were all out for 123
runs. AT the close of the play to-day
Lancashire had scored 130 runs for
eight Wickets.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
Strike Declared Off.

PITTSBURG, June 10-The strike at
Jones & Laughlins American Works
was declared off by the strikers COM
mittee to-day, and all the old men will
ing to work were taken back at once at
the reduction. About 500 new men have
been taken on, and probably as many
of the old employees will be compelled to
get work elsewhere. The mills are run
ming in every department to-day
The record-union., 1897-06-11
Texans Stick to the Lost Cause.

AUSTIN, June 10.-After a wrangle
lasting over three hours the House to-
day adopted a resolution to have a
committee appointed to investigate the
charges that there were Northern Pro-
fessors occupying chairs in the Texas
University who were teaching Repub-
lican politics and ridiculing the his
tory of the lost cause
The record-union., 1897-06-11
The Victim of Ferrari's Pistol Dead.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-Mrs. CHR
iarico Guilani, who was shot by an
Italian yesterday morning, died to-day
Ferrari, the murderer, wooed the wo-
man, but was rejected, and came to
this country. He tried to win her from
her husband, and, failing, shot and
killed her and himself
The record-union., 1897-06-11

Governor He saws he is unable to Sc
cure the delegation from this county
and without that he does not care to
go into the convention. An agreement
between the friends of Mr.. Rice and
Hon. John c. Welty, the other Stark
County candidate, is probable.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
NOTABLE SOCIETY
EVENT At BOSTON.
An HeiraSS to Millions WedS a Former IL
tache Of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps.
Miss Isabelle Perkins Becomes Mrs.
Larz Anderson.

The Bride the Daughter of Captain
John Hamilton Perkins, United
States Navy, Retired, and the
Groom the Son of a WeIi.knoWn
Washington Family-Some of the
rlost Wealthy and Prominent rIem-
bers of Society in Nearly Every
Large City in the Union Present at
the Nuptials.
The record-union., 1897-06-11

tnem IN the bath room of the Hotel
bismarck until the train was ready to
leave for Huntsville, when the two
negroes We're hurried aboard by a
pack way just in time to escape a
gathering mob. Both negroes protest
their innocence.
The record-union., 1897-06-11
Many Persons Lost Their Lives.

SEBASTOPOL, June 10-Advices
from Simferopol Capital of the pro-
vince of Taurida, say that torrents of
rain have fallen in portions of the pro-
vince. Many persons have been
drowned, the rivers are overflowing
and running the crops, and the damage
to the wheat crop is enormous. Drought
prevails IN Northern Taurfia
The record-union., 1897-06-11
Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, June 10-The Pres
ident to-day nominated Maurice D.
O'Connell of Iowa to be Solicitor of the
Treasury, and William NJ. Griffith of
Arizona to be Marshal of the Territory
of Arizona.