The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mrs. AMANDA EITNIER, a handsome widow of
Ephrata, was shot and instantly killed by
Lemon Ellsworth, widower of the same place,
at hotel in Lancaster, Pa, Wednesday The
couple had eaten dinner, and then engaged in
conversation in the parlor, when the tragedy
occurred. 1t is supposed the man was DESTROYS
! of wedding the woman. who was quite wealthy,
and upon the latter's refusal committed the ia
tai deed.
A CURIOUS STORY about John A. Logan is told
by Truth New York;, A short time before his
death. says this publication, the general re-
turned from Mexico TO Chicago, and there
young lady of 20, favorite of his, who had
picked up palmlstry, was asked by him to tell
his fortune. She laughingly took his hand, but
her face soon grew serious, and she told him
that death was marked in it, and warned him
TO change his method of living and working
and get rest. Mrs. Logan, who stood by OBJ
served that this revelation had a disturbing
effect on her husband, and with some reassuring
remark and laugh held out her hand and told
the young lady to read her hand The girl took
1t, looked at the lines an instant, and burst out
crying, You will be a widow within six
moRths. sobbed the young palmist, dropping
the hand.
A BERLIN CORRESPONDENT says that the Off
cial report of the committee appointed to in
vestigate the alleged cancer grating operations
of Profs. Bergman and Hahn will declare
that 1t is incorrect to describe the treatment in
question as an experiment, and that what actu-
ally happened was this: After the patients had
undergone the usual operation for the removal
or cancerous growthS, pieces of sound skin were
grated on the part which had been operated
upon, while pieces of skin from the tainted
place were sewn on the wound caused by the re-
moval OF the sound skin. This was done in
each case with the consent of the patient, ana it
was done at q time when the profession was
still ignorant as to whether cancer was or
was not contagious The fact that it is conta.
gious las been established by means of the
treatment described, and was recorded at q
chirurgical congress held in 1889. The report
further declares that DR.. Leidig, the assistant
judge, who raised the whole controversy. is not
competent to pronounce upon the treatment,
and that he has enormously described it as an
experiment" This would leave at least two
important points unexplained-f1rst. whether
the patients really understood the nature aud
purpose of the operation performed upon them,
and second, whether or not the NEGOTIATIONS
proved fatal.
II SEE" said Louisville gentleman "that
Phil Thompson has opened a law office in New
| York in addition to his office in Washington
His practice is said to be very lucrative and it
will not be long ere he acquires fine income
As he has Joine1 thu Tammany Society, it is
only question of time when he will be Tam
many congressman from the metropolis.
heard an anecdote Of Phil not long ago that l
have never seen in print. When he was mem
ber-elect OF the Forty si4fd congress he spent
the winter of 1882 in Washington and
attended daily the sessions of the ex
pirlng Forty-fifth congress. At that time
Joe blackburn was connected with
COMMITTEES investigating some star
route rascality, and Joe was very
o1iclous and earnest in the matter. One of the
star reuters took mortal affront at some in
congruvial talk Blackburn had given utterance
to on the floor OF the House, and sent a hostile
message to Joe. who showed the note to Phil
The latter at once sought the sender of the note
aud said to him: Il am at leisure and nv
friend Blackburn is quite busy investigating a
lot of thieves living off the postoffice appro-
priation will not have him disturbed and
want you to understand that l will act
in his stead in the adjustment of the
matters touched on in this note" showing
it. Phil III IN looked like beardless boy and
his voice was as soft as a woman's, but there
was such an air of business in his calm and
sedate manner that the challenger expressed
himself as wholly satisfied. heard it stated
that when Phil and his brother John were with
Morgan that one of them invariably went
quarter of a mile in front and the other quar-.
ter of a mile in the rear of the command when
it was on a march-both. were posts of danger
and posts of honor. As to his services in the
army have never heard Phll say word.
TIE FACT that no serious accident has be-
fallen the ocean grayhounds has done much to
remove the popular apprehension when it first
began to be demonstrated that voyage be-
tween Queenstown and Sandy Hook might be
accomplished in six days or even less. The
claim that difference in speed of a few miles a
day, more or less, increases danger from col
lision or from laundering has not been sustained
by actual experience thus far, whatever the
future may have in store. And meanwhile the
rivalry of steamship lines is resulting in swifter
vessels every year. The Efaska lowered the
record to 616 days. the Etruria TO 9 DAYS and
hours, and the City of Paris 5 days - hours so
minutes Since then German company and a
French company have brought for
ward ships, the Fuerst Bismarck and La Tou-
rane. whose performances have led experts to
believe they are faster than the City of Paris
And now it is announced that in reply to the
performances of the French and German t1iers,
the Messrs. Thomson of Greenock the con
structors of the City of Paris are out already
IN fact, with the model of a vessel which they
are about setting to work to build, that will
make 2l15 knots every hour of the journey and
put bridge over the Atlantic in five days. The
new steamer, while all the details Of her des gn
are not yet given 20 the public, will be the
enormous length of $50 feet by 20 feet
beam. There will be accommodations for
700 first and 300 second class pas
senRers aud about 400 emigrants; and
all the arrangements as they are worked out in
the plans, are far ahead in point of luxury aud
comfort Of anything yet produced. She will
have four tunnels and triple compound engines,
with four cylinders working four cranks The
She will have two promenade decks, one for
first and one for second class passengers. She
will have two bridges, one fore and the other
aft, each being about forty five feet above
water level. Two sticks will stand up 10 repre-
sent masts, but they are intended probably only
for signals and to provide a crows nest for the
lookout On the principal promenade deck will
be placed twelve machine guns, and in other re-
Spects she will be made especially suitable for