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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
FRIGHTFUL CRASH.
Passenger Trains Collide and Three Mel
are Killed and Six Injured.

Passenger Trains Collide and Three Men
are Killed and Six Injured.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April 12.-The
northbound Florida special on the
Southern railway, No. 36, and local
southbound passenger train No. II col
lided Sunday morning at Harrisburg.
a town 13 miles north of this city,
killing three persons and wounding
six, ~1e of whom will die. The killed
are:
T. Clingman Benton, OF Charlotte, aged b.
postal clerk on No. II.
Titus Eddy, of Forest Hill, Concord.
VIII Donaldson, fireman on No. SO
The two express cars on the north
bound train were shattered into thou
sands of pieces and soon after the acci.
dent the postal car of the local caught
fire, but by the use of chemicals the
flames were extinguished.
Postal Clerk Benton suffered horri-
BILE death. His legs were pinioned Sc
close to the boiler of one of the engines
that he was being burned by the heat
and steam. He begged piteously to his
recuers to cut off his legs and extricate
him. Although every effort was made
to release him it was an hour and a
half before he was taken out He
lived but Is minutes longer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
ALANp on pEsoLArloN.
An Army Oncer's Vivid Description ci
Scenes In Portion Of the FlOOd-StrickeT
Cnunfrv.

An Army Oncer'S Vivid Description OF
Scenes In Portion of the FlOod-Stricken
Country.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The first OF
the detailed reports from the inspect
ing officers came to Secretary Alger
yesterday from Lieut.. Whitney, at
Memphis, as follows: Gas result OF
personal inspection of part of the Mem
phis-Cairo district north of Ashport
Tenn, 80 miles by river, found 10 Gre
vases in the levees varying in width
from so to 1000 feet. The increased
damage of levees will be considerable
unless the ends of breaks are heavily
capped. No fresh crevasses are antlcl-
pated now The food is completely
over the United States levee at Ash
| port and south for Is miles except IN
few of the highest places; three Gre
vases in this stretch. Water at the
maximum was three to four feet higher
than ever before known. 1t has been
falling 10 to 10 inches every "a hours
and is now about on stand, but still
higher than any previous flood.
81 found about 5000 refugees 1920
colored.) Fifteen hundred more have
been brought to Memphis. Most all
have some sort of shelter, but are sut-
fering for want of necessities. This
number represents barely one-quarter
of those needing immediate assistance
in this portion of the district Stock is
suffering terribly; one-third to one
half of the cattle are drowned, and the
remainder will die unless forage is
supplied from outside. The resources
of the district are exhausted. The con-
dition in Mississippi county, Ark, is
representative Nine-tenths of its SO5
square miles are covered with water
three to seven feet deep About 10
per cent. of this is under cultivation.
Many cabins are washed away or torn
up. Those standing are filled with
people and rescued stock on raised
floors and on RATS Out of 15O, 900 pop
ulation 5000 are dependent and needy
Four lives are reported lost by drown
ing.
''The conditions in Crittenden coun-
ty are even worse and the suffering is
rapidly increasing. Most of the refu-
gees are collected on high ground and
at points on levees. They can be
reached from Memphis by relief boat
which should leave supplies for five
days at time at certain relief sta
tions, each in charge of one response
BILE resident. Would recommend that
an officer distribute rations."
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
Davis Island Levee Breaks,

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 13. - The
mighty sweep of the water south OF
vicksburg has at last had its effect
upon the lower levees and last night a
telegram from Tallelah, La, reported
that the great levee which protects
Davis island had given way and the
island will in all probability be flooded
Twenty-Five hundred people inhabit
Davis island, which consists of about
5000 acres Of land. The place is sit
uatsd in Warren county, Miss
Throughout the upper delta the flood
situation shows little change since last
reports.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
coNvlcTs CHANGE HOMES.

Nearly 700 Hoosier Criminals are Trans
ferred from One Prison to Another.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, April 13.-Prob'
ably the largest transfer of prison con-
victs that ever took place in this coun-
try was successfully carried out Mon
day when 291 prisoners from the Mich
igan City prison were put on special
Monon train and taken to Jefferson
vile, while from the latter place 369
prisoners were sent here. Both trans
fers were made without accident or
outbreak.
JEFFERsoNvELLE,' Ind, April 1S.-The
first step toward putting into effect the
prison reform law passed by the last
general assembly of Indiana, having
for its purpose the reformation of the
penal system, was taken Monday when
a train loaded with convicts serving
sentences in the Jeffersonville prison,
went to Michigan City. The northern
and southern institutions are to here
after serve two distinct purposes. The
institution at Jeffersonville becomes
the Indiana reformatory, while the
Michigan City prison is to be known as
the Indiana state prison. The effect
will be to separate the hardened Grim
inals, among whom are classed the
murderers, from the first term prison
ers ander 80 years of age. The latter
class remains in the southern institu-
tion, while the former are transferred
north. A transfer of criminals such as
occurred between the extreme north
ern and southern borders of Indiana
has never before taken place in the
United States.
There were S76 prisoners at Jeffer-
sonville, the largest in the prisons his.
tory. OF these S69 were on the trair
which left here for the north. Twen
ty-eight men belonging to Company e
of New Albany, state militia, accom-
panied the train. A similar compa1
of soldiers was also assigned to com
south with the Michigan City prisoi
ers. There were 81 United States col
victs, including two life men. P
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
EX-SENATOR VOORHEES,.

He came into the senate in 1877 by appoint
ment to fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
Oliver p Morton. and because Of his long eX-
perience in the house was assigned immediate
ly to the finance committee, a very unusual
honor In the case Of q new senator. Moreover
he retained his connection with that commit
tee, being its chairman during the last demo-
cratic era in that body, and was leading fig
ure in all debates involving questions of finance
or tariff. Senator Voorhees, was an ardent
supporter Of the greenback currency.
In appearance Mr.. Voorhees, was one OF the
most striking figures in the senate. He was
familiarly known as the Tall Sycamore OF the
Wabash" by reason OF his large and magnih-
Gently proport,oned figure. As an orator he
had few peers. His legal reputation was based
largely upon his forensic powers and success
attended his efforts in many cases commonly
regarded as almost hopeless, owing to his abil-
ity to sway jury by the magnetic qualities OF
his address.
At the time Of his retirement from the senate
Mr.. Voorhees, was the ranking democrat on the
finance committee and by virtue Of this posi-
tion the nominal leader of his party on the floor
of the senate on tariff and financial questions.
The ex-senator is survived by three sons and
one daughter, all but one Of whom reside in
WaShinuton
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
An Incendiary's Confession.

CLEVELAND, April 12. - William l.
Bloom, who is under arrest in this city
on several charges of incendiarism, told
c. w. Murphy, Chicago detective, on
Saturday, that he (Bloom) while serv-
ing as deputy United States marshal
during the A. R. U. strike troubles in
Chicago In July, 1894, had set fire to a
large number of cars Suits for
amounts aggregating $l,OOO,OOO are
pending in the courts, railroad COM
panieS claiming that the city of Chica-
60 is responsible for the loss of their
property at that time Blooms confess
sion is expected to have an important
bearing on these suits.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
AARON BURR's FARMHOUSE.
The Building, Which Is Over Century
Old. Still Standing.

The Building, Which Is Over . Century
Old, Still Standing.
On the corner of Hudson and Charl-
ten streets is a frame building which,
10 a critical eye, would seem to be
umbling down, or rather would ap.
parently be if it were not held up by
the adjoining building. The window
frames, which once were square, are
quite out Of plumb, dropping downward
on the south side. The ceilings are low
On every floor, and on the Hudson street
front the first floor, which is a little
above the sidewalk and reached by
few steps, has been transformed into
couple of small stores, while the en-
trance to the upper floors is gained
through door OH Charlton street. An
extension has been erected on this side
to the main building so as to cover the
lot.
The building was formerly the farm
house of Aaron Burr and was located
on the top of Richmond hill, through
which Varick street was cut. When
these streets were laid out, the old
farmhouse was brought down to the
road, which is now Hudson street, and
placed on vacant lot, then and now at
the corner of Charlton street. Opposite
to it was placed another frame house,
which had been removed after the great
fires of 1885 and 1S45, from Chambers
street, where it was known as the cold
Brown jug" This removal had been
caused by the extension of the fra linn
it's in the lower portion of the city. A
few years ago the "Old Brown jug"
building was condemned and torn down.
In its place a brick structure has been
erected. But so far the old Burr house
has been spared, for, although it is out
of plumb, the building was so strongly
constructed that there is little danger of
it's falling.
For many years the old house was &C.
cupied by an old time "leather head
watchman, who, after his retirement
from that service, employed his time in
making leather travelling trunks, which
he sold on this corner, occupying the
upper floors with his family. At his
death, a few years ago, the family, like
many of those who formerly resided in
Greenwich village, removed to the up
per part of the city, and the building
has since ceased to be inhabited by one
family. New York Mail and Express.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
SPEAKING TO THE DEAF.
A Mistake Is Often Made in Trying tS
Enunciato Very Plainly.

A Mistake IL Often Made in Trying to
Enunciate Very Plainly.
Many people, and am sorry to say
some teachers of the deaf, fail to realize,
in practice at least, that speech is not
rs clearly visible to the eye as it is audi
BILE to the ear and think that by speak
ing slowly, word by word, and opening
their mouth to the widest extent, they
will render the task of the speech-read-
er easier. AS matter of fact they rem
der it all the more difficult. A child in
school may learn to understand teach
or who mouths his words in this man'
ner, but this ability is of no value to him
when he leaves school. Indeed, perfect
1y natural, deliberate speech is easier
TO understand than the exaggerated
form Of articulation which people are
apt to use the moment they know they
are talking to totally deaf person.
People who depend entirely upon
their speech-reading for understanding
Others have requested me, when intro
ducing them to strangers, not to say
that they were deaf, because they find
it easier to read the lips when the per-
son speaking is not aware that he Is
being understood in that way. / have
in my acquaintance young man edu-
Gated wholly by this method, who
travels great deal, and picks up ac-
quaintances on the steamer or on the
train just as people do who possess all
their faculties. have in mind, also, .
congenitally deaf girl of IA who rs not
considered unusually bright, yet whose
speech is clearly ineligible to strang-
ers after the first ten minutes, who is
Intelligent on the topics of the day, and
whose conversational repertoire Is
much larger and more entertaining than
that Of many young ladies Of 20 and over
that / have met in metropolitan society.
John Dutton Wright, in Century.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
GOOD COPS AS EASY MARKS.
A Retired Bunlso Mans Idea of the Value
of Regularity to the Crook.

A Retired Bunlko Mans Idea of the Value
of Regularity to the Crook.
An old time crook stood on Broad
way corner, in the Tenderloin district,
late one night recently, watching
young policeman trying the store doors.
The policeman did the work with great
care and regularity.
"That's a careful "copper"" the crook
volunteered, addressing man who was
standing few feet away.
eyes, " replied the other. Evidently
he wants to gain the good opinion of his
superiors. "
The old time crook laughed. f.
"It would surprise you" he oontin-
ued, wouldn't it, to hear that that sort
of a careful cop.is dead easy mark for
thieves?"
81 don't see how" returned the citi-
zen.
easy enough" retorted the crook.
cts your careful copper that can be
easily spotted. The man who is going
to do job knows just where he will be
on his post at a certain time and can
figure out just how long the coast will
be clear and the job can be carried on.
The careful cop goes at his work just
like clockwork. Now, with what some
persons would call bad cop it's differ
ent. The crooks are afraid Of these
bad cops, the fly fellows that take big
chances and stay off post when the
roundsman isn't around. They can
never tell just where bad cop is or
when he will jump out and catch them
at their job. See? There is no known
system of keeping track of em, because
they don't do business themselves by
any system, those bad cops don't. "
Then the old time crook walked into
a saloon and got drink, leaving the
citizen ON the corner wondering. The
citizen learned the identity of the crook
when he narrated the incident later to
the proprietor of the same saloon. The
fellow was retired bunko man. New
York Sun.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14
VOORHEES, IS DEAD.
Indlana's Most Famous Democrat Passes
Away from Life-Sketch of Remark
ably Brilliant Career.


WASHINGTON, April 12,-Daniel W.
Voorhees,, ex-United States senator
from Indiana, died Saturday morning
at his home in this city. He had been
in poor health for several years, being
a constant sufferer from rheumatism
of the heart.
Mr.. Voorhees, was 20 years OF age last Sep
tember, and prior to his retirement from pub
lie life on March last had been for many
years one Of the most picturesque figures In
the senate. He was born in Butler county,
Ohio, and In infancy was carried by his parents
to their pioneer home in the Wabash valley OF
Indiana. In 1919 he graduated from the Indiana
Asbury university and, studying law, began its
practice In 1851 His first public office was en-
tered upon In 1853, since which time he had
been almost continuously in the public service
That office was United States district attorney
for Indiana. His congressional career began In
1861. He served in the house for Ave terms
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-04-14

Sent by Mail, on receipt of price, 90 Per BOTTLE.
Book "To Expectsnt Mothers mailed free, con.
tanning valuable information and voluntary
testimonials.
The times., 1897-07-29
Ice Cream and It's History

Almost anyone who b as reached middle
ufe can remember the first plate Of ice
cream he or she ever ate. A century
ago there were only one or two places
In this country where such thing could
be found These places were kept by
French confectioners. who brought the
idea from their own country 1t was not
until some time in the fifties that tcs
cream became anything like familiar
artiCIe on American tables, aud that was
owing 10 the fact that Jerome Bona parro
introduced the article. About thirty years
ago American ice cream began TO be
made, at 90 or so cents a quart. which
was abuot half what the French ice cream
had cost Then capitalists turned their
attention TO the business seriously, and
there is about b alf million dollars IN
vested in the business now. This, OF
course. does not include the vast mum bers
of families aud hotels and restaurants who
make their own cream with a freezer.
Neither does it include the hokey-pokey
compound. Ice cream proper is made
fnom good cream, and though there has
been good deal OF talk about adu!tera
ton in this delicious article, manurac-
turers say that there Is no way in which
It could be aduIterated that would lessen
f,a IL nd
are occasionally used. but that is all.
The Italian push-cart men sell cream
which is made mainly Of Condensed milk.
sugar, and cheap extract OF some kind
The cheapness OF their article probably is
made possible by the way In which it is
served, the customer usually licking it off a
piece of brown paper, though lately some
Of the street vendors serve it in cheap
glasses with spoons At the restaurants
the cost of serving is an important factor.
It has never been claimed that in paving
five cents for cup OF coffee the GUS
toner actually gets five cents worth of
drink He pays for having 1t brought
10 Hlil III Nitdu cup Win u napkin,
spoon. and glass OF water, and for
having the cup washed afterward and a
waiter ready TO bring him anything else
he wants while drinking the coffee Sc
with ice cream Though the cost of manu.
featuring the cream is very considerable,
the cost of serving makes q considerable
difference IN the price
French ice cream, curiousy enough, is
made in way almost totally differentfrom
American ice cream, and requires special
training in the men who do the making
The French or yiennese confectioner who
makes the French cream cannot make the
American cream successfully, and vice
versa. American Ice cream appears to be
more popular In London than the Con-
tinental variety Not long ago the mayor
OF Belfast gave q bail. for which he had
The times., 1897-07-29
Tho.e woodford 1nstructlons.

There was quiet little Madrid dis
patch in The Times yesterday. the glst OF
which was that Gen. Stewart L. woodford
was understood to have sailed for Spain
with certain pertinent instructions in his
raineut. among these was one TO stop
al London and Paris, and at those capitals
10 s,licit the kind alliance OF Great Britain
and France in a scheme for a joint tri-
national demand for indemnity against
Spain
The report may or may not be true. II
true, it Is disgraceful commentary upon
the trucking tendency OF our masters In
their relations with European nations To
ask aid from Europe in advancing or main
tsiniug our rights and interests In the
Yves en- hemisphere would be a gratuitous
surrender Of American influence and power
on This side CT the Atlantic. Such a thing
would look uncomfortably like a deliberate
scheme to place ourselves in the power OF
Europe, and 10 suhserTiate our bemispheric
AtiiStt INN koAiOs " VI q AOtciE COSlt-
ton in which we would exercise but q
minor influence and have scarcely voice
The United States is big enough, and its
people are brave enough, 20 attend to it's
own affairs. 1t is, or ought to be, the
nation paramount in this half OF the world.
We should not expect the transatlantic
nations 10 tolerate active interference by
Us in the affairs OF Turkey, Armenia, or
Ceylon. These regions do not come within
sur natural sphere OF influence: but Europe
,ught not, and, if the American people can
have their way. will not, be tolerated in
obsrHcting us in strictly American mat
Hers. like the annexation OF Hawaii, the
aonstrnction and control Of the Nicaragua
Eanal, or the recognition and protection
OF Cnban independence.
Whatever may be the policy or inten-
fa0ns OF The Hanna Administration, there
Is more fight than there is foreign alliance
or mousTchical arbitration in the temper Of
tie American people at this present time.
Daily we are being shown fresh reasons
Tor displaying and EN- phasizing that temper.
The times., 1897-07-29

given most of the information possessed by
the state Department IN reference TO this
case. Therefore il is easy to see why he
should be doomed to lingering death OF
torture. His crime was a double one. In
the first place he witnessed the butchery
of an American newspaper man; in tn.
second, he annoyed the government Of that
Journalist by placing 1t In the predicament
or a knowledge OF the facts without any
Cleveland or Hanna reason for acting ON
them
sentence of Manuel Fernandez cannot fall
to once more raise the question OF r
recognition of Cuban be,iigerency If that
had been recognized before the fiendish
assassinat ion OF GOWN, he and other
American prisoners taken by the spaniards
necessarily would have been treated as
prisoners of war; and today young Fer
nandez would have to be treated honorably
in the same way. AS it Is, the forrner
is dead. having been foBlly murdered.
and he laster is destined to a living death
as a criminal. 1t is to avert exactly
such Things that international law, based
on tile dictates OF common humanity. makes
IL mandatory upon nations placed in re
lation TO neishboring revolutions, as
We are 10 the struggle in Cuba, to recog
nize the right of the revolutionary forces
20 all the protection guaranteed by the
laws OF civilized warfare
This Government has recognized the
fact OF tie var, in trying to prevent aid
from Reaching the patriots; again, in using
the Navy OF the United States 70 re-enforce
the arms of Spain against a free people
battling to the death for their independ-
ence But it has refused the formal
recognition which would have saved
honorable prisoners OF war from murder,
and among them lot Of American citi-
zens from torture and assassination. In
this respect two American administrations
VIII not escape the historical verdict that
they have been as bad as their ally.
weyler, the Spanish hyena.
The times., 1897-07-29

According to the latest utterances OF
London newspapers Mr.. Cham berlain's
great scheme OF imperial federation has
fallen completely nat. The colonies want
ed direct representation in the British
Parliament. English colonies always did,
and because thirteen OF them could not get
1t peaceably there was considerable trouble
during the last century and much talk
about arbitration a the tail end OF this
one. But John Bull would scorn to sit
In Lords or Commons with his colonial
brother. In that respect he has forgot
ten and learned nothing. The aspiring
colonial secretary sits down in bitterness
TO realize that you cannot satisfy colonial
preniers or their constituencies merely
with toffy, stars and chronos.
The times., 1897-07-29

The ST. James Gazette of London THINKS
that the latest note of Japan is a polite
way of intimatng to this country that We
must abandon our Hawaiian pretensions
Or fight. IL 1t is Japan alone that W must
fight In that alternative, the note means
nothing of the kind. II Japan has a secret
European lacking, with view to fight. then
Europe might as well know that the
American people would accept the re-
sponslbility and the row, with all the pleas
ure in life