Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — CLEVELAND AT WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND AT WASHINGTON.

The President and Members of the Cabinet Pleased with the Fair, President Cleveland and his official family have returned to Washington from their World’s Fair trip. Mrs. Cleveland drove to the depot to meet the President and a crowd of one hundred gathered to see the travelers return. During the trip the President has seen more of his Cabinet associates and their wives than at any time since the administration began. The members of the party are lavish In praise of tho Exposition, as a whole, and of the superb structures, exhibits, and various details. The magnitude of the affair was far beyond their anticipation. They do not share In any of the grumbling of the Eastern newspapers as to the alleged unfinished condition of the Fair. As Secretary Herbert remarked, the world never saw an exposition that was In complete running order on its opening day. Mr. Herbert and all his' associates say that a month will see the Exposition in perfect running order. Secretary Morton Is so pleased with the Fair that he has concluded to return to Chicago for a more extended visit within tbe next three weeks. Overflow of News. James Bubge and Bamuel Massey, both murderers, were hanged at Benham, Texas. The nine oil wells of Gibson & Giles In Jay County, Indiana, have been sold for $236,500. Damaoe to the oyster beds on the Connecticut and Long Island eoast by the storm is placed at $500,000. C. P. Huntington, of the Southern Pacific Road, has bought the Fuene coal mines, in Mexico, for $500,000. Three men were seriously burned by an explosion of molten metal in a Carnegie furnace at Braddock, Pa. David A. Dischlek, who has been on trial at Rome, N. Y., for aiding in the escape of Bunkoer O’Brien, was acquitted. A syndicate has been formed,to gain control of the natural gas interests of Indiana. It has purchased 40,000 acres of natural gas lands. John W. Mackay, Jb., son of the bonanza king, swallowed cocaine by accident in treating a tooth. He Is said to be in a serious condition. A natural gas explosion at Beaver Falls, Pa., caused the destruction by fire of three dwellings. Julius Maathieu aad wife burned to death,