Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — GROVER, JR., IS BORN. [ARTICLE]

GROVER, JR., IS BORN.

Fine Boy Comes to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland at Princeton. To Grover Cleveland came at noon Thursday ajioy. He was born nt Princeton, N. J.,Mii the white mansion under the oaks in the room where tlie colonial mantel displays its pretty thin cohunnCttes of an exquisite ancient art. The inheir has JUno eyes, hrnr a nist auditings tfiat make huTc-ries soutwl till his sister Marion rolls her eyes in amazement. lie is strong and weighs twelve pounds. There is little else to say, since in him the father and the mother have! their fondest wish realized. Telegrams of congratulation were received without number. Among the first to proffer congratulations by wire were Joseph Jefferson, E. C. Benedict, Secretary Thurber and J. G. Carlisle. Pigeons in the garret of the new cell iouse building at the penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo., made an unnatural noise tarly on a recent morning. Night Guard (Jordon, growing suspicions, investigated the cause of the commotion and discovered a convict in the net of lowering himself to the ground with a blanket rope. Three other convicts were found in the garret ready to follow. Their presence had alarmed the pigeons. At Mandan, N. D., Andrew Johnson and Oscar Peterson were drowned in th* Missouri while hunting.