Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-10
AT THE CAPITAL.
MRS. GEORGE W. CHILDS MOVES
TO WASHINGTON.
Young Milliken Fails to Appear in
Court-Gossip Of the Depart
mentS.

Washington, Oct. 6-Mrs. George
W. Childs, widow of philadelphia
great editor, is now in the city, and
is busy moving into her handsome
home ON K. Street, which is now be-
ing fitted up under her personal super
vision. The buildings are all COM
plete and the interior furniture will
be in place within a few days. At
present Mrs. Childs is too busy to see
any one, and her care will be to see
that her future home is in perfect
order from the start.
John Sewers, the Cuban planter,
who was banished by the Spanish gen
eral, is now in the city, and has sent
off his papers to the CONSUL in Cuba,
by WITCH letters he hopes to get claim
of about $15O,00O from the government
of Spain. Several other American
gentlemen who have suffered similar
Urea tment at the hands of the Spanish
are en- route for this city and will
also make big claims against Spain.
The family of Sewers are still in Cuba,
buI liz b0tH tAllcu lIOl11 ILLS UUlu0.
He says that Spain cannot much
longer cOntinu e the conflict, that it is
costing her too much, and that it is
simply question Of time before the
island is free. He hopes, he says,
that the people will be allowed to be-
come a part Of the union as that is
the present most popular sentiment.
''The statement which appeared in
a morning paper" said Rev. Father
Stephan, lis not wholly true, for the
question has not been submitted to
the congress in regard to my Indian
matters. The facts are simply this:
The department which has charge of
the Indian affairs is simply robbing the
Catholic missions Of their share of the
money appropriated by the govern
ment, and we propose to put stop
to the thing. If this is free country
and a fair government, it is unjust
that the public money, which is set
apart to be divided among the differ
emit denOminatiOnal schools, should be
cut down so in the case of the Cath
OlicS till there is almost nothing left.
Secretary Smith is cOgniZant of this
fact, but does nothing to stop it, and
l propose to go to law and see that
congressional appropriations which
should come to our Indian schools get
to them. 1t is very different with the
Protestant schools, for they all get
their proper share of the money dedi-
Gated to the education of the Indians.
But l know, and I mean to show to
he public. that the department vii
fully Withholds from the Catholic
schools their lawful share of the con-
gressional appropriations. I mean to
make the whole matter public and to
get justice, and to show the wrong
dOingS of the present manag cement Of
the Indian bureau" Father Stephan
is the head of the Catholic missions,
and his office is in this city. He is a
tall man, with a heavy white beard,
and is most indignant at what he
terms the injustice to which his
charges are forced to submit.
The district commissioners have pre-
pared a program of exercises for the
reception of the Liberty Bell on its
arrival on the way from Philadelphia
to the Atlanta exposition.
The governor of Oklahoma has made
his annual report to the secretary of
the interior. 1t contains nothing new
and no recommendatio or refer
ences to the admission of the terri
tory to statehood.
Benjamin II. MiIiken, the young
man who was arrested last fourth of
July for breaking INTO the home of
ex-Solicitor General Phillips and
chloroforming one of his daughters,
was due to appear in court Friday,
but he did not appear. Congressman
Patterson, Of Memphis, is one of his
bondsmen.
The friends of William f. Cody,
Buffalo Bill, gave him quite an ova-
ton on his appearance in Washington.
Many of the army officers stationed
in Washington knew Cody on the
frontier in days gone by and they re-
newed their acquaintance by present
ing him with a floral lariat.