Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — Ex-Minister Palmer’s Little Spaniard. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Minister Palmer’s Little Spaniard.

T. W. Palmer, of Michigan, while Minister to Spain adopted a Spanish baby, and the circumstance of the adoption are just made public. The little Castilian, now three and a half years old, answers to the name of Murillo Castelar Palmero, and is an important personage in Senator Palmer’s household. While in Spain the Minister’s family spent a season at San Sebastian, on the Bay of Biscay, and’ while there Mrs. Palmer objected to the crnel way one of the Spanish nurses bathed a young baby in the surf. The child’s mother was made acquainted with the circumstance and a meeting of the ladies resulted in Mrs. Palmer offering to adopt the child as her own. The child’s parents were tolerably well to do and this offer for a time was rejected’, but on the payment of a sum of money by the Minister it was ultimately accepted and the little Spaniard was adopted by the Minister and Mrs. Palmer and brought to this country.. New York World.