Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-30
Cuban Intervention.

CUBAN terventiO
NEW YORK, Dec. %.
A special from Vienna avs The
Secretary of State of the United States
has transmitted to every European
Government a circular, asking an ex
preston Of views regarding the Ameri-
can. intervention in Cuba, in order 10
obtain data to be used in the
ton of the Presidents supplementary
message TO Congress. All the Govern
ments have replied satisfactorily. En-
gland is ready TO indorse intervention
at the present moment, and the other
nations express a Willingness To sup
port the intervention, but hesitate to
lake the initiative.
Claims Against Mexico.
CHICAGO, Dec. %.
The Times Washington special says
some of tire American citizsns who
have claims To prefer against the Mex
lean Government for losses sustained
upon the border at the hands of Mex
lean d~esperadoe- are, in a good deal ot
trouble oyrr The fact of Sir Edward
T~hornlon's great severity in the exam
ination of all cases submitted to him.
MIR. Thornton Is the umpire whO has
lhO Iffdi uBFtt III tftt
have been passed upon by the Mexican
Claims Commission. Some of the
heavier claimants. who have had up
ward of 81 900, 900 allowed them by the
Board of Claims Commissioners. have
had the misfortune To lie thrown out
entirely hy the ruling of Sir Edward
Thornton. Some of hese disappointed
ones talk bitterly concerning the action
\ OF the British Minister. 2nd say he has
shown great prejudice against Amer
lean claimants in his ruling. They
ave to u one OF the strong Reason for
his han ord mari y severe cr,itil y
of the claims that nave alreadv been
allowed by The Commission. that Mex
leo is largely iudebl ed 10 England, and
that, as tie formers treasury i in a
very poor condition, the greater the
claims allowed To ci izen> Of the Amer
lean Government, the more will Eng
lands chances be reduced for obtaining
anything for her creditors. In view oi
the STEADY growth of the claims OF the
part of both Mexico and America, il is
now felt by the Governirentthat ON
thing ought finally 10 be done, if posi-
tie, To put an end to the outlawed con
dition OF affairs along the border. 1t j.
said on good authority that the Presi-
dent is preparing a special message
upon this subject. and that he viii send
it at al early day TO Congress.
Not Charley Ross.
BosToN. Dec. %.
A dispatch from Milford, New
Hampshire, says Charles Ross proves
10 be James Blanchard, a precociou>
youth of that neighborhood, and the
dispatch adds, a c~onsuininate liar.
Sale Of n R%aiiroai ..
ursf PHILADELPHIA, Dec. %.
The sale of the Oil Creek and ALE
ghany Valley Railroad, under ioreclos-
ure of mortgages, was made al the
Philadelphia Exchange TO day at noon
for sl00, 900. 1t was purchased 10y the
committee for the bondholders. The
mortgages OH the road amounted 10
81, $50, 900.
Death OF n Veteran Preacher.
NEW YORK, Dec. ~.
The Erening Post the
death yesterday OF Rev. Henry Boehm,
better known as Father Boehm, the
oldest preacher of the Methodist
Church i'll this country, aud probably
the oldest clergyman in the world, a
the house Of his granddaughter near
Richmond, Staten Island. On the Sth
of last June the Tooth anniversary OF
his birth vas celebrated at jersey City
by the New York Conference, when
Father Boehm submitted an outline oi
his own life and laborS in the Method
ist church. He was chosen by Bishop
A~hbury as his travelling companion III
the Spring If 1908, and travelled with
him uutii 1913. when tn. Bishop APP
pointed Fal her Boehm Pre>iIiug Ell
der OF the %Scfnuvkill District, comp.s-
ing the whole territory from Whining
ton to Stroudsbnrg, between The sus-
quehanua and Delaware. For more
than 80 years Father Boehm has been
in the New Jersey Conference, and a.
early as 1872 was on the list of super
animated preachers.
The emtennial Year.
HARRISBURG, Dec. %.
The City Commissioners have
adopted the sugge- ton OF the western
cities, and have ordered that the Cen
tennial year be ushered In by a grand
ilIumination, ringing OF bells and u
profuse display OF bunting.
Trouble In mississippi.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
Collector Sbanghnessy, of Mlssis'
sipIi, having reported to Commissioner
Pratt that Deputy Collector Redmond
was prevented by an armed hand fron
discharging his duties aud that the
Mayor Of summit, Pike county, bad
notified him to leave, as he and Other
peace officers could not, protect him
the President to, day sent AN order t.
the Secretary OF Wal TO furnish the
necessary protection.
r EIC N w s.
Ex.Queem Isabella.
MADRID, Dec. 30.
A srecial states that Count Punon
rostro IN in Paris officially arranginl
for the return of ex-Queen Isabella I,