Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-18
MORE PROPHECIES.
PRESIDENT MAKERS AGAIN
AT WORK.
A Sensational suieide-A Foosheld
I'm Central Ameriea-Ingaiis
Exonerated - Minor
Matters.



CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-The Tribune has
more special dispatches favorable to Blaine
and hostile to Grant 1t also publishes .
| three column article from the New York
Sun showing up the corruption Of Boss
Shepherd and the ring who misruled WASH
| ington, and ~denouncing Grant as response
BILE for their success in evading punish
ment. Editorially the Tribune directs a.
tention to the recent remarkable growth
aud development Of Blaine's campaign. es-
peciaiiy in Ohio and Washington. II says
il has been generally conceded during the
past three months that the Republican ON
vention would be divided between Grant,
Blaine and sherman. with a strong proba-
bility that washburne would be nominated
in case the contest among the friends Of
the other three gentlemen should become
so close aud bitter that no one of them
could safely be selected. The events of
the last two weeks have advanced Blaine's
name toward the head Of the list. When
Grants friends surrendered the hope OF
nominating him by reclamation, and an
nounced their intention Of making q strug-
gle for . bare majority in the Convention
there is no doubt that his candidacy was
injured. The manne in which Blaine has
been brought TO the front so conspicuously
within the past few days may be explained
by the popular admiration he commsnds
and by the active work Of the Blaine clubs.
Unless some unforeseen event shall inter-
vene to change the current of public senti-
ment Blaine will be the Republican NOM
inee.
A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE
W. E. Guernsey. passenger on the train
from the West yesterday evening, threw
himself under the cars at Desplains via
duct and was SO badly crushed that be died
in q few hours. On a leaf Of his memo.
randum book was the entry: my brother
in-law's name Is Frank A. Dean, Wilksboro,
Pa. l killed myself, because l knew the
Masons would when l got to Chicago. W..
E. g." In another place appeared his full
name-William z. Guernsey. And from
another memorandum it was CLEANED that
he had been in San Francisco, and that he
had plenty Of money, as he had just bet
500 in gold, with one Joseph E. Gibson.
that . certain mining stock would go up
before Q certain date. In other pockets
were found . cancelled ticket from San
Francisco to this city over the Rock Island
AO0&Af LtGtL . ALI <O0 III 66c1f Alooh4f
gold some papers and telegram blanks,
and photographs Of his family. Guernsey
appeared to be a vell-to-do man, Of 80 or
IS years Of age, and was quite comfortably
clad in & dark suit. From the little he was
induced to say, it was apparent that he was
Of unsound mind. He died at the hospital
at 8 O'Clock last evening.
OLD SOLDIERS.
t. Ioa Hoou loarnaI 4ba. the Ccr0oauf
Nolan about whom Congress lately had
considerable debate as to whether he should
be raised to the rank Of Lieutenant and
then pensioned for life, on account Of his
service in the army for about so years,
WAS killed in the ~Thornburgh fight, and
the debate was therefore loves labor lost.
| A case has also come TO light, at Makinac,
| Of q man who has been in the service 30
years, and his friends claim proper consid-
Grafton for him.
AsoTHEz SUICIDE.
Vim. Gilman, aged 80, a citizen Of Mat
toon, Illinois, cut his throat with . razor
yesterday. while at breakfast with his fam
lily. Melancholy caused by the death Of his
wife was the cause.
THE NEW YORK DELEGATION.
The Int Oceans Washington special
says conkiing says he viii not attend
the Utica Convention, unless he is elected
q delegate. and he has no intimation that
he will. He is sure the Convention would
indorse Grant. although a desperate effort
would be made to prevent it. and secure
some representations for other candidates.
RUNS woRK.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. IA gentleman,
who was intoxicated, was incarcerated Sun
day morning. During Monday delirium
tremens developed, and at night he cut bis
throat with . pen knife. The inquest
showed him to be John J. O'Reilly, .
prominent physician Of Louisville.
A ~FooTHoLD IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 1.-THE Suns WASH
ington special says: There is good reason
to believe that the Hayes Administration
has engaged to buy, or has already bought,
q pair Of coaling stations in Central Amer
lea, and is negotiating for the entire region
known as the Cherequici tract. with a view
Of holding = belt across the Isthmus. 1t
is also believed that q naval expedition has
rendezvoused already at the points indi-
Gated to take possession and establish sta
tions. 1t 10 certain, from official records,
that on the 4th of February the Adams,
under command Of John A. Howell, put
out from San Francisco on q secret mission,
and under sealed orders, while sundry cir
cumstances strongly indicate that her des-
tlnation was Panama. Somewhere along
the Central American coast are the Kear-
sarge, which left Key West on the Sd OF
February, with destination unknown, prob
ably the Aspinwall, Tuscarora and Con-
%stitution, and possibly the Nipsic. The
Pensacola viii soon proceed to Panama from
Colon. The first point to ascertain is I'M
der what title it Is proposed to acquire
these foreign naval footholds. The glib
response is that the Cheroquoi tract and
both bays belong to Q private American
citizen. who has owned hem for the past
20 years and is now willing, like the most
holders OF real estate, to sell them at q 1
price he fixes. But obviously, the proprie- |
tary rights in this sense are not all that the
Government has to deal with. There must
be no national, as well as individual, claim
involved. When we come to look at the |
locality we fud it to be on the line between
the Costa Ricsn and Colombian boundary,
which has sometimes been disputed. Ac-
cordingly, il either Colombia or Costa Rica
claims sovereignty over this new acqui-
sition, most probably both will do 30, we
shall have some chance OF buying not only
. foreign foothold, but an international
controversy. Whether under the guise of
coaling stations a new canal route project
il concealed, RENAME to be determined.
In the meantime, it may be well for Con-
gress to exert itself to find out how far the
country has already been committed and
where il is likely to come out.
TIE JONES NQU
The banquet in honor Of Senator Jones,
Of Nevada. ct Delmonico's. Saturday even
ing. given bv his friend and late oolieaoua |