Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
Charleston Accepted.

WASHINGTON, November lst.-The Charleston
was accepted this morning. Ten thousand dol
lars is held back for electric lights and y 100 Tor
drawings. kilograms have been sent t. San
Francisco to ascertain if all the extra parts are
on board, and if so, Benham will be telegraphed
to accept.t
Chief Engineer Melville and Chief Constructor
Wilson have examined and approved the last
report of the Trial Board on the Charleston.
They then submitted letter to Secretary Tracy
stating that the vessel was completed, and rec
ommending that it be accepted and the money
due be paid the contractors, less the following
amounts: For electric plant, So 600: until the
vessel makes a sea trip in four months, $4,000;
minor items, $500. Nothing was said in the
recommendation about penalty for horse power
Secretary Tracy was met by the California AS
ISOLATED Press reporter just as he was coming
from the Cabinet meeting. and he told what
Melville and Wilson recommended. Well,
said he, "that being the case, shall accept the
Charleston, and so telegraph Commodore Ben
ham to accept her."
Pan-American Congress.
INDIANAPOLIS Qnd.) November 1st.-At the
Denison Hotel at l P NJ. the delegates and party
sat down to a lunch. At the table sat Governor
Hovey, General Thomas H. Nelson of Terra
Haute, President Hanna of the Board of Trade
and others. Governor HOvey made speech
Speeches were also made by all the delegates
After lunch public reception was held at the
hoiel, when Glen Studebaker Joined the party
again. Senator Silva of Colombia left for Wash
ington He will go to Bogota to attend his fathers
funeral. and will return to participate in the
Congress. At O'Clock the visitors LETT here for
Louisville.
Government Coin.
WASN'T GToN, November lst.-The pubic debt
statement issued tonight by the Treasury De-
partment shows the total debt TO be S1,625, 52l :
SIC 63, and the net debt 81 900, 950677 "a. This
is reduction of SO 104 ,S5S " since october LIST,
and of SIS, sos, 944 q since June 30th last.
The receipts during October were $50, 492 :
COZ g. and the expenditures were SIS, 59S,797 II.
-,
ceipts over October, 1888, and decrease of over
81 100000, when compared with the same
month
Treasurer Huston's statement shows assets of
SIS $50 497 AZ and liabilities of s640 422 l04 g.
The surplus, exclusive of fractional silver coin,
is placed at S45, 1856, 762 30.
Another Clue.
DENVER, November 1st.-The man recently ar
rested al BerthOud, Col, while masquerading in
womans clothes and going under the name of
Eva Craig, and who, it was thought, was Tas-
colt, the murderer of millionaire Smell, of Chi
cago, came to Colorado from Colfax, W. T.
He is now very iii of typhoid fever and in care
of physicians, who declare the case hopeless.
He proposes to make confession which will
send some one to the gallows. In his trunk was
found letters from Fayetteville, Ind, Gloyersvlle
and Hooker, N Y, and Colfax, W. T., addressed
to Philo Bland in care of Eva Craig.
1t is supposed that Boland was the name by
which he was known at these places
DENVER (Col.), November 1st.-The snow
storm which has been raging for forty-eight
hours abated to-day. The storm was the worst
that has been experienced for several years
All trains were delayed, and telegraphic COM
munication to all eastern points is destroyed.
Three hundred miles east of here over fifteen
miles of telegraph is completely wrecked, while
in Colorado the damage to the fruit and shade
trees is considerable
The reports from the south say the storm has
drifted thousands of horses and cattle Oft their
range into the southeast and that hundreds of
the weak animals have persisted in the biz
yards.
Gave Up His Pelf.
CHICAGO. November LIST j. Alexander Harris,
who was arrested on charge of being fugi-
tive from justice and awife-deserter in the State
of Delaware, was discharged from custody by
Judge Altgeld on habeas corpus proceedings
yesterday.
Miss Ellis, his companion, was also released.
When Harris was arrested certificates of deposit
for 81, 800 on the First National AID Park Ma
tional Banks, and $1,000 in cash, were taken
from him. He confessed judgment to some CT
his relatives in Delaware to escape his creditors
and recovered his money from the police.
Convicted of Forgery.
NEW YORK, November 1st.-Five years in the
State Prison was the sentence imposed in the
Court of General Sessions yesterday on William
c. Tenner. who claims his real name is Jules,
Marquis de Vermont Comte de Bernin. Three
indictments hung over him for forgery, one
check having been passed at the Century Club.
He made no defense, throwing himself on the
Courts mercy. When the sentence was pro-
nounced he tainted.
Storm in Colorado.
DENVER, November 1st.-The fercest snow
storm which ever occurred in October has ragged