Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-24
LOCAL ITTELLIGENCE.
Board of Education.

The regular monthly meeting of The
City Board OF Education was held last
evening, all the members present except
Mr Stevens.
The payroll of the teachers and janitors
for the month of February amounting to
$7,o25 was ordered paid also, bills as fol-
lows A. Leonard & Son, $27; II. Coates,
S25 GA II. S. Croker, So; George Saal. 81
J. A. Latferty, So ]. 5. Painter $12; I'M
perial Northern and Qaeen Insurance
Company, $27 Locke & Lavenson, 50 10
II. Z. Osborn, Sc; Home Mutual Insurance
Company, $54; Capital Gas Company.
$50 30; $. J. & j. NJ Jackson, S34 %
Friend & Terry Lumber Company, S11 81
Billingsley & Co, SIT TO- State and county
taxes, $77 TO- Total, $344 IS.
The Board then proceeded to elect City
Board of Examiners, resulting as follows :
w. w. Anderson, j. W johnson, Miss
Annie C. Weeks and Miss n J. Miller.
The sum of 81 800 from the city school
tax was set apart by resolution for main
tenance ofthe High School for the ensuing
year.
Applications from Miss Clara E. Wander
cook and Miss Manuela G. Salcido for posi-
tons as teachers, and of Miss Josie Jacobs
for position as janitress were received and
placed on file. The application of Mrs.
Edward Yorle for Recommendation to the
State Board of Education for life diploma
was received and referred to the CITY Su-
perintendent.
Upon motion, the action of tile Board
taken at the last meeting. by which the
principalship of the school at Twenty
fourth and n streets was taken from Mrs.
Munsford, and her salary reduced Sl5
per month, through grading of the school,
was reconSidered, and she was reinstated
with same powers and salary as before.
Mr.. Chadderdon thereupon moved that
the position of Supervising Principal be
done away with, and that the fifth grade
teacher i'll each building of the primary
schools be made principal of such school,
with salary fixed at $50 per month This
motion, ne said, was made rs matter of
consistency, and to place all the primary
schools upon an equal basis.
The motion, after some discussion. was
lost-ayes ,, noes ..
The Board then adjourned.
AUCTION SALEs-Sherburn & Smith will
seEI by direction of Sweetser & Alsip,
to-day, 1t II A. NJ, on the premises,
Eighteenth street, between NJ and y, a one
story cottage, containing five rooms, bath
room, pantry, closets. etc. The dwelling
Is in good condition. and needing no re-
pairs. The lot is so by l04 feet, filed above
the grade of the street, and seeded to blue
grass; has a new stable, chicken house,
etc. 49,. Bell d Co. will sell to-day at 10 A.
NJ. on the premises. without reserve lot 6. in
the block between II and |, Twenty fourth
and Twenty-tifth streets, SO by 100 feet,
with house of five large rooms, basement,
summer kitchen, closets, pantrieS, etc TIE
10, ,,,I,,y l., : l I
fruit trees and shrubbery, good barn.
furniture, four dozen chickens, etc....The
same firm will sell AT 10 l. NJ tomorrow
the furniture of the residence No. 1907
Fourth street, between y and 0. including
a fine hair cloth parlor set of seven pieces,
center tables, whatnOtS, Brussels carpets,
rugs, cornices, elegant walnut bedroom set,
with dressing-case and plate glass mirror.
costing 500; spring and top mattresses,
Turkish lounge, extension table, dining
chairs, oilcloth, stair carpets. pictures and
looking glass, medallion range and fixtures,
kitchen furniture, croc&ery, glassware, etc.
INQUEST AT FoLsoM. = Coroner Clark.
being unable to go up to Folsom Prison
yesterday 10 hold an inquest in the case OF
the prisoner who was killed in trying 10
escape Saturday, deputized Justice Sturgis.
of Folsom, to act and the jury returned
the following verdict: We the iIry, i'm
paneled before Justice Sturgis, of Granite
Township Sacramento county, Cal, 10 in
oUire into the death and causes thereof of
a man at the State Prison at Folsom. find
that the deceased was named Joseph Viii
ham, native of Pennsylvania, aged %
years, prisoner serving a term of three
years under sentence from the Superior
Court OF San Francisco from the Sd day of
February. 1885; that he came to his death
from the effect of two gunshot wounds in
hicted by guards al the prison. but by
which particular guards we are unable to
determine. We find he was endeavoring
10 make his escape and was shot while
running past the guard line; that he was
repeatedly called on by the guards to halt,
and that shots were fired in front of him to
intimidate him, and that it then became
necessary to shoot at him 10 cause him to
stop. We find that the guards who fired
were perfectly justiiiable, and acting in
accordance with the law and the rules of
the prison
HoLroN's NIcrIN-Some time ago items
We're published in the city papers relative
to the allegation that George II. Holton, of
this city, af;er having seduced young
girl named Barbara Iwiclel, who had been
employed by his mother. and kept her for
some time, here and in San Francisco,
finally deserted her, leaving her virtually
Pennies IN San Francisco. and at a time
when she was soon to become a mother
lie lett the State, and probably has not re-
turned. The girl claimed that she was
married TO nm privately, and had faith
that he would return 10 her after a while :;
hut friends Il
w2s marriage. Yesterday it was reported
in Sacramento that the unfortunate cirl
died last Sunday in a hospital nj the Bay
after childbirth, the child SURVIVING Prior
to her death she told her father who had
been called 10 her bedside that until re-
Gently she believed she had been leraIlv
married, and that n married woman OF
Sacramento could testify 10 it also, that for
4 while she had a certificate to that effect
but Holton took it from her. Latterlv.
however, she had arrived at the conclusion
that the supposed marriage was fraud
THE LADIES APPEAL.-The ladies begin
their canvass to-day for the loan exhibition
in aid of the Museum Association Ii is
believed every household can lend some
article fit for the exhibition, and the ladies
hope to receive liberal encouragement and
to find lists ready for them, TO save time
They have already been offered some rare
old wares and interesting eurios.
ARREsrs.-The following arrests were
made yesterday: James Murphy, by Chief
Jackson, for battery Sarah Leslie, by the
same officer, for vagrancy; A. Scroggs and
Lorinda Washburn, by officer Ash, for
misdemeanor.
LADIEs' Sun HATS, 5 cents to-day in Mil
linery Department at Red House.
C0 for RuhstalIer', Pilsener Felsen