The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-06
ACROSS THE BAY.
A Mechanics Institute Wanted
for Alameda County.
Dressler's Death Was Not From Poisoning.
East Oakland Fountain-Is George Jones
shamming = FOOtpads Thrashed.

A meeting of the Alameda County World S
Fair Committee was held yesterday after
noon, with eX-Judge E. NJ. Gibson presid-
ing. A form for certificate of membership
was reported and adopted. and a discussion
of various matters in connection with the
Worlds Fair was had. The question was
also mo0ted of organizing an association for
Oakland and Alameda County similar to the
Mechanics Institute in San Francisco,
which would build a pavilion and hold an
annual exhibition of Alameda County
products, and Of other parts of the State
that might desire to do so. An effort will
be made to interest the members of the Dis
trict FAIR Association in this movement.
Gustav Dressler the East Oakland shoe
dealer, died at an early hour yesterday morn
ing. His death was caused from the burst
ing of blood vessel in the brain and not
from poisoning, as was at first supposed.
An autopsy was held yesterday and revealed
this fact. The bursting of this blood vessel
was from blood poisoning superlnduced by
an incurable disease.
NOT YET ACCEPTED.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union OF East Oakland asked permission OF
the City Council TO erect Q public drinking
fountain at East Fourteenth street and
Twenty-third avenue, to be maintained
without cost TO the city, but the request was
referred to the Committee on Fire and
Water. 1t is understood that the ladies had
arranged to celebrate the unwilling OF the
fountain this evening They supposed the
Council Wonld Immediately accept their gift.
A protest has been filed against the grant
ing of the franchise to the Oakland an ID
Berkeley Rapid Transit Company from Sec
Ond street along Franklin to Water street,
for the reason that il will Interfere with the
public business on the city wharf at the
foot of Franklin street
1t is SAID that Rev. DIR. Ollie has been re-
Quested TO accept an appointment to the
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Los
Angeles, but that he prefers TO remain an
other year in Oakland, where he has been
for four years.
AN EXAMINATION ORDERED.
Judge Henshaw has made an order for the
examination of old George Jones by two
physicians. Jones has been lying in tire
COUNTY Jail about four years, supposed to be
unable to arise from his cot, from paralysis.
He is awaiting retrial for the alleged mur-
der Of AlonZo Dutil. For some months he
had sinking fits, which twas believed would
carry him off. He has not had any of them
lately, and it is now believed that he had
been malingering all these months to avoid
a retrial.
Dennis Healey, aged 30, was arrested on
Monday evening on a charge of drunken
ness and lodged In the City Prison. Yester-
day morning his body was found on the
prison floor, and an autopsy showed that he
came 10 his death from acute alcoholism. The
heart was much inhamed anu filed with
blood clots.
NJ. j. Balfe had one of his toes crushed on
Monday evening while trying to leave the
ferry steamer FL Captain at the Oakland
Slip. The steamer swayed and threw the
passengers back, the apron impinging Mr..
Balfe's foot
8, w. WinSor, an Oakland dealer in cigars
and tobacco. yesterday afternoon filed in
voluntary insolvency. His liabilities are
S377S; assets nothing.
ONCE MORE THE GANos.
Mrs. GanO, the wife of the eX-Sergeant of
San Francisco Chinatown fame, has again
made complaint against him. this time for
uttering threats against life. She left him
a year or more ago, and refuses to live with
him. but he persists in following her. She
says he now threatens TO kill her because
she will not live with him. He has been in
the Oakland Police Court several times on
complaints growing out Of his refusal TO let
her alone.
An atjempt was made to hold up Fl. A.
Thomas, clerk with 5. S. Austin, the Twen-
ty-third avenue real estate man. and j. L.
Holloway, a painter on East Fourteenth
street, near Twenty-third avenue, on Mon
day night. Two fOotpadS presented re-
vOlver, after the orthodox style, and told
them to hold up their hands. Instead of
doing so, however. they set upon the foot
pads, gave them a sound thrashing and let
them 90.
Six of the first ten cars of the Oakland and
Berkeley Rapid Transit Company have ar
rived from Stockton. The detects in the
curves and flanges of the cars are being
remedied. and il is confidently expected
that the line VIII be running through from
Second street aud Broadway 10 Berkeley
before the end of the week.
The Republicans at San Leandro elected
all the officers on Monday. except the Town
Clerk. The Bears Nest got there" this
time, but the work was quietly done.