The morning call., 1894-05-10

mains of Benjamin NJ Fleischman, a
poultry-dealer at stalls 76 so California
Market. San Francisco. Deceased resided
at 726 Grove street, where his family. con-
slsting of n wife and grown son. reside.
He was a Polish Jew, aged 65 years.
The business of deceased has not PROS
pered Of late, and besides he had grieved
considerably over the death of his brother
in-law, Nathan Levy, and was last seen
alive at the Levy residence, where he had
gone to view his relatives remains.
1t was yesterday afternoon when he left
the Levy residence, and as he did not re-
turn to his home for dinner his relatives
became uneasy and set out to hunt him up.
The suppositiOn is that Fleischman
came to Oakland with the express purpos q
of doing away with himself. as he had no
return ferry-ticket on his person. 1t is
thought that be jumped off the East Oak
land wharf some time Tuesday night, as
his body had not been long in the water.
The verdict at the inquest was death by
drowning, but the jury could not deter
mine whether with suicidal intent or not
Wants Dredging Done.
Secretary E. B. Pomroy. as directed by
the executive committee of the Oakland
Public Improvement Association, commu-
Dicated with Mayor Pardee yesterday rela-
tive to the dredging of the approaches to
the city wharf as follows:
Hon. George z. Pdrdee, Mayor of The Citu of
OakEdnd-DEAR SIR: | am requested by the
Oakland Public Improvement Association TO
suggest to you that now that the great dredger
is at work in the estuary In proximity to lhe
city wharf, 1t is good time to make an effort
10 have the bauk OF mud in front OF the wharf
at the foot of Frank lin street removed. 1t is
certainly more Of an obstruction to navigation
than is the locality In which the dredger is now
at work.
1t would seem that the general work of bar.
Dor creation should be first prosecuted (where
Ii would not radically interrupt concerted
Dl NJ upon such part OF the eStuary as Is most
used and most useful for commercial purposes
If this is so, after channelhas been opened OF
sufficient proportions 10 permit the ingress and
egress of shipping, no other part OF the harbor
is so much used or so nseful as that TO which
the mudbank which has been mentioned is a
menace and an obstruction.
1t is to be presumed that the Government en-.
gineer In charge Of the work would promptly
cause It's removal If the subject w re properly
presented TO him. Ii Ii Is without the area
within which Government work Is 10 be done,
II might be done AT the expense OF the city. and
probably at a less cost than at time when the
dredger was elsewhere.
Than this there is certainly no more pressing
necessity at the water 'front.' and city funds for
Improvement purposes could hardly be put 10
more deserving and remuneratiye use.
To Commence To-Day.
The twepty-sixtA annual conference of
the Seve th-day Adventsts will open to-
udy at DusuIOu hEks Noitu Odhlanu. Inc
Adventists have been gathering for the
past two weeks, and now there are over
$500 peo Die camped on The grounds in 300
tents. 1t isStnticpated that this will be
the most successful meeting ever held
The encampment will last until the 21st
instant.
During the past week there has been
workers meeting at the grounds which
included a cooking school under the direc-
tion OF Miss Bee, a graduate of the col
lege at Battle Creek. Mich. This lady is
considered the chief of Adventist cooks In
the United States.
The De AyaIa Contest.
The will of Mrs. Encarn acion de Ayala
was sustained by Judge Greene Yesterday.
and the contest by Augustine Galindo was
thus brought to close.
The testator was the wife of DR.. de
Ayala, and at her marriage to him was the
widow of Vicente Peralta, one of the old
dons and holder of large land grant in
this county.
The contest was brought Gu the ground
of the inability of the witnesses to UNDER
stand Spanish or the testator to speak
English. Attorney McElrath stated that
he had acted as interpreter for both par
ties and, in defense of his knowledge of
Spanish, picked up the will and read it In
court.
Knew the Suicide.
Mrs. Joseph NJ. Soares of 143 Shipley
street. San Francisco. called upon Coroner
Evers yesterday morning and inquired if
the body of the man who jumped from the
steamer Piedmont Monday afternoon had
been recovered on this side of the bay.
She stated that her husband has been
partially insane and left home on Monday