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The Washington herald., 1906-11-14
PLUMBERS DELAYED AGAIN.
Board OF Arbitration Postpones the
Hearing Once More.

Beard Of Arbitration PostpOnes the
Hearing Once More.
The following local unions and allied as
sociations meet to-day:
BUTCHER WORK3IEN AND MEAT CUTTERS.
NO 1872 Pennsylvania avenue, Secretary, George
Bacrsmith, s5is Brghtwood avenue.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS, no. lts-Arion BAN.
40 Eighth street northwest Secretary and Business
agent. H. C. Holiday 1857 Thirteenth street north
west.
ENGINEERS. NO $500 F street northwest.
Secretary Charles II. Mcdowell. l52 Browns court
northwest.
HORsEsHOERs. NO. I7-Building Trades Han.
Secretary. W. Y. f. Hesen.
MACHINISTS, COLUMBIA LODGE. no. T4-
Naval Lodge Han, Fourth street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. Secretary, F, G. Eppey
OIL WAGON DRIVERS. NO. 5l4-625 Louisiana
avenue northwest Secretary, Charles A. Aieidens,
5S4 T street northwest
PLUMBERS No. 5-Building Trades HAN Secre-
tary. ;. S. o'Hsgan, 5g7 S street northwest
TILE LAYERS HELPERS, NO. I-Building
Trades Hall
Yesterdays scheduled meeting Of the
board Of arbitration appointed to hear,
and, If possible. determine the differences
existing between the Master Plumbers
Association and the Journeymen Plumb
ers. did not take place. owing TO the alb
sence from the city Of Mr. J. J. Darling
ton, one Of the board
Another meeting has consequently been
called for to-day. and if nothing inter
feres. the board will convene al O'Clock
in the law school Of the National Uni
verslty, SIS Thirteenth street northwest.
It is expected that an attempt will De
made 10 thrash out the open-shop ques-
ton, which has intruded itself into the
situation Attorney Stuart Mcnamara.
representing the journeymen. claims that
this question should not be recognized at
this time, and that IL is foreign 10 the
real matters under discussion
But the Master Plumbers, whose legal
representative is Attorney J. S. Easily
Smith. have not admitted this; and it IS
probable that the success Of the entire
arbitration viii hinge upon this one mat
ter
There will be a meeting Of Plumbers
Union No. 5 at Building Trades Hall
Sixth and g streets, this evening. II is
understood that the action taken there
viii depend largely upon the result OF
this afternoons proceeding
Journeymen Plumbers Local Union No
will give a ball on the night Of Friday
! November 3. at the National Rifles Ar.
mory. G street, near Tenth, northwest
/ The arra Deogre-rs. 70 fr, +1,, r..--,s e a.
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Probate Court.

JUSTICE BARNARD.
In re opening n ailey in block 2, Columbia
Heights; juTy directed 10 view land.
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CANS THE DICTATOR
Nelson Must Now Make Terms
with the Negro.
WHY SECOND BOUT FAILED

BRttIer's Manager HowIed for An
other Fight Under the Conditions
OF the Labor Day Affair, but the
COIOred Pug Did Not Have to Crawl
for Another Match, and Refused.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-14
BASKETBALL SCHEDULES.
CITY LEAGUE.

We1Hcsday-CoreaTsns ss Second Regiment, Center
Market GYM
saturday-Pecs Chapel IS. y. 81 C. A. at Pecks
ChapeL
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Journeymen Plumbers Local Union No.
viii give ball on the night Of Friday.
November =. at the National Rifles Ar
mory. G street, near Tenth, northwest.
The arrangements are in the hands of the
entertainment committee. OF which CIar-
ence KalsJrum is chairman.
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degeneration Of fighters in England
" a favoTlte topic Of London sport
Inapers, but the manager Of the Ma
I Sporting Club, of London, declares
is no foundation for such pessimis-
8 views. Listen 10 what he says: here
the very words;
T O'Brien viii come over here and
II Gunner Moir. plenty OF money will
Asut up. The fact that OBrien, their
sion. IS a middle-weight. shows that
americans are not particularly strong
Il 1esvy-weights themselves. As regards
s IT llght-wclghts. Cans is exceptional,
e A Attel1 cares I have no doubt a
.od. lalrse couA Sc supplied for a fight
th Somers. Shen Owen Moran, our
esent bantamSweight champion, went
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over to America, he beat two Of their
best men. and could not get another
match.
Among our amateurs, Capt Craven
and Hopley, of Cambridge, could hoid
their own against any heavyweight IN
the world, including Jeffrys.
There is undoubtedly g scarcity OF
good profesA A0nal heavy-weights IN this
country, as there Is IN America. Form
in boxing f1uctuates just as in any other
sport, and It is difficult to keep up a
supply OF Jacksons. But 20 attribute II
to the absence Of big purses is IN my
opinion quite wrong"
But r. p. Watson, an English authority,
says their Is deterioration. and it is not
caused by lack OF encouragement, for
there Is just as much money In England
for boxing as there ever was. He main
tains the Americans have better men and
better methods; that the English heavies
| once possessed great science and did not
depend altogether merely on brute
strength as they do at present. In short
the Americans are more brainy and come
from a higher class than the average
British fighter.
Joe Thomas and Mike ('Twin'O Sulli-
van have been signed by Morris Levy to
! fight in San Francisco Thanksgiving even
/ Ing, November 2S, and there is no peace
! in the fight trust. Jimmy Coffroth, head
Of the Coffroth-Britt wing of the quarrel
/ ing quarter, declares that Levy agreed
with himself and Willie Britt TO sign
| Jimmy Britt and Dick Hyland for Novem-
Der. and that it will be a lightweight
battle in this city for November or no
fight al all Where the matter will wind
up nobody knows. With only one permit
for the month of November and two
fights in prospect, there is bound 10 be a
clash somewhere, fight followers say.
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BOWLING SCHEDULES.

DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE.
palace Alleys
WedEesday-Com vs.. 6, T. Q.
Observation-Disclosures rs. Commissioners.
Friday-Post-oaice vs.. Treasury.
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Criminal Ceurt No. 1.
LLsTICE sTAFTORD-

JUSTICE STAFFORD
United states rs. Willism Davis; setting I'd gam.
ing table; on trial Attorneys. A. S Worthington
Delaney Nicoll. and Herbert Barry
Assignments for to-day:
United States vs. John ]. Schlesingcr.
United States Daniel Feeiey.
United States vs.. Charles Forrest.
Criminal Court No. 2.
JUSTICE BARNARD.
Jones rs. ker. verdict for defendant Plaintiff
attorney. ". H. Richards; defendants attorney. s
T. Thomas
Atkinson vs.. Sechrist continued. Plaintiffs at
terneys, Wilson & Bafssdale; defendants attorneys
Jahnson & Bowman.
United States Marino Bsttilauo; grand lar
ceny; reCugnizsnce $50 taken. with W w Stewart
surety.
Hilery rs. Washington Employes' Mutual BENEFIT
Association; trial Plaintiffs attorneys, Hughe,
s Gray; defendants attorneys. W. II. White snt
Fred Beau.
Assignments for to-day;
No Il. Gaunt vs. Washington Employees Ma
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I S.4lV YOUR I'D IN THE HERALD
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INTERDENONINATIONAL LEAGUE.
Royal Aileys.l
Wednesday-sixth vs- Marvin.
Westminster rs Fifth
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DIsIkILI LbAuUt,
wednesdzy-Ames vs.. SaengeTbund. Palace Al
leys.
Thursday-FIorists vs. Garrisons. Rathskeller Al
leys.
Friday-orentals vs.. Florists. Palace Alleys
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Y. N. c. A. LEAGUE.
ION own alleys
hursday-Go0dman VS.. Roberts.
Saturday-Cooke vs. Jordan.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
PLEA OF INSANITY
SAVES SLOANE
Boy Who Brutally Muir
dered Father in Spokane
Is Acquitted by a Jury
VERDICT CRITICISED

SPOKANE. Dec. 24.-'sNot guilty by
reason of insanity was the verdict
returned today by the jury in the case
of Sidney Sloane, the eighteen year-old
boy charged with the brutal murder or
his father James F. Sloane, a pioneer
merchant OF Spokane.
The trial, which lasted five weeks
was the longest and most sensational
ever held in a Spokane court. 1t was
clearly proved that on the night or
August 29 the boy came behind his
father, who was eating midnight
lunch. and struck him six terrible
blows on the head with an axe; then
took money from the dead mans pock-
ct, picked up the corpse, carried II
down stairs, loaded IL onto wheel
barrow. trundled IT about two blocks
and dumped 1t in an alley. Returning,
he made clumsy efforts to wash the
blood from the rugs and floor OF the
room. He ate part of an apple and
calmly went to bed. When the body
was found next morning the son was
arrested and confessed the crime He
said he became enraged at the things
his father said about his mother.
The defense claimed that the boy
had shown signs of insanity from in
fancy.
For the first time during the trial
Sidney Sloane changed color as the
verdict was read. The color mounted
his face to his forehead. but a moment
later he was as, calm and passive as
ever. His mother. as the import Of
the verdict was brought home TO her,
gave a sigh of relief that was audible
in every part of the courtroom Her
face changed color, and then she bent
over and hid her face in her hands.
No verdict ever given by jury In
Spokane County has been received with
more evident disfavor than that in the
Sloane case.
After the verdict of mot guilty
young Sloane arose as IL TO leave the
courtroom, but was stopped. His at
torney, f. c. Robertson, desires that
the boy shall be sent to the insane
asylum, and this doubtless will be
DONE.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
DIAz IS QUICK To
RENDER HELP

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-The State
Department officials have been advised
by Thompson, the American Embassa-
dor TO Mexico. that the President of
the Mexican republic has taken prompt
action looking toward the remedying
of the damage TO property IN the I'm
perial Valley as the result of the over
flow of the Colorado River into the
Salton sink.
President Diaz. through the Depart
ment of Colonization and Industry has
advised the Compania de Riegos Y Ter
renos de la Raja California that in view
of the irreparable damage which prop
erty is likely to suffer in the Imperial
Valley in case the overflow of the Col
orado River continues toward the Sal
ton Sea the present conditions must
have a prompt and efficient remedy.
Peremptory orders have been issued
to the company by President Diaz that
1T initiate the work of repair within
ten days and that within three months
il must control the situation of the
Colorado River. close the opening upon
its borders and definitely return the
waters to their old bed. In case the
company does not comply action will
be taken TO annul the concession to di-
vert the waters OF the Colorado River
This action was taken as the result of
negotiations conducted by the Govern
ment with the Mexican Government.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
POPE WILL REJECT
FRENCH LAWS
Believes Time Opportune
to Express Church's Dis
approval of Persecution
HOLIDAY GREETINGS

PARIS, Dec. 24.-It has been learned
from high ecclesiastical source that 1t
is certain the Pope will reject the new
religious law and at an opportune time
forbid the Paris priests to continue ser
vices in the churches. after which they
viii organize private worship. The in
formant said:
The Vatican can pursue no other
policy. Having declined to retain the
church property under conditions laid
down by the Government IL can only
vindicate its position by proving to the
fai1hful they are objects Of persecu-
ton"
The Republican organs regard the
order of the Bishops suppressing
Christmas sessions tonight as being
the informal Inauguration OF the policy
outlined above.
ROME, Dec. 24.-Never before has a
Pope received so many kilograms and
letters bringing Christmas greetings as
has come to Plus X this year. Many
of the communications were received
from the United States expressing sym
pathy over the trouble with France,
and it was declared that some sover-
eigns also have sent autograph letters
Of sympathy to the Pope.
The members of the Sacred College
went in body this morning to the
Pope to present their Christmas greet
lnSS- Inc pOnI1n received them In MS
private library and conversed cordially
with all the distinguished prelates, es-
pecially with Cardinal Oreglia, dean of
the college. The chief topic of con-
versation was the situation in France
The Pope said that the church would
not finch from the attitude it had
taken, no more concessions being pos
sible, but he hoped that the violence
and persecution would soon result in
better times.
Addressing the Cardinals in answer
to their organizations, the Pope said
he was sorry he had no good news
for them in regard TO the situation in
France, and he said he wished he and
the whole Sacred College were in
France to share the persecution of the
clergy. He was consoled, however by
the solidarity of the French episcopacy
and also by the appreciation of the
Bishops throughout the world, and
trusted in the ultimate triumph of the
church.
Referring to the anti-clerical dem
onstrations in Italy. the pontiff ex-
pressed regret that so many soldiers
detailed to guard the Vatican day and
night were exposed to the inclemency
of the elements.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
Freight IS Tied Up in.
the Crescent City

that 1t was not anticipated that the
strike on the Southern Pacific lines east
OF Ell Paso would assume serious pro-
portions. It was said that 400 men had
struck and that 500 men had taken their
places.
All passenger trains were moving
and also several freight trains. There
was no fear entertained that the strike
would spread
1T is a fight between two unions. and
the company has nothing to do with
IT." Calvin remarked.
An old time engineer of the Southern
Pacific, in speaking of the quarrel, said:
This trouble has not arisen west of Ell
Paso. The company has contract
with the engineers that all grievances
OF engineers must be taken up with the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers.
Now the switch engineers are promoted
from flremen. and 80 per cent of the
switch engineers are still with the or
ganizatton of the flremen, and the nre-
men want the company to take up any
grievances of the switch engineers
with the f1remen's organization and not
with the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers. This would be breaking the
contract the company has with our Or
ganixation. AS for my part, ! DO not
think the matter will be serious. 1t IS
a case OF the hremen wanting to legis-
late for the switch engineers
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
CLAIMS EMPLOYERS
WORKED IN PLOT

CHICAGO, Dec 24.--At today's ses-
sion OF the Shea teamsters' strike trial
defendants counsel offered motion
that the case be taken from the jury
and the defendants discharged on the
ground that the State had not made
out case of conspiracy Arguments
on the motion continued the greater
part of the day.
The motion was overruled and At
torney Daniel Cruice then opened for
the defense. He declared the defense
would prove that the employers were
in a conspiracy to wreck the Transfers
Union. and would show that the team
sters offered to submit their case to
arbitration. The attorney denounced
Albert Young. Joseph Schultz William
Kelley and Michael Murphy who turned
states evidence in the case
Cruice declared it would be shown
that the only instructions issued to
pickets during the strike were to re-
port the movements of strike breakers.
He asserted that 1t would be shown
that private detective agency had
furnished men with billies and ordered
them to go out and beat up somebody,
and that while the defense would adj
nit that there were street blockades
during the strike. 1T would be shown
that the men on trial were not respon-
sible for them.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
WILL REPOsE WITH
FAMOUS DEAD

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24.-The
funeral of General Count Alexis p. Ig-
natieff, who was shot and killed at
Tver on December 20, will take place
on December 26. The body will be in
TERED in the A1eandienveslxy Monas-
terry, one of the three largest resting
places in Russia for the country's most
famous dead.
Upon arriving in st. Petersburg the
body will be met by Grand Duke Con-
stantiovitch Grand Duchess Elizabeth,
a brother of the late Grand Duke Ser
gius, and other members Of the royal
family.
The widow of Count Ignatieff has re-
ceiyed kilograms of coincidence from
the Emperor and Empress of Russia
and from several of the crowned heads
of Europe.
The murder of Count Ignatieff has
caused CONSERVATION among a number
of ex-officials of the Won Plehve and
Sipiaguine regimes who have retired
from the field of active administration.
They now fear that their past records
expose them to the same danger of
belated retribution.
The Novoe Vremya furnishes the fol-
lowing details of the murder: THE
assassin had an accomplice who has not
yet been captured. Both men belonged
to the group of terrorists with head
quarters in Moscow, where the crime
was planned. An unknown man at
tracted the attention of the Count on
December 21 by following his carriage
from the railroad station. but Igna-
tieff thought he was a police detective
and dismissed the matter from his
mind. He felt so safe within the Hall
of Mobiles that even while driving
thither he left his revolver with his
valet. 1t has been learned that the
murderer stole up a back stairway of
the building and took advantage of
the commotion in the dining room dur
ing the intermission to approach with
in an arms length of his intended vic
tim. The bullets fired from the mans
revolver have been examined and found
to have been coated with virulent
poison
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
VESSEL At
NEW YORK AGAIN

NEW YORK, Dec 24.-With practi-
cally all the members of the Arctic
expedition which left here in July,
1905, under command of Robert p.
Peary on a voyage of discovery to the
North Pole, the ship Roosevelt arrived
in New York Bay tonight and an
chored off West Forty-second street
almost in the place from which she
started.
Commander Peary has been in this
city for some weeks, having left his
vessel at Sydney
1t was long after dark when the
Roosevelt came to anchor, but the men
aboard of her were jubilant at reaching
New York, where they could eat their
Christmas dinner in civilization instead
of in the Far North, where last year the
Christmas meal consisted of the scant
rations permitted by necessity.
The Roosevelt, although pretty well
ice covered, shows few signs of the
wear and tear entailed, notwithstand-
ing the foretopmast was gone, lost in
a gale off Baffins Bay on 4ler southern
journey, and that she had to be towed
to her anchorage from City Island by
tug. That she had to be towed was
due to the fact that of. the four blades
of her propeller three were out of
action.
Every man that started out with the
expedition returned in good health.
Counting Commander Peary. the party
numbered twenty-one all told.
On board also were sixteen Esquimo
dogs of the 220 with which the expe-
dition started. There were also two
sledges, one of them being the one
which Norris K. Jesup fitted out and
which is to be returned to him as a
souvenir of the plucky attempt to reach
the pole.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
Strike Breakers Ar
rive There From
the North

HOUSTON, Tex, Dee. 24s-The new
feature of the strike Of the Southern
Pacific firemen today was the asser-
tfon made by Second Grand Master Shea
of the Brotherhood that unless an ad-
justment of the difficulty with the men
now ont in this division IL made the
order IL to be made that the entire
Hartman system of railroads will lose
the services of the Brotherhood fre-
men and those of the engineers who
belong to the fremen's organization,
he claiming that SO per cent of the
switch engineers and a Eoodly NUM-
ber of the road engineers will be
under the Jurisdiction of the Broth
erhood.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 24.-The New
Orleans gateway for transcontinental
freight to Western points was almost
completely closed today by the South
ern Pacific strike. Other roads offered
no through freight to the Southern
Pacific and refused to accept even local
offerings. Union officials claimed that
fifty men were ON strike In this city.
Despite the tieup, local Southern Pa
cific officials announced that it was un-
certain whether the strike would prove
serious. 1t was said that passenger
trains were moving about as usual,
though it may be many days before
the company will know what ii can do
about moving freight. The big freight
terminals on the west bank of the
Mississippi River are being operated
under great secrecy. 1t was learned
that as trains were made up and about
to start attempts were made to secure
crews to fill vacancies.
1t was also announced today that
much through freight which had here
tofore been transferred in districts not
affected by the strike, was compelled
to go over Southern tracks to effect
the transfer and would be temporarily
transferred at Jackson, Miss.
One hundred strikebreakers from the
North arrived here tonight to replace
the Southern Pacific striking firemen.
Half of them were retained in New
Orleans and half sent to Houston.
Southern Pacific officials announced
today that all local freight, except on
the Alexandria division, would be
moved today, but no through freight
is being handled.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
FATAL EFFORT To
MAKE ESCAPE

STOCKTON. Dec. 24.-Mrs. Jessie Nc
Donald, aged so years, an inmate OF
the Stockton State Hospital for the past
thirty-on years, was instantly killed
yesterday by falling down a dumb
waiter shaft through which food is
conveyed to the upper floors of the
hospital. Whether she was trying to
escape or deliberately plunged down
the shaft with suicidal intent is not
known. 1t is thought she was trying
to escape. however. as she had tried
once before to jump down the shaft
1t is believed she lost her hold on the
rope and fell to the bottom. distance
of about fifteen feet, breaking her neck
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
ROB kOWALSkY OF
BELGIAN LETTERS
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-To ascertain
who 1t was that stole from the Office
of H. 1. Kowalsky, In 40 Wall street
the only copy of certain letters sent
by him to Leopold II. King of the Bel
gians, for whom he is counsel in this
city, District Attorney Jerome will in
stitute John Doe proceedings before a
magistrate tomorrow. Kowalsky has
made his complaint declaring he does
not know when or how he was robbed,
but he is certain some one entered his
Office and abstracted the copies.
He says the copies were of letters he
had sent to the King concerning his
work here as his representative in con-
nection with the endeavors of certain
persons to have the United States Gov
ernment make an official inquiry into
the charges of cruelty practiced by the
subjects of the King in the Congo
Kowalsky called on Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Miner a few days ago
and made the complaint. He said he
had been surprised to see in the New
York American, the proprietor of which
Is William R. Hearst, a reproduction
of his letters to King Leopold
He was amazed at this, for he knew
the originals had been sent abroad and
that the only copies were in his Office.
He went at once to his WalI-street
office, and there ascertained that his
copies were missing.
Miner at once communicated with the
managers of the New York American
asking them If they would send to
him the man who had written the ar
ticle accompanying the reproductions