People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — RE-ELECT SOVEREIGN. [ARTICLE]

RE-ELECT SOVEREIGN.

Knight* of l.nbor Again Honor Their <l«>ncr»l Master Workman. Washington, Nov. 21. - The proceedings In the Knights of Labor'general assembly took rather a sensational turn yesterday afternoon, growing out of some harsh criticisms passed upon various local assemblies by the general officers. In executive session, assembly No. 1!) of New York retaliated with charges of general mismanagement against General Master Workman Sovereign, whereupon the latter resigned. But the great majority of the delegates sided with Sovereign, and after a very heated debate he was triumphantly reelected. His majority was largely in excess of the requisite two-thirds. Today the assembly will consider and act upon a proposition to enforce a general boycott against the Lorillard Tobacco company. it Is expected that the general assembly will conclude Its work by Saturday and adjourn sine die. Rochester, N. Y., Is likely to be selected as the place of meeting next year. Hol Springs and Little Rock, Ark., and Dallas, Texas, have been suggested, also. Mlioot Women and Children. Tampa. Fla., Nov. 21.—C01. Fernando Tlgueredo, the Cuban leader here, has received a letter from Havana, giving an account of the butchery of several women and children in Matanzas province by Spanish troops under Col. Molino. Two of the women killed were the wives of prominent Spaniards and the husbands have complained to Martinez Campos, demanding Molino’s punishment. Campos has ordered a courtmartial and It Is thought Col. Molino will be ehot, as his atrocious conduct is condemned as bitterly by Spaniards as by Cubans. To Ait«wer Bribery Charge*. Springfield, 111., Nov. 21.—The trial of Representative Milroy H. Gibson, of Chicago, on the charge of accepting a bribe is set for today in the circuit court