Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

There is little doubt that General Master Workman Fowderly will be called on in a short time to issue a call for a special session of the General Assembly of the Knights, and that the call will be signed by district assemblies from at least ten States. says a New York dispatch. The States mentioned by those interested in the movement are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. In all of these States there are districts which are in almost open revolt against the General Executive Board. The grounds on which the special session will be asked for are that the election of officers at Richmond was illegal, and that as a matter of fact General Master Workman Powderly and Messrs. Bailey, Hayes, and Barry, of the General Executive Board, only hold their offices by virtue of the fact that their successors have not been legally elected: that Messrs. Maguire, Carlton, and Aylesworth, the new members of the Executive Board, have no right to-hold their office nor their pay, and that Secretary Litchmnn has no right to his office nor his pay; that the increase of salaries was illegal and therefore void; and that all a ts of the General Executive Board as at present constituted are illegal. While this will be tho nominal reason for the call, it is understood that there are others which threaten the very existence of the order. There is little doubt that the call will be asked for as provided by the constitution, yet there is grave uncertainty as to whether Mr. Powderly will issue it. Among well-informed men in labor circles there fuemsio be a strong feeling that a split in the order cannot bo averted. They say that if a special session is called a tight will occur - which will certainly cause a split, and if the special session is not called the dissatisfied districts - will in all probability call a meeting,' withdraw from the Knights, and iorm another organization with the same principles. The steamer !Sir 'John was burned just outside the harbor of St. John, N. B. Five Ofthe (*rew received fatal injuries; the remainder were seriously affected by huddling together in the snow on the rocks at Bleck Point. The Vessel and cargo wera valued at $70,01(0. The Executive Departments in Washington were closed on the occasion of Gen. Logan’s funeral. Gen. Sheridan was Marshal of the funeral procession, which was an imposing one. At Central Music Hall, Chicago, 2,500 ladies and gentlemen met to do honor to the memory of the soldier statesman. Preaclieis, soldiers, And politicians paid tribute to tlio dead hero. Tbe Chicago Council has set apart a space about 320 square, at the south end of the lake front, in that oily, as a burial place for General and Mrs. Logan. It is now thought probable that Mrs. Logan will consent to the burial of the deceased General on the site in the Lake Park which has been tendered, free of all restriction, by the Chicago Council. The Washington subscription for the benefit of ills. Logan amounted Saturday to about $40,000, and the same day Mrs. Logan received $0,500 as the result of the first day’s subscription in Chicago. The Medical Record says the case of the late Gen. Logan appears to be one of those rare ones in which acute rheumatism causes a rapid aud fatal issue... .The business failures throughput Canada for the year 188(1 'numbered" 1.252, with liabilities of $10,380,000’, against 1.150 failures in 1885, with liabilities of $8,881,000. Tho average liabilities of each- failure in 18SG were $8,205. as against an average of $7,055 in 108171