St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-25
HURRYING HOMEWARD.
The Great Conclave of Knights TemplarS
at St. Louis Came to an End
Yesterday.
At the Closing Business Session Washing
ton Was Selected for the Next Place
of Meeting.
The Accidental Death of an Illinois
Frater the Sole Regrettable
Affair.
Closing Business Transacted by the
odd Fellows at the Boston
Council.
The KNIGHTS YemnInfs.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24.-The Knights
Templars grand encampment was slow in
meeting this noIning. At the begin ming
of the session, the most eminent grand
master made the following appointments:
Sir Knight the Rev. John Webster, of New
York, very eminent grand prelste; Sir Knight
John R. Parsons, of Missouri, very eminent
grand standard-bearer; Sir Knight Nicholas
Van Slick, of Rhode Island, very eminent
grand sword-bearer; Sir Knight Nicholas P.
Ruckle, of Indiana, very eminent grand
warden; Sir Knight Edwin T. Warren, of Ne
braska, very eminent grand captain of the
guard.
The installation of officers and report of
the committee on time and place of holding
the next grand encampment were post
poned. The report of the committee on
grievances and appeals was discussed, but
definite action was deferred
THE REPORT ON RITUAL
was taken up, and was still under discus
sion at 1870. when a recess was taken until
8 o'clock. The triennial committee of the
Order of the Eastern Star has held three
sessions at which formal reports of the
officers were made and committees ap-
pointed. This morning department reports
were received and referred, and an adjourn
ment taken to afternoon. The afternoon
session of the grand encampment brought
the business of the body to a close. On re-
assembling after dinner, the discussion of
the ritual, which had consumed most of the
morning session, was resumed. and occu-
pied the attention of the encampment a
large share of the afternoon. The cele-
brated Michigan question" was decided,
the action of the state cOmmandery being
almost unanimously sustained. After the
ritual was disposed of the appointive
officers. whose selection was announced to-
day in these dispatches, were installed, and
the time and place for holding the next
biennial c0nclave came up. Washington,
Louisville and Cincinnati were the leading
applicants tor the honor of entertaining the
knights, and, after considerable delibera-
ton.
WASHINGTON WAS FIXED UPON
as the place, and the second week in Octo-
Der. 1889, as the time. This was the last
business before the encampment, and at its
conclusion final adjournment was taken.
Tonight the hotels and boarding houses
were rapidly emptied of Knights and their
friends, and the streets. except along the
routes to the depot and the steamboat
landings. were deserted, as compared with
the last few days. Every train departing
was packed to its utmost capacity, and spe-
cial trains were run in every direction, so
that by the time they had gone, fully nine
tenths of the visiting Knights were en-
route to their homes. The only public
events of the evening were the parade of the
Flambeau battalion and few minor recep-
tons by local communicates.
A KNIGHT KILLED.
A. Strong, OF Napierville, ILL.,, Knight
Templar, in attendance upon the conclave
in this city, was killed this morning by be-
ing run over by passenger train at Chel-
tenham, near this city. He had been visit
ing friends at the latter place and intended
to return home this evening. He attempted
to board the train as it was moving out of
the depot, but missed his footing, fell under
the wheels and was instantly killed. The.
triennial committee took charge of the re-
mains and will furnish an escort to convey
them to the deceased's home.