The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-12
YHE PERIODICAL SCARE.
The Death KueII Of Beneficial
Orders Sounded
INTHERANKsoFTHEA. 0, wv,
Al OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that Object to
Being Assessed for their Own
Deaths-Matter Explained at
Pittsburgh Headquarters.

PITTsBuRG, July 1.-THE death.knel
Of beneficial orders, sounded perlodi
cally by alarmists, Is heard once more
this time from Cincinnati, Local mem
bers Of the Ancient Order Of United
Workmen in the Queen City are seeking
to erect mole hill into mountain and
create q panic among members OF the
order elsewhere,
The following special dispatch, bearing
date Of Cincinnati, was received to-day;
There is trouble in the Ancient Order
Of the United Workmen in Ohio that
threatens to disrupt 1t not only in Ohio,
but throughout the United States. Some
Of It's members go SO far as to say that 1t
will destroy confidence in all similar
BENEFICIARY organizations in the United
States II the action Of the Grand Lodge
OF Ohio, as directed by the Supreme
Lodge OF the Order, Is persisted In, The
proposition Is to repudlate, so far Us
Hamilton county Is concerned, and tax
all It's lodges, which include one.third
otall tile membership OF the State, out
Of existence, II such thing Is legally
possible, those who join such orders
have no security and can have no conf.
denCe In them In the fnture,"
Pittsburgh Is one OF the strongholds, OF
the order In this country, as 1t is the
headquarters OF the State Grand Lodge,
and with a view OF securing an explRna.
ton Of the trouble, a copy Of the dis.
patch was shown to Mr.. Charles Babst,
Representative OF the Jurisdiction OF
Pennsylvania in the Supreme Lodge,
who easily explained the trouble.
"That dispatch" said Mr.. Babst, "is a
most unfair statement OF the case, and Is
maniiestl ! supplied by three disgruntled
members OF the Order In Cincinnati,
For some years past things have been
going wrong there. Men have been ad-
mitted to membership In direct violation
OF the laws OF the 0rder-men wholly
unfit, morally and physically, and who
could not have secured admission except
by tue illegal ConnivanCe OF the officers.
The result has been that the death rate
In Cincinnati has reached and averaged
the unprecedented number OF 2S per
| 600 per annum, whereas throughout
tho remainder OF the jurisdiction OF Ohio
they have averaged 1926, and the mem.
bership outside OF Cincinnati has been
taxed unduly heavily and unjustly In
AT last the burden be-
came too great 10 be borne longer
In silence, and We were threatened
with the loss OF Ohio entirely. Accord.
ngly, at the next meeting OF the Su.
preme Lodge at Omaha the matter was
and it was finally decided TO
livide Ohio, creating Hamilton county
,Cincinnati) into anindependent district
Ior assessment purposes, and fixing the
maximum number OF assessment at 28,
md constituting the balance Of the State
mother district, both, however, being
IubjeCt 10 the Grand Lodge OF Ohio.
The Cincinnati Lodge may do IS they
threaten and disband, and the order at
arge would welcome such action, as 1t
would permit a reorganization on a
proper basis. So far, however, as their
,rouble Is concerned, 1t is entirely local
md can in no possible way affect the
order outside Of tho State, or even out
tide Of Cincinnati"
Grand Recorder McNair expressed
similar views when questioned In the
premises.