Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11
THE SOLONS IN COURT.
s. B. Crombie Files Bill in Equity
Asking for q Receiver.
DISCUSSING ITS FISCAL STATUS.
Druggists Contesting the Title to Father
Nollinger's Prescriptions.
TIE NEWS OF THE COUNTY COURTS

The recent trouble in the Order of Solons
has terminated in the application for re-
ceiver j. 3. Crombie, John D. Davis,
and w. G. Minnick, through their atter-
ney, M. H. Stevenson, yesterday fled a
bill in equity against the Order of Solons,
W. R. Covert, B. F. Beatty, Glenn L Fol-
som, A. T. Moses, c. L. McMillin, NJ G.
Clark, c. G. Craft, George L. Naylor,
]. A. Craighead, William F. Sher-
wood, H. G. Tice, John D. Walker,
Rush Lake, A. j. Rogers, William Aber-
crombie, w. @. McKelvev, Charles Whis-
ton, - Babcock, John S. Miner, J. M.
Ball, E. W. Morse and Rody E. Warner.
Judge White fixed Wednesday at 10
o'clock as the time for the hearing and or.
dered the plaintiff to give an injunction
bond in the sum of 81, 900.
The plaintiffs, who are members of the
order, complains that the defendants, at an
adjourned meeting of the Supreme Lodge
on December 5, copbined with other per-
sons, in order to injure the certificate hold
ers, to unlawfully expel from the Supreme
Lodge q number of members and cancel
their benefit certificates, and proceeded to
appoint members for life of said lodge and
constitute w. r. Covert attorney in fact"
for the order, with full power over its
affairs and funds, thereby excluding the
plaintiff from that control of its affairs
that he is entitled to by its charter, consti-
tuition and bylaws
Recites Mr.. Coverfs Mental Condition.
The hill goes on to recite that W. r.
Covert intends to assume the powers ille
gally delegated to him and invest $500, 900
in funds in mining stocks of uncertain
value, and that Covert is a man of no finan-
cial ability and of unsound mind. The bill
continues:
Your orator AYERS and believes that the
certificates maturing in 1895 will aggregate
ST. 5O0.U00 OF which at least $1,000 900 Will be-
come liability, the balance being repre-
sented by lapsed certificates; that in 1896
certificates aggregating 81. 100000 will ma
ture, of which So 900 600 will become liabil-
ity; that the present membership of said or
der is about 5000, the amount OF its
reserve fund s3O0OO0 and upwards; that
owing to the aforementioned condition Of
affairs in the said order little IL any growth
can be anticipated. To meet, therefore,
s., ,000, 900, together with the accruing benefits
for disability, the assessments upon mem
bers will become SO burdensome as to be
lulpOoSlOlo VI COllcOblOIy buuo IChOCAAnk JUG
purposes of said order impossible OF fulfill
ment, and the further payment Of dues and
assessments unrighteohs and unjust.
A Receiver Is Applied For.
The Court was asked to restrain W. R.
Covert and others, acting as the Supreme
Lodge of the Order of Solon, from exer-
cising any of the corporate powers of the
Supreme Lodge or any Of the supreme
officers thereof receiving or disbursing or
in any way intermeddling with the
funds and securities of the order;
that receiver be appointed to
receive and collect the money due the or
der, and that the defendants be restrained
from collecting or receiving any of the
debts due the order, and from disbursing
any of its funds; that an account be taken
of all the dealings up to date and the order
compelled to pay the plaintiff anything
that may be due him:
On the other side, Chairman G. G. Craft,
of the Board of Directors of the Solons, says
the criminal prosecutions of e1-Supreme
President John NJ. Ball, and ex-Supreme
Secretary A. s. Mundorf, for conspiracy,
and ex-Supreme Treasurer Robert j. Cod
frey, for embezzlement and conspiracy will
be pushed, not simply to persecute the
officials, but in order to give them an oppor-
tunity to prove their innocence.
Mr.. Covert Is resting easily at st. Francis
Hospital, and the physicians express great
hopes of his ultimate recovery.