The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-27
KNIGHTS OF PYTaIAS.

Administration Slate for su7r0ms om-
GERS Goes ThroHgh-stiIl InVesligRtlnE
ohArESs-Awards Of PrlEsS-tIathbono
sisters aud Pythlan slstsrhoOd Elect
Omesrs.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 2s.-The su-
preme lodge knights of Pythias ad-
journed to-day's session at o'clock
this evening after having elected the
following officers: Supreme chancellor
Thomas G. Sample, Allegheny, Pa; SUI
preme vice chancellor, Ogden II. Feath-
ers, Wisconsin. The other officers will
be elected tomorrow. The men elected
were on the slate of the present admin
istratlon.
Vague rumors were floating about as
the condition OF the endowment rank.
This is the insurance branch Of the or
der, and has 53,579 members carrying
insurance amounting to $99.261,5O0. The
statement OF the board OF control shows
the resources to be S523,276.62. 1t is
charged that $51,79S,15 is entangled in
the AFFAIRS OF defunct national bank Of
Fort Worth, Texas, and nothing but
Judgment against bondsmen represents
this money.
Also that the S2SG,127.39 invested in q
hotel building property at Chicago
which Is now In the hands OF receiver,
is nothing more than fifth lien on the
property These rumors are as yet
vague and indefinite. This was the
meaning Of the resolution introduced
in the supreme lodge by Or. Sutphen,. OF
Ohio. The committee appointed to In
vestigate into the charges made against
the supreme officers has been in session
two days, but Is not ready to report
The Rathbone Sisters to-day elected
the following officers: Supreme CHIEF
Mrs. Jeannette d, S. Neubert, Kansas
City; supreme senior, Mrs. L. X. Sher-
man, ;Cleveland, o. supreme Junior
Mrs Dell p. GlaZier, Fort Madison.
Iowa; supreme manager, Mrs. Hattie
a. Ryder, Kansas City; supreme mis-
tress OF records and correspondence,
Mrs NJ. d. Woods, Kansas City; su-
preme mistress Of finance, Mrs. Alexlne
Murray, Levay, Ills; supreme protec-
tor, Mrs. Florence /. Shoff. Corslcana,
Texas; supreme guard, Miss Maggie
Hewitt, Portland, Maine.
Camp CoIgroYe Is almost a thing OF
the past. The last formallty was the
award OF prizes to-day as follows: Class
A first prize 1880. John Barr, Glenn
prize 81, 200, Terra Haute, Ind, company
No. 3: third prize $1,000, Kalamazoo,
Mich. company No. O.; fourth prize $500,
Yellow Cross company, No. IS. Alliance;
fifth prize 5000. Friendship company, No.
%. Covlngton, Ky.
The general prize, value at 300, FOR
the best commander Of this class, was
awarded to Captain Conterge, of the
John Barr Glen company Glass B, first
prIze $4,000, Couer de Leon company,
Iancsater, o.: second prize, AO0 Vlgo
company. No. So, Terre Haute; third
prize 5000, Alpha company, No 49,.
Louisville, KY; fourth, 5000, Jefferson
vile, Ind. company
The Jewel prize vauled at 500 for the
best company commander IN class Is
was awarded to Benz. F, Gray, captain
OF the Louisville company.
The prIzc for the best troop OF cavalry
WINS awarded to the Burns HussarB, OF
st. Joseph, Mo-, Il having no eompe-
tltors.
The Rathbone Sisters this afternoon
after spirited controversy, adopted an
Insurance feature similar to the endow-
ment rank OF the Knights OF Pythins'
The sisters also voted to affiliate with
the nauOuHl CpuuIh VI "S"N'
elected Mrs. Ida NJ. Weaver, OF Boise
City, Idaho, delegate TO attend the
meeting at Omaha In October.
II is practically conceded that the
next meeting Of the supreme lodge will
be held ut Detroit, though Louisville
has not given up the fight by any means.
These are the only cities that will be
considered unless the fiEht becomes
strong that some other place, possibly
Buffalo viii be chosen MS compromise.
The question OF reducing the per diem
OF the supreme representatives to 81 n
day and allowing them mileage at three
cents came up again and by an almost
unanimous vote II was decided to put
the figures back TO the original, IS day
and flve cents a mile.
Tho Pythlan Sistcrhood elected the
following officers this afternoon: Past