People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Royal Arcanum Convention. [ARTICLE]

Royal Arcanum Convention.

St. Louis, Mo., May 15.—About 100 delegates, representing twenty-one grand councils, are In attendance at the eighteenth annual session of the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum, which convened here this morning. The session will continue one week and be executive. The report of C. W. Hazzard, supreme regent .showed that during 1894 the Royal Arcanum paid to widows and orphans death benefits amounting to $3,959,599, leaving a balance on hand of $463,478. December 31, 1894, the order had a membership of 159,507, a net Increase for the year of 11,083. During 1894 16.509 new members were initiated and 1.344 deaths recorded