Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — RAISE PYTHIAN RATES. [ARTICLE]

RAISE PYTHIAN RATES.

Will Make Good Lou Incurred by John A. Hinsey. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, ended its special convention at Chicago after adopting a resolution empowering Supreme Chancellor Feathers, the board of control of the Endowment Rank and General Counsel Hardy to institute civil and criminal proceedings against former officers of the Endowment Rank, who are charged with mismanaging affairs of the order. The resolution, it is said; will result in the prosecution of John A. Hinsey, expresident of the Endowment Rank; H. B. Stolte, ex-seeretnry; W. D. Kennedy, publisher of a Pythian journal and business associate of Hinsey, and a number of others who will be charged with having participated in the scheme by which the order was depleted of its insurance funds. General Counsel Hardy, who has had charge of the legal investigation, announced that the proceedings would be instituted as soon as the case can be arranged and the board of control decides who are to be made the defendants in addition to Hinsey, Stolte and Kennedy. The shortage of $225,000 will be overcome by a raise in the insurance rates, which was decided upon. A new table of monthly payments was drawn up and approved by the Supreme Lodge, to go into effect Sept. 1, 1901. The average increase in the rates for all ages is 44 per cent, and the officers of the Supreme Lodge hope to overcome the deficit before the next convention of the Grand Lodge, which will be held at San Francisco in October. 1902.