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Show THE ILLINOIS A. O. II. The Slate Convention Meeting at Sprinff-tteld. Sprinff-tteld. Ri'KlNOKlKM), 111., June !!. Special , The Ancient Order of Hibernians of the state met today iu convention. At an curly hour tho delegates attended services at tho cathedral after which they marched iu procession through the principal streets of the city. The proceedings pro-ceedings of the rival conventions recently re-cently held in Hartford, Conn., and in New" York, were discussed and some bitter criticism was made of the politicians poli-ticians of both factious who for selfish purposes are keeping tho members apart and at enmity with each other. If a union on a satisfactory basis is not soon made it is thought the organization organiza-tion will go to pieces as the members are weary of a quarrel, which has resulted re-sulted iu disrupting the order and bringing a few disagreeing men into prominence. |