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Show BENAI B'RITH. Chicago, 25. The second quin-oueunial quin-oueunial convention of the crand lodge of the order of Benai B'rith met in this city to day, alout 160 delegates dele-gates being present. Simon Koch, of Washington., D, C, was elected president, pres-ident, with a vice-president from each of the seven districts of tho order, S. Salzburg, of San Francisco, being elected vice president from the fourth district. The report of the executive committee show? the order to be In a flourishing cjuditiun, having doubled the number of lodges and member-ehip member-ehip since the last convention, the ilnancial condition being also satisfactory. satis-factory. An intoresfing incident of to-day's session was the presentation to M. Frankland, a prominent member mem-ber of the order in Memphis, of an elegant and costly Maltese cross, engraved en-graved with the emblem ol the order, hb ft testimonial of the honor ai d admiration ad-miration of his brethren of the grand lodge, for his heroic devotion to dqtv in careing for the yellow fever sull-erers sull-erers in his city during the late pestilence. |
