The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
WESTERN.

For unlawful cohabltatlon, Bishop
Hiram Is. Clawson was sentenced at Salt Lake
City to six months Imprisonment, $500 fine,
and costs-the full extent of the law.
Patrick Hartnett, Cincinnati wife
murderer, was hung at the Ohio Penitentiary
at Columbus. The fall resulted in almost
total decapltation, the head hanging to the
body only by small strip of skin at the
back of the neck. The scene was a
most siokening one, and it was with
great difficulty that the executioners could
summon courage to take the body down,
Hartnett killed his wife Jan. 81, 1884,
in Mount Auburn, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Frank S. Convey, bookkeeper of
Joliet, has Unexpectedly fallen heir to an es-
tate valued at from 81, 100000 to $780, 600,
left by his paternal grandfather, Kentucky
planter.
Rosenfeld g. Kaufman, clothiers, of
Cincinnati, assigned, with preferences of
nearly $4,000. The liabilities are estimated
at $100, 900 and the assets at $50, 900. Russell
Hinckley, banker and mill-owner of Belle
vile. ILL.,, has suspended. His Indebtedness.
which is heavy, will, it is believed, be fully
covered by his assets.
The Wisconsin State Convention of
the Woman Suffrage Association, in session
at Whitewater, elected the Rev. Olympia
Brown, of Racine, President; Mrs. N. James,
of Richland Center, Vice President; Mrs.
w. J. Trip, of Whitewater Secretary; and
Miss DeMunro, of Milwaukee, Treasurer. The
convention listened to papers by Alvra Collins
nm aarnr nd nv ba
dress question, and to an address by Prof.
II. b. Naxon, of the State Normal School at
Saltwater on the obstacles in the way of
woman suffrage. The Rev. Mrs. Brown also
made an address on the prospects of the
movement.
At crossing near Brightwood, Ind,
a collision of trains occurred, one man be-
ing killed and fourteen cars demolished The
financial loss approximates $4,000.
Seven hundred coal miners in the
service of the Union Pacific Company at Car.
bon, Wyoming, and Louisville, Colorado,
have struck on account of Chinese labor by
the company. Street-car drivers and con-
ductors in st. Louis have demanded reduc-
ton of working hours from fifteen to twelve
daily.
The eminent comedian, Mr.. Joseph
Jefferson, in his unrivaled character OF Rip
Van Wrinkle, is the attraction this week at
McVicker's Theater, Chicago. The Chicago
Journal says 1.-THE new system of ventilation
introduced into Mcvickers Theater works
charmingly. The upper circles receive the
full benefit, the air there being as pure as in
the lower part OF the house. The 80 and 2j
cents seats at this theater should and will
become very popular, when all their adj
vantag es become known"
The prairie fires in Dakota have
burned over a solid stretch of one hundred
miles along the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
At Salt Lake City, Edward Brain, O
prominent Saint, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to convince Judge Zane of the truth
of the Mormon gospel. was sentenced to six
months in jail and fined $500 for illegal CO
habitation.
The trot at Cleveland between Harry
wilkes and Phallas for purse of s., 1000 and
the gate receipts was won by wilkes, which
took three successive heats in 2:17A, 2:20A,
2:19K. Mr.. Case announces Phallas' with
drawal from the turf, and he will go into the
ett1d.