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WESTERN. For unlawful cohabitation, Bishop Hiram B. Clawson was sentenced at Salt Lake City to six months' imprisonment, $300 fine, and costs-the full extent of the law. Patrick Hartnett, a Cincinnati wifemurderer, was hung at the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. The fall resulted in almost total decapitation, the head hanging to the body only by a small strip of skin at the back of the neck. The scene was a most sickening one, and it was with great difficulty that the executioners could summon courage to take the body down, Hartnett killed his wife Jan. 31, 1884, in Mount Auburn, a suburb of Cincinnati. Frank S. Covey, a bookkeeper of Joliet, has unexpectedly fallen heir to an estate valued at from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, left by his paternal grandfather, a Kentucky planter. Rosenfield & Kaufman, clothiers, of Cincinnati, assigned, with preferences of nearly $40,000. The liabilities are estimated at $100,000 and the assets at $50,000. Russell Hinckley, banker and mill-owner, of Belleville, 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. Tripp, of Whitewater, Secretary; and Miss DeMunro, of Milwaukee, Treasurer. The convention listened to papers by Alvra Collins on school suffrage, and by Dr. Munro on the dress question, and to an address by Prof. H. B. Maxon, of the State Normal School at Stillwater, on the obstacles in the way of woman suffrage. The Rev. Mrs. Brown also made an address on the prospects of the movement. At a crossing near Brightwood, Ind., a collision of trains occurred, one man bekilled and fourteen cars demolished. The financial loss approximates $10,000. Seven hundred coal miners in the service of the Union Pacific Company at Carbon, Wyoming, and Louisville, Colorado, have struck on account of Chinese labor by the company. Street-car drivers and conductors in St. Louis have demanded a reduction of working hours from fifteen to twelve daily. The eminent comedian, Mr. Joseph Jefferson, in his unrivaled character of Rip Van Winkle, is the attraction this week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. The Chicago Journal says "the new system of ventilation introduced into McVicker's 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 50 and 25 cents seats at this theater should and will become very popular, when all their advantages 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, a prominent Saint, after an unsuccessful attempt to convince Judge Zane of the truth of the Mormon gospel, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $300 for illegal cohabitation. The trot at Cleveland between Harry Wilkes and Phallas for a purse of $3,000 and the gate receipts was won by Wilkes, which took three successive heats in 2:17 1/4, 2:20 1/4, 2:19 1/2. Mr. Case announces Phallas' withdrawal from the turf, and he will go into the stud.
