The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-10
LATE NEWS.

Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton entertained
the Ohio people last Saturday evening,
who were in the city Of Washington, in
grand style.
Twothirds of the Insane Asylum at
Danville, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday. Four hundred and fifty lu.
natiCs were in peril. but no lives we're
lost. LOSS, about 100000,
The Inauguration Ball is represented
to haYe been Of surprising brilliancy.
President Garfield, ex President Hayes
and Gen. Hancock honored it with their
presence.
Durba1, Mch. Seen. Wood informs
the Beers if peace was not concluded he
would assault Laings Mex Immediately
after the armistice ended. Gen. Wood
says he inferred from the tone of the
Beers they were desirous Of pesce.
The first arrest under the coercion act
in Ireland was made Tuesday, the arres-
ted party being merchant of Castle
bar A great many arrests will follow
all over Ireland, and a reign of intimi-
dation and terror has set in.
An extra session Of Congress is ex.
pected to be called for the middle of
May; the pretext, the Funding bill; but
the real object a revival of the bloody
shirt through partisan committees to be
sent South.
Grant is at Washington, and has SER
we'd notice on Garfield, after consultation
with Logan, Conkling and Cameron, that
his friends in Office must be protected,
and fair divide of the plunder. The
noble S06 delegates who voted for Grant
at Chicago are to be provided for,
VIM. Trotter and wife of Austintown,
are in Jail at youngstown, charged with
the murder Of their son. The story is,
the father in a fit of anger struck several
heavy blows and threw him down stairs.
They deny the charge. Trotter is a mi
ner.
Garfield is beset by an army Of Office.
seekers, and it is thought many changes
will be made in the Departments and
elsewhere, at home and abroad.
Twenty-three Land Leaguers were ar.
rested in Ireland on Monday and Tues
day, and more will be. The leaders are
coWed.
Detroit, Mch. S1-The Democratic
State Convention held at Lansing to-day
nominated Augustus @. Baldwin of Pom
tiac, for Judge OF the Supreme Court
Geo. ". N. Lathrop, Detroit, and Henry
FroliCk, Grand Rapids, for Regents of
the University. The convention en-
dorsed the 3 per cent funding bill, and
denounced Hayes's veto.
At East Barnard, Vermont, Mrs. Levi
Belknap perished in her burning dwell
ing OF Saturday.
At Norwalk, o., Smith & Co.'S planning
mill burned on Wednesday morning
L ;ss SO 900.
Crestline, o., Mch "a collision oC-
Cured near Vernon Junction, about fodr
miles north, this morning. Seventeen
cars we're wrecked. Both engineers and
one fireman killed.
On Wednesday the President sent the
following nominations into the Senate
for confirmation: Levi p Morton, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen.
ipotentiary to France. WIN. M. Evarts,
Allen G. Thurman, Timothy o. Howe as
Commissioners from the United States
to the Monetary Conference to be held
at Paris. David d. McClurg was nomi-
mated for Surveyor Of Customs at Gin
cinnati, and confirmed by the Senate.
A few miles from Jonesboro, Arkan-
sas, planter named Ishmael, on return
ing home found his daughter Of eighteen,
who kept his house, murdered. Several
negroes have been arrested on suspicion.
The Allen Temperance bill was de-
feated in the House at Columbus, Wed.
nesday, 45 to AZ.
Eighty-seven Of Mr.. Hayes's recent
nominations were allowed to fail in the
Senate. His career rapidly dwindled at
the close into insignifcance, being large
ly shorn of its chief tenure, the distribu-
ton Of official patronage.
II having been rumored that John I.
King of Urbana, had been "ku.kluxed"
in Putnam county, Georgia, Mr.. King
publishes card, stating that he is alive,
and that his treatment by the people Of
Of the South has been all he could de.
sire, Enquirer. ts sr
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