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Show ' - DOMESTIC BRIEFS. . Gilman's family propose to . make a alight restitution for hie frauds. Ei Treasurer Cordoza, indicted in Columbia, S. C, is now in jail there. . The reported . suspension of the Welliieet savings bank is contradicted. A commission is examining the tecret service of the treasury department. depart-ment. ; v .! J,j; :: The storm ou the Hudson river Thursday niht was tbe heaviest in years. vf Another of Gilman's raiaed drafts from $25 lo 5,000 has come to light in New York. . . The Sioux in New York on Thursday, Thurs-day, bought scarfs and other showy things to carry home. The brittanoia ware workers 1 in Meriden, Conn., are on a strike for 2o cents a lay increase. An incendiary lire inNanticake, a mining town near Wilkeabarre burned fourteen buildings; loss $25, 000; mostly insured. The state committees of the greenback green-back and labor parties of Pennsyl vania have united for the conduct of the present campaign. At Cochituate, Mass., Mrs. Del-morel Del-morel and sister while driving across the railroad track were struck by a locomotive and killed. The accounts of Eligah AHiger, New York agent of the Commercial Union assurance company, show ft deficiency of $135,000. - Naval Constructor Steele of Washington Wash-ington navy yard has been removed by the secretary of the navy for his system of making removals. Browns & Gorham, old fruit importing im-porting firm of New York, has failed for $200,000, with very" large assets, mainly depreciated atocka. There are twenty-seven cases of yellow yel-low fever at Port lloyal, S. C, twenty-one twenty-one whites and six blacks, out ol a population of ninety-four whites aud 137 blacks. 1 The Btoamer Massachusetts from Providence for New York went ashore near Horton's point, Long Island Sound at midnight Thursday. The paEsengera are all safe. , ' j On Friday - afternoon Alderman Asa A. Breed, director of the Central i National bank of Lynn, Mass., was attacked in tbe alley way in Boston by two men and robbed ot $8,000. Inspector General Marcy and Quartermaster Quar-termaster Ingalis of the army request a congressional inquiry in regard to the charges against them in connection connec-tion with a contract for moth powder. Tbe republican journals say the platform of the Albany democratic ' convention is without originality or significance, and the World aod Sun regard it undeserving of much pruise. The Northern Pacific railroad company com-pany will apply to congress for an extension of time for completion of tbe read, promising to proceed at once to extend their lines Irom Bismarck into Montana, and from the Columbia 'river through eastern Washington : into Idaho. j |