Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-04-02
PERTAINING TO DIFFERENT SEC
TONS OF THE UNION.
The Grant Monument,
Return of a Deserving Husband.-The
Prizes Awarded to Female
Architects.-0ther Items.


ment committee in New York recently
arrangements were perfected for break
ing ground for the monument on Gen
eral Grants birthday, April 81. The
committee voted to ask the government
to set aside for Il term of years all the |
interest accruing from the refunded di-
rect tax, 81, 900, recently received
from the federal government for the
purpose of the monument. The Shcr-
man statue fund committee also voted
that, as sufficient subscriptions for the
purpose of the committee had been OBJ
tanned, further work i'm that direction
should be stopped. The total amount
raised by the committee is S44, 1856.
J. w. Hunter, Il drayman, who left
Seattle mysteriously two years ago, re-
turned to his wife and home this even
ing. Mrs. Hunter had applied for
divorce, alleging desertion, but before
the case came up Il letter arrived from
the missing man, and peace was re-
stored. He went to San Francisco.
was taken i'll and lay in the hospital
six months, much of the time uncon-
sious. When he recovered he worked
back up the coast, and from II ,seburg,
Or, wrote the first letter to his wife
and child. He arrived Just in time to
find his wife at the train about to 90 t,
Portland to meet him, and the pair are
happy once more together.
Miss Sophia G. Hayden, of Boston,
wins the $1,000 prize offered for the best
design for the woman hui! ling for the
worlds fair. Miss Lois Howe, also of
Boston, takes the second prize, $3.50,
and Miss Laura Il yves, OF Chicago, the
third, $3.50. Miss Hayden has been
wired to come to Chicago and elaborate
her plans. The design is one of marked
simplicity, ia Italian Renaissance style,
with colonnades broken by center and
end pavillons. The structure is to Ae
2O0x400 feet and fifty feet 10 the cornlce
There is no dome, the chic! feature of
ornamentation. being the entrance.
Miss Hayden is n frst-honor graduate
of the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology.
Captain Gilbert p. Cotton, of the
United States army, special commits
s'oner to Honduras in the intercs, #
the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
reports that, in company with the
United States consul, he was received
by President Bogran, to whom he pre-
sented the invitation of the president
of the United States to participate in
the exposition, and that the republic
would be represented ut Chicago by Il
full exhibit of its resources and pro-
duets. President Bogran has appointed
DR.. FritZgartner, government geologst
and inspector general of the mines, an!
ascientist of high reputation, as special
commissioner for Honduras to the
Columbian Exposition, and gave him
instructions to report ut once plan for
the building and exhibits for Honduras
with an estimate as to the amount of
money.
There was an exciting scene Mt the
real estate exchange one day last week,
when Morton f. Hatch, acting for the
Merchant Tailors' Society, stood be-
fore crowd of several hundred prom
inent business and society men and
sold to the highest bidder thirty-five
unpaid tailor bills. These bills bore
the names Of well-known New Workers,
and those who did not pay up before
the sale We're held up for public ridi-
Guile. The righteousness of the sale
can he realized when several bills,
amounting to sevan hundred and odd
dollars, were sold in a bunch to Il he
brew tailor for 81.
The fortune of the late Prince Napo-
leon, Gl2,O0O yearly, is divided among
MS children, 10000 to Prince Louis and
E30OO each to Prince Victor and Prin-
cess Letitis. 1t is stated all the manu-
scripts and historical documents are
left to Louis. King Humbert has for
hidden Victor to issue manifesto from
Italy. The pope has received several
earnest requests through Cardinal Bon
aparte to grant an audience to Victor,
but has refused on the ground that II
would be against the friendship OF
France to receive an active pretendel
to the French throne.
From a street joke grippe has become
generally dangerous disease. The
death rate in Pittsburg is swelling rap
idly and this month will break the
record by the alarming increase of II
per cent. The direct causes of so many
deaths are the grippe, influenza, pneu.