Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-14
RALEIGH's BUDGET.
Came for Reward-Mnsonic--ie'ro'
10 MoOnsbiners'

pArEIGH. n. G., December l3--,ope-
,,al1J A. Watts came here to-udy lioH'
tennessee TO get the rewards-S-Vo o'd'0'
and 500 United statss-for the cap'uio
NJ Bill Honeycutt, the Mitchell county
OUTLAW who murdered a deputy marsnai
I'm that county last month. boheySutt
fled the state, but not uhlh no VI 10
friends had. II is alleged, murue ,eu W.
men who witnessed his crime crime Il loro "0, of
10 Tennessee and there directed soIie 81 u
his friends 10 swear out a warrant ~.
him. charging him with murder III tllat
State. He was tried and dlscnafseu' "lu
then thought he was saie. ne Mas ~ ~
where one night last week WATTS anu
three other men crept up on nm. Honey
cutt and his friends had six rifles stand
ing against a wall. WatV and his posse
rushed in and got between y,ed h1fey ssid.
BOYS, you've got me-, and SURRENDERED.
He is now in jail at Greensboro :: some
years ago he murdered man IN lenheS-
see, was convicted OF maDslaughter, anu
was speedily pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary. Watts was to-day paid the TWO
Judge PurnelI declined to allow pay TO
the witnesses whom A; ). Marshal' inc
Wilmington lawyer. will have here next
Monday, when he Will be tried for coun-
terfoiting. Some one said that Marshali
would attempt TO have the case moved
TO Wilmington. Marshall said there was
no truth in this and that no sucn lnotloh
would be made.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the
purchase of the building. now market
and city hall, which faces the principai
street by the MasOns, who propose TO
remove IL and erect on it's site a much
larger building for a temple 1t is learned
that the city officials are willing that the
arrangement be made. With the money
from the sale a new market and city nan
-. In on oft xafIt
BILE The Masons are taking up the pro-
ject with their usual zeal. and architects
are preparing designs for temple.
The Randall Etching Company. with W.
G. Randall, the well-known North caro-
lima artist, at its head, has been formed
here. Randa. has marked ability as an
etcher. Mr.. Randall has made PROPOSE
tion TO the Board of Public Buildings to
paint the history OF the State-that Is, Us
greatest features-in series OF panels In
the rotunda Of the Capitol which IS adj
nirably adapted for the purpose. lie Is
so true and SO enthusiastic North Caro-
linian that he proposes TO make no
charge. save only his expenses desiring
TO leave the work as a memorial.
Among to-day's arrivals were Jacob
Battle, Rocky Mount; w. b. Schulker,
Whiteville; J. X. Morrlsey, Clinton.
The Raleigh Ice and Electric Company
chartered here yesterday. win obtain its
power from Neuse river. at Milburnie
six miles from here. 1t has purchased
the Water-poWer tnere ne Iall, IL il
estimated, will develop 800 horsepower ct
the dryest seasons.
Republicans here say ex-Congressman
Richmond Pearson desires the Republi-
can nomination for Governor. He seems
to be the only man who does want It.
d. a. Tompkins, Of Charlotte, the best
informed man in the state on industrial
matters, will lecture at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College here next Friday
evening on Technical Education and In
dustrial Progress in the South"
Deputy-Revenue-C Collector Perkins says
there Is q preacher In a county not far
from here who is terror to the moon
sinners that after he has preached a
stirring sermon he takes few trusty and
equally fearless members OF his flock and
goes on the war-path after Illicit distille-
RES and captures them, too. few
nights back he captured one and IL was
put in a building. The next night the
moonshiners broke in and took IL away.
but in forty-eight hours he recaptured IL
and then destroyed 1t. IT is said he has
thus taken dozen stills in his section.